All Outputs (5)

The association between drugs and vaccines commonly prescribed to older people and bullous pemphigoid: a case-control study (2024)
Journal Article
Swiderski, M., Vinogradova, Y., Knaggs, R. D., Harman, K., Harwood, R. H., Prasad, V., Persson, M. S. M., Figueredo, G., Layfield, C., & Gran, S. (in press). The association between drugs and vaccines commonly prescribed to older people and bullous pemphigoid: a case-control study. British Journal of Dermatology, Article ljae416. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjd/ljae416

Background
Bullous pemphigoid (BP) is an autoimmune skin disease that affects mainly older people. Numerous drugs have been previously associated with BP based on case series and small hospital-based studies. More reliable and precise estimates of a... Read More about The association between drugs and vaccines commonly prescribed to older people and bullous pemphigoid: a case-control study.

Peri-operative pain management in adults: a multidisciplinary consensus statement from the Association of Anaesthetists and the British Pain Society (2024)
Journal Article
El-Boghdadly, K., Levy, N. A., Fawcett, W. J., Knaggs, R. D., Laycock, H., Baird, E., Cox, F. J., Eardley, W., Kemp, H., Malpus, Z., Partridge, A., Partridge, J., Patel, A., Price, C., Robinson, J., Russon, K., Walumbe, J., & Lobo, D. N. (2024). Peri-operative pain management in adults: a multidisciplinary consensus statement from the Association of Anaesthetists and the British Pain Society. Anaesthesia, 79(11), 1220-1236. https://doi.org/10.1111/anae.16391

This is a consensus document produced by expert members of a Working Party established by the Association of Anaesthetists and the British Pain Society. It has been seen and approved by their Committee and Board respectively. It is supported by the E... Read More about Peri-operative pain management in adults: a multidisciplinary consensus statement from the Association of Anaesthetists and the British Pain Society.

ENTRUST-PE: An Integrated Framework for Trustworthy Pain Evidence (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper
O'Connell, N., Richards, G. C., Soliman, N., Ferraro, M. C., Segelcke, D., Eccleston, C., Stewart, G., Smart, K. M., Palermo, T. M., Rice, A. S., Vollert, J., Wainwright, E., Williams, A., Crombez, G., Wilkinson, J., Pogatzki-Zahn, E., Turk, D., Keefe, F., Pickering, G., Knaggs, R., …Norris, E. ENTRUST-PE: An Integrated Framework for Trustworthy Pain Evidence

The personal, social and economic burden of chronic pain is enormous. Yet patients with chronic pain, clinicians and the public are often poorly served by an evidence architecture that contains multiple structural weaknesses which reduce confidence i... Read More about ENTRUST-PE: An Integrated Framework for Trustworthy Pain Evidence.

“Application of five different strategies to define a cohort of patients with knee osteoarthritis in a large primary care database” (2024)
Journal Article
Taqi, A., Gran, S., & Knaggs, R. D. (2024). “Application of five different strategies to define a cohort of patients with knee osteoarthritis in a large primary care database”. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 30(7), 1429-1435. https://doi.org/10.1111/jep.14045

Background

Electronic health records (EHR) are frequently used for epidemiological research including drug utilisation studies in a defined population such as the population with knee osteoarthritis (KOA). We sought to describe the process of defi... Read More about “Application of five different strategies to define a cohort of patients with knee osteoarthritis in a large primary care database”.

Designing a primary care pharmacist-led review for people treated with opioids for persistent pain: a multi-method qualitative study (2024)
Journal Article
Woodcock, C., Cornwall, N., Dikomitis, L., Harrisson, S. A., White, S., Helliwell, T., …Jinks, C. (in press). Designing a primary care pharmacist-led review for people treated with opioids for persistent pain: a multi-method qualitative study. BJGP Open, BJGPO.2023.0221. https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGPO.2023.0221

Opioids are frequently prescribed for persistent non-cancer pain despite limited evidence of long-term effectiveness and risk of harm. Evidence-based interventions to address inappropriate opioid prescribing are lacking. To explore perspectives of pe... Read More about Designing a primary care pharmacist-led review for people treated with opioids for persistent pain: a multi-method qualitative study.