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Information design for bowel cancer detection: The impact of using information visualisation to help patients prepare for colonoscopy screening (2019)
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dos Santos Lonsdale, M., Ni, L. C., Gu, C., & Twiddy, M. (2019). Information design for bowel cancer detection: The impact of using information visualisation to help patients prepare for colonoscopy screening. Information Design Journal, 25(2), 125-156. https://doi.org/10.1075/idj.25.2.01lon

© 2019 John Benjamins Publishing Company. All rights reserved. Colorectal cancer is one of the most commonly occurring cancers in the world, and colonoscopy is the most sensitive procedure to detect it. Colonoscopy success depends on the quality of b... Read More about Information design for bowel cancer detection: The impact of using information visualisation to help patients prepare for colonoscopy screening.

Mapping disparities in education across low- and middle-income countries (2019)
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Graetz, N., Woyczynski, L., Wilson, K. F., Hall, J. B., Hassen Abate, K., Abd-Allah, F., Adebayo, O. M., Adekanmbi, V., Afshari, M., Ajumobi, O., Akinyemiju, T., Alahdab, F., Al-Aly, Z., Elizabeth Alcalde Rabanal, J., Alijanzadeh, M., Alipour, V., Altirkawi, K., Amiresmaili, M., Hamed Anber, N., Liliana Andrei, C., …Hay, S. I. (2020). Mapping disparities in education across low- and middle-income countries. Nature, 577(7789), 235-238. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1872-1

Educational attainment is an important social determinant of maternal, newborn, and child health. As a tool for promoting gender equity, it has gained increasing traction in popular media, international aid strategies, and global agenda-setting. The... Read More about Mapping disparities in education across low- and middle-income countries.

Intention-to-treat analyses for randomised controlled trials in hospice/palliative care: the case for analyses to be of people exposed to the intervention. (2019)
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Kochovska, S., Huang, C., Johnson, M. J., Agar, M. R., Fallon, M. T., Kaasa, S., Hussain, J. A., Portenoy, R. K., Higginson, I. J., & Currow, D. C. (2020). Intention-to-treat analyses for randomised controlled trials in hospice/palliative care: the case for analyses to be of people exposed to the intervention. Journal of pain and symptom management, 59(3), 637-645. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2019.10.026

© 2019 American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine Context: Minimizing bias in randomized controlled trials (RCTs) includes intention-to-treat analyses. Hospice/palliative care RCTs are constrained by high attrition unpredictable when consent... Read More about Intention-to-treat analyses for randomised controlled trials in hospice/palliative care: the case for analyses to be of people exposed to the intervention..

The association between body mass index and subclinical thyroid dysfunction in different sexes of Chinese (2019)
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Pan, Z., Huang, C., Meng, Z., Zhang, W., Li, Y., Yu, X., Du, X., Liu, M., Sun, J., Zhang, Q., Gao, Y., Song, K., Wang, X., Fan, Y., & Zhao, L. (2019). The association between body mass index and subclinical thyroid dysfunction in different sexes of Chinese. Endocrine practice, 25(11), 1166-1175. https://doi.org/10.4158/EP-2018-0612

Copyright © 2019 AACE. Objective: To study subclinical thyroid dysfunction (SCTD)-subclinical hyperthyroidism and subclinical hypothyroidism-in Chinese patients in relation to body mass index (BMI) and to determine whether a difference between sexes... Read More about The association between body mass index and subclinical thyroid dysfunction in different sexes of Chinese.

Breathlessness, anxiety, depression and function - the BAD-F study: a cross-sectional, population prevalence study in adults. (2019)
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Kinchin, I., Currow, D. C., Chang, S., Reddel, H. K., Kochovska, S., Ferreira, D., Johnson, M., & Ekström, M. (2020). Breathlessness, anxiety, depression and function - the BAD-F study: a cross-sectional, population prevalence study in adults. Journal of pain and symptom management, 59(2), 197-205.e2. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2019.09.021

© 2019 American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine Context: Breathlessness is associated with depression, but its relationship to anxiety or impaired function is less clear. Objectives: This study evaluated associations between chronic breath... Read More about Breathlessness, anxiety, depression and function - the BAD-F study: a cross-sectional, population prevalence study in adults..

A feasibility, randomised controlled trial of a complex breathlessness intervention in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (BREEZE-IPF): study protocol (2019)
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Wright, C., Hart, S. P., Allgar, V., English, A., Swan, F., Dyson, J., Richardson, G., Twiddy, M., Cohen, J., Hussain, J., Johnson, M., Hargreaves, I., & Crooks, M. G. (2019). A feasibility, randomised controlled trial of a complex breathlessness intervention in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (BREEZE-IPF): study protocol. ERJ Open Research, 5(4), Article 0186. https://doi.org/10.1183/23120541.00186-2019

Introduction: Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic and progressive lung disease that causes breathlessness and cough that worsen over time, limiting daily activities and negatively impacting quality of life. Although treatments are now av... Read More about A feasibility, randomised controlled trial of a complex breathlessness intervention in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (BREEZE-IPF): study protocol.

Presurgery conditioning interventions (prehabilitation) in adults undergoing lower limb surgery for peripheral arterial disease (2019)
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Palmer, J., Pymer, S., Smith, G. E., Harwood, A. E., Ingle, L., Huang, C., & Chetter, I. C. (2019). Presurgery conditioning interventions (prehabilitation) in adults undergoing lower limb surgery for peripheral arterial disease. The Cochrane database of systematic reviews, 2019(9), Article CD013407. https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.cd013407

This is a protocol for a Cochrane Review (Intervention). The objectives are as follows:

To assess the effectiveness of prehabilitation (preoperative exercise, either alone or in combination with nutritional or psychological interventions or both)... Read More about Presurgery conditioning interventions (prehabilitation) in adults undergoing lower limb surgery for peripheral arterial disease.

Mental wellbeing in bereaved carers: A Health Survey for England population study (2019)
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Hodiamont, F., Allgar, V., Currow, D. C., & Johnson, M. J. (in press). Mental wellbeing in bereaved carers: A Health Survey for England population study. BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjspcare-2019-001957

Objectives: The experience of caregiving may affect carers' well-being into bereavement. We explored associations between mental well-being and previous experience of bereavement of, and caring for, someone close at the end-of-life. Methods: An end-o... Read More about Mental wellbeing in bereaved carers: A Health Survey for England population study.