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Effects of nature-based mindfulness on pain and wellbeing for adults with persistent pain: A systematic literature review (2024)
Journal Article

Background: Persistent pain (PP) is a complex mechanism affecting 35% to 51.3% of adults in the United Kingdom and is associated with significant reductions in quality of life. Understanding of PP and how best to treat it has developed over the past... Read More about Effects of nature-based mindfulness on pain and wellbeing for adults with persistent pain: A systematic literature review.

Conservative management versus invasive management of significant traumatic pneumothoraces in the emergency department (the CoMiTED trial): A study protocol for a randomised non-inferiority trial (2024)
Journal Article

Introduction: Traumatic pneumothoraces are present in one of five victims of severe trauma. Current guidelines advise chest drain insertion for most traumatic pneumothoraces, although very small pneumothoraces can be managed with observation at the t... Read More about Conservative management versus invasive management of significant traumatic pneumothoraces in the emergency department (the CoMiTED trial): A study protocol for a randomised non-inferiority trial.

Improving public health through housing: Critical reflections on current housing delivery approaches in England (2024)
Thesis

Housing may be the most powerful and underused tool at our disposal to improve population health. Despite substantial evidence showing which features of housing are beneficial or detrimental to health, too often people are living in homes which have... Read More about Improving public health through housing: Critical reflections on current housing delivery approaches in England.

‘Initially this work was done by doctors, often ineffectively …’: the history of sexual health advising in twentieth-century England (2024)
Journal Article

Much has been written about the history of policy and practice on venereal diseases/sexually transmitted infections in twentieth-century England, but one key group of actors has been overlooked: sexual health advisers and their predecessors. From the... Read More about ‘Initially this work was done by doctors, often ineffectively …’: the history of sexual health advising in twentieth-century England.

Evaluating the participation of junior members and patient and healthcare professionals representatives in EULAR task forces: Results from an international survey (2024)
Journal Article

Objective
European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology (EULAR) task forces (TF) requires participation of ≥2 junior members, a health professional in rheumatology (HPR) and two patient research partners for the development of recommendations o... Read More about Evaluating the participation of junior members and patient and healthcare professionals representatives in EULAR task forces: Results from an international survey.

Replication of a local record keeping method for collecting road crash data in low resource settings: lessons from Bangladesh and Nepal (2024)
Journal Article

Background. Police road crash and injury data in low- and middle-income countries are known to under-report crashes, fatalities and injuries, especially for vulnerable road users. Local record keepers, who are members of the public, can be engaged to... Read More about Replication of a local record keeping method for collecting road crash data in low resource settings: lessons from Bangladesh and Nepal.

AB1575-HPR Geographical differences in osteoarthritis care management: A European cross-sectional study (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Background: Osteoarthritis (OA) burdens individuals and healthcare systems across Europe. With limited curative options, symptom management becomes pivotal, yet underdiagnosis and varied healthcare professional education in OA prevail. The role of in... Read More about AB1575-HPR Geographical differences in osteoarthritis care management: A European cross-sectional study.

AB1429 Sociodemographic and clinical factors associated with health-related quality of life in patients with inflammatory rheumatic diseases treated with glucocorticoids: A cross-sectional study (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Background: Glucocorticoids (GCs) play a pivotal role in the management of inflammatory rheumatic conditions but they can adversely impact on patients in different ways. Conversely, there are certain patient charact... Read More about AB1429 Sociodemographic and clinical factors associated with health-related quality of life in patients with inflammatory rheumatic diseases treated with glucocorticoids: A cross-sectional study.

POS1477-HPR Understanding treatment utilisation in individuals with osteoarthritis and metabolic multimorbidity: A cross-sectional study (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Background: Osteoarthritis (OA) and metabolic conditions are major causes of disability. A growing hypothesis posits the presence of a metabolic OA phenotype where the co-occurrence of OA and metabolic conditions may worsen joint symptoms and overall... Read More about POS1477-HPR Understanding treatment utilisation in individuals with osteoarthritis and metabolic multimorbidity: A cross-sectional study.