Economic burden of managing oral cancer patients in Sri Lanka: a cross-sectional hospital -based costing study.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To summarise the findings of an updated Cochrane review of interventions aimed at improving the appropriate use of polypharmacy in older people. DESIGN:Cochrane systematic review. Multiple electronic databases were searched including MEDLINE, EMBASE and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (fro...

journal_title：BMJ open

authors： Cooper JA,Cadogan CA,Patterson SM,Kerse N,Bradley MC,Ryan C,Hughes CM

更新日期：2015-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To compare user experiences of 8 regional urgent and emergency care systems in the Republic of Ireland, and explore potential avenues for improvement. DESIGN:A cross-sectional survey. SETTING:Several distinct models of urgent and emergency care operate in Ireland, as system reconfiguration has been impleme...

journal_title：BMJ open

authors： Foley C,Droog E,Boyce M,Healy O,Browne J

更新日期：2017-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This cross-sectional survey investigated whether there were ethnic differences in depressive symptoms among British South Asian (BSA) patients with cancer compared with British White (BW) patients during 9 months following presentation at a UK Cancer Centre. We examined associations between depressed mood, c...

journal_title：BMJ open

authors： Lord K,Ibrahim K,Kumar S,Mitchell AJ,Rudd N,Symonds RP

更新日期：2013-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To complete an economic evaluation within a randomised controlled trial (RCT) comparing the use of an electronic discharge communication tool (eDCT) compared with usual care. SETTING:Patients being discharged from a single tertiary care centre's internal medicine Medical Teaching Units. PARTICIPANTS:Between...

journal_title：BMJ open

authors： Sevick LK,Santana MJ,Ghali WA,Clement F

更新日期：2017-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine the proportion of maternal and perinatal mortality and morbidity cases, identified by the Perinatal and Maternal Mortality Review Committee (PMMRC), that are also reported within the annual serious adverse events (SAEs) reports published by the Health Quality and Safety Commission (HQSC). SETTI...

journal_title：BMJ open

authors： Farquhar C,Armstrong S,Kim B,Masson V,Sadler L

更新日期：2015-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To systematically analyse the effect of pharmacological treatment of hypertension (HTN) on cognitive decline in older adults. METHODS:Randomised, placebo-controlled trials with a prespecified quantitative outcome of cognition and a pharmacological intervention for at least 12 months to treat HTN in older ad...

journal_title：BMJ open

authors： Gupta A,Perdomo S,Billinger S,Beddhu S,Burns J,Gronseth G

更新日期：2020-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To map out the current provision of interventional oncology (IO) services in the UK. DESIGN:Cross-sectional multicentre study. SETTING:All National Health Service (NHS) trusts in England and Scottish, Welsh and Northern Ireland health boards. PARTICIPANTS:Interventional radiology (IR) departments in all NH...

journal_title：BMJ open

authors： Zhong J,Atiiga P,Alcorn DJ,Kay D,Illing R,Breen DJ,Railton N,McCafferty IJ,Haslam PJ,Wah TM

更新日期：2017-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Mortality and morbidity following surgery are pressing public health concerns in the USA. Traditional prediction models for postoperative adverse outcomes demonstrate good discrimination at the population level, but the ability to forecast an individual patient's trajectory in real time remains poor. We pr...

journal_title：BMJ open

authors： Fritz BA,Chen Y,Murray-Torres TM,Gregory S,Ben Abdallah A,Kronzer A,McKinnon SL,Budelier T,Helsten DL,Wildes TS,Sharma A,Avidan MS

更新日期：2018-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:National guidelines for identifying physiological deterioration and sepsis in hospitals depend on thresholds for blood pressure that do not account for age or sex. In populations outside hospital, differences in blood pressure are known to occur with both variables. Whether these differences remain in the ho...

journal_title：BMJ open

authors： Wong D,Gerry S,Shamout F,Clifton DA,Pimentel MAF,Watkinson PJ

更新日期：2020-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory skin disease that frequently debuts in childhood and adolescence. We wished to determine environmental and genetic risk factors for the development of psoriasis in children and adolescents, as well as to investigate debut type, trigger factors, course of disease, nature and i...

journal_title：BMJ open

authors： Blegvad C,Andersen AN,Groot J,Zachariae C,Skov L

更新日期：2019-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To analyse the completeness of reporting of blinding in randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of interventions in anaesthesiology, the actual blinding status of various persons associated with an RCT and trial authors' interpretation of blinding terminology related to RCTs. METHODS:This was a methodological s...

journal_title：BMJ open

authors： Penić A,Begić D,Balajić K,Kowalski M,Marušić A,Puljak L

更新日期：2020-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) among Danish women of childbearing age according to lifestyle factors. DESIGN:Cross-sectional survey. SETTING:The Central Denmark Region. PARTICIPANTS:4234 women (71.5% of the invited women) aged 25-44 years who participated in a public ...

journal_title：BMJ open

authors： Laugesen K,Telén Andersen AB,Nørgaard M,Nielsen RB,Thomsen RW,Larsen FB,Sørensen HT

更新日期：2013-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate whether gestational age modifies the association of airway infections that result in hospital admission during the first year after birth, with subsequent asthma risk after age 5 years. SETTING:Hospital inpatients and a general population comparison group in Sweden followed for subsequent dia...

journal_title：BMJ open

authors： Montgomery S,Bahmanyar S,Brus O,Hussein O,Kosma P,Palme-Kilander C

更新日期：2013-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The juvenile form of Huntington's disease (HD) is a rare disorder. There are no population-based estimates of either its incidence or prevalence in any population in the world. The present study was undertaken to estimate the frequency of juvenile HD in the UK and to examine the range of pharmacological trea...

journal_title：BMJ open

authors： Douglas I,Evans S,Rawlins MD,Smeeth L,Tabrizi SJ,Wexler NS

更新日期：2013-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine whether studying aetiological pathways of depression, in particular the well-established determinant of childhood trauma, only in a specialised mental healthcare setting can yield biased estimates of the aetiological association, given that the majority of individuals are treated in primary care...

journal_title：BMJ open

authors： Laliberté V,Giguère CE,Potvin S,Lesage A,Signature Consortium.

更新日期：2020-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We examined the utility of January 2004 to April 2014 Google Trends data from information searches for cancer screenings and preparations as a complement to population screening data, which are traditionally estimated through costly population-level surveys. SETTING:State-level data across the USA. PARTICI...

journal_title：BMJ open

authors： Schootman M,Toor A,Cavazos-Rehg P,Jeffe DB,McQueen A,Eberth J,Davidson NO

更新日期：2015-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Scotland is the first country to carry out a national implementation of minimum unit pricing (MUP) for alcohol. MUP aims to reduce alcohol-related harms, which are high in Scotland compared with Western Europe, and to improve health equalities. MUP is a minimum retail price per unit of alcohol. That approa...

journal_title：BMJ open

authors： Katikireddi SV,Beeston C,Millard A,Forsyth R,Deluca P,Drummond C,Eadie D,Graham L,Hilton S,Ludbrook A,McCartney G,Phillips T,Stead M,Ford A,Bond L,Leyland AH

更新日期：2019-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Lung cancer is increasingly recognised as a heterogeneous disease. Recent advances with targeted therapies for lung cancer with oncogenic mutations have greatly improved the prognosis for this subset of patients, yet little is known about their experiences. This study aimed to identify the needs and explore t...

journal_title：BMJ open

authors： Al Achkar M,Marchand L,Thompson M,Chow LQM,Revere D,Baldwin LM

更新日期：2020-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To establish the minimally important difference (MID) that would prompt parents and clinicians to use probiotics for prevention of paediatric antibiotic-associated diarrhoea (AAD) and to obtain parent and clinician opinion about the most important outcomes in clinical trials of AAD. METHODS:In this survey, ...

journal_title：BMJ open

authors： Khanpour Ardestani S,Robinson JL,Dieleman LA,Huynh HQ,Jou H,Vohra S

更新日期：2019-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine factors and outcomes associated with ultra-early surgery for poor-grade aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage (aSAH). DESIGN:A multicentre retrospective analysis, observational study. SETTING:High-volume teaching hospitals (more than 150 aSAH cases per year). PARTICIPANTS:118 patients with World...

journal_title：BMJ open

authors： Zhao B,Zhao Y,Tan X,Cao Y,Wu J,Zhong M,Wang S

更新日期：2015-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The influx of management ideas into healthcare has triggered considerable debate about if and how managerial and medical logics can coexist. Recent reviews suggest that clinician involvement in hospital management can lead to superior performance. We, therefore, sought to systematically explore conditions tha...

journal_title：BMJ open

authors： Savage M,Savage C,Brommels M,Mazzocato P

更新日期：2020-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To explore physician satisfaction with an electronic medical records (EMR) system, to identify and explore the main limitations of the system and finally to submit recommendations to address these limitations. DESIGN:A descriptive qualitative study that entailed three focus group interviews was performed am...

journal_title：BMJ open

authors： Al Alawi S,Al Dhaheri A,Al Baloushi D,Al Dhaheri M,Prinsloo EA

更新日期：2014-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a representative rare disease characterised by progressive, fatal motor neuron degeneration. Due to the unknown aetiology and variability of the phenotypes, there are no accurate reports concerning the epidemiology or clinical characteristics of the disease. The low p...

journal_title：BMJ open

authors： He J,Fu JY,Chen L,He J,Dang J,Zou Z,Ma S,Li N,Fan D

更新日期：2020-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Cigarette smoking is one of the leading causes of early death in the UK and worldwide. Public health guidance recommends the use of varenicline, bupropion and nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) as smoking cessation aids in the UK. Additionally, the first electronic cigarette has been licensed for use as a ...

journal_title：BMJ open

authors： Thomas KH,Caldwell D,Dalili MN,Gunnell D,Munafò MR,Stevenson M,Welton NJ

更新日期：2017-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Clown intervention may playing an important complementary role in paediatric care and recovery. However, data on its utility for symptom cluster management of hospitalised children and adolescents in acute and chronic disorders are yet to be critically evaluated. As clinicians strive to minimise the psycho...

journal_title：BMJ open

authors： Lopes-Júnior LC,Lima RAG,Olson K,Bomfim E,Neves ET,Silveira DSCD,Nunes MDR,Nascimento LC,Pereira-da-Silva G

更新日期：2019-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To examine the patterns of social inequalities in anaemia over time among women of reproductive age in India. DESIGN:Repeated cross-sectional study using nationally representative data from the 1998/1999 and 2005/2006 National Family Health Surveys of India. Multivariate modified Poisson regression models w...

journal_title：BMJ open

authors： Balarajan YS,Fawzi WW,Subramanian SV

更新日期：2013-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To estimate the time spent by the researchers for preparing grant proposals, and to examine whether spending more time increase the chances of success. DESIGN:Observational study. SETTING:The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) of Australia. PARTICIPANTS:Researchers who submitted one or mo...

journal_title：BMJ open

authors： Herbert DL,Barnett AG,Clarke P,Graves N

更新日期：2013-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To explore whether the sexual behaviours and sexual health outcomes of young adults with self-reported disabilities that they perceive limit their activities ('limiting disability') differ from those without disability. DESIGN:Complex survey analyses of cross-sectional probability sample survey data collecte...

journal_title：BMJ open

authors： Holdsworth E,Trifonova V,Tanton C,Kuper H,Datta J,Macdowall W,Mercer CH

更新日期：2018-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Several ABILHAND Rasch-built manual ability scales were previously developed for chronic stroke (CS), cerebral palsy (CP), rheumatoid arthritis (RA), systemic sclerosis (SSc) and neuromuscular disorders (NMD). The present study aimed to explore the applicability of a generic manual ability scale unbiased by ...

journal_title：BMJ open

authors： Arnould C,Vandervelde L,Batcho CS,Penta M,Thonnard JL

更新日期：2012-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate the epidemiology of influenza-like illness (ILI) by general practice and patient characteristics, and explore whether sociodemographic variables or comorbidities affect antiviral or antibiotic prescribing. DESIGN:Open cohort study. SETTING:A representative sample of 550 Australian general pr...

journal_title：BMJ open

authors： Bernardo CO,Gonzalez-Chica D,Stocks N

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00