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Specialist alcohol inpatient treatment admissions and non-specialist hospital admissions for alcohol withdrawal in England: an inverse relationship (2020)
Journal Article
Phillips, T., Huang, C., Roberts, E., & Drummond, C. (2021). Specialist alcohol inpatient treatment admissions and non-specialist hospital admissions for alcohol withdrawal in England: an inverse relationship. Alcohol and Alcoholism, 56(1), 28-33. https://doi.org/10.1093/alcalc/agaa086

© The Author(s) 2020. Medical Council on Alcohol and Oxford University Press. AIMS: We assessed the relationship between specialist and non-specialist admissions for alcohol withdrawal since the introduction of the UK government Health and Social Car... Read More about Specialist alcohol inpatient treatment admissions and non-specialist hospital admissions for alcohol withdrawal in England: an inverse relationship.

A randomised clinical trial of ultrasound guided cannulation of difficult fistulae for dialysis access (2020)
Journal Article
Eves, J., Cai, P., Latham, R., Leung, C., Carradice, D., Chetter, I., & Smith, G. (in press). A randomised clinical trial of ultrasound guided cannulation of difficult fistulae for dialysis access. The journal of vascular access, https://doi.org/10.1177/1129729820954725

Background: Arteriovenous fistulae (AVF) are preferred for dialysis access but require accurate cannulation for effective dialysis. Evidence supports improvements in cannulation and complication rates using ultrasound guidance (USG) in cannulating ot... Read More about A randomised clinical trial of ultrasound guided cannulation of difficult fistulae for dialysis access.

Searching for Programme Theories for a realist evaluation: A case study comparing an academic database search and a simple Google search (2020)
Journal Article
Coleman, S., Wright, J. M., Nixon, J., Schoonhoven, L., Twiddy, M., & Greenhalgh, J. (2020). Searching for Programme Theories for a realist evaluation: A case study comparing an academic database search and a simple Google search. BMC Medical Research Methodology, 20(1), 217. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-020-01084-x

BACKGROUND: Realist methodologies are increasingly being used to evaluate complex interventions in health and social care. Programme theory (ideas and assumptions of how a particular intervention works) development is the first step in a realist eval... Read More about Searching for Programme Theories for a realist evaluation: A case study comparing an academic database search and a simple Google search.

Estimating global injuries morbidity and mortality: methods and data used in the Global Burden of Disease 2017 study (2020)
Journal Article
James, S. L., Bertolacci, G. J., Castle, C. D., Dingels, Z. V., Fox, J. T., Hamilton, E. B., Roberts, N. L., Sylte, D. O., Henry, N. J., LeGrand, K. E., Banerjee, S. K., Abushouk, A. I., Adebayo, O. M., Adsuar, J. C., Advani, S. M., Alghnam, S. A., Almasri, N. A., Badiye, A. D., Bennett, D. A., Yaw Appiah, S. C., …Vos, T. (2020). Estimating global injuries morbidity and mortality: methods and data used in the Global Burden of Disease 2017 study. Injury Prevention, 26, i125-i153. https://doi.org/10.1136/injuryprev-2019-043531

© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2020. Re-use permitted under CC BY. Published by BMJ. BACKGROUND: While there is a long history of measuring death and disability from injuries, modern research methods must account for the wide spectrum of disabili... Read More about Estimating global injuries morbidity and mortality: methods and data used in the Global Burden of Disease 2017 study.

Mapping geographical inequalities in access to drinking water and sanitation facilities in low-income and middle-income countries, 2000-17 (2020)
Journal Article
Reiner, R. C., Local Burden of Disease WaSH Collaborators, & Soyiri, I. (2020). Mapping geographical inequalities in access to drinking water and sanitation facilities in low-income and middle-income countries, 2000-17. The Lancet global health, 8(9), e1162-e1185. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X%2820%2930278-3

Background
Universal access to safe drinking water and sanitation facilities is an essential human right, recognised in the Sustainable Development Goals as crucial for preventing disease and improving human wellbeing. Comprehensive, high-resolutio... Read More about Mapping geographical inequalities in access to drinking water and sanitation facilities in low-income and middle-income countries, 2000-17.

Activities forgone because of chronic breathlessness: a cross-sectional, population prevalence study (2020)
Journal Article
Kochovska, S., Chang, S., Morgan, D. D., Ferreira, D., Sidhu, M., Saleh Moussa, R., Johnson, M. J., Ekström, M., & Currow, D. C. (2020). Activities forgone because of chronic breathlessness: a cross-sectional, population prevalence study. Palliative Medicine Reports, 1(1), 166-170. https://doi.org/10.1089/pmr.2020.0083

Background
Chronic breathlessness is a prevalent, disabling syndrome affecting many people for years. Identifying the impact of chronic breathlessness on people’s activities in the general population is pivotal for designing symptom management strat... Read More about Activities forgone because of chronic breathlessness: a cross-sectional, population prevalence study.

The relationship between maternal personality disorder and early birth outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2020)
Journal Article
Marshall, C., Jomeen, J., Huang, C., & Martin, C. (2020). The relationship between maternal personality disorder and early birth outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(16), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17165778

Title: Systematic review and meta-analysis of the relationship between maternal personality disorder and early birth outcomes.
Background: Women with personality disorder are at risk of social and emotional problems which impact deleteriously on eve... Read More about The relationship between maternal personality disorder and early birth outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Minimal clinically important differences in average, best, worst and current intensity and unpleasantness of chronic breathlessness (2020)
Journal Article
Ekström, M., Johnson, M. J., Huang, C., & Currow, D. C. (2020). Minimal clinically important differences in average, best, worst and current intensity and unpleasantness of chronic breathlessness. European respiratory journal, 56(2), Article 1902202. https://doi.org/10.1183/13993003.02202-2019

Copyright ©ERS 2020. BACKGROUND: Chronic breathlessness has devastating consequences. The minimal clinically important difference (MCID) for current intensity has been estimated as 9 mm on a 100-mm visual analogue scale (VAS). We aimed to determine M... Read More about Minimal clinically important differences in average, best, worst and current intensity and unpleasantness of chronic breathlessness.

Exploring feedback from research nurses in relation to the design and conduct of a randomised controlled trial of wound care treatments: a sequential, dependent, mixed-methods study (2020)
Journal Article
Long, J., Meethan, K., Arundel, C., Clarke, E., Firth, A., Sylvester, M., & Chetter, I. (2020). Exploring feedback from research nurses in relation to the design and conduct of a randomised controlled trial of wound care treatments: a sequential, dependent, mixed-methods study. Journal of tissue viability, 29(4), 342-347. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtv.2020.07.007

Background
Research nurse involvement in trials is crucial to successful conduct, however their feedback on trial design and conduct is not necessarily always collected and shared. This study was designed to explore research nurse feedback in rela... Read More about Exploring feedback from research nurses in relation to the design and conduct of a randomised controlled trial of wound care treatments: a sequential, dependent, mixed-methods study.

Microplastic contamination of drinking water: a systematic review. (2020)
Journal Article
Danopoulos, E., Twiddy, M., & Rotchell, J. M. (2020). Microplastic contamination of drinking water: a systematic review. PLoS ONE, 15(7 July), Article e0236838. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0236838

Background
Microplastics (MPs) are omnipresent in the environment, including the human food chain; a likely important contributor to human exposure is drinking water.
Objective
To undertake a systematic review of MP contamination of drinking water... Read More about Microplastic contamination of drinking water: a systematic review..