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Displaying Families: A New Concept for the Sociology of Family Life (2011)
Book
Dermott, E., & Seymour, J. (2011). Displaying Families: A New Concept for the Sociology of Family Life. Palgrave Macmillan

This volume assesses how the concept of 'displaying families' can contribute to a better understanding of contemporary family and personal life. Using this concept, contributors discuss how family life must not only be 'done' but also be 'seen to be... Read More about Displaying Families: A New Concept for the Sociology of Family Life.

Family Hold Back:Displaying Families in the Single-Location Home/Workplace (2011)
Book Chapter
Seymour, J. (2011). Family Hold Back:Displaying Families in the Single-Location Home/Workplace. In Displaying families: a new concept for the sociology of family life (160 - 174). Palgrave Macmillan

This chapter, in keeping with the overall aim of this volume, takes up Finch?s invitation to assess and develop the new concept of „Displaying Families? (Finch 2007). It aims particularly, as proposed in the original article, to use empirical data to... Read More about Family Hold Back:Displaying Families in the Single-Location Home/Workplace.

Patients' perspective of functional outcome after elective abdominal aortic aneurysm repair: a questionnaire survey (2011)
Journal Article
Khan, J. A., Mazari, F. A., Abdul Rahman, M., Mockford, K., Chetter, I. C., & McCollum, P. T. (2011). Patients' perspective of functional outcome after elective abdominal aortic aneurysm repair: a questionnaire survey. Annals of vascular surgery, 25(7), 878-886. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.avsg.2011.05.013

BackgroundTo evaluate patients' awareness, functional outcome, and satisfaction after abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) repair.MethodsA study-specific questionnaire was developed with collaboration of a multidisciplinary team. Lists of patients who und... Read More about Patients' perspective of functional outcome after elective abdominal aortic aneurysm repair: a questionnaire survey.

Sacral neuromodulation for the management of severe constipation: development of a constipation treatment protocol (2011)
Journal Article
Sharma, A., Liu, B., Waudby, P., & Duthie, G. S. (2011). Sacral neuromodulation for the management of severe constipation: development of a constipation treatment protocol. International Journal of Colorectal Disease, 26(12), 1583-1587. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00384-011-1257-x

Background
Constipation is a common multifactorial gastrointestinal symptom with quality of life implications. Sacral neuromodulation has been used in the management of severe constipation with mixed results. The aim of this study was to review our... Read More about Sacral neuromodulation for the management of severe constipation: development of a constipation treatment protocol.

Targeted duplex ultrasound in a one-stop dialysis vascular access assessment clinic (2011)
Journal Article
Smith, G. E., Samuel, N., Khan, J., Johnson, B. F., & Chetter, I. C. (2011). Targeted duplex ultrasound in a one-stop dialysis vascular access assessment clinic. Annals of vascular surgery, 25(8), 1099-1103. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.avsg.2011.02.043

BackgroundMany duplex detectable factors have been shown to correlate with upper limb arteriovenous fistula (AVF) outcomes, and many practitioners now request preoperative duplex vessel mapping routinely before AVF surgery. We report outcomes from a... Read More about Targeted duplex ultrasound in a one-stop dialysis vascular access assessment clinic.

Clinical and technical outcomes from a randomized clinical trial of endovenous laser ablation compared with conventional surgery for great saphenous varicose veins (2011)
Journal Article
Carradice, D., Mekako, A. I., Mazari, F. A. K., Samuel, N., Hatfield, J., & Chetter, I. C. (2011). Clinical and technical outcomes from a randomized clinical trial of endovenous laser ablation compared with conventional surgery for great saphenous varicose veins. British journal of surgery, 98(8), 1117-1123. https://doi.org/10.1002/bjs.7615

Background:This report describes the clinical effectiveness and recurrence rates from a randomized trial of endovenous laser ablation (EVLA) and surgery for varicose veins.Methods:Some 280 patients were randomized equally using sealed opaque envelope... Read More about Clinical and technical outcomes from a randomized clinical trial of endovenous laser ablation compared with conventional surgery for great saphenous varicose veins.

Workshop 07. Developing approaches to professionalism in medical students (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hammond, A., & Henderson, J. (2011, May). Workshop 07. Developing approaches to professionalism in medical students. Presented at 4th International Clinical Skills Conference - Research in Clinical Skills: Showcasing Best Practice for Students & Practitioners Prato, Tuscany 22 – 25 May 2011 Showcasing Innovation and Evidenced Based Clinical Skills Education and Practice, Prato, Italy

Since the inception of our medical school seven years ago we have noticed that despite undergraduate medical students having an awareness that doctors have expected professional behaviours they have not always appreciated how professional behaviour a... Read More about Workshop 07. Developing approaches to professionalism in medical students.

P15. Employing students' multilingualism and language diversity in teaching and learning (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hammond, A., Collins, S., Adam, J., & Pearce, J. (2011, May). P15. Employing students' multilingualism and language diversity in teaching and learning. Poster presented at 4th International Clinical Skills Conference: Showcasing Innovation and Evidenced Based Clinical Skills Education and Practice, Prato, Italy

Before our innovative clinical skills session ‘Interpreting in Consultations’, we conducted an annual survey of languages spoken by students on admission, in 2006, 2007 and 2008. From
a response rate of 94% we noted that 28% of students are advance... Read More about P15. Employing students' multilingualism and language diversity in teaching and learning.

P16. Introducing Peer Physical Examination (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hammond, A., Henderson, J., Asghar, A., & Collins, S. (2011, May). P16. Introducing Peer Physical Examination. Poster presented at 4th International Clinical Skills Conference: Showcasing Innovation and Evidenced Based Clinical Skills Education and Practice, Prato, Italy

We are a new medical school (now into our eighth year) and until the 2008/09 academic year our Year One and Two students acquired
physical examination skills by examining healthy volunteers. The Year One cohort in 2008/09 were the first to acquire t... Read More about P16. Introducing Peer Physical Examination.

Junction jump sign: a useful adjunct to the precise positioning of the catheter tip during endovenous thermal ablation (2011)
Journal Article
Samuel, N., Wallace, T., Smith, G. E., Shahin, Y., & Chetter, I. C. (2011). Junction jump sign: a useful adjunct to the precise positioning of the catheter tip during endovenous thermal ablation. Ultrasound, 19(2), 97-98. https://doi.org/10.1258/ult.2011.011006

Duplex ultrasound imaging plays a key role in the increasingly popular, minimally invasive endothermal treatment of varicose veins. Accurate placement of the echodense tip of endovenous catheter distal to the site of junctional incompetence is by far... Read More about Junction jump sign: a useful adjunct to the precise positioning of the catheter tip during endovenous thermal ablation.

Microsystems for personalized biomolecular diagnostics (2011)
Journal Article
Shaw, K. J., Birch, C., Hughes, E. M., Jakes, A. D., Greenman, J., & Haswell, S. J. (2011). Microsystems for personalized biomolecular diagnostics. Engineering in Life Sciences, 11(2), 121-132. https://doi.org/10.1002/elsc.201000175

The development of microfluidic methodology that can be used in conjunction with drug screening and biomolecular diagnostics offers a route to evidence-based personalized medical care. Ideally, all personal diagnostics are best carried out in a rapid... Read More about Microsystems for personalized biomolecular diagnostics.

A pilot study to investigate the role of the 26S proteasome in radiotherapy resistance and loco-regional recurrence following breast conserving therapy for early breast cancer (2011)
Journal Article
ELFadl, D., Hodgkinson, V. C., Long, E. D., Scaife, L., Drew, P. J., Lind, M. J., & Cawkwell, L. (2011). A pilot study to investigate the role of the 26S proteasome in radiotherapy resistance and loco-regional recurrence following breast conserving therapy for early breast cancer. The Breast : official journal of the European Society of Mastology, 20(4), 334-337. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.breast.2011.02.017

Breast conserving therapy is a currently accepted method for managing patients with early stage breast cancer. However, approximately 7% of patients may develop loco-regional tumour recurrence within 5 years. We previously reported that expression of... Read More about A pilot study to investigate the role of the 26S proteasome in radiotherapy resistance and loco-regional recurrence following breast conserving therapy for early breast cancer.

Angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors effect on endothelial dysfunction: a meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials (2011)
Journal Article
Shahin, Y., Khan, J. A., Samuel, N., & Chetter, I. (2011). Angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors effect on endothelial dysfunction: a meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials. Atherosclerosis, 216(1), 7-16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2011.02.044

ObjectiveSeveral studies have assessed the effect of angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEIs) on endothelial dysfunction as measured by brachial flow-mediated vasodilatation (FMD). We conducted a meta-analysis to investigate this effect in co... Read More about Angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors effect on endothelial dysfunction: a meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials.

Repeatedly identified differentially expressed proteins (RIDEPs) from antibody microarray proteomic analysis (2011)
Journal Article
Hodgkinson, V. C., ELFadl, D., Drew, P. J., Lind, M. J., & Cawkwell, L. (2011). Repeatedly identified differentially expressed proteins (RIDEPs) from antibody microarray proteomic analysis. Journal of Proteomics, 74(5), 698-703. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jprot.2011.02.014

Antibody microarrays are powerful new tools in the field of comparative proteomics. The success of the biomarker discovery pipeline relies on the quality of data generated in the discovery phase and careful selection of proteins for the verification... Read More about Repeatedly identified differentially expressed proteins (RIDEPs) from antibody microarray proteomic analysis.

Randomized clinical trial of endovenous laser ablation compared with conventional surgery for great saphenous varicose veins (2011)
Journal Article
Carradice, D., Mekako, A. I., Mazari, F. A. K., Samuel, N., Hatfield, J., & Chetter, I. C. (2011). Randomized clinical trial of endovenous laser ablation compared with conventional surgery for great saphenous varicose veins. British journal of surgery, 98(4), 501-510. https://doi.org/10.1002/bjs.7394

Background: Endovenous laser ablation (EVLA) is a popular minimally invasive treatment for varicose veins. Surgical treatment, featuring junctional ligation and inversion stripping, has shown excellent clinical and cost effectiveness. The clinical ef... Read More about Randomized clinical trial of endovenous laser ablation compared with conventional surgery for great saphenous varicose veins.

Ultrasound evaluation of carotid body tumours (2011)
Journal Article
Samuel, N., Smith, G., Wolstenhulme, S., & Chetter, I. (2011). Ultrasound evaluation of carotid body tumours. Ultrasound, 19(1), 26-30. https://doi.org/10.1258/ult.2010.010037

Carotid body tumour (CBT) is a rare neoplasm that usually presents as an asymptomatic slow-growing neck mass at the carotid bifurcation. Due to these benign attributes, CBTs often go undiagnosed for a few years before a lateral neck mass becomes clin... Read More about Ultrasound evaluation of carotid body tumours.

Do angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors improve walking distance in patients with symptomatic lower limb arterial disease? A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials (2010)
Journal Article
Shahin, Y., Mazari, F., & Chetter, I. (2011). Do angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors improve walking distance in patients with symptomatic lower limb arterial disease? A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials. International journal of surgery, 9(3), 209-213. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijsu.2010.12.006

Background
Several studies have reported the clinical effects of long-term treatment with cardioprotective medications in patients with lower limb peripheral arterial disease (PAD) in terms of reducing cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. A numbe... Read More about Do angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors improve walking distance in patients with symptomatic lower limb arterial disease? A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials.

Targeted epidermal growth factor receptor therapy in malignant pleural mesothelioma: where do we stand? (2010)
Journal Article
Agarwal, V., Lind, M. J., & Cawkwell, L. (2011). Targeted epidermal growth factor receptor therapy in malignant pleural mesothelioma: where do we stand?. Cancer Treatment Reviews, 37(7), 533-542. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ctrv.2010.11.004

The median survival for patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma remains extremely poor and there is a need for the development of more effective treatment modalities. The epidermal growth factor receptor is frequently over-expressed in malignant... Read More about Targeted epidermal growth factor receptor therapy in malignant pleural mesothelioma: where do we stand?.