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Professor JOE WEST's Outputs (10)

Healthcare utilisation, morbidities and alcohol use monitoring prior to alcoholic psychosis diagnosis (2018)
Journal Article
Otete, H., Fleming, K. M., West, J., & Orton, E. (2019). Healthcare utilisation, morbidities and alcohol use monitoring prior to alcoholic psychosis diagnosis. Alcohol and Alcoholism, 54(2), 131–138. https://doi.org/10.1093/alcalc/agy085

Aims: This study aimed to describe healthcare utilisation, morbidities and monitoring of alcohol use in patients prior to a diagnosis of alcoholic psychosis in order to inform the early identification of patients at risk.

Method: Using linked gene... Read More about Healthcare utilisation, morbidities and alcohol use monitoring prior to alcoholic psychosis diagnosis.

Mortality in people with coeliac disease: long-term follow-up from a Scottish cohort (2018)
Journal Article
Quarpong, W., Card, T. R., West, J., Solaymani-Dodaran, M., Logan, R. F., & Grainge, M. J. (2019). Mortality in people with coeliac disease: long-term follow-up from a Scottish cohort. United European Gastroenterology Journal, 7(3), 377-387. https://doi.org/10.1177/2050640618814662

Background: Few studies have determined the very long-term mortality risks in adult and childhood-diagnosed coeliac disease.

Objective: We quantified mortality risks in coeliac disease and determined whether age at diagnosis, or time following di... Read More about Mortality in people with coeliac disease: long-term follow-up from a Scottish cohort.

Changing autonomy in operative experience through UK general surgery training: a national cohort study (2018)
Journal Article
Elsey, E. J., Griffiths, G., West, J., & Humes, D. J. (2019). Changing autonomy in operative experience through UK general surgery training: a national cohort study. Annals of Surgery, 269(3), 399-406. https://doi.org/10.1097/sla.0000000000003032

Objectives:To determine the operative experience of UK general surgery trainees and assess the changing procedural supervision and acquisition of competency assessments through the course of training.

Background Summary Data: Competency assessment... Read More about Changing autonomy in operative experience through UK general surgery training: a national cohort study.

Time out of general surgery specialty training in the UK: a national database study (2018)
Journal Article
Elsey, E. J., West, J., Griffiths, G., & Humes, D. J. (2019). Time out of general surgery specialty training in the UK: a national database study. Journal of Surgical Education, 76(1), 55-64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsurg.2018.06.011

Objective:General surgery specialty training in the UK takes 6 years and allows trainees to take time out of training. Studies from the USA have highlighted an increasing trend for taking time out of surgical training for research. This study aimed t... Read More about Time out of general surgery specialty training in the UK: a national database study.

Injury among children and young people with and without attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder in the community: the risk of fractures, thermal injuries and poisonings (2018)
Journal Article
Prasad, V., West, J., Sayal, K., & Kendrick, D. (2018). Injury among children and young people with and without attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder in the community: the risk of fractures, thermal injuries and poisonings. Child: Care, Health and Development, 44(6), 871-878. https://doi.org/10.1111/cch.12591

Background: Injuries commonly cause morbidity and mortality in children and young people (CYP). Attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is the commonest neurobehavioural disorder in CYP and is associated with increased injury risk. However, l... Read More about Injury among children and young people with and without attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder in the community: the risk of fractures, thermal injuries and poisonings.

Hip fracture risk in patients with alcoholic cirrhosis: a population-based study using English and Danish data (2018)
Journal Article
Otete, H. E., Deleuran, T., Fleming, K. M., Card, T. R., Aithal, G. P., Jepsen, P., & West, J. (2018). Hip fracture risk in patients with alcoholic cirrhosis: a population-based study using English and Danish data. Journal of Hepatology, 69(3), 697-704. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhep.2018.04.002

Background & aims: Cirrhosis is a risk factor for osteoporosis and fractures. However, little is known of the actual risk of hip fractures in patients with alcoholic cirrhosis. Using linked primary and secondary care data from the English and Danish... Read More about Hip fracture risk in patients with alcoholic cirrhosis: a population-based study using English and Danish data.

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: variation by socio-economic deprivation (2018)
Journal Article
Prasad, V., West, J., Kendrick, D., & Sayal, K. (2019). Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: variation by socio-economic deprivation. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 104(8), 802-805. https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2017-314470

Background: In England, there is a discrepancy between the prevalence of Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) ascertained from medical records and community surveys. There is also a lack of data on variation in recorded prevalence by depri... Read More about Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: variation by socio-economic deprivation.

A validation study of the CirCom comorbidity score in an English cirrhosis population using the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (2018)
Journal Article
Crooks, C. J., West, J., & Jepson, P. (2018). A validation study of the CirCom comorbidity score in an English cirrhosis population using the Clinical Practice Research Datalink. Clinical Epidemiology, 2018:10, https://doi.org/10.2147/CLEP.S147535

Purpose: The CirCom score has been developed from Danish data as a specific measure of comorbidity for cirrhosis to predict all-cause mortality. We compared its performance with the Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI) in an English cirrhosis population.... Read More about A validation study of the CirCom comorbidity score in an English cirrhosis population using the Clinical Practice Research Datalink.

Duration and magnitude of postoperative risk of venous thromboembolism after planned inguinal hernia repair in men: a population-based cohort study (2018)
Journal Article
Humes, D., Abdul-Sultan, A., Walker, A. J., Ludvigsson, J. F., & West, J. (2018). Duration and magnitude of postoperative risk of venous thromboembolism after planned inguinal hernia repair in men: a population-based cohort study. Hernia, 22(3), 447-453. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10029-017-1716-6

Purpose
Little is known regarding the magnitude and timing of the risk of VTE following inguinal hernia surgery. We aimed to determine the absolute and relative rates of venous thromboembolism (VTE) following planned inguinal hernia repair.

Metho... Read More about Duration and magnitude of postoperative risk of venous thromboembolism after planned inguinal hernia repair in men: a population-based cohort study.