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Predicting outcome in acute respiratory admissions using patterns of National Early Warning Scores (2022)
Journal Article
Forster, S., McKeever, T. M., Churpek, M., Gonem, S., & Shaw, D. (2022). Predicting outcome in acute respiratory admissions using patterns of National Early Warning Scores. Clinical Medicine, 22(5), 409-415. https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmed.2022-0074

Aims Accurately predicting risk of patient deterioration is vital. Altered physiology in chronic disease affects the prognostic ability of vital signs based early warning score systems. We aimed to assess the potential of early warning score patterns... Read More about Predicting outcome in acute respiratory admissions using patterns of National Early Warning Scores.

Non-invasive pneumococcal pneumonia due to vaccine serotypes: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2022)
Journal Article
Lansbury, L., Lim, B., McKeever, T. M., Lawrence, H., & Lim, W. S. (2022). Non-invasive pneumococcal pneumonia due to vaccine serotypes: A systematic review and meta-analysis. eClinicalMedicine, 44, Article 101271. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.2022.101271

Background
Non-invasive pneumococcal pneumonia causes significant morbidity and mortality in older adults. Understanding pneumococcal sero-epidemiology in adults ≥50 years is necessary to inform vaccination policies and the updating of pneumococcal... Read More about Non-invasive pneumococcal pneumonia due to vaccine serotypes: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Understanding and addressing vaccine hesitancy in the context of COVID-19: development of a digital intervention (2021)
Journal Article
Knight, H., Jia, R., Ayling, K., Bradbury, K., Baker, K., Chalder, T., Morling, J. R., Durrant, L., Avery, T., Ball, J. K., Barker, C., Bennett, R., McKeever, T., & Vedhara, K. (2021). Understanding and addressing vaccine hesitancy in the context of COVID-19: development of a digital intervention. Public Health, 201, 98-107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2021.10.006

Objectives: Severe Acute Respiratory Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was identified in late 2019, spreading to over 200 countries and resulting in almost two million deaths worldwide. The emergence of safe and effective vaccines provides a route out of th... Read More about Understanding and addressing vaccine hesitancy in the context of COVID-19: development of a digital intervention.

Risk of subtrochanteric and femoral shaft fractures due to bisphosphonate therapy in asthma: a population-based nested case–control study (2021)
Journal Article
Chalitsios, C. V., Shaw, D. E., & McKeever, T. M. (2021). Risk of subtrochanteric and femoral shaft fractures due to bisphosphonate therapy in asthma: a population-based nested case–control study. Osteoporosis International, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00198-021-06197-7

Summary: Concerns have been raised over the association between bisphosphonates and atypical fractures in subtrochanteric and femoral shaft regions, but the potential risk of these fractures due to bisphosphonate use in asthma has not been examined.... Read More about Risk of subtrochanteric and femoral shaft fractures due to bisphosphonate therapy in asthma: a population-based nested case–control study.

Effects of tobacco smoking on recurrent hospitalisation with pneumonia: a population-based cohort study (2021)
Journal Article
Baskaran, V., Lim, W. S., & McKeever, T. M. (2022). Effects of tobacco smoking on recurrent hospitalisation with pneumonia: a population-based cohort study. Thorax, 77(1), 82-85. https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2020-216494

The incidence of and risk factors for recurrent hospitalisation for pneumonia were investigated using data from Hospital Episode Statistics, linked to a UK primary care database. Within 90 days and 1 year of follow-up, 1733 (3.1%) and 5064 (9.0%), de... Read More about Effects of tobacco smoking on recurrent hospitalisation with pneumonia: a population-based cohort study.

Factors associated with survival in small cell lung cancer: an analysis of real-world national audit, chemotherapy and radiotherapy data (2021)
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Jones, G. S., Khakwani, A., Pascoe, A., Foweraker, K., McKeever, T. M., Hubbard, R. B., & Baldwin, D. R. (2021). Factors associated with survival in small cell lung cancer: an analysis of real-world national audit, chemotherapy and radiotherapy data. Annals of Palliative Medicine, 10(4), 4055-4068. https://doi.org/10.21037/apm-20-1824

Background: The mainstay of treatment for small cell lung cancer (SCLC) involves platinum doublet chemotherapy but the optimal duration, 4 vs. 6 cycles, is not known. Concurrent thoracic radiotherapy followed by prophylactic cranial irradiation (PCI)... Read More about Factors associated with survival in small cell lung cancer: an analysis of real-world national audit, chemotherapy and radiotherapy data.

Co-infection in critically ill patients with COVID-19: an observational cohort study from England (2021)
Journal Article
Baskaran, V., Lawrence, H., Lansbury, L., Webb, K., Safavi, S., Zainuddin, I., Huq, T., Eggleston, C., Ellis, J., Thakker, C., Charles, B., Boyd, S., Williams, T., Phillips, C., Redmore, E., Platt, S., Hamilton, E., Barr, A., Venyo, L., Wilson, P., …Shen Lim, W. (2021). Co-infection in critically ill patients with COVID-19: an observational cohort study from England. Journal of Medical Microbiology, 70(4), Article 001350. https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.001350

Introduction: During previous viral pandemics, reported co-infection rates and implicated pathogens have varied. In the 1918 influenza pandemic, a large proportion of severe illness and death was complicated by bacterial co-infection, predominantly S... Read More about Co-infection in critically ill patients with COVID-19: an observational cohort study from England.

The feasibility and tolerability of using Inspiratory Muscle Training (IMT) with adults discharged from the hospital with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) (2021)
Journal Article
Pick, H., Faghy, M., Cresswell, G., Ashton, D., Bolton, C., McKeever, T., Lim, W., & Bewick, T. (2021). The feasibility and tolerability of using Inspiratory Muscle Training (IMT) with adults discharged from the hospital with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). Advances in Respiratory Medicine, 89, 216-220. https://doi.org/10.5603/ARM.a2021.0002

Background: Patients experience substantial morbidity following discharge from hospital and during recovery from community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). Inspiratory muscle training (IMT) has demonstrated improved functional capacity and reduced patient-r... Read More about The feasibility and tolerability of using Inspiratory Muscle Training (IMT) with adults discharged from the hospital with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP).