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Use of mirtazapine in patients with chronic breathlessness: a case series (2018)
Journal Article
Lovell, N., Bajwah, S., Maddocks, M., Wilcock, A., & Higginson, I. J. (2018). Use of mirtazapine in patients with chronic breathlessness: a case series. Palliative Medicine, https://doi.org/10.1177/0269216318787450

Background: Breathlessness remains a common and distressing symptom in people with advanced disease with few effective
treatment options. Repurposing of existing medicines has been effective in other areas of palliative care, for example, antidepres... Read More about Use of mirtazapine in patients with chronic breathlessness: a case series.

Identifying key components for a psychological intervention for people with vitiligo: a quantitative and qualitative study in the United Kingdom using web-based questionnaires of people with vitiligo and healthcare professionals (2018)
Journal Article
Ahmed, A., Steed, L., Burden-Teh, E., Shah, R., Sanyal, S., Tour, S., Dowey, S., Whitton, M., Batchelor, J., & Bewley, A. (2018). Identifying key components for a psychological intervention for people with vitiligo: a quantitative and qualitative study in the United Kingdom using web-based questionnaires of people with vitiligo and healthcare professionals. Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology, 32(12), 2275-2283. https://doi.org/10.1111/jdv.15168

Background: Psychological interventions are recommended as part of routine management of vitiligo. However, the development and effectiveness of such interventions have been rarely addressed. This study aimed to identify key components for a psycholo... Read More about Identifying key components for a psychological intervention for people with vitiligo: a quantitative and qualitative study in the United Kingdom using web-based questionnaires of people with vitiligo and healthcare professionals.

Risk of bleeding with direct oral anticoagulants versus warfarin: cohort studies using primary care datasets (2018)
Journal Article
Vinogradova, Y., Coupland, C., & Hippisley-Cox, J. (2018). Risk of bleeding with direct oral anticoagulants versus warfarin: cohort studies using primary care datasets. British Journal of General Practice, 68(suppl 1), Article bjgp18X696629. https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp18X696629

Background: There is limited evidence on the safety of direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) in real world settings.

Aim: To investigate risks of bleeding and all-cause mortality in DOACs compared to warfarin.

Method: Prospective cohorts of incide... Read More about Risk of bleeding with direct oral anticoagulants versus warfarin: cohort studies using primary care datasets.

Panoptic overview of triple-negative breast cancer in Nigeria: current challenges and promising global initiatives (2018)
Journal Article
Wright, N., Rida, P., Rakha, E., Agboola, A., & Aneja, R. (2018). Panoptic overview of triple-negative breast cancer in Nigeria: current challenges and promising global initiatives. Journal of Global Oncology, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1200/jgo.17.00116

Purpose

Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is the most deadly form of breast cancer (BC) today. TNBC treatment is fraught with challenges because of the extensive interpatient heterogeneity in clinical behavior and scarcity of stratifying biomar... Read More about Panoptic overview of triple-negative breast cancer in Nigeria: current challenges and promising global initiatives.

Managing health, safety and well-being: ethics, responsibility and sustainability (2018)
Book
Jain, A., Leka, S., & Zwetsloot, G. I. (2018). Managing health, safety and well-being: ethics, responsibility and sustainability. Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1261-1

To achieve sustainable progress in workplace and societal functioning and development, it is essential to align perspectives for the management of health, safety and well-being. Employers are responsible for providing every individual with a working... Read More about Managing health, safety and well-being: ethics, responsibility and sustainability.

Characterizing Microstructural Tissue Properties in Multiple Sclerosis with Diffusion MRI at 7 T and 3 T: The Impact of the Experimental Design (2018)
Journal Article
De Santis, S., Bastiani, M., Droby, A., Kolber, P., Zipp, F., Pracht, E., Stoecker, T., Groppa, S., & Roebroeck, A. (2019). Characterizing Microstructural Tissue Properties in Multiple Sclerosis with Diffusion MRI at 7 T and 3 T: The Impact of the Experimental Design. Neuroscience, 403, 17-26. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2018.03.048

© 2018 The Author(s) The recent introduction of advanced magnetic resonance (MR) imaging techniques to characterize focal and global degeneration in multiple sclerosis (MS), like the Composite Hindered and Restricted Model of Diffusion, or CHARMED, d... Read More about Characterizing Microstructural Tissue Properties in Multiple Sclerosis with Diffusion MRI at 7 T and 3 T: The Impact of the Experimental Design.

Responding to domestic violence and abuse: considerations for health visitors (2018)
Journal Article
McGarry, J., & Ali, P. (2018). Responding to domestic violence and abuse: considerations for health visitors. Journal of Health Visiting, 6(2), 95-98. https://doi.org/10.12968/johv.2018.6.2.95

Domestic violence and abuse (DVA) exerts a significant impact on the lives, health and wellbeing of all of those who experience it and this includes children. Health professionals in a variety of settings are well placed to identify potential DVA cas... Read More about Responding to domestic violence and abuse: considerations for health visitors.

The Developing Human Connectome Project: a minimal processing pipeline for neonatal cortical surface reconstruction (2018)
Journal Article
Makropoulos, A., Robinson, E. C., Schuh, A., Wright, R., Fitzgibbon, S., Bozek, J., Counsell, S. J., Steinweg, J., Passerat-Palmbach, J., Lenz, G., Mortari, F., Tenev, T., Duff, E. P., Bastiani, M., Cordero-Grande, L., Hughes, E., Tusor, N., Tournier, J.-D., Hutter, J., Price, A. N., …Rueckert, D. (2018). The Developing Human Connectome Project: a minimal processing pipeline for neonatal cortical surface reconstruction. NeuroImage, 173, 88-112. https://doi.org/10.1101/125526

The Developing Human Connectome Project (dHCP) seeks to create the first 4-dimensional connectome of early life. Understanding this connectome in detail may provide insights into normal as well as abnormal patterns of brain development. Following est... Read More about The Developing Human Connectome Project: a minimal processing pipeline for neonatal cortical surface reconstruction.

The challenges of training, support and assessment of healthcare support workers: a qualitative study of experiences in three English acute hospitals (2017)
Journal Article
Sarre, S., Maben, J., Aldus, C., Schneider, J., Wharrad, H., Nicholson, C., & Arthur, A. (2018). The challenges of training, support and assessment of healthcare support workers: a qualitative study of experiences in three English acute hospitals. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 79, 145-153. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2017.11.010

Background
Ever-growing demands on care systems have increased reliance on healthcare support workers. In the UK, their training has been variable, but organisation-wide failures in care have prompted questions about how this crucial section of the... Read More about The challenges of training, support and assessment of healthcare support workers: a qualitative study of experiences in three English acute hospitals.