All Outputs (11)

Virtual teaching of undergraduate primary care small groups during Covid-19 (2021)
Journal Article
Patel, B., & Taggar, J. S. (2021). Virtual teaching of undergraduate primary care small groups during Covid-19. Education for Primary Care, 32(5), 296-302. https://doi.org/10.1080/14739879.2021.1920475

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic required Higher Educational Institutions to redesign and implement new ways of delivering core learning outcomes for medical students. Much of this change resulted in transition to virtual teaching across medical s... Read More about Virtual teaching of undergraduate primary care small groups during Covid-19.

Clinical placements in General Practice: concepts and considerations of implementing remote virtual placements in the COVID world (2021)
Journal Article
Taggar, J. S., Saha, R., Hopwood-Carr, P., Patel, B., & Johnson, C. (2021). Clinical placements in General Practice: concepts and considerations of implementing remote virtual placements in the COVID world. Education for Primary Care, 32(4), 237-244. https://doi.org/10.1080/14739879.2021.1907790

Medical students are considered as ‘essential workers’ within the National Health Service (NHS) and the delivery of clinical experience is essential to their learning and progression into the workforce. The COVID-19 pandemic impacted on the delivery... Read More about Clinical placements in General Practice: concepts and considerations of implementing remote virtual placements in the COVID world.

Risk prediction of new AF: is there a role for artificial intelligence? (2019)
Journal Article
Taggar, J. S., Qureshi, N., & Weng, S. (2020). Risk prediction of new AF: is there a role for artificial intelligence?. European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, 27(12), 1325-1327. https://doi.org/10.1177/2047487319879525

Innovative, paired careers tutorials: increasing the number of medical students choosing general practice as a career (2018)
Journal Article
Allsopp, G., & Taggar, J. (2018). Innovative, paired careers tutorials: increasing the number of medical students choosing general practice as a career. Education for Primary Care, 29(5), 301-306. https://doi.org/10.1080/14739879.2018.1483742

Background: With a crisis in general practice recruitment, to maintain the current workforce, the Department of Health and Social Care quote a need for 50% of our medical students to choose general practice as a career. There is much variety between... Read More about Innovative, paired careers tutorials: increasing the number of medical students choosing general practice as a career.

Medical students’ attitudes towards increasing early clinical exposure to primary care (2018)
Journal Article
van Oppen, J., Camm, C., Sahota, G., Taggar, J., & Knox, R. (2018). Medical students’ attitudes towards increasing early clinical exposure to primary care. Education for Primary Care, 29(5), 312-313. https://doi.org/10.1080/14739879.2018.1495107

Context: The sustainability of the future UK General Practice (GP) workforce is reliant on half of medical graduates choosing a career in primary care (1), but while good quality undergraduate GP placements (particularly those which are early in the... Read More about Medical students’ attitudes towards increasing early clinical exposure to primary care.

Screening for atrial fibrillation in primary care: from recommendation to implementation (2016)
Journal Article
Taggar, J., & Coleman, T. (in press). Screening for atrial fibrillation in primary care: from recommendation to implementation. European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, https://doi.org/10.1177/2047487316652976

Screening for atrial fibrillation: a cross-sectional survey of healthcare professionals in primary care (2016)
Journal Article
Taggar, J., Coleman, T., Lewis, S., & Jones, M. (2016). Screening for atrial fibrillation: a cross-sectional survey of healthcare professionals in primary care. PLoS ONE, 11(4), Article e0152086. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0152086

Introduction:
Screening for atrial fibrillation (AF) in primary care has been recommended; however, the views of healthcare professionals (HCPs) are not known. This study aimed to determine the opinions of HCP about the feasibility of implementing s... Read More about Screening for atrial fibrillation: a cross-sectional survey of healthcare professionals in primary care.

Accuracy of methods for detecting an irregular pulse and suspected atrial fibrillation: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2015)
Journal Article
Taggar, J. S., Coleman, T., Lewis, S., Heneghan, C., & Jones, M. (2016). Accuracy of methods for detecting an irregular pulse and suspected atrial fibrillation: a systematic review and meta-analysis. European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, 23(12), 1330-1338. https://doi.org/10.1177/2047487315611347

Background: Pulse palpation has been recommended as the first step of screening to detect atrial fibrillation. We aimed to determine and compare the accuracy of different methods for detecting pulse irregularities caused by atrial fibrillation.

Me... Read More about Accuracy of methods for detecting an irregular pulse and suspected atrial fibrillation: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Do cravings predict smoking cessation in smokers calling a national quit line: secondary analyses from a randomised trial for the utility of ‘urges to smoke’ measures (2015)
Journal Article
Taggar, J. S., Lewis, S., Docherty, G., Bauld, L., McEwen, A., & Coleman, T. (in press). Do cravings predict smoking cessation in smokers calling a national quit line: secondary analyses from a randomised trial for the utility of ‘urges to smoke’ measures. Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, 10(15), https://doi.org/10.1186/s13011-015-0011-8

BACKGROUND: Single-item urges to smoke measures have been contemplated as important measures of nicotine dependence This study aimed to prospectively determine the relationships between measures of craving to smoke and smoking cessation, and compare... Read More about Do cravings predict smoking cessation in smokers calling a national quit line: secondary analyses from a randomised trial for the utility of ‘urges to smoke’ measures.

Accuracy of methods for diagnosing atrial fibrillation using 12-lead ECG: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2015)
Journal Article
Taggar, J. S., Coleman, T., Lewis, S., Heneghan, C., & Jones, M. (2015). Accuracy of methods for diagnosing atrial fibrillation using 12-lead ECG: a systematic review and meta-analysis. International Journal of Cardiology, 184, 175-183. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcard.2015.02.014

Background: Screening for atrial fibrillation (AF) using 12-lead-electrocardiograms (ECGs) has been recommended; however, the best method for interpreting ECGs to diagnose AF is not known. We compared accuracy of methods for diagnosing AF from ECGs.... Read More about Accuracy of methods for diagnosing atrial fibrillation using 12-lead ECG: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Nicotine dependence and biochemical exposure measures in the second trimester of pregnancy (2014)
Journal Article
Kwok, T. C., Taggar, J., Cooper, S., Lewis, S., & Coleman, T. (2014). Nicotine dependence and biochemical exposure measures in the second trimester of pregnancy. Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 16(2), https://doi.org/10.1093/ntr/ntt127

Introduction: The Heaviness of Smoking Index (HSI) is validated to measure nicotine dependence in nonpregnant smokers,
and in these smokers, mean salivary and serum cotinine levels are related by a ratio of 1.25. However, as nicotine metabolism
inc... Read More about Nicotine dependence and biochemical exposure measures in the second trimester of pregnancy.