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FourFold Asthma Study (FAST): a study protocol for a randomised controlled trial evaluating the clinical cost-effectiveness of temporarily quadrupling the dose of inhaled steroid to prevent asthma exacerbations (2016)
Journal Article
Skeggs, A., McKeever, T. M., Duley, L., Mitchell, E., Bradshaw, L., Mortimer, K., …Haydock, R. (2016). FourFold Asthma Study (FAST): a study protocol for a randomised controlled trial evaluating the clinical cost-effectiveness of temporarily quadrupling the dose of inhaled steroid to prevent asthma exacerbations. Trials, 17, https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-016-1608-6

BACKGROUND: Asthma is one of the commonest chronic diseases in the UK. Acute exacerbations of asthma are unpredictable, disruptive and frightening. They cause considerable morbidity and account for a large component of the health service costs of ast... Read More about FourFold Asthma Study (FAST): a study protocol for a randomised controlled trial evaluating the clinical cost-effectiveness of temporarily quadrupling the dose of inhaled steroid to prevent asthma exacerbations.

Randomized trial of labor induction in women 35 years of age or older (2016)
Journal Article
Walker, K. F., Bugg, G. J., Macpherson, M., McCormick, C., Grace, N., Wildsmith, C., …Thornton, J. (2016). Randomized trial of labor induction in women 35 years of age or older. New England Journal of Medicine, 374(9), https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa1509117

BACKGROUND The risk of antepartum stillbirth at term is higher among women 35 years of age or older than among younger women. Labor induction may reduce the risk of stillbirth, but it also may increase the risk of cesarean delivery, which already is... Read More about Randomized trial of labor induction in women 35 years of age or older.