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What are the strengths and limitations to utilising creative methods in public and patient involvement in health and social care research? A qualitative systematic review (2024)
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Phillips, O. R., Harries, C., Leonardi-Bee, J., Knight, H., Sherar, L. B., Varela-Mato, V., & Morling, J. R. (2024). What are the strengths and limitations to utilising creative methods in public and patient involvement in health and social care research? A qualitative systematic review. Research Involvement and Engagement, 10(1), Article 48. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40900-024-00580-4

Background: There is increasing interest in using patient and public involvement (PPI) in research to improve the quality of healthcare. Ordinarily, traditional methods have been used such as interviews or focus groups. However, these methods tend to... Read More about What are the strengths and limitations to utilising creative methods in public and patient involvement in health and social care research? A qualitative systematic review.

Comparing the performance of the novel FAMCAT algorithms and established case-finding criteria for familial hypercholesterolaemia in primary care (2021)
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Qureshi, N., Akyea, R. K., Dutton, B., Leonardi-Bee, J., Humphries, S. E., Weng, S., & Kai, J. (2021). Comparing the performance of the novel FAMCAT algorithms and established case-finding criteria for familial hypercholesterolaemia in primary care. Open Heart, 8(2), Article e001752. https://doi.org/10.1136/openhrt-2021-001752

Objective Familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH) is a common inherited disorder causing premature coronary heart disease (CHD) and death. We have developed the novel Familial Hypercholesterolaemia Case Ascertainment Tool (FAMCAT 1) case-finding algorith... Read More about Comparing the performance of the novel FAMCAT algorithms and established case-finding criteria for familial hypercholesterolaemia in primary care.

Effectiveness of offering tailored text message, self‐help smoking cessation support to pregnant women who want information on stopping smoking: MiQuit3 randomised controlled trial (RCT) and meta‐analysis (2021)
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Coleman, T., Clark, M., Welch, C., Whitemore, R., Leonardi‐Bee, J., Cooper, S., Hewitt, C., Jones, M., Sutton, S., Watson, J., Daykin, K., Ussher, M., Parrott, S., & Naughton, F. (2022). Effectiveness of offering tailored text message, self‐help smoking cessation support to pregnant women who want information on stopping smoking: MiQuit3 randomised controlled trial (RCT) and meta‐analysis. Addiction, 117(4), 1079-1094. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.15715

Aims: To test efficacy of “MiQuit’, a tailored, self-help, text message stop smoking programme for pregnancy, as an adjunct to usual care (UC) for smoking cessation in pregnancy.

Design: Multicentre, open, two-arm, parallel-group, superiority rand... Read More about Effectiveness of offering tailored text message, self‐help smoking cessation support to pregnant women who want information on stopping smoking: MiQuit3 randomised controlled trial (RCT) and meta‐analysis.

Strategies for screening for familial hypercholesterolaemia in primary care and other community settings (2021)
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Qureshi, N., Da Silva, M. L. R., Abdul-Hamid, H., Weng, S. F., Kai, J., & Leonardi-Bee, J. (2021). Strategies for screening for familial hypercholesterolaemia in primary care and other community settings. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2021(10), Article CD012985. https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.cd012985.pub2

Background: Familial hypercholesterolaemia is a common inherited condition that is associated with premature cardiovascular disease. The increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, resulting from high levels of cholesterol since birth, can be p... Read More about Strategies for screening for familial hypercholesterolaemia in primary care and other community settings.

Effectiveness of cascade testing strategies in relatives for familial hypercholesterolemia: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2021)
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Leonardi-Bee, J., Boateng, C., Faria, R., Eliman, K., Young, B., & Qureshi, N. (2021). Effectiveness of cascade testing strategies in relatives for familial hypercholesterolemia: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Atherosclerosis, 338, 7-14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2021.09.014

Background and aims: Cascade testing in relatives of index cases is the most cost-effective approach to identifying people with familial hypercholesterolemia (FH); however, it is currently unclear which strategy to contact relatives would be the most... Read More about Effectiveness of cascade testing strategies in relatives for familial hypercholesterolemia: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Case-finding and genetic testing for familial hypercholesterolaemia in primary care (2021)
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Qureshi, N., Akyea, R. K., Dutton, B., Leonardi-Bee, J., Humphries, S. E., Weng, S., & Kai, J. (2021). Case-finding and genetic testing for familial hypercholesterolaemia in primary care. Heart, 107(24), 1956-1961. https://doi.org/10.1136/heartjnl-2021-319742

Objective: Familial Hypercholesterolaemia (FH) is a common inherited disorder causing premature heart disease and death. We have developed novel case-finding algorithms (FAMCAT version 1 & 2) for application in primary care, to improve detection of... Read More about Case-finding and genetic testing for familial hypercholesterolaemia in primary care.

Systematic Identification of Familial Hypercholesterolaemia in Primary Care—A Systematic Review (2021)
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Silva, L., Qureshi, N., Abdul-Hamid, H., Weng, S., Kai, J., & Leonardi-Bee, J. (2021). Systematic Identification of Familial Hypercholesterolaemia in Primary Care—A Systematic Review. Journal of Personalized Medicine, 11(4), Article 302. https://doi.org/10.3390/jpm11040302

Familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH) is a common inherited cause of premature cardiovascular disease, but the majority of patients remain undiagnosed. The aim of this systematic review was to assess the effectiveness of interventions to systematically... Read More about Systematic Identification of Familial Hypercholesterolaemia in Primary Care—A Systematic Review.

Using Trial Sequential Analysis for estimating the sample sizes of further trials: example using smoking cessation intervention (2020)
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Claire, R., Gluud, C., Berlin, I., Coleman, T., & Leonardi-Bee, J. (2020). Using Trial Sequential Analysis for estimating the sample sizes of further trials: example using smoking cessation intervention. BMC Medical Research Methodology, 20(1), Article 284. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-020-01169-7

Background: Assessing benefits and harms of health interventions is resource-intensive and often requires feasibility and pilot trials followed by adequately powered randomised clinical trials. Data from feasibility and pilot trials are used to infor... Read More about Using Trial Sequential Analysis for estimating the sample sizes of further trials: example using smoking cessation intervention.

Pharmacological interventions for promoting smoking cessation during pregnancy (2020)
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Claire, R., Chamberlain, C., Davey, M.-A., Leonardi-Bee, J., Cooper, S. E., Berlin, I., & Coleman, T. (2020). Pharmacological interventions for promoting smoking cessation during pregnancy. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Article CD010078. https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.cd010078.pub3

Background: Tobacco smoking in pregnancy causes serious health problems for the developing fetus and mother. When used by non‐pregnant smokers, pharmacotherapies (nicotine replacement therapy (NRT), bupropion, and varenicline) are effective for incr... Read More about Pharmacological interventions for promoting smoking cessation during pregnancy.