Dr Chao Huang's Outputs (69)

Determinants of physiological uptake of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose in palatine tonsils (2018)
Journal Article
Birkin, E., Moore, K. S., Huang, C., Christopher, M., Rees, J. I., Jayaprakasam, V., & Fielding, P. A. (2018). Determinants of physiological uptake of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose in palatine tonsils. Medicine, 97(24), Article e11040. https://doi.org/10.1097/md.0000000000011040

To determine the extent of physiological variation of uptake of 18F-flurodeoxyglucose (FDG) within palatine tonsils. To define normal limits for side-to-side variation and characterize factors affecting tonsillar uptake of FDG.

Over a period of 16... Read More about Determinants of physiological uptake of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose in palatine tonsils.

The effectiveness of an intervention to reduce alcohol-related violence in premises licensed for the sale and on-site consumption of alcohol: a randomized controlled trial (2017)
Journal Article
Moore, S. C., Alam, M. F., Heikkinen, M., Hood, K., Huang, C., Moore, L., Murphy, S., Playle, R., Shepherd, J., Shovelton, C., Sivarajasingam, V., & Williams, A. (2017). The effectiveness of an intervention to reduce alcohol-related violence in premises licensed for the sale and on-site consumption of alcohol: a randomized controlled trial. Addiction, 112(11), 1898-1906. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.13878

Background and Aims: Premises licensed for the sale and consumption of alcohol can contribute to levels of assault-related injury through poor operational practices that, if addressed, could reduce violence. We tested the real-world effectiveness of... Read More about The effectiveness of an intervention to reduce alcohol-related violence in premises licensed for the sale and on-site consumption of alcohol: a randomized controlled trial.

Ignorability for general longitudinal data (2017)
Journal Article
Farewell, D. M., Huang, C., & Didelez, V. (2017). Ignorability for general longitudinal data. Biometrika, 104(2), 317-326. https://doi.org/10.1093/biomet/asx020

Likelihood factors that can be disregarded for inference are termed ignorable. We demonstrate that close ties exist between ignorability and identification of causal effects by covariate adjustment. A graphical condition, stability, plays a role anal... Read More about Ignorability for general longitudinal data.

Oral and topical antibiotics for clinically infected eczema in children: A pragmatic randomized controlled trial in ambulatory care (2017)
Journal Article
Francis, N. A., Ridd, M. J., Thomas-Jones, E., Butler, C. C., Hood, K., Shepherd, V., Marwick, C. A., Huang, C., Longo, M., Wootton, M., & Sullivan, F. (2017). Oral and topical antibiotics for clinically infected eczema in children: A pragmatic randomized controlled trial in ambulatory care. Annals of Family Medicine, 15(2), 124-130. https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.2038

PURPOSE Eczema may flare because of bacterial infection, but evidence supporting antibiotic treatment is of low quality. We aimed to determine the effect of oral and topical antibiotics in addition to topical emollient and corticosteroids in children... Read More about Oral and topical antibiotics for clinically infected eczema in children: A pragmatic randomized controlled trial in ambulatory care.

A calibration method for non-positive definite covariance matrix in multivariate data analysis (2017)
Journal Article
Huang, C., Farewell, D., & Pan, J. (2017). A calibration method for non-positive definite covariance matrix in multivariate data analysis. Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 157, 45-52. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmva.2017.03.001

Covariance matrices that fail to be positive definite arise often in covariance estimation. Approaches addressing this problem exist, but are not well supported theoretically. In this paper, we propose a unified statistical and numerical matrix calib... Read More about A calibration method for non-positive definite covariance matrix in multivariate data analysis.

Exploratory trial of a school-based alcohol prevention intervention with a family component: Implications for implementation (2016)
Journal Article
Segrott, J., Rothwell, H., Pignatelli, I., Playle, R., Hewitt, G., Huang, C., Murphy, S., Hickman, M., Reed, H., & Moore, L. (2016). Exploratory trial of a school-based alcohol prevention intervention with a family component: Implications for implementation. Health Education, 116(4), 410-431. https://doi.org/10.1108/HE-01-2015-0005

Purpose – Involvement of parents/carers may increase effectiveness of primary school-based alcohol-misuse prevention projects through strengthening family-based protective factors, but rates of parental engagement are typically low. This paper report... Read More about Exploratory trial of a school-based alcohol prevention intervention with a family component: Implications for implementation.

A randomised placebo-controlled trial of oral and topical antibiotics for children with clinically infected eczema in the community: The ChildRen with eczema, antibiotic management (CREAM) study (2016)
Journal Article
Francis, N. A., Ridd, M. J., Thomas-Jones, E., Shepherd, V., Butler, C. C., Hood, K., Huang, C., Addison, K., Longo, M., Marwick, C., Wootton, M., Howe, R., Roberts, A., Haq, M. I.-U., Madhok, V., Sullivan, F., & on behalf of the CREAM team. (2016). A randomised placebo-controlled trial of oral and topical antibiotics for children with clinically infected eczema in the community: The ChildRen with eczema, antibiotic management (CREAM) study. Health Technology Assessment, 20(19), 1-84. https://doi.org/10.3310/hta20190

Background
Secondary skin infection is common during eczema exacerbations and many children are treated with antibiotics when this is suspected, although there is little high-quality evidence to justify this practice.

Objective
To determine the... Read More about A randomised placebo-controlled trial of oral and topical antibiotics for children with clinically infected eczema in the community: The ChildRen with eczema, antibiotic management (CREAM) study.

TOUCAN: A randomised phase II trial of carboplatin and gemcitabine +/- vandetanib in first line treatment of advanced urothelial cell cancer in patients who are not suitable to receive cisplatin. (2016)
Journal Article
Jones, R. J., Crabb, S. J., Chester, J. D., Elliott, T., Huddart, R. A., Birtle, A. J., Evans, L., Lester, J. F., Huang, C., Casbard, A. C., Madden, T.-A., & Griffiths, G. (2016). TOUCAN: A randomised phase II trial of carboplatin and gemcitabine +/- vandetanib in first line treatment of advanced urothelial cell cancer in patients who are not suitable to receive cisplatin. Journal of Clinical Oncology, 34(2_suppl), 448-448. https://doi.org/10.1200/jco.2016.34.2_suppl.448

Background: Whilst cisplatin combination therapy remains the standard of care for patients with advanced urothelial cancers, many patients are unsuitable for cisplatin and go on to receive carboplatin combination therapy. Although responses are frequ... Read More about TOUCAN: A randomised phase II trial of carboplatin and gemcitabine +/- vandetanib in first line treatment of advanced urothelial cell cancer in patients who are not suitable to receive cisplatin..

All-Wales licensed premises intervention (AWLPI): A randomised controlled trial to reduce alcohol-related violence (2014)
Journal Article
Moore, S. C., O'Brien, C., Alam, M. F., Cohen, D., Hood, K., Huang, C., Moore, L., Murphy, S., Playle, R., Sivarajasingam, V., Spasic, I., Williams, A., & Shepherd, J. (2014). All-Wales licensed premises intervention (AWLPI): A randomised controlled trial to reduce alcohol-related violence. BMC public health, 14(1), Article 21. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-14-21

Background: Alcohol-related violence in and in the vicinity of licensed premises continues to place a considerable burden on the United Kingdom's (UK) health services. Robust interventions targeted at licensed premises are therefore required to reduc... Read More about All-Wales licensed premises intervention (AWLPI): A randomised controlled trial to reduce alcohol-related violence.