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National survey of feasibility of NIV trials for management of children with bronchiolitis (2020)
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Rosala-Hallas, A., Jones, A. P., Bedson, E., Compton, V., Fernandes, R. M., Lacy, D., …McNamara, P. S. (2020). National survey of feasibility of NIV trials for management of children with bronchiolitis. BMJ Paediatrics Open, 4(1), e000780. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjpo-2020-000780

Background Bronchiolitis is a major cause of admission to hospital in children. Non-invasive ventilation (NIV) support with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) or high-flow nasal cannula (HFNC) oxygen is routinely used for infants in the UK wi... Read More about National survey of feasibility of NIV trials for management of children with bronchiolitis.

Diagnostic test accuracy of point-of-care procalcitonin to diagnose serious bacterial infections in children (2020)
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Waterfield, T., Maney, J. A., McKenna, J. P., Lyttle, M. D., Roland, D., Corr, M., …On behalf of Paediatric Emergency Research in the UK and Ireland (PERUKI). (2020). Diagnostic test accuracy of point-of-care procalcitonin to diagnose serious bacterial infections in children. BMC Pediatrics, 20(1), Article 487. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12887-020-02385-2

Background: The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) have called for research into the role of biomarkers, and specifically procalcitonin (PCT), for the early diagnosis of serious bacterial infections (SBI) in children. The aim of... Read More about Diagnostic test accuracy of point-of-care procalcitonin to diagnose serious bacterial infections in children.

Identifying interventions with Gypsies, Roma and Travellers to promote immunisation uptake: methodological approach and findings (2020)
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Dyson, L., Bedford, H., Condon, L., Emslie, C., Ireland, L., Mytton, J., …Jackson, C. (2020). Identifying interventions with Gypsies, Roma and Travellers to promote immunisation uptake: methodological approach and findings. BMC Public Health, 20(1), Article 1574. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-09614-4

Background: In the UK, Gypsy, Roma and Traveller (GRT) communities are generally considered to be at risk of low or variable immunisation uptake. Many strategies to increase uptake for the general population are relevant for GRT communities, however... Read More about Identifying interventions with Gypsies, Roma and Travellers to promote immunisation uptake: methodological approach and findings.

Planning for success: Overcoming challenges to recruitment and conduct of an open-label emergency department-led paediatric trial (2020)
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Roper, L., Lyttle, M. D., Gamble, C., Humphreys, A., Messahel, S., Lee, E. D., …Woolfall, K. (2021). Planning for success: Overcoming challenges to recruitment and conduct of an open-label emergency department-led paediatric trial. Emergency Medicine Journal, 38(3), 191-197. https://doi.org/10.1136/emermed-2020-209487

Background Key challenges to the successful conduct of The Emergency treatment with Levetiracetam or Phenytoin in Status Epilepticus in children (EcLiPSE) trial were identified at the pre-trial stage. These included practitioner anxieties about condu... Read More about Planning for success: Overcoming challenges to recruitment and conduct of an open-label emergency department-led paediatric trial.

Road traffic injuries in Nepal during COVID-19 lockdown (2020)
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Sedain, B., & Pant, P. R. (2020). Road traffic injuries in Nepal during COVID-19 lockdown. F1000Research, 9, Article 1209. https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.26281.3

Background: As the world is busy addressing COVID-19, road traffic injuries, another major cause of deaths is continuously killing people on the roads. In Nepal, there were frequent media reports of occurrences of road crashes, injuries, and deaths d... Read More about Road traffic injuries in Nepal during COVID-19 lockdown.

Revisiting the use of remission criteria for rheumatoid arthritis by excluding patient global assessment: An individual meta-analysis of 5792 patients (2020)
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Ferreira, R. J. O., Welsing, P. M. J., Jacobs, J. W. G., Gossec, L., Ndosi, M., Machado, P. M., …Da Silva, J. A. P. (2021). Revisiting the use of remission criteria for rheumatoid arthritis by excluding patient global assessment: An individual meta-analysis of 5792 patients. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 80(3), 277-279. https://doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2020-217171

Objectives: To determine the impact of excluding patient global assessment (PGA) from the American College of Rheumatology (ACR)/European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) Boolean remission criteria, on prediction of radiographic and functional outco... Read More about Revisiting the use of remission criteria for rheumatoid arthritis by excluding patient global assessment: An individual meta-analysis of 5792 patients.

Validation of the Italian version of the educational needs assessment tool in rheumatoid arthritis patients and factors associated with educational needs (2020)
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Favero, M., Ometto, F., Salaffi, F., Belluzzi, E., Ortolan, A., Lorenzin, M., …Ramonda, R. (2020). Validation of the Italian version of the educational needs assessment tool in rheumatoid arthritis patients and factors associated with educational needs. Journal of Personalized Medicine, 10(4), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.3390/jpm10040150

The educational needs assessment tool (ENAT) is a seven-domain questionnaire assessing the educational needs (EN) of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The aim of this study was to validate the Italian version of the ENAT and to identify factor... Read More about Validation of the Italian version of the educational needs assessment tool in rheumatoid arthritis patients and factors associated with educational needs.

Randomized trial of the i-gel supraglottic airway device versus tracheal intubation during out of hospital cardiac arrest (AIRWAYS-2): Patient outcomes at three and six months (2020)
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Benger, J. R., Lazaroo, M. J., Clout, M., Voss, S., Black, S., Brett, S. J., …Rogers, C. A. (2020). Randomized trial of the i-gel supraglottic airway device versus tracheal intubation during out of hospital cardiac arrest (AIRWAYS-2): Patient outcomes at three and six months. Resuscitation, 157, 74-82. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resuscitation.2020.09.026

© 2020 The Author(s) Aim: The AIRWAYS-2 cluster randomised controlled trial compared the i-gel supraglottic airway device (SGA) with tracheal intubation (TI) as the first advanced airway management (AAM) strategy used by Emergency Medical Service cli... Read More about Randomized trial of the i-gel supraglottic airway device versus tracheal intubation during out of hospital cardiac arrest (AIRWAYS-2): Patient outcomes at three and six months.

PP20  Paramedic identification and referral of patients in the last year of life: a stakeholder interview study (2020)
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Kirby, K., Black, S., Goodwin, L., Pocock, L., Proctor, A., Richardson, S., …Benger, J. (2020). PP20  Paramedic identification and referral of patients in the last year of life: a stakeholder interview study. Emergency Medicine Journal, 37(10), e10.1-e10. https://doi.org/10.1136/emermed-2020-999abs.20

Background Patients are approaching End of Life when they are likely to die within the next 12 months. Quality in End of Life Care is variable and identifying patients in the End of Life phase is challenging, particularly in those people with diagnos... Read More about PP20  Paramedic identification and referral of patients in the last year of life: a stakeholder interview study.