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Sensory training system for use at home by people with complex regional pain syndrome in England: Protocol for a proof-of-concept study (2023)
Journal Article

INTRODUCTION: Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) is a disabling and distressing chronic pain condition characterised by a range of sensory, motor, autonomic and trophic symptoms. UK guidelines recommend therapy interventions to help normalise touc... Read More about Sensory training system for use at home by people with complex regional pain syndrome in England: Protocol for a proof-of-concept study.

Comparative analysis of vaginal microbiota sampling using menstrual cups and high vaginal swabs in pregnant women living with HIV-1 infection (2023)
Journal Article

Background: Menstrual cups (MCs) are increasingly used to collect cervicovaginal secretions to characterise vaginal mucosal immunology, in conjunction with high vaginal swabs (HVS) for metataxonomics, particularly in HIV transmission studies. We hypo... Read More about Comparative analysis of vaginal microbiota sampling using menstrual cups and high vaginal swabs in pregnant women living with HIV-1 infection.

Resilience in patients with complex regional pain syndrome 1-a cross-sectional analysis of patients participating in a cross-sectional cohort study (2023)
Journal Article

OBJECTIVE: To assess the degree of resilience in patients with complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) 1, to explore the relationship between resilience and patient-related outcome measurements and to describe a pattern of clinical manifestations assoc... Read More about Resilience in patients with complex regional pain syndrome 1-a cross-sectional analysis of patients participating in a cross-sectional cohort study.

An exploration of UK healthcare professionals attitudes to and priorities for the delivery of head & neck cancer prehabilitation (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Background: To explore healthcare professionals’ (HCP) views, priorities and training needs relating to head and neck cancer (HNC) Prehabilitation (prehab).
Methods: HCP working with HNC patients in the United Kingdom participated in an internet bas... Read More about An exploration of UK healthcare professionals attitudes to and priorities for the delivery of head & neck cancer prehabilitation.

Evidencing the long-term impact of a musculoskeletal allied health professionals and nurse research internship programme (2023)
Journal Article

Background/Aims The UK-wide AHP and Nurse Research Internship Programme (2015-2022) is an effective, well-recognised model for building musculoskeletal (MSK) research capacity. The programme aim was to encourage and accelerate early clinical academic... Read More about Evidencing the long-term impact of a musculoskeletal allied health professionals and nurse research internship programme.

SegCrop: Segmentation-based dynamic cropping of endoscopic videos to address label leakage in surgical tool detection (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In recent times, surgical data science has emerged as an important research discipline in interventional healthcare. There are many potential applications for analysing endoscopic surgical videos using machine learning (ML) techniques such as surgica... Read More about SegCrop: Segmentation-based dynamic cropping of endoscopic videos to address label leakage in surgical tool detection.

A diagnostic accuracy study to evaluate standard rapid diagnostic test (RDT) alone to safely rule out imported malaria in children presenting to UK emergency departments (2023)
Journal Article

BACKGROUND: Microscopy is the gold standard for malaria diagnosis but is dependent on trained personnel. Rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) form the mainstay of diagnosis in endemic areas without access to high-quality microscopy. We aimed to evaluate whe... Read More about A diagnostic accuracy study to evaluate standard rapid diagnostic test (RDT) alone to safely rule out imported malaria in children presenting to UK emergency departments.