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Feasibility of improving identification of familial hypercholesterolaemia in general practice: intervention development study (2016)
Journal Article
Qureshi, N., Weng, S., Tranter, J., El-Kadiki, A., & Kai, J. (2016). Feasibility of improving identification of familial hypercholesterolaemia in general practice: intervention development study. BMJ Open, 6, Article e011734. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-011734

Objectives: To assess the feasibility of improving identification of familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH) in primary care, and of collecting outcome measures to inform a future trial. Design: Feasibility intervention study. Setting: 6 general practi... Read More about Feasibility of improving identification of familial hypercholesterolaemia in general practice: intervention development study.

‘Opt-out’ referrals after identifying pregnant smokers using exhaled air carbon monoxide: impact on engagement with smoking cessation support (2016)
Journal Article
Campbell, K., Cooper, S., Fahy, S., Bowker, K., Leonardi-Bee, J., McEwen, A., …Coleman, T. (2017). ‘Opt-out’ referrals after identifying pregnant smokers using exhaled air carbon monoxide: impact on engagement with smoking cessation support. Tobacco Control, 26(3), 300-306. https://doi.org/10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2015-052662

Background. In the UK, free smoking cessation support is available to pregnant women; only a minority access this. ‘Opt-out’ referrals to stop smoking services (SSS) are recommended by UK guidelines. These involve identifying pregnant smokers using e... Read More about ‘Opt-out’ referrals after identifying pregnant smokers using exhaled air carbon monoxide: impact on engagement with smoking cessation support.

The role of cost-effectiveness analysis in the development of indicators to support incentive-based behaviour in primary care in England (2016)
Journal Article
Qureshi, N., Weng, S., & Hex, N. (in press). The role of cost-effectiveness analysis in the development of indicators to support incentive-based behaviour in primary care in England. Journal of Health Services Research and Policy, https://doi.org/10.1177/1355819616650912

In England, general practitioners are incentivized through a national pay-for-performance scheme to adopt evidence-based quality improvement initiatives using a portfolio of Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) indicators. We describe the development... Read More about The role of cost-effectiveness analysis in the development of indicators to support incentive-based behaviour in primary care in England.

Changes in poisonings among adolescents in the UK between 1992 and 2012: a population based cohort study (2016)
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Tyrrell, E. G., Orton, E., & Tata, L. J. (2016). Changes in poisonings among adolescents in the UK between 1992 and 2012: a population based cohort study. Injury Prevention, 22(6), 400-406. https://doi.org/10.1136/injuryprev-2015-041901

Background: Poisonings are a common cause of morbidity and mortality among adolescents. Yet surveillance data indicating current incidence rates (IRs) and time trends are lacking, making policy development and service planning difficult. We utilised... Read More about Changes in poisonings among adolescents in the UK between 1992 and 2012: a population based cohort study.

Which measures of cigarette dependence are predictors of smoking cessation during pregnancy? Analysis of data from a randomized controlled trial (2016)
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Riaz, M., Lewis, S., Coleman, T., Aveyard, P., West, R., Naughton, F., & Ussher, M. (in press). Which measures of cigarette dependence are predictors of smoking cessation during pregnancy? Analysis of data from a randomized controlled trial. Addiction, 111(9), https://doi.org/10.1111/add.13395

Aims: To examine the ability of different common measures of cigarette dependence to predict smoking cessation during pregnancy. Design: Secondary analysis of data from a parallel-group randomized controlled trial of physical activity for smoking... Read More about Which measures of cigarette dependence are predictors of smoking cessation during pregnancy? Analysis of data from a randomized controlled trial.

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., …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 ra... Read More about Exercise for reducing fear of falling in older people living in the community: Cochrane systematic review and meta-analysis.

Illness beliefs predict mortality in patients with diabetic foot ulcers (2016)
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Vedhara, K., Dawe, K., Miles, J. N., Wetherell, M. A., Cullum, N., Dayan, C., …Soria, D. (2016). Illness beliefs predict mortality in patients with diabetic foot ulcers. PLoS ONE, 11(4), Article e0153315. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0153315

Abstract Background: Patients’ illness beliefs have been associated with glycaemic control in diabetes and survival in other conditions. Objective: We examined whether illness beliefs independently predicted survival in patients with diabetes and f... Read More about Illness beliefs predict mortality in patients with diabetic foot ulcers.

Validation, Optimal Threshold Determination, and Clinical Utility of the Infant Risk of Overweight Checklist for Early Prevention of Child Overweight (2016)
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Redsell, S. A., Weng, S., Swift, J. A., Nathan, D., & Glazebrook, C. (2016). Validation, Optimal Threshold Determination, and Clinical Utility of the Infant Risk of Overweight Checklist for Early Prevention of Child Overweight. Childhood Obesity, 12(3), 202-209. https://doi.org/10.1089/chi.2015.0246

Background: Previous research has demonstrated the predictive validity of the Infant Risk of Overweight Checklist (IROC). This study further establishes the predictive accuracy of the IROC using data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Ch... Read More about Validation, Optimal Threshold Determination, and Clinical Utility of the Infant Risk of Overweight Checklist for Early Prevention of Child Overweight.

Screening for atrial fibrillation: a cross-sectional survey of healthcare professionals in primary care (2016)
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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.

The association between treatment adherence to nicotine patches and smoking cessation in pregnancy: a secondary analysis of a randomised controlled trial (2016)
Journal Article
Vaz, L. R., Aveyard, P., Cooper, S., Leonardi-Bee, J., & Coleman, T. (2016). The association between treatment adherence to nicotine patches and smoking cessation in pregnancy: a secondary analysis of a randomised controlled trial. Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 18(10), https://doi.org/10.1093/ntr/ntw080

Introduction In non-pregnant ‘quitters’, adherence to nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) increases smoking cessation. We investigated relationships between adherence to placebo or NRT patches and cessation in pregnancy, including an assessment of... Read More about The association between treatment adherence to nicotine patches and smoking cessation in pregnancy: a secondary analysis of a randomised controlled trial.

Diabetes treatments and risk of amputation, blindness, severe kidney failure, hyperglycaemia, and hypoglycaemia: open cohort study in primary care (2016)
Journal Article
Hippisley-Cox, J., & Coupland, C. (in press). Diabetes treatments and risk of amputation, blindness, severe kidney failure, hyperglycaemia, and hypoglycaemia: open cohort study in primary care. BMJ, 352, Article i1450. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.i1450

Objective: To assess the risks of amputation, blindness, severe kidney failure, hyperglycaemia, and hypoglycaemia in patients with type 2 diabetes associated with prescribed diabetes drugs, particularly newer agents including gliptins or glitazones (... Read More about Diabetes treatments and risk of amputation, blindness, severe kidney failure, hyperglycaemia, and hypoglycaemia: open cohort study in primary care.

Can illness beliefs, from the common-sense model, prospectively predict adherence to self-management behaviours?: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2016)
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Aujla, N., Walker, M., Sprigg, N., Abrams, K., Massey, A., & Vedhara, K. (in press). Can illness beliefs, from the common-sense model, prospectively predict adherence to self-management behaviours?: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Psychology and Health, 2016, https://doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2016.1153640

Objective: To determine whether people’s beliefs about their illness, conceptualised by the common sense model (CSM), can prospectively predict adherence to self-management behaviours (including, attendance, medication, diet and exercise) in adults w... Read More about Can illness beliefs, from the common-sense model, prospectively predict adherence to self-management behaviours?: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Antidepressant use and risk of cardiovascular outcomes in people aged 20 to 64: Cohort study using primary care database (2016)
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Coupland, C., Hill, T., Morriss, R. K., Moore, M., Arthur, A., & Hippisley-Cox, J. (2016). Antidepressant use and risk of cardiovascular outcomes in people aged 20 to 64: Cohort study using primary care database. BMJ, 2016(352), Article i1350. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.i1350

© BMJ Publishing Group Ltd 2016. Objective To assess associations between different antidepressant treatments and rates of three cardiovascular outcomes (myocardial infarction, stroke or transient ischaemic attack, and arrhythmia) in people with depr... Read More about Antidepressant use and risk of cardiovascular outcomes in people aged 20 to 64: Cohort study using primary care database.

Re-starting smoking in the postpartum period after receiving a smoking cessation intervention: a systematic review (2016)
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Jones, M., Lewis, S., Parrott, S., Wormall, S., & Coleman, T. (2016). Re-starting smoking in the postpartum period after receiving a smoking cessation intervention: a systematic review. Addiction, 111(6), 981-990. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.13309

Aims: In pregnant smoking cessation trial participants, to estimate (1) among women abstinent at the end of pregnancy, the proportion who re-start smoking at time-points afterwards (primary analysis) and (2) among all trial participants, the proporti... Read More about Re-starting smoking in the postpartum period after receiving a smoking cessation intervention: a systematic review.

A systematic review in select countries of the role of the pharmacist in consultations and sales of non-prescription medicines in community pharmacy (2016)
Journal Article
van Eikenhorst, L., Nde-Eshimuni, S., & Anderson, C. (2017). A systematic review in select countries of the role of the pharmacist in consultations and sales of non-prescription medicines in community pharmacy. Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy, 13(1), 17-38. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sapharm.2016.02.010

Background Much has been studied in regard to non-prescription medicines (NPMs), but the impact of greater emphasis toward patient self-selection of such agents is still not well understood, and evidence in the literature might be equivocal. Ob... Read More about A systematic review in select countries of the role of the pharmacist in consultations and sales of non-prescription medicines in community pharmacy.

Missed opportunities to keep children safe? National survey of injury prevention activities of children’s centres (2016)
Journal Article
Watson, M. C., Mulvaney, C. A., Timblin, C., Stewart, J., Coupland, C., Deave, T., …Kendrick, D. (in press). Missed opportunities to keep children safe? National survey of injury prevention activities of children’s centres. Health Education Journal, 75(7), https://doi.org/10.1177/0017896916629816

Objective: To ascertain the activities undertaken by children’s centres to prevent unintentional injuries in the under-fives and, in particular, the prevention of falls, poisoning and scalds. Design: A questionnaire was posted to managers of 851 chi... Read More about Missed opportunities to keep children safe? National survey of injury prevention activities of children’s centres.

Sensitivity to scale of willingness-to-pay within the context of menorrhagia (2016)
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Sanghera, S., Frew, E., Gupta, J. K., Kai, J., & Roberts, T. E. (2017). Sensitivity to scale of willingness-to-pay within the context of menorrhagia. Health Expectations, 20(2), https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.12452

Objectives: Willingness-to-pay (WTP) provides a broad assessment of well-being, capturing benefits beyond health. However, the validity of the approach has been questioned and the evidence relating to the sensitivity of WTP to changes in health statu... Read More about Sensitivity to scale of willingness-to-pay within the context of menorrhagia.