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Changing autonomy in operative experience through UK general surgery training: a national cohort study (2018)
Journal Article
Elsey, E. J., Griffiths, G., West, J., & Humes, D. J. (2019). Changing autonomy in operative experience through UK general surgery training: a national cohort study. Annals of Surgery, 269(3), 399-406. https://doi.org/10.1097/sla.0000000000003032

Objectives:To determine the operative experience of UK general surgery trainees and assess the changing procedural supervision and acquisition of competency assessments through the course of training. Background Summary Data: Competency assessment... Read More about Changing autonomy in operative experience through UK general surgery training: a national cohort study.

Time out of general surgery specialty training in the UK: a national database study (2018)
Journal Article
Elsey, E. J., West, J., Griffiths, G., & Humes, D. J. (2019). Time out of general surgery specialty training in the UK: a national database study. Journal of Surgical Education, 76(1), 55-64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsurg.2018.06.011

Objective General surgery specialty training in the United Kingdom takes 6 years and allows trainees to take time out of training. Studies from the United States have highlighted an increasing trend for taking time out of surgical training for res... Read More about Time out of general surgery specialty training in the UK: a national database study.

Hip fracture risk in patients with alcoholic cirrhosis: a population-based study using English and Danish data (2018)
Journal Article
Otete, H. E., Deleuran, T., Fleming, K. M., Card, T. R., Aithal, G. P., Jepsen, P., & West, J. (2018). Hip fracture risk in patients with alcoholic cirrhosis: a population-based study using English and Danish data. Journal of Hepatology, 69(3), 697-704. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhep.2018.04.002

© 2018 European Association for the Study of the Liver Background & Aims: Cirrhosis, the prevalence of which is increasing, is a risk factor for osteoporosis and fractures. However, little is known of the actual risk of hip fractures in patients with... Read More about Hip fracture risk in patients with alcoholic cirrhosis: a population-based study using English and Danish data.

A validation study of the CirCom comorbidity score in an English cirrhosis population using the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (2018)
Journal Article
Crooks, C. J., West, J., & Jepson, P. (2018). A validation study of the CirCom comorbidity score in an English cirrhosis population using the Clinical Practice Research Datalink. Clinical Epidemiology, 2018:10, https://doi.org/10.2147/CLEP.S147535

Purpose: The CirCom score has been developed from Danish data as a specific measure of comorbidity for cirrhosis to predict all-cause mortality. We compared its performance with the Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI) in an English cirrhosis population.... Read More about A validation study of the CirCom comorbidity score in an English cirrhosis population using the Clinical Practice Research Datalink.