Research Publications and Outputs: Recent submissions
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Widening Disease Definitions: What Can Physicians Do?
Published 2021-04-01Editorial Article. Disease definitions are often broadened over time to include milder and earlier cases. A strong driver for such definitional changes is the belief that they will benefit patients by preventing more ...Open AccessArticle -
Equity and evidence during vaccine rollout: stepped wedge cluster randomised trials could help.
Published 2021Letter re allocating scarce vaccines, For groups of equivalent priority, a fair and equitable way to decide on the order of rollout is to use a lottery, or system of random choice. Such randomised sequentialrollout of ...Open AccessArticle -
Can Patient-Led Surveillance Detect Subsequent New Primary or Recurrent Melanomas and Reduce the Need for Routinely Scheduled Follow Up? A Protocol for the MELSELF Randomised Controlled Trial.
Published 2021Most subsequent new primary or recurrent melanomas might be self-detected if patients are trained to systematically self-examine their skin and have access to timely medical review (patient-led surveillance). Routinely scheduled ...Open AccessPreprint -
The potential for overdiagnosis and underdiagnosis because of blood pressure variability: a comparison of the 2017 ACC/AHA, 2018 ESC/ESH and 2019 NICE hypertension guidelines.
Published 2021The objective of this paper was to estimate the extent that BP measurement variability may drive over- and underdiagnosis of ‘hypertension’ when measurements are made according to current guidelines. Using data from the ...Open AccessArticle -
Legacy effect of fibrate add-on therapy in diabetic patients with dyslipidemia: a secondary analysis of the ACCORDION study.
Published 2020The Action to Control Cardiovascular Risk in Diabetes (ACCORD)-Lipid study found no evidence of a beneficial effect of statin-fibrate combined treatment, compared to statins alone, on cardiovascular outcomes and mortality ...Open AccessArticle