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Hip fracture outcomes in patients with COPD (2018)
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Buss, L., McKeever, T. M., Nightingale, J., Akyea, R., Ollivere, B., Moppett, I., & Bolton, C. E. (2018). Hip fracture outcomes in patients with COPD. British Journal of Anaesthesia, 121(6), 1377-1379. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bja.2018.09.008+hideArticle+Info

Hip fractures are common in patients with COPD and contemporary outcome data is needed. Patients admitted with a hip fracture to one acute trust (2010-2015) were assessed prospectively (UK National Hip Fracture Database audit) and mortality data col... Read More about Hip fracture outcomes in patients with COPD.

Factors influencing treatment selection and thirty-day mortality following chemotherapy for people with small cell lung cancer: an analysis of national audit data (2018)
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Jones, G. S., McKeever, T. M., Hubbard, R. B., Khakwani, A., & Baldwin, D. R. (2018). Factors influencing treatment selection and thirty-day mortality following chemotherapy for people with small cell lung cancer: an analysis of national audit data. European Journal of Cancer, 103, 176-183. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejca.2018.07.133

Background Thirty-day mortality after treatment for lung cancer is a measure of unsuccessful outcome and where treatment should have been avoided. Guidelines recommend offering chemotherapy to individuals with small cell lung cancer (SCLC) who ha... Read More about Factors influencing treatment selection and thirty-day mortality following chemotherapy for people with small cell lung cancer: an analysis of national audit data.

Investigating the discriminative value of Early Warning Scores in patients with respiratory disease using a retrospective cohort analysis of admissions to Nottingham University Hospitals Trust over a 2-year period (2018)
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Forster, S., Housley, G., McKeever, T. M., & Shaw, D. E. (2018). Investigating the discriminative value of Early Warning Scores in patients with respiratory disease using a retrospective cohort analysis of admissions to Nottingham University Hospitals Trust over a 2-year period. BMJ Open, 8(7), Article e020269. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020269

Objective: Early Warning Scores (EWSs) are used to monitor patients for signs of imminent deterioration. Although used in respiratory disease, EWSs have not been well studied in this population, despite the underlying cardiopulmonary pathophysiology... Read More about Investigating the discriminative value of Early Warning Scores in patients with respiratory disease using a retrospective cohort analysis of admissions to Nottingham University Hospitals Trust over a 2-year period.

Risk of fall in patients with COPD (2018)
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Hakamy, A., Bolton, C. E., Gibson, J. E., & McKeever, T. M. (2018). Risk of fall in patients with COPD. Thorax, 73(11), 1079-1080. https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2017-211008

A matched cohort study was conducted to determine the incidence of falls in patients following a diagnosis of COPD using a UK primary care database. 44 400 patients with COPD and 175?545 non-COPD subjects were identified. The incidence rate of fall p... Read More about Risk of fall in patients with COPD.

Variation in lung function and alterations in cardiac 1 structure and function: analysis of the UK Biobank 2 cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging substudy (2018)
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Thomson, R. J., Aung, N., Sanghvi, M. M., Paiva, J. M., Lee, A. M., Fung, K., …Petersen, S. E. (2018). Variation in lung function and alterations in cardiac 1 structure and function: analysis of the UK Biobank 2 cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging substudy. PLoS ONE, 13(3), Article e0194434. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0194434

Background Reduced lung function is common and associated with increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, even in asymptomatic individuals without diagnosed respiratory disease. Previous studies have identified relationships between lung fu... Read More about Variation in lung function and alterations in cardiac 1 structure and function: analysis of the UK Biobank 2 cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging substudy.

Quadrupling inhaled glucocorticoid dose to abort asthma exacerbations (2018)
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McKeever, T., Mortimer, K., Wilson, A., Walker, S., Brightling, C., Skeggs, A., …Harrison, T. (2018). Quadrupling inhaled glucocorticoid dose to abort asthma exacerbations. New England Journal of Medicine, 378(10), 902-910. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa1714257

Copyright © 2018 Massachusetts Medical Society. BACKGROUND Asthma exacerbations are frightening for patients and are occasionally fatal. We tested the concept that a plan for patients to manage their asthma (self-management plan), which included a te... Read More about Quadrupling inhaled glucocorticoid dose to abort asthma exacerbations.

A survey of tobacco dependence treatment guidelines content in 61 countries (2018)
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Nilan, K., McNeill, A., Murray, R. L., McKeever, T. M., & Raw, M. (2018). A survey of tobacco dependence treatment guidelines content in 61 countries. Addiction, 113(8), 1499-1506. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.14204

Aims: To assess tobacco dependence treatment guidelines content in accordance with Article 14 of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) and its guidelines, and association between content and country income... Read More about A survey of tobacco dependence treatment guidelines content in 61 countries.

Predicting 30-day mortality in patients with sepsis: an exploratory analysis of process of care and patient characteristics (2018)
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Sanderson, M., Chikhani, M., Blyth, E., Wood, S., Moppett, I. K., McKeever, T., & Simmonds, M. J. (2018). Predicting 30-day mortality in patients with sepsis: an exploratory analysis of process of care and patient characteristics. Journal of the Intensive Care Society, 19(4), 299-304. https://doi.org/10.1177/1751143718758975

Background Sepsis represents a significant public health burden, costing the NHS £2.5 billion annually, with 35% mortality in 2006. The aim of this exploratory study was to investigate risk factors predictive of 30-day mortality amongst patients w... Read More about Predicting 30-day mortality in patients with sepsis: an exploratory analysis of process of care and patient characteristics.

13-Valent vaccine serotype pneumococcal community acquired pneumonia in adults in high clinical risk groups (2018)
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Daniel, P., Rodrigo, C., Bewick, T., Sheppard, C., Greenwood, S., McKeever, T. M., …Lim, W. S. (2018). 13-Valent vaccine serotype pneumococcal community acquired pneumonia in adults in high clinical risk groups. Vaccine, 36(12), 1614-1620. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2018.02.005

There is debate regarding the value of vaccinating adults with the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV-13). This analysis was conducted to investigate the risk of PCV-13 serotype community acquired pneumonia (CAP) in hospitalised adults wit... Read More about 13-Valent vaccine serotype pneumococcal community acquired pneumonia in adults in high clinical risk groups.

Early respiratory bacterial detection and anti-staphylococcal antibiotic prophylaxis in young children with cystic fibrosis (2017)
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Hurley, M., Fogarty, A. W., McKeever, T. M., Goss, C., Rosenfeld, M., & Smyth, A. R. (in press). Early respiratory bacterial detection and anti-staphylococcal antibiotic prophylaxis in young children with cystic fibrosis. Annals of the American Thoracic Society, https://doi.org/10.1513/AnnalsATS.201705-376OC

Rationale: Consensus is lacking regarding anti-staphylococcal antibiotic prophylaxis use for young children with cystic fibrosis. Prophylaxis is recommended in the UK, but recommended against in the US. Objectives: To test the hypothesis that anti-... Read More about Early respiratory bacterial detection and anti-staphylococcal antibiotic prophylaxis in young children with cystic fibrosis.

The recording and characteristics of pulmonary rehabilitation in patients with COPD using The Health Information Network (THIN) primary care database (2017)
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Hakamy, A., McKeever, T. M., Gibson, J. E., & Bolton, C. E. (in press). The recording and characteristics of pulmonary rehabilitation in patients with COPD using The Health Information Network (THIN) primary care database. npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine, 27(1), Article 58. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41533-017-0058-2

Pulmonary rehabilitation is recommended for patients with COPD to improve physical function, breathlessness and quality of life. Using The Health Information Network (THIN) primary care database in UK, we compared the demographic and clinical paramet... Read More about The recording and characteristics of pulmonary rehabilitation in patients with COPD using The Health Information Network (THIN) primary care database.

The use of the practice walk test in pulmonary rehabilitation program: National COPD Audit Pulmonary Rehabilitation Workstream (2017)
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Hakamy, A., McKeever, T. M., Steiner, M. C., Roberts, C. M., Singh, S. J., & Bolton, C. E. (in press). The use of the practice walk test in pulmonary rehabilitation program: National COPD Audit Pulmonary Rehabilitation Workstream. International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, 12, https://doi.org/10.2147/COPD.S141620

Our aim was to evaluate the use and impact of the practice walk test on enrolment, completion, and clinical functional response to pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) using the 2015 UK National Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Pulmonary Rehabil... Read More about The use of the practice walk test in pulmonary rehabilitation program: National COPD Audit Pulmonary Rehabilitation Workstream.

Progress in implementation of WHO FCTC Article 14 and its guidelines: a survey of tobacco dependence treatment provision in 142 countries (2017)
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Nilan, K., Raw, M., McKeever, T. M., Murray, R. L., & McNeill, A. (2017). Progress in implementation of WHO FCTC Article 14 and its guidelines: a survey of tobacco dependence treatment provision in 142 countries. Addiction, 112(11), 2023-2031. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.13903

Aims To 1) estimate the number of Parties to the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) providing tobacco dependence treatment in accordance with the recommendations of Article 14 and its guidelines; 2) assess association between provision an... Read More about Progress in implementation of WHO FCTC Article 14 and its guidelines: a survey of tobacco dependence treatment provision in 142 countries.

Adults miscoded and misdiagnosed as having pneumonia: results from the British Thoracic Society pneumonia audit (2017)
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Daniel, P., Bewick, T., Welham, S., McKeever, T. M., & Lim, W. S. (2017). Adults miscoded and misdiagnosed as having pneumonia: results from the British Thoracic Society pneumonia audit. Thorax, 72(4), https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2016-209405

A key objective of the British Thoracic Society national community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) audit was to determine the clinical characteristics and outcomes of hospitalised adults given a primary discharge code of pneumonia but who did not fulfil acc... Read More about Adults miscoded and misdiagnosed as having pneumonia: results from the British Thoracic Society pneumonia audit.

Targeted sequencing of lung function loci in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease cases and controls (2017)
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Artigas, M. S., Wain, L. V., Shrine, N., McKeever, T. M., Sayers, I., Hall, I. P., & Tobin, M. D. (2017). Targeted sequencing of lung function loci in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease cases and controls. PLoS ONE, 12(1), Article e0170222. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0170222

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the third leading cause of death worldwide; smoking is the main risk factor for COPD, but genetic factors are also relevant contributors. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of the lung function meas... Read More about Targeted sequencing of lung function loci in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease cases and controls.

Increased incidence of adult pneumococcal pneumonia during school holiday periods (2017)
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Daniel, P., Rodrigo, C., Bewick, T., Sheppard, C., Greenwood, S., McKeever, T. M., …Lim, W. S. (2017). Increased incidence of adult pneumococcal pneumonia during school holiday periods. ERJ Open Research, 3(1), https://doi.org/10.1183/23120541.00100-2016

Child contact is a recognised risk factor for adult pneumococcal disease. Peaks in invasive pneumococcal disease incidence observed during winter holidays may be related to changes in social dynamics. This analysis was conducted to examine adult pneu... Read More about Increased incidence of adult pneumococcal pneumonia during school holiday periods.

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)
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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.

Surgical lung biopsy for the diagnosis of interstitial lung disease in England: 1997-2008 (2016)
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Hutchinson, J. P., McKeever, T. M., Fogarty, A. W., Navaratnam, V., & Hubbard, R. B. (in press). Surgical lung biopsy for the diagnosis of interstitial lung disease in England: 1997-2008. European Respiratory Journal, 48, https://doi.org/10.1183/13993003.00378-2016

Introduction: International guidelines and new targeted therapies for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis have increased the need for accurate diagnosis of interstitial lung disease, which may lead to more surgical lung biopsies. This study aims to assess... Read More about Surgical lung biopsy for the diagnosis of interstitial lung disease in England: 1997-2008.

Place of death in patients with lung cancer: a retrospective cohort study from 2004-2013 (2016)
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O'Dowd, E. L., McKeever, T. M., Baldwin, D. R., & Hubbard, R. B. (2016). Place of death in patients with lung cancer: a retrospective cohort study from 2004-2013. PLoS ONE, 11(8), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0161399

Introduction: Many patients with cancer die in an acute hospital bed, which has been frequently identified as the least preferred location, with psychological and financial implications. This study looks at place and cause of death in patients with l... Read More about Place of death in patients with lung cancer: a retrospective cohort study from 2004-2013.