All Outputs (12)
An interview study of the experiences of cellulitis diagnosis amongst health care professionals (2020)
Journal Article
Objectives: To explore healthcare professionals (HCPs) experiences and challenges in diagnosing suspected lower limb cellulitis. Setting: UK nationwide. Participants: 20 qualified HCPs, who had a minimum of 2 years clinical experience as an HCP... Read More about An interview study of the experiences of cellulitis diagnosis amongst health care professionals.
An interview study to determine the experiences of cellulitis diagnosis amongst health care professionals in the UK (2020)
Journal Article
Objectives: To explore health care professionals (HCPs) experiences and challenges in diagnosing suspected lower limb cellulitis. Setting: UK nationwide. Participants: 20 qualified HCPs, who had a minimum of two years clinical experience as a... Read More about An interview study to determine the experiences of cellulitis diagnosis amongst health care professionals in the UK.
Confidence of recurrent cellulitis self-diagnosis among people with lymphoedema: a qualitative interview study (2019)
Journal Article
© 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.
Purpose To investigate unmet needs of patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) at the end of treatment and whether unmet needs improve over time. Identify predictors of need following treatment and whether unmet need is associated with worse health-r... Read More about Supportive care needs of patients following treatment for colorectal cancer: risk factors for unmet needs and the association between unmet needs and health-related quality of life—results from the ColoREctal Wellbeing (CREW) study.
Effectiveness of interventions to identify and manage patients with familial cancer risk in primary care: a systematic review (2019)
Journal Article
This systematic review evaluated the effectiveness of strategies to identify and manage patients with familial risk of breast, ovarian, colorectal and prostate cancer in primary careto improve clinical outcomes. MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL and Cochrane l... Read More about Effectiveness of interventions to identify and manage patients with familial cancer risk in primary care: a systematic review.
A systematic review showing the lack of diagnostic criteria and tools developed for lower limb cellulitis (2019)
Journal Article
Background: Cellulitis can be a difficult diagnosis to make. 31% of patients admitted from the emergency department with suspected lower limb cellulitis are misdiagnoses, with incorrect treatment potentially resulting in avoidable hospital admission... Read More about A systematic review showing the lack of diagnostic criteria and tools developed for lower limb cellulitis.
The red leg dilemma: a scoping review of the challenges of diagnosing lower limb cellulitis (2018)
Journal Article
Background: Suspected lower limb cellulitis presentations are commonly misdiagnoses, resulting in avoidable antibiotic prescribing or hospital admissions. Understanding the challenges posed in diagnosing cellulitis may help enhance future care. Ob... Read More about The red leg dilemma: a scoping review of the challenges of diagnosing lower limb cellulitis.
Which outcomes are reported in cellulitis trials?: results of a review of outcomes included in cellulitis trials and a patient priority setting survey (2017)
Journal Article
Background There is an emerging need to develop consistent outcomes in clinical trials to allow effective comparison of treatment effects. No systematic review has previously looked at the reporting of outcome measures used in randomised controlle... Read More about Which outcomes are reported in cellulitis trials?: results of a review of outcomes included in cellulitis trials and a patient priority setting survey.
Beta-agonist overuse and delay in obtaining medical review in high risk asthma: a secondary analysis of data from a randomised controlled trial (2017)
Journal Article
Asthma mortality surveys report delays in seeking medical review and overuse of beta-agonist therapy as factors contributing to a fatal outcome. However, the strength of these associations is limited because many asthma deaths are unwitnessed. We und... Read More about Beta-agonist overuse and delay in obtaining medical review in high risk asthma: a secondary analysis of data from a randomised controlled trial.
Effect of smoking status on the efficacy of the SMART regimen in high risk asthma (2016)
Journal Article
Background and objective: The optimal management of people with asthma with a significant smoking history is uncertain. The aim of this study was to determine whether the efficacy/safety profile of single combination inhaled corticosteroid (ICS)/long... Read More about Effect of smoking status on the efficacy of the SMART regimen in high risk asthma.
Predictors of Severe Exacerbations, Poor Asthma Control, and ?-Agonist Overuse for Patients with Asthma (2014)
Journal Article
Background: Predictors of asthma exacerbations, poor asthma control, or extreme β-agonist overuse may be of clinical utility in the management of asthma. Objective: To investigate characteristics that predict subsequent adverse outcomes in asthm... Read More about Predictors of Severe Exacerbations, Poor Asthma Control, and ?-Agonist Overuse for Patients with Asthma.