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NSAID prescribing and adverse outcomes in common infections: a population-based cohort study.
(2024-01-03)OBJECTIVES: Infections in primary care are often treated with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). This study evaluates whether NSAID prescribing is associated with adverse outcomes for respiratory (RTIs) or ... -
Overcoming challenges in the economic evaluation of interventions to optimise antibiotic use.
(Nature Research, 2024-05-25)Bacteria are becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics, reducing our ability to treat infections and threatening to undermine modern health care. Optimising antibiotic use is a key element in tackling the problem. ... -
Patient-reported outcome measures for monitoring primary care patients with depression: the PROMDEP cluster RCT and economic evaluation.
(NIHR Journals Library, 2024-03)BACKGROUND: Guidelines on the management of depression recommend that practitioners use patient-reported outcome measures for the follow-up monitoring of symptoms, but there is a lack of evidence of benefit in terms of ... -
Paving the path for implementation of clinical genomic sequencing globally - Are we ready?
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2024-04-29)Despite the emerging evidence in recent years, successful implementation of clinical genomic sequencing (CGS) remains limited and is challenged by a range of barriers. These include a lack of standardized practices, limited ... -
Pay-for-Performance incentives for specialised services in England: a mixed methods evaluation
(Springer Nature, 2023-10-13)Background A Pay-for-Performance (P4P) programme, known as Prescribed Specialised Services Commissioning for Quality and Innovation (PSS CQUIN), was introduced for specialised services in the English NHS in 2013/2014. ... -
PREDICTABLE CHANGES IN THE ACCURACY OF HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS TESTS AFTER VACCINATION: REVIEW WITH IMPLICATIONS FOR PERFORMANCE MONITORING IN CERVICAL SCREENING
Vaccination against human papillomavirus (HPV) is changing the performance of cytology as a cervical screening test, but its effect on HPV testing is unclear. We review the effect of HPV16/18 vaccination on the epidemiology ... -
Predicting the future risk of lung cancer: development, and internal and external validation of the CanPredict (lung) model in 19·67 million people and evaluation of model performance against seven other risk prediction models.
(2023-08)BACKGROUND: Lung cancer is the second most common cancer in incidence and the leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide. Meanwhile, lung cancer screening with low-dose CT can reduce mortality. The UK National Screening ... -
Private Demand for Covid-19 Vaccine: A Contingent Assessment from a Low-and Middle-income Country.
(Brieflands, 2021)This study aimed to estimate Iranian willingness to pay (WTP) for a hypothetical COVID-19 vaccine and its determinants. A cross-sectional online survey was conducted from May 2nd to 20th, 2020 among the general population ... -
Protocol for a prospective study evaluating circulating tumour cells status to predict radical prostatectomy treatment failure in localised prostate cancer patients (C-ProMeta-1)
(BMC, 2023-06-23)Background Treatment decisions in prostate cancer (PCa) rely on disease stratifcation between localised and metastatic stages, but current imaging staging technologies are not sensitive to micro-metastatic disease. ...