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Confidence of recurrent cellulitis self-diagnosis among people with lymphoedema: a qualitative interview study (2019)
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Patel, M., Lee, S. I., Levell, N. J., Smart, P., Kai, J., Thomas, K. S., & Leighton, P. (2020). Confidence of recurrent cellulitis self-diagnosis among people with lymphoedema: a qualitative interview study. British Journal of General Practice, 70(691), e130-e137. https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp19X707909

© British Journal of General Practice 2020. BACKGROUND: Cellulitis can sometimes be challenging for healthcare professionals to diagnose, with no validated diagnostic criteria available. Supporting healthcare professionals to make a more accurate dia... Read More about Confidence of recurrent cellulitis self-diagnosis among people with lymphoedema: a qualitative interview study.

Baseline self-report ‘central mechanisms’ trait predicts persistent knee pain in the Knee Pain in the Community (KPIC) cohort (2019)
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Akin-Akinyosoye, K., Sarmanova, A., Fernandes, G., Frowd, N., Swaithes, L., Stocks, J., Valdes, A., Mcwilliams, D. F., Zhang, W., Doherty, M., Ferguson, E., & Walsh, D. A. (2020). Baseline self-report ‘central mechanisms’ trait predicts persistent knee pain in the Knee Pain in the Community (KPIC) cohort. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, 28(2), 173-181. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joca.2019.11.004

Objectives

We investigated whether baseline scores for a self-report trait linked to central mechanisms predict 1 year pain outcomes in the Knee Pain in the Community cohort.

Method

1471 participants reported knee pain at baseline and respon... Read More about Baseline self-report ‘central mechanisms’ trait predicts persistent knee pain in the Knee Pain in the Community (KPIC) cohort.

Baseline self-report ‘central mechanisms’ trait predicts persistent knee pain in the Knee Pain in the Community (KPIC) cohort (2019)
Journal Article
Akin-Akinyosoye, K., Sarmanova, A., Fernandes, G. S., Frowd, N., Swaithes, L., Stocks, J., Valdes, A., McWilliams, D. F., Zhang, W., Doherty, M., Ferguson, E., & Walsh, D. A. (2020). Baseline self-report ‘central mechanisms’ trait predicts persistent knee pain in the Knee Pain in the Community (KPIC) cohort. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, 28(2), 173-181. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joca.2019.11.004

© 2019 The Authors Objectives: We investigated whether baseline scores for a self-report trait linked to central mechanisms predict 1 year pain outcomes in the Knee Pain in the Community cohort. METHOD: 1471 participants reported knee pain at baselin... Read More about Baseline self-report ‘central mechanisms’ trait predicts persistent knee pain in the Knee Pain in the Community (KPIC) cohort.

Development and initial testing of a new instrument to measure the experience of eczema control in adults and children: Recap of atopic eczema (RECAP) (2019)
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Howells, L. M., Chalmers, J. R., Gran, S., Ahmed, A., Apfelbacher, C., Burton, T., Howie, L., Lawton, S., Ridd, M. J., Rogers, N. K., Sears, A. V., Spuls, P., von Kobyletzki, L., & Thomas, K. S. (2020). Development and initial testing of a new instrument to measure the experience of eczema control in adults and children: Recap of atopic eczema (RECAP). British Journal of Dermatology, 183(3), 524-536. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjd.18780

Background: Eczema control has been identified as an important outcome by key stakeholders in eczema research (including patients, carers, healthcare professionals and researchers) but no validated instruments for the domain have been identified. Obj... Read More about Development and initial testing of a new instrument to measure the experience of eczema control in adults and children: Recap of atopic eczema (RECAP).

Challenges to implementing the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control guidelines on tobacco cessation treatment: a qualitative analysis (2019)
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Shelley, D. R., Kyriakos, C. N., McNeill, A., Murray, R., Nilan, K., Sherman, S. E., & Raw, M. (2020). Challenges to implementing the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control guidelines on tobacco cessation treatment: a qualitative analysis. Addiction, 115(3), 527-533. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.14863

© 2019 Society for the Study of Addiction Aim: To identify barriers to implementing the World Health Organization (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) Article 14 guidelines on tobacco dependence treatment (TDT). Design: Cross-sectiona... Read More about Challenges to implementing the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control guidelines on tobacco cessation treatment: a qualitative analysis.

Disease Activity Flares and Pain Flares in an early rheumatoid arthritis inception cohort; characteristics, antecedents and sequelae (2019)
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McWilliams, D. F., Rahman, S., James, R., Ferguson, E., Kiely, P., Young, A., & Walsh, D. (2019). Disease Activity Flares and Pain Flares in an early rheumatoid arthritis inception cohort; characteristics, antecedents and sequelae. BMC Rheumatology, 3, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41927-019-0100-9

Background
RA flares are common and disabling. They are described in terms of worsening inflammation but pain and inflammation are often discordant. To inform treatment decisions, we investigated whether inflammatory and pain flares are discrete ent... Read More about Disease Activity Flares and Pain Flares in an early rheumatoid arthritis inception cohort; characteristics, antecedents and sequelae.

Characterising burden of treatment in cystic fibrosis to identify priority areas for clinical trials (2019)
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Davies, G., Rowbotham, N. J., Smith, S., Elliot, Z. C., Gathercole, K., Rayner, O., Leighton, P. A., Herbert, S., Duff, A. J., Chandran, S., Daniels, T., Nash, E. F., & Smyth, A. R. (2020). Characterising burden of treatment in cystic fibrosis to identify priority areas for clinical trials. Journal of Cystic Fibrosis, 19(3), 499-502. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcf.2019.10.025

In a recent James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership in cystic fibrosis (CF) the top priority clinical research question was: “What are effective ways of simplifying the treatment burden of people with CF?” We aimed to summarise the lived exp... Read More about Characterising burden of treatment in cystic fibrosis to identify priority areas for clinical trials.

What matters to patients? A thematic analysis of patient information and support needs (2019)
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Osborn, K., Bradley, J., Knox, E., & Leighton, P. (2020). What matters to patients? A thematic analysis of patient information and support needs. Eye, 34, 103–115. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41433-019-0644-3

A thematic analysis was done to look at qualitative free text responses to a members survey carried out by the International Glaucoma Association (IGA) in 2017. A further analysis was done on data from calls made to the IGA’s glaucoma helpline during... Read More about What matters to patients? A thematic analysis of patient information and support needs.

Lower gut microbiome diversity and higher abundance of proinflammatory genus Collinsella are associated with biopsy-proven non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (2019)
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Astbury, S., Atallah, E., Vijay, A., Aithal, G., Grove, J., & Valdes, A. (2020). Lower gut microbiome diversity and higher abundance of proinflammatory genus Collinsella are associated with biopsy-proven non-alcoholic steatohepatitis. Gut Microbes, 11(3), 569-580. https://doi.org/10.1080/19490976.2019.1681861

There is increasing evidence for the role of gut microbial composition in the pathogenesis of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is the most serious form of NAFLD where inflammation causes liver damage tha... Read More about Lower gut microbiome diversity and higher abundance of proinflammatory genus Collinsella are associated with biopsy-proven non-alcoholic steatohepatitis.