Great Britain

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • 'The workman is worthy of his hire' : What is an anaesthetist worth in 2010? 
  • 25 Years of Transradial Intervention: Looking Back and Anticipating What Is Ahead. 
  • A PCR-RFLP typing method for adhesion molecule gene polymorphisms and allele frequencies in a normal UK population. 
  • A UK-based cost-utility analysis of radiofrequency ablation or oesophagectomy for the management of high-grade dysplasia in Barrett's oesophagus. 
  • A cluster randomised trial, cost-effectiveness analysis and psychosocial evaluation of insulin pump therapy compared with multiple injections during flexible intensive insulin therapy for type 1 diabetes: the REPOSE Trial. 
  • A deanship at Newcastle. 
  • A discordant monozygotic twin design shows blunted cortisol reactivity among bullied children. 
  • A discrete-choice experiment of United Kingdom patients' willingness to risk adverse events for improved function and pain control in osteoarthritis. 
  • A genome-wide association study of intra-ocular pressure suggests a novel association in the gene FAM125B in the TwinsUK cohort. 
  • A prospective longitudinal study of children's theory of mind and adolescent involvement in bullying. 
  • A survey of the management of spinal-induced hypotension for scheduled cesarean delivery. 
  • ADHD and Sleep Quality: Longitudinal Analyses From Childhood to Early Adulthood in a Twin Cohort. 
  • ASPIRE-2-PREVENT: a survey of lifestyle, risk factor management and cardioprotective medication in patients with coronary heart disease and people at high risk of developing cardiovascular disease in the UK. 
  • Adult mental health consequences of peer bullying and maltreatment in childhood: two cohorts in two countries. 
  • After more than 10 years of Gulf War veteran medical evaluations, what have we learned? 
  • Allelic association of sequence variants in the herpes virus entry mediator-B gene (PVRL2) with the severity of multiple sclerosis. 
  • Ambition gone awry: the long-term socioeconomic consequences of misaligned and uncertain ambitions in adolescence. 
  • An atlas of genetic influences on human blood metabolites. 
  • An observational study of pharmacological treatment in primary care of children with ADHD in the United kingdom. 
  • Antiplatelet therapy with aspirin, clopidogrel, and dipyridamole versus clopidogrel alone or aspirin and dipyridamole in patients with acute cerebral ischaemia (TARDIS): a randomised, open-label, phase 3 superiority trial. 
  • Aspirin, nonaspirin nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug, and acetaminophen use and risk of invasive epithelial ovarian cancer: a pooled analysis in the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium. 
  • Assessing whether there is a cancer premium for the value of a statistical life. 
  • Audit commission tackles anaesthetic services. Anaesthesia should remain physician based service. 
  • Barriers to and facilitators of interventions to counter publication bias: thematic analysis of scholarly articles and stakeholder interviews. 
  • Barriers to follow-up care of survivors in the United States and the United Kingdom. 
  • Being bullied as an environmentally mediated contributing factor to children's internalizing problems: a study of twins discordant for victimization. 
  • Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test. Asymmetry detected in funnel plot was probably due to true heterogeneity. 
  • Biomarkers of liver fibrosis: what lies beneath the receiver operating characteristic curve? 
  • Birth order and myopia. 
  • Birth weight and breast cancer risk. 
  • Birthweight predicts IQ: fact or artefact? 
  • Blair unable to fulfil pledge on health spending, says analysis. 
  • Brain drain or OE? Characteristics of young New Zealanders who leave. 
  • Breakfast cereal industry pledges to self-regulate advertising to youth: will they improve the marketing landscape? 
  • Breeding birds on small islands: island biogeography or optimal foraging? 
  • British tobacco company denies "orchestrating smuggling". 
  • Can women provide reliable information about their children's fathers? cross-informant agreement about men's lifetime antisocial behaviour. 
  • Cardiothoracic Surgery in the United Kingdom: Operating Without a Weekend Effect? 
  • Cataract Surgery in Children from Birth to Less than 13 Years of Age: Baseline Characteristics of the Cohort. 
  • Cervical cytology screening. 
  • Changes in food advertisements during 'prime-time' television from 1991 to 2006 in the UK and Canada. 
  • Childhood psychopathology can be really bad for your health. 
  • Cholesterol controversy--where do we go from here? 'Toward healthful diets' reevaluated. 
  • Clinical aspects of brucellosis. 
  • Clinical chemistry outside laboratories: report of a second survey. 
  • Clinical research sites--the underappreciated component of the clinical research system. 
  • Clinical trial metadata: defining and extracting metadata on the design, conduct, results and costs of 125 randomised clinical trials funded by the National Institute for Health Research Health Technology Assessment programme. 
  • Committed to work but vulnerable: self-perceptions and mental health in NEET 18-year olds from a contemporary British cohort. 
  • Common mechanisms underlying refractive error identified in functional analysis of gene lists from genome-wide association study results in 2 European British cohorts. 
  • Comparison of seven techniques for typing international epidemic strains of Clostridium difficile: restriction endonuclease analysis, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, PCR-ribotyping, multilocus sequence typing, multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis, amplified fragment length polymorphism, and surface layer protein A gene sequence typing. 
  • Comparison of the epidemiology and cost of Haemophilus influenzae type b disease in five western countries. 
  • Comparison of the impact of cancer between British and US long-term non-Hodgkin lymphoma survivors. 
  • Comprehensive decision analytical modelling in economic evaluation: a Bayesian approach. 
  • Cost analysis of breath test versus endoscopy for dyspepsia. 
  • Cost-effectiveness and value of information analyses of neuraminidase inhibitors for the treatment of influenza. 
  • Cost-effectiveness of a preferred intensity exercise programme for young people with depression compared with treatment as usual: an economic evaluation alongside a clinical trial in the UK. 
  • Cumulative Effects of Neighborhood Social Adversity and Personal Crime Victimization on Adolescent Psychotic Experiences. 
  • Current approaches in national kidney paired donation programs. 
  • Dataset for Reporting of Malignant Mesothelioma of the Pleura or Peritoneum: Recommendations From the International Collaboration on Cancer Reporting (ICCR). 
  • Demographics and diagnosis of pyridoxine-dependent seizures. 
  • Developing a matrix to identify and prioritise research recommendations in HIV prevention. 
  • Diagnostic accuracy and cost analysis of the Alere™ i Influenza A&B near-patient test using throat swabs. 
  • Disparity in the management of iron overload between patients with sickle cell disease and thalassemia who received transfusions. 
  • District nurse-led beds: an alternative to care at home. 
  • Do You Want to Hear the Bad News? The Value of Diagnostic Tests for Alzheimer's Disease. 
  • Do constitutional types really exist? A further study using grade of membership analysis. 
  • Do patients value continuity of care in general practice? An investigation using stated preference discrete choice experiments. 
  • Drugs of abuse screening in the West Midlands: a 6 year retrospective survey of results. 
  • Dynamic model predicting overweight, obesity, and extreme obesity prevalence trends. 
  • Editorial comment--what can models teach us about stroke treatment? Sorting out the missing bits. 
  • Effect of apolipoprotein E genotype on in-hospital mortality following intracerebral haemorrhage. 
  • Effect of candesartan on cause-specific mortality in heart failure patients: the Candesartan in Heart failure Assessment of Reduction in Mortality and morbidity (CHARM) program. 
  • Effect of palliative oxygen versus room air in relief of breathlessness in patients with refractory dyspnoea: a double-blind, randomised controlled trial. 
  • Effectiveness of thigh-length graduated compression stockings to reduce the risk of deep vein thrombosis after stroke (CLOTS trial 1): a multicentre, randomised controlled trial. 
  • Effects of cabozantinib on pain and narcotic use in patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer: results from a phase 2 nonrandomized expansion cohort. 
  • Eliciting stated preferences for health-technology adoption criteria using paired comparisons and recommendation judgments. 
  • Enhancing linkage analysis of complex disorders: an evaluation of high-density genotyping. 
  • Entrepreneurial insects. 
  • Environmental Enteric Dysfunction and Growth Failure/Stunting in Global Child Health. 
  • Esophageal adenocarcinoma arising from Barrett's metaplasia has regional variations in the west. 
  • Etiological and clinical features of childhood psychotic symptoms: results from a birth cohort. 
  • Evaluation of the Framingham risk score in the European Prospective Investigation of Cancer-Norfolk cohort--invited commentary. 
  • Evaluation of the effectiveness of UK community pharmacists' interventions in community palliative care. 
  • Exploring patterns of response across the lifespan: the Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience (Cam-CAN) study. 
  • Exposure to violence during childhood is associated with telomere erosion from 5 to 10 years of age: a longitudinal study. 
  • External examiners. 
  • Feasibility randomised multicentre, double-blind, double-dummy controlled trial of anakinra, an interleukin-1 receptor antagonist versus intramuscular methylprednisolone for acute gout attacks in patients with chronic kidney disease (ASGARD): protocol study. 
  • First steps in analysing NHS waiting times: avoiding the 'stationary and closed population' fallacy. 
  • Florence Nightingale and the India sanitary reforms. 
  • Food advertising during children's television in Canada and the UK. 
  • From embryo to ethics: a career in science and social responsibility. An interview with Anne McLarne [by Brigid Hogan]. 
  • Fulminant pertussis: a multi-center study with new insights into the clinico-pathological mechanisms. 
  • Genetics and Crime: Integrating New Genomic Discoveries Into Psychological Research About Antisocial Behavior. 
  • Genome-wide association identifies ATOH7 as a major gene determining human optic disc size. 
  • Genome-wide interaction study of a proxy for stress-sensitivity and its prediction of major depressive disorder. 
  • Government inquiry finds inadequate beds provision. 
  • Grading quality of evidence and strength of recommendations for diagnostic tests and strategies. 
  • Group trajectory analysis helps to identify older cancer survivors who benefit from distance-based lifestyle interventions. 
  • Harmony Outcomes: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of the effect of albiglutide on major cardiovascular events in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus-Rationale, design, and baseline characteristics. 
  • Hepatocellular carcinoma. 
  • Home use of closed-loop insulin delivery for overnight glucose control in adults with type 1 diabetes: a 4-week, multicentre, randomised crossover study. 
  • Homelessness is not just a housing problem. 
  • How are we currently training and maintaining clinical readiness of US and UK military surgeons responsible for managing head, face and neck wounds on deployment? 
  • How do physicians weigh benefits and risks associated with treatments in patients with osteoarthritis in the United Kingdom? 
  • Hubris syndrome: an acquired personality disorder? A study of US Presidents and UK Prime Ministers over the last 100 years. 
  • I Am Nurse, Hear Me Roar. 
  • Identification of Patient Characteristics Influencing Setting of Care Decisions for Patients With Acute Bacterial Skin and Skin Structure Infections: Results of a Discrete Choice Experiment. 
  • Identification of a candidate gene for astigmatism. 
  • Identifying transfer mechanisms and sources of decabromodiphenyl ether (BDE 209) in indoor environments using environmental forensic microscopy. 
  • Immune-endocrine biomarkers as predictors of frailty and mortality: a 10-year longitudinal study in community-dwelling older people. 
  • Immunization and the American way: 4 childhood vaccines. 
  • Impact of smoking status on platelet function and clinical outcomes with prasugrel vs. clopidogrel in patients with acute coronary syndromes managed without revascularization: Insights from the TRILOGY ACS trial. 
  • Implications of extending the ADHD age-of-onset criterion to age 12: results from a prospectively studied birth cohort. 
  • Improved Detection of Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy: A Multi-Institutional Analysis of Functional Parameters in Pediatric Heart Transplant Recipients. 
  • Individual, family, and neighborhood factors distinguish resilient from non-resilient maltreated children: a cumulative stressors model. 
  • Influence of adult domestic violence on children's internalizing and externalizing problems: an environmentally informative twin study. 
  • Initial results, reliability, and validity of a mental health survey of Mount Pinatubo disaster victims. 
  • International comparisons of the management of patients with non-ST segment elevation acute myocardial infarction in the United Kingdom, Sweden, and the United States: The MINAP/NICOR, SWEDEHEART/RIKS-HIA, and ACTION Registry-GWTG/NCDR registries. 
  • Invited Commentary: Lessons for Research on Cognitive Aging From a Study of Children. 
  • Involuntary outpatient commitment, community treatment orders, and assisted outpatient treatment: what's in the data? 
  • Is There a Role for Ovarian Cancer Screening in High-Risk Women? 
  • Is childhood cruelty to animals a marker for physical maltreatment in a prospective cohort study of children? 
  • Is it time to revisit tracheal intubation for Cesarean delivery? 
  • It's a matter of time: contemporary pre-hospital management of acute ST elevation myocardial infarction. 
  • Keith Conners. 
  • Laboratory Accuracy Improvement in the UK NEQAS Leucocyte Immunophenotyping Immune Monitoring Program: An Eleven-Year Review via Longitudinal Mixed Effects Modeling. 
  • Leptin deficiency in maltreated children. 
  • Lessons learned from a course for practice nurses. 
  • Links between anxiety and allergies: psychobiological reality or possible methodological bias? 
  • Long-Term Impact of an Electronic Health Record-Enabled, Team-Based, and Scalable Population Health Strategy Based on the Chronic Care Model. 
  • Low doses vs. high doses of the angiotensin converting-enzyme inhibitor lisinopril in chronic heart failure: a cost-effectiveness analysis based on the Assessment of Treatment with Lisinopril and Survival (ATLAS) study. The ATLAS Study Group. 
  • Measurement of Exercise Tolerance before Surgery (METS) study: a protocol for an international multicentre prospective cohort study of cardiopulmonary exercise testing prior to major non-cardiac surgery. 
  • Measuring adolescents' exposure to victimization: The Environmental Risk (E-Risk) Longitudinal Twin Study. 
  • Medical genomics: Gather and use genetic data in health care. 
  • Medicine, diet and moral regulation: Foucault's impact on medical sociology. 
  • Medicines control agency takes over GP research database. 
  • Mental health context of food insecurity: a representative cohort of families with young children. 
  • Mental health services are failing children and adolescents. 
  • Mercury poisoning: a probable cause of Isaac Newton's physical and mental ills. 
  • Mitochondrial polymorphisms significantly reduce the risk of Parkinson disease. 
  • Mortality among US and UK veterans of the Persian Gulf War: a review. 
  • Mortality patterns in developed countries. 
  • Multiple genetic variants explain measurable variance in type 2 diabetes-related traits in Pakistanis. 
  • National practice guidelines for mental health care: a comparative policy analysis of the United kingdom and the United States. 
  • Nudging the obese: a UK-US consideration. 
  • On duty. Interview by Antonia Owen. 
  • One question, two answers: do the two most commonly used methods of sampling describe the length of the prospective wait for admission to hospital? 
  • Patient and professional accuracy of recalled treatment decisions in out-patient consultations. 
  • Patient preferences for treatments to delay bone metastases. 
  • Pop musicians boycott Nestlé promotion. 
  • Practical Dyspnea Assessment: Relationship Between the 0-10 Numerical Rating Scale and the Four-Level Categorical Verbal Descriptor Scale of Dyspnea Intensity. 
  • Practice patterns in supraglottoplasty and perioperative care. 
  • Predicting demographic group structures based on DNA sequence data. 
  • Prediction of heterogeneity in intelligence and adult prognosis by genetic polymorphisms in the dopamine system among children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: evidence from 2 birth cohorts. 
  • Prenatal smoking and early childhood conduct problems: testing genetic and environmental explanations of the association. 
  • Prevalence and prognostic importance of precipitating factors leading to heart failure hospitalization: recurrent hospitalizations and mortality. 
  • Primary care physician-reported secondary and tertiary stroke prevention practices. A comparison between the United States and the United Kingdom. 
  • Psychiatric disorders in primary care patients receiving complementary medical treatments. 
  • Psychiatrists' judgments about antipsychotic benefit and risk outcomes and formulation in schizophrenia treatment. 
  • Psychosocial support for people with diabetes: past, present and future. 
  • Rationale and design of the EXenatide Study of Cardiovascular Event Lowering (EXSCEL) trial. 
  • Recognising obstructive sleep apnoea in pregnancy - a survey of UK obstetric anaesthetists. 
  • Reconsidering quality. 
  • Religious views of the 'medical' rehabilitation model: a pilot qualitative study. 
  • Report condemns NHS complaints procedure. 
  • Report finds persisting poverty and social exclusion. 
  • Researching breathlessness in palliative care: consensus statement of the National Cancer Research Institute Palliative Care Breathlessness Subgroup. 
  • Respiratory syncytial virus: an important cause of acute respiratory illness among young adults undergoing military training. 
  • Retention of young general practitioners entering the NHS from 1991-1992. 
  • Retrospective. Anne McLaren (1927-2007). 
  • Review clears Brompton surgeons. 
  • Richard Kirwan's phlogiston theory: its success and fate. 
  • Safe, stable, nurturing relationships break the intergenerational cycle of abuse: a prospective nationally representative cohort of children in the United Kingdom. 
  • Science must be responsible to society, not to politics. 
  • Screening in the community to reduce fractures in older women (SCOOP): a randomised controlled trial. 
  • Self-monitoring of blood glucose in type 2 diabetes: systematic review. 
  • Setting organ allocation priorities: should we care what the public cares about? 
  • Social networking and understanding alcohol-associated risk for people with type 1 diabetes: friend or foe? 
  • Societal value, the person trade-off, and the dilemma of whose values to measure for cost-effectiveness analysis. 
  • Solicitor in litigation case condemns tobacco industry. 
  • Southampton needle sensation questionnaire: development and validation of a measure to gauge acupuncture needle sensation. 
  • Statins and the Risk of Intracerebral Hemorrhage in Patients With Previous Ischemic Stroke or Transient Ischemic Attack. 
  • Stimulant treatment and injury among children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: an application of the self-controlled case series study design. 
  • Structured simulation improves learning of the Fundamental Use of Surgical Energy™ curriculum: a multicenter randomized controlled trial. 
  • Study shows growing inequalities in health in Britain. 
  • Suicidality as a possible side effect of antidepressant treatment. 
  • Supporting and promoting personhood in long term care settings: contextual factors. 
  • Systematic review and evaluation of methods of assessing urinary incontinence. 
  • Systematic social observation of children's neighborhoods using Google Street View: a reliable and cost-effective method. 
  • Tales of the tenements: midwifery training in Glasgow. 
  • Teen-aged mothers in contemporary Britain. 
  • The CHD challenge: comparing four cost-effectiveness models. 
  • The Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience (Cam-CAN) study protocol: a cross-sectional, lifespan, multidisciplinary examination of healthy cognitive ageing. 
  • The Constitutional Type Questionnaire: validation in the patient population of the Royal London Homoeopathic Hospital. 
  • The Origins of Cognitive Deficits in Victimized Children: Implications for Neuroscientists and Clinicians. 
  • The REstart or STop Antithrombotics Randomised Trial (RESTART) after stroke due to intracerebral haemorrhage: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. 
  • The Safety Attitudes Questionnaire: psychometric properties, benchmarking data, and emerging research. 
  • The economic impact of preschool asthma and wheeze. 
  • The interplay between atrial fibrillation and heart failure on long-term mortality and length of stay: Insights from the, United Kingdom ACALM registry. 
  • The natural life of policy indices: geographical problem areas in the U.S. and U.K. 
  • The pertussis vaccine controversy in Great Britain, 1974-1986. 
  • The quality control of medical gases. 
  • Throwing down the gauntlet: can we do better than the MMSE? 
  • Transferability of economic evaluations across jurisdictions: ISPOR Good Research Practices Task Force report. 
  • Transfusion in critical care - a UK regional audit of current practice. 
  • UK announces cash boost for vaccines and free health care in poor countries. 
  • UK: price-based promotions target poor. 
  • Unrepresentative, invalid and misleading: are waiting times for elective admission wrongly calculated? 
  • Update: looking beyond the 100,000 Genome Project. 
  • Utilization of Standard and Target-Specific Oral Anticoagulants Among Adults in the United Kingdom With Incident Atrial Fibrillation. 
  • Validation of genome-wide prostate cancer associations in men of African descent. 
  • Variations in patient management and outcomes for acute myocardial infarction in the United States and other countries. Results from the GUSTO trial. Global Utilization of Streptokinase and Tissue Plasminogen Activator for Occluded Coronary Arteries. 
  • Wandering in both mind and body: individual differences in mind wandering and inattention predict fidgeting. 
  • Web-Based Management Trial of Diabetes Care. 
  • What Women and Their Physicians Need to Know About the UKCTOCS Study and Ovarian Cancer Screening. 
  • What are the effects of anti-discriminatory legislation on socioeconomic inequalities in the employment consequences of ill health and disability? 
  • What do we know? Limitations of the two methods most commonly used to estimate the length of the prospective wait. 
  • Who gains clinical benefit from using insulin pump therapy? A qualitative study of the perceptions and views of health professionals involved in the Relative Effectiveness of Pumps over MDI and Structured Education (REPOSE) trial. 
  • Why Are Children in Urban Neighborhoods at Increased Risk for Psychotic Symptoms? Findings From a UK Longitudinal Cohort Study. 
  • Why some women look young for their age. 
  • [A guide to nursing education of United Kingdom (author's transl)]. 
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  • Berchuck, Andrew, James M. Ingram Professor of Gynecologic Oncology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Gynecologic Oncology
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