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Admission to hospital in the UK at a weekend does not influence the prognosis of adults with community-acquired pneumonia (2020)
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Lawrence, H., McKeever, T. M., & Lim, W. S. (2020). Admission to hospital in the UK at a weekend does not influence the prognosis of adults with community-acquired pneumonia. Thorax, 75(7), 594-596. https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2019-214318

Outcomes for adults with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) admitted to hospital at the weekend were compared with those admitted during weekdays using data from the British Thoracic Society national CAP audits. Of 31 400 cases, 40.7% were weekend ad... Read More about Admission to hospital in the UK at a weekend does not influence the prognosis of adults with community-acquired pneumonia.

A retrospective database study of oral corticosteroid and bisphosphonate prescribing patterns in England (2020)
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Chalitsios, C. V., Shaw, D. E., & McKeever, T. M. (2020). A retrospective database study of oral corticosteroid and bisphosphonate prescribing patterns in England. npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine, 30(1), Article 5. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41533-020-0162-6

© 2020, The Author(s). Exposure to oral corticosteroids (OCS) is associated with an increased risk of osteoporosis and fragility fractures. Guidelines suggest bisphosphonate (BP) therapy as the first-line treatment of glucocorticoid-induced osteoporo... Read More about A retrospective database study of oral corticosteroid and bisphosphonate prescribing patterns in England.

A systematic review of survival following anti-cancer treatment for small cell lung cancer (2020)
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Baldwin, D. R., Jones, G. S., Elimian, K., Hubbard, R. B., & McKeever, T. M. (2020). A systematic review of survival following anti-cancer treatment for small cell lung cancer. Lung Cancer, 141, 44-55. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lungcan.2019.12.015

Objectives: We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of survival following treatment recommended by the European Society of Medical Oncology for SCLC in order to determine a benchmark for novel therapies to be compared with. Materials and m... Read More about A systematic review of survival following anti-cancer treatment for small cell lung cancer.

Pneumococcal serotype trends, surveillance and risk factors in UK adult pneumonia, 2013 – 2018 (2019)
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Pick, H. J., Daniel, P., Rodrigo, C., Bewick, T., Ashton, D., Lawrence, H., Baskaran, V., Edwards-Pritchard, R. C., Sheppard, C., Eletu, S. D., Rose, S., Litt, D., Fry, N. K., Ladhani, S. N., Chand, M., Trotter, C., McKeever, T. M., & Shen Lim, W. (2020). Pneumococcal serotype trends, surveillance and risk factors in UK adult pneumonia, 2013 – 2018. Thorax, 75(1), 38-49. https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2019-213725

Background: Changes over the last five years (2013􀍴2018) in the serotypes implicated in adult pneumococcal pneumonia and the patient groups associated with vaccine-type disease are largely unknown.

Methods: We conducted a population-based prospect... Read More about Pneumococcal serotype trends, surveillance and risk factors in UK adult pneumonia, 2013 – 2018.

Prevalence of tobacco use in healthcare workers: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2019)
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Nilan, K., McKeever, T. M., McNeill, A., Raw, M., & Murray, R. L. (2019). Prevalence of tobacco use in healthcare workers: A systematic review and meta-analysis. PLoS ONE, 14(7), Article e0220168. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0220168

© 2019 Nilan et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are cred... Read More about Prevalence of tobacco use in healthcare workers: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Effect of tobacco smoking on the risk of developing community acquired pneumonia: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2019)
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Baskaran, V., Murray, R. L., Hunter, A., Lim, W. S., & McKeever, T. M. (2019). Effect of tobacco smoking on the risk of developing community acquired pneumonia: A systematic review and meta-analysis. PLoS ONE, 14(7), Article e0220204. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0220204

Aim
To summarise and quantify the effect of tobacco smoking on the risk of developing community acquired pneumonia (CAP) in adults.

Methods
We systematically searched MEDLINE, Embase, CINAHL, PsychINFO and Web of Science, from inception to Octob... Read More about Effect of tobacco smoking on the risk of developing community acquired pneumonia: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

The Its Not JUST Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis Study (INJUSTIS): Description of the protocol for a multicentre prospective observational cohort study identifying biomarkers of progressive fibrotic lung disease (2019)
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Khan, F., Stewart, I., Howard, L., McKeever, T., Jones, S., Hearson, G., Braybrooke, R., Edwards, C., Jenkins, G., & Saini, G. (2019). The Its Not JUST Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis Study (INJUSTIS): Description of the protocol for a multicentre prospective observational cohort study identifying biomarkers of progressive fibrotic lung disease. BMJ Open Respiratory Research, 6(1), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjresp-2019-000439

Introduction: The Its Not JUST Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis Study (INJUSTIS) is a multicentre, prospective, observational cohort study. The aims of this study are to identify genetic, serum and other biomarkers that may identify specific molecular m... Read More about The Its Not JUST Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis Study (INJUSTIS): Description of the protocol for a multicentre prospective observational cohort study identifying biomarkers of progressive fibrotic lung disease.

Patient reported distress can aid clinical decision making in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: analysis of the PROFILE cohort (2019)
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Stewart, I., McKeever, T., Braybrooke, R., Oballa, E., Simpson, J. K., Maher, T. M., Marshall, R. P., Lukey, P. T., Fahy, W. A., Jenkins, G., & Saini, G. (2019). Patient reported distress can aid clinical decision making in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: analysis of the PROFILE cohort. European Respiratory Journal, 53(5), Article 1801925. https://doi.org/10.1183/13993003.01925-2018

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis is a progressive and fatal interstitial lung disease. We aimed to determine if patient response to a palliative assessment survey could predict disease progression or death.

We undertook a cross-sectional study in a U... Read More about Patient reported distress can aid clinical decision making in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: analysis of the PROFILE cohort.

Patient reported outcome measures in the recovery of adults hospitalised with community-acquired pneumonia: a systematic review (2019)
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Pick, H. J., Bolton, C. E., Lim, W. S., & McKeever, T. M. (2019). Patient reported outcome measures in the recovery of adults hospitalised with community-acquired pneumonia: a systematic review. European Respiratory Journal, 53(3), Article 1802165. https://doi.org/10.1183/13993003.02165-2018

Symptomatic and functional recovery are important patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) in community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) that are increasingly used as trial endpoints. This systematic review summarises the literature on PROMs in CAP.

Comp... Read More about Patient reported outcome measures in the recovery of adults hospitalised with community-acquired pneumonia: a systematic review.