All Outputs (14)

Alcohol-attributable healthcare attendances up to 10 years prior to diagnosis of alcoholic cirrhosis: a population based case-control study (2015)
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Otete, H. E., Orton, E., Fleming, K. M., & West, J. (2016). Alcohol-attributable healthcare attendances up to 10 years prior to diagnosis of alcoholic cirrhosis: a population based case-control study. Liver International, 36(4), 538-546. https://doi.org/10.1111/liv.13002

BACKGROUND & AIMS: Cirrhosis because of alcohol could be avoided if drinking behaviour could be altered earlier in the disease course. Our aim was to quantify the burden of morbidities in patients prior to alcoholic cirrhosis diagnosis, as this may... Read More about Alcohol-attributable healthcare attendances up to 10 years prior to diagnosis of alcoholic cirrhosis: a population based case-control study.

When are breast cancer patients at highest risk of venous thromboembolism? A cohort study using English healthcare data (2015)
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Walker, A. J., West, J., Card, T. R., Crooks, C. J., Kirwan, C. C., & Grainge, M. J. (2015). When are breast cancer patients at highest risk of venous thromboembolism? A cohort study using English healthcare data. Blood, 127(7), 849-857. https://doi.org/10.1182/blood-2015-01-625582

Breast cancer patients are at increased risk of VTE, particularly in the peri-diagnosis period. However, no previous epidemiological studies have investigated the relative impact of breast cancer treatments in a time-dependent manner. We aimed to det... Read More about When are breast cancer patients at highest risk of venous thromboembolism? A cohort study using English healthcare data.

Defining venous thromboembolism and measuring its incidence using Swedish health registries: a nationwide pregnancy cohort study (2015)
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Abdul Sultan, A., West, J., Stephansson, O., Grainge, M. J., Tata, L. J., Fleming, K. M., …Ludvigsson, J. F. (2015). Defining venous thromboembolism and measuring its incidence using Swedish health registries: a nationwide pregnancy cohort study. BMJ Open, 5(11), Article e008864. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2015-008864

Objective: To accurately define venous thromboembolism (VTE) in the routinely collected Swedish health registers and quantify its incidence in and around pregnancy. Study design: Cohort study using data from the Swedish Medical Birth Registry (MBR)... Read More about Defining venous thromboembolism and measuring its incidence using Swedish health registries: a nationwide pregnancy cohort study.

Calculating total health service utilisation and costs from routinely collected electronic health records using the example of patients with irritable bowel syndrome before and after their first gastroenterology appointment (2015)
Journal Article
Canavan, C., West, J., & Card, T. R. (in press). Calculating total health service utilisation and costs from routinely collected electronic health records using the example of patients with irritable bowel syndrome before and after their first gastroenterology appointment. PharmacoEconomics, 34(2), https://doi.org/10.1007/s40273-015-0339-y

INTRODUCTION: Health economic models are increasingly important in funding decisions but most are based on data, which may therefore not represent the general population. We sought to establish the potential of real-world data available within the Cl... Read More about Calculating total health service utilisation and costs from routinely collected electronic health records using the example of patients with irritable bowel syndrome before and after their first gastroenterology appointment.

Change in quality of life for patients with irritable bowel syndrome following referral to a gastroenterologist: a cohort study (2015)
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Canavan, C., West, J., & Card, T. R. (2015). Change in quality of life for patients with irritable bowel syndrome following referral to a gastroenterologist: a cohort study. PLoS ONE, 10(10), Article e0139389. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0139389

BACKGROUND: Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), a chronic functional condition, considerably reduces quality of life (QoL) and referral to gastroenterology is common. Until now, however, the impact of seeing a gastroenterologist for IBS on patients’ QoL... Read More about Change in quality of life for patients with irritable bowel syndrome following referral to a gastroenterologist: a cohort study.

Sex and age differences in the early identification and treatment of alcohol use: a population-based study of patients with alcoholic cirrhosis (2015)
Journal Article
Otete, H. E., Orton, E., West, J., & Fleming, K. M. (2015). Sex and age differences in the early identification and treatment of alcohol use: a population-based study of patients with alcoholic cirrhosis. Addiction, 110(12), https://doi.org/10.1111/add.13081

Aim: To estimate sex differences in health-care utilization among harmful/hazardous drinkers in the period before alcoholic cirrhosis diagnosis, and estimate sex differences in the extent to which alcohol use and brief alcohol interventions were docu... Read More about Sex and age differences in the early identification and treatment of alcohol use: a population-based study of patients with alcoholic cirrhosis.

Variation in the risk of venous thromboembolism following colectomy (2015)
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Humes, D., Walker, A., Blackwell, J., Hunt, B., & West, J. (2015). Variation in the risk of venous thromboembolism following colectomy. British Journal of Surgery, 102(13), https://doi.org/10.1002/bjs.9923

Background: Guidelines recommend extended thromboprophylaxis following colectomy for malignant disease, but not for non-malignant disease. The aim of this study was to determine absolute and relative rates of venous thromboembolism (VTE) following co... Read More about Variation in the risk of venous thromboembolism following colectomy.

Causes of death in people with liver cirrhosis in England compared to the general population: a population-based cohort study (2015)
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Ratib, S., Fleming, K. M., Crooks, C. J., Walker, A. J., & West, J. (2015). Causes of death in people with liver cirrhosis in England compared to the general population: a population-based cohort study. American Journal of Gastroenterology, 110, https://doi.org/10.1038/ajg.2015.191

Introduction Liver cirrhosis is increasing worldwide and associated with high mortality. Precise estimates of cause-specific mortality compared to the general population, by underlying aetiology, are lacking. Such information may demonstrate areas w... Read More about Causes of death in people with liver cirrhosis in England compared to the general population: a population-based cohort study.

Causes of death in people with coeliac disease in England compared with the general population: a competing risk analysis (2015)
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Abdul Sultan, A., Crooks, C. J., Card, T. R., Tata, L. J., Fleming, K. M., & West, J. (2015). Causes of death in people with coeliac disease in England compared with the general population: a competing risk analysis. Gut, 64(8), https://doi.org/10.1136/gutjnl-2014-308285

INTRODUCTION: Quantifying excess cause-specific mortality among people with coeliac disease (CD) compared with the general population accounting for competing risks will allow accurate information to be given on risk of death from specific causes.... Read More about Causes of death in people with coeliac disease in England compared with the general population: a competing risk analysis.

A comparison of the recording of comorbidity in primary and secondary care by using the Charlson Index to predict short-term and long-term survival in a routine linked data cohort (2015)
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Crooks, C. J., West, J., & Card, T. R. (2015). A comparison of the recording of comorbidity in primary and secondary care by using the Charlson Index to predict short-term and long-term survival in a routine linked data cohort. BMJ Open, 5(6), Article e007974. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2015-007974

OBJECTIVE: Hospital admission records provide snapshots of clinical histories for a subset of the population admitted to hospital. In contrast, primary care records provide continuous clinical histories for complete populations, but might lack detail... Read More about A comparison of the recording of comorbidity in primary and secondary care by using the Charlson Index to predict short-term and long-term survival in a routine linked data cohort.

Risk of venous thromboembolism in children after general surgery (2015)
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Humes, D. J., Nordenskjöld, A., Walker, A. J., West, J., & Ludvigsson, J. F. (in press). Risk of venous thromboembolism in children after general surgery. Journal of Pediatric Surgery, 50(11), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2015.05.010

Background/purpose: The purpose of the study was to determine absolute and relative rates of venous thromboembolism (VTE) following general surgical procedures in children compared to the general population. Methods: We analyzed data from all pat... Read More about Risk of venous thromboembolism in children after general surgery.

Socioeconomic variation in the incidence of childhood coeliac disease in the UK (2015)
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Zingone, F., West, J., Crooks, C. J., Fleming, K. M., Card, T. R., Ciacci,, C., & Tata, L. J. (2015). Socioeconomic variation in the incidence of childhood coeliac disease in the UK. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 100(5), https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2014-307105

BACKGROUND: Serological studies indicate that evidence of coeliac disease (CD) exists in about 1% of all children, but we lack estimates of current diagnostic patterns among children and how they vary by socioeconomic group. METHODS: We identifie... Read More about Socioeconomic variation in the incidence of childhood coeliac disease in the UK.

Incidence and distribution of coeliac disease in Campania (Italy): 2011–2013 (2015)
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Zingone, F., West, J., Auricchio, R., Maria Bevilacqua, R., Bile, G., Borgheresi, P., …Ciacci, C. (2015). Incidence and distribution of coeliac disease in Campania (Italy): 2011–2013. United European Gastroenterology Journal, 3(2), https://doi.org/10.1177/2050640615571021

BACKGROUND: There exists a wide variation in the reported incidence of coeliac disease in recent decades. We aimed to evaluate the incidence rate of coeliac diagnoses performed in an Italian region, Campania, between 2011 and 2013 and its variation t... Read More about Incidence and distribution of coeliac disease in Campania (Italy): 2011–2013.

Risk of acute appendicitis in and around pregnancy: a population-based cohort study from England (2015)
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Zingone, F., Sultan, A. A., Humes, D., & West, J. (2015). Risk of acute appendicitis in and around pregnancy: a population-based cohort study from England. Annals of Surgery, 261(2), https://doi.org/10.1097/sla.0000000000000780

Objective: To determine the absolute and relative risk of acute appendicitis during the antepartum and postpartum periods compared with the time outside pregnancy among women of childbearing age. Background: Acute appendicitis is the most common... Read More about Risk of acute appendicitis in and around pregnancy: a population-based cohort study from England.