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UK guidelines on the management of variceal haemorrhage in cirrhotic patients
(BMJ, 2015-11-01)These updated guidelines on the management of variceal haemorrhage have been commissioned by the Clinical Services and Standards Committee (CSSC) of the British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG) under the auspices of the ... -
Diagnostic accuracy of high-definition CT coronary angiography in high-risk patients.
(Elsevier, 2016-02)To assess the diagnostic accuracy of computed tomography coronary angiography (CTCA) using a combination of high-definition CT (HD-CTCA) and high level of reader experience, with invasive coronary angiography (ICA) as the ... -
Psychosocial Care for Injured Children: Worldwide Survey among Hospital Emergency Department Staff.
(Elsevier, 2015-12-17)To examine emergency department (ED) staff's knowledge of traumatic stress in children, attitudes toward providing psychosocial care, and confidence in doing so, and also to examine differences in these outcomes according ... -
Adherence to Oral Glucose-Lowering Therapies and Associations With 1-Year HbA1c: A Retrospective Cohort Analysis in a Large Primary Care Database.
(American Diabetes Association, 2016-02)The impact of taking oral glucose-lowering medicines intermittently, rather than as recommended, is unclear. We conducted a retrospective cohort study using community-acquired U.K. clinical data (Clinical Practice Research ... -
Maternal hypothyroxinaemia in pregnancy is associated with obesity and adverse maternal metabolic parameters.
(BioScientifica, 2016-01)Subclinical hypothyroidism and isolated hypothyroxinaemia in pregnancy have been associated with an increased risk of gestational diabetes. We aimed to ascertain if these women have a worse metabolic phenotype than euthyroid ... -
Assessing the effectiveness of enhanced psychological care for patients with depressive symptoms attending cardiac rehabilitation compared with treatment as usual (CADENCE): study protocol for a pilot cluster randomised controlled trial.
(BioMed Central, 2016-02-02)Around 17 % of people eligible for UK cardiac rehabilitation programmes following an acute coronary syndrome report moderate or severe depressive symptoms. While maximising psychological health is a core goal of cardiac ... -
A review of national guidelines for management of COPD in Europe.
(European Respiratory Society, 2016-02)The quality of care can be improved by the development and implementation of evidence-based treatment guidelines. Different national guidelines for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exist in Europe and relevant ... -
Pacemaker battery scandal.
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The experiences of stroke survivors, their families and unpaid carers regarding goal setting within stroke rehabilitation: a systematic review protocol
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Diagnosis, assessment, and phenotyping of COPD: beyond FEV1
(Dove Press, 2016-02-18)COPD is now widely recognized as a complex heterogeneous syndrome, having both pulmonary and extrapulmonary features. In clinical practice, the diagnosis of COPD is based on the presence of chronic airflow limitation, as ...