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Differing patterns in intentional and unintentional poisonings among young people in England, 1998-2014: a population based cohort study (2016)
Journal Article
Tyrrell, E. G., Orton, E., Sayal, K., Baker, R., & Kendrick, D. (2017). Differing patterns in intentional and unintentional poisonings among young people in England, 1998-2014: a population based cohort study. Journal of Public Health, 39(2), Article e1-e9. https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdw075

Background Accurate and up to date data on changes in poisoning incidence among young people are lacking. Recent linkage of UK primary care, hospital and mortality data allows these to be quantified to inform service delivery.

Methods An open coh... Read More about Differing patterns in intentional and unintentional poisonings among young people in England, 1998-2014: a population based cohort study.

A decision analytic model to investigate the cost-effectiveness of poisoning prevention practices in households with young children (2016)
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Achana, F., Sutton, A. J., Kendrick, D., Hayes, M., Jones, D. R., Hubbard, S. J., & Cooper, N. J. (2016). A decision analytic model to investigate the cost-effectiveness of poisoning prevention practices in households with young children. BMC Public Health, 16, Article 705. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-3334-0

Background: Systematic reviews and a network meta-analysis show home safety education with or without the provision of safety equipment is effective in promoting poison prevention behaviours in households with children. This paper compares the cost-e... Read More about A decision analytic model to investigate the cost-effectiveness of poisoning prevention practices in households with young children.

Reducing falls among older people in general practice: the ProAct65+ exercise intervention trial (2016)
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Gawler, S., Skelton, D. A., Dinan-Young, S., Masud, T., Morris, R. W., Griffin, M., …Iliffe, S. (2016). Reducing falls among older people in general practice: the ProAct65+ exercise intervention trial. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 67, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.archger.2016.06.019

Background: Falls are common in the older UK population and associated costs to the NHS are high. Systematic reviews suggest that home exercise and group-based exercise interventions, which focus on progressively challenging balance and increasing st... Read More about Reducing falls among older people in general practice: the ProAct65+ exercise intervention trial.

Differing patterns in thermal injury incidence and hospitalisations among 0–4 year old children from England (2016)
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Baker, R., Tata, L. J., Kendrick, D., Burch, T., Kennedy, M., & Orton, E. (2016). Differing patterns in thermal injury incidence and hospitalisations among 0–4 year old children from England. Burns, 42(7), 1609-1616. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.burns.2016.05.007

Objective: To describe patterns in thermal injury incidence and hospitalisations by age, sex, calendar year and socioeconomic status among 0-4 year olds in England for the period 1998-2013.

Participants: 708,050 children with linked primary care a... Read More about Differing patterns in thermal injury incidence and hospitalisations among 0–4 year old children from England.

Epidemiology of poisonings, fractures and burns among 0–24 year olds in England using linked health and mortality data (2016)
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Baker, R., Orton, E., Tata, L. J., & Kendrick, D. (2016). Epidemiology of poisonings, fractures and burns among 0–24 year olds in England using linked health and mortality data. European Journal of Public Health, 26(6), 940-946. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckw064

Background:
Understanding patterns of injury in England is challenging due to a lack of national injury surveillance data. Through recent linkage of a large primary care research database to hospitalization and mortality data, we describe the epide... Read More about Epidemiology of poisonings, fractures and burns among 0–24 year olds in England using linked health and mortality data.

Exercise for reducing fear of falling in older people living in the community: Cochrane systematic review and meta-analysis (2016)
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Kumar, A., Delbaere, K., Zijlstra, G., Carpenter, H., Iliffe, S., Masud, T., Skelton, D. A., Morris, R. W., & Kendrick, D. (in press). Exercise for reducing fear of falling in older people living in the community: Cochrane systematic review and meta-analysis. Age and Ageing, 45(3), https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afw036

Objective: To determine the effect of exercise interventions on fear of falling in community-living people aged ≥65 years.
Design: Systematic review and meta-analysis. Bibliographic databases, trial registers and other sources were searched for ran... Read More about Exercise for reducing fear of falling in older people living in the community: Cochrane systematic review and meta-analysis.

Frailty predicts trajectories of quality of life over time among British community-dwelling older people (2016)
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Kojima, G., Iliffe, S., Morris, R., Taniguchi, Y., Kendrick, D., Skelton, D. A., …Bowling, A. (in press). Frailty predicts trajectories of quality of life over time among British community-dwelling older people. Quality of Life Research, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-015-1213-2

Purpose:
To investigate associations between baseline frailty status and subsequent changes in QOL over time among community-dwelling older people.

Methods:
Among 363 community-dwelling older people ≥65 years, frailty was measured using Frailt... Read More about Frailty predicts trajectories of quality of life over time among British community-dwelling older people.

Risk and protective factors for falls on stairs in young children: multicentre case–control study (2015)
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Kendrick, D., Zou, K., Ablewhite, J., Watson, M., Coupland, C., Kay, B., Hawkins, A., & Reading, R. (2016). Risk and protective factors for falls on stairs in young children: multicentre case–control study. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 101(10), 909-916. https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2015-308486

Aim: To investigate risk and protective factors for stair falls in children aged <5 years.

Methods: Multicentre case–control study at hospitals, minor injury units and general practices in and around four UK study centres. Cases were children with...

Seeking support after hospitalisation for injury: a nested qualitative study of the role of primary care (2015)
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Christie, N., Beckett, K., Earthy, S., Kellezi, B., Sleney, J., Barnes, J., …Kendrick, D. (2016). Seeking support after hospitalisation for injury: a nested qualitative study of the role of primary care. British Journal of General Practice, 66(642), e24-e31. https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp15X688141

Background: In the UK, studies suggest that the transition from hospital to home after an injury can be a difficult time and many patients report feeling inadequately prepared. Patients often use primary care services after hospital discharge. These... Read More about Seeking support after hospitalisation for injury: a nested qualitative study of the role of primary care.

Barriers and facilitators to delivering injury prevention interventions in English children's centres (2015)
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Goodenough, T., Kay, B., Deave, T., Towner, E., Stewart, J., Ablewhite, J., Hawkins, A., McDaid, L. A., Pitchforth, E., Beckett, K., & Kendrick, D. (2016). Barriers and facilitators to delivering injury prevention interventions in English children's centres. International Journal of Health Promotion and Education, 54(2), 60-71. https://doi.org/10.1080/14635240.2015.1065710

The aim of this study is to understand barriers and facilitators to the delivery of injury prevention programmes in English children's centres (CCs). Unintentional injury is a major cause of disability and death in children aged 1–4 years; those livi... Read More about Barriers and facilitators to delivering injury prevention interventions in English children's centres.

Identification of incident poisoning, fracture and burn events using linked primary care, secondary care, and mortality data from England: implications for research and surveillance (2015)
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Baker, R., Tata, L. J., Kendrick, D., & Orton, E. (2015). Identification of incident poisoning, fracture and burn events using linked primary care, secondary care, and mortality data from England: implications for research and surveillance. Injury Prevention, https://doi.org/10.1136/injuryprev-2015-041561

Background: English national injury data collection systems are restricted to hospitalisations and deaths. With recent linkage of a large primary care database, the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD), with secondary care and mortality data we... Read More about Identification of incident poisoning, fracture and burn events using linked primary care, secondary care, and mortality data from England: implications for research and surveillance.

Systematic review of the epidemiology of non-collision injuries occurring to older people during use of public buses in high income countries (2015)
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Kendrick, D., Drummond, A. E., Logan, P., Barnes, J., & Worthington, E. (2015). Systematic review of the epidemiology of non-collision injuries occurring to older people during use of public buses in high income countries. Journal of Transport and Health, 2(3), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jth.2015.06.002

Each year more than 6,000 people are injured on public buses in the UK, approximately half of whom are aged 65 or over. This review synthesises the published literature on the epidemiology of non-collision injuries occurring in older people using pub... Read More about Systematic review of the epidemiology of non-collision injuries occurring to older people during use of public buses in high income countries.

“Keeping Moving”: factors associated with sedentary behaviour among older people recruited to an exercise promotion trial in general practice (2015)
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Heseltine, R., Skelton, D., Kendrick, D., Morris, R., Griffin, M., Haworth, D., Masud, T., & Iliffe, S. (2015). “Keeping Moving”: factors associated with sedentary behaviour among older people recruited to an exercise promotion trial in general practice. BMC Family Practice, 16(67), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12875-015-0284-z

Background

Sedentary behaviour is detrimental to health, even in those who achieve recommended levels of physical activity. Efforts to increase physical activity in older people so that they reach beneficial levels have been disappointing. Reducin... Read More about “Keeping Moving”: factors associated with sedentary behaviour among older people recruited to an exercise promotion trial in general practice.

Risk factors for long-bone fractures in children up to 5 years of age: a nested case–control study (2015)
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Baker, R., Orton, E., Tata, L. J., & Kendrick, D. (2015). Risk factors for long-bone fractures in children up to 5 years of age: a nested case–control study. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 100(5), https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2013-305715

Aim: To investigate risk factors for first long-bone fractures in children up to 5 years old in order to provide evidence about which families could benefit from injury prevention interventions.
Methods: Population-based matched nested case–control... Read More about Risk factors for long-bone fractures in children up to 5 years of age: a nested case–control study.

Randomised controlled trial of the effectiveness of community group and home-based falls prevention exercise programmes on bone health in older people: the ProAct65+ bone study (2015)
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Duckham, R. L., Masud, T., Taylor, R., Kendrick, D., Carpenter, H., Iliffe, S., …Brooke-Wavell, K. (2015). Randomised controlled trial of the effectiveness of community group and home-based falls prevention exercise programmes on bone health in older people: the ProAct65+ bone study. Age and Ageing, 44(4), 573-579. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afv055

Background: exercise can reduce osteoporotic fracture risk by strengthening bone or reducing fall risk. Falls prevention exercise programmes can reduce fall incidence, and also include strengthening exercises suggested to load bone, but there is litt... Read More about Randomised controlled trial of the effectiveness of community group and home-based falls prevention exercise programmes on bone health in older people: the ProAct65+ bone study.

The effectiveness of different interventions to promote poison prevention behaviours in households with children: a network meta-analysis (2015)
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Achana, F. A., Sutton, A. J., Kendrick, D., Wynn, P., Young, B., Jones, D. R., …Cooper, N. J. (2015). The effectiveness of different interventions to promote poison prevention behaviours in households with children: a network meta-analysis. PLoS ONE, 10(4), Article e0121122. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0121122

Background: There is evidence from 2 previous meta-analyses that interventions to promote poison prevention behaviours are effective in increasing a range of poison prevention practices in households with children. The published meta-analyses compare... Read More about The effectiveness of different interventions to promote poison prevention behaviours in households with children: a network meta-analysis.

Does the timed up and go test predict future falls among British community-dwelling older people? Prospective cohort study nested within a randomised controlled trial (2015)
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Kojima, G., Masud, T., Kendrick, D., Morris, R. W., Gawler, S., Treml, J., & Iliffe, S. (2015). Does the timed up and go test predict future falls among British community-dwelling older people? Prospective cohort study nested within a randomised controlled trial. BMC Geriatrics, 15(38), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-015-0039-7

Background

Falling is common among older people. The Timed-Up-and-Go Test (TUG) is recommended as a screening tool for falls but its predictive value has been challenged. The objectives of this study were to examine the ability of TUG to predict f... Read More about Does the timed up and go test predict future falls among British community-dwelling older people? Prospective cohort study nested within a randomised controlled trial.

Recruitment and retention strategies and the examination of attrition bias in a randomised controlled trial in children’s centres serving families in disadvantaged areas of England (2015)
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Hindmarch, P., Hawkins, A., McColl, E., Hayes, M., Majsak-Newman, G., Ablewhite, J., …Kendrick, D. (2015). Recruitment and retention strategies and the examination of attrition bias in a randomised controlled trial in children’s centres serving families in disadvantaged areas of England. Trials, 16(79), https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-015-0578-4

Background

Failure to retain participants in randomised controlled trials and longitudinal studies can cause significant methodological problems. We report the recruitment and retention strategies of a randomised controlled trial to promote fire-r... Read More about Recruitment and retention strategies and the examination of attrition bias in a randomised controlled trial in children’s centres serving families in disadvantaged areas of England.