All Outputs (3)

The old and familiar meets the new and unknown: patient and clinician perceptions on e-cigarettes for smoking reduction in UK general practice, a qualitative interview study (2021)
Journal Article
Albury, C., Barnes, R., Ferrey, A., Coleman, T., Gilbert, H., Naughton, F., …MaSC study investigators. (2022). The old and familiar meets the new and unknown: patient and clinician perceptions on e-cigarettes for smoking reduction in UK general practice, a qualitative interview study. Addiction, 117(5), 1427-1437. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.15760

Background and Aims: Clinicians could promote e-cigarettes for harm reduction to people who smoke but cannot stop, but many clinicians feel uneasy doing so. In a randomized controlled trial (RCT), primary care clinicians offered free e-cigarettes and... Read More about The old and familiar meets the new and unknown: patient and clinician perceptions on e-cigarettes for smoking reduction in UK general practice, a qualitative interview study.

Examining the effectiveness of general practitioner and nurse promotion of electronic cigarettes versus standard care for smoking reduction and abstinence in hardcore smokers with smoking-related chronic disease: Protocol for a randomised controlled trial (2019)
Journal Article
Begh, R., Coleman, T., Yardley, L., Barnes, R., Naughton, F., Gilbert, H., …Aveyard, P. (2019). Examining the effectiveness of general practitioner and nurse promotion of electronic cigarettes versus standard care for smoking reduction and abstinence in hardcore smokers with smoking-related chronic disease: Protocol for a randomised controlled trial. Trials, 20(1), Article 659. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-019-3850-1

© 2019 The Author(s). Background: Despite the clear harm associated with smoking tobacco, many people with smoking-related chronic diseases or serious mental illnesses (SMI) are unwilling or unable to stop smoking. In many cases, these smokers have t... Read More about Examining the effectiveness of general practitioner and nurse promotion of electronic cigarettes versus standard care for smoking reduction and abstinence in hardcore smokers with smoking-related chronic disease: Protocol for a randomised controlled trial.

Is late-life dependency increasing or not? A comparison of the Cognitive Function and Ageing Studies (CFAS) (2017)
Journal Article
Kingston, A., Wohland, P., Wittenberg, R., Robinson, L., Brayne, C., Matthews, F. E., …Weller, R. (2017). Is late-life dependency increasing or not? A comparison of the Cognitive Function and Ageing Studies (CFAS). Lancet, 390(10103), 1676-1684. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736%2817%2931575-1

Background Little is known about how the proportions of dependency states have changed between generational cohorts of older people. We aimed to estimate years lived in different dependency states at age 65 years in 1991 and 2011, and new projections... Read More about Is late-life dependency increasing or not? A comparison of the Cognitive Function and Ageing Studies (CFAS).