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Utilising artificial intelligence to determine patients at risk of a rare disease: idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension

Pulmonary Circulation, 2019
Idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension is a rare and life-shortening condition often diagnosed at an advanced stage. Despite increased awareness, the delay to diagnosis remains unchanged.
David G. Kiely, Orla Doyle, Edmund Drage, Harvey Jenner, Valentina Salvatelli, Flora A. Daniels, John Rigg, Claude Schmitt, Yevgeniy Samyshkin, Allan Lawrie, Rito Bergemann   +10 more
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Can hospital episode statistics support appraisal and revalidation? Randomised study of physician attitudes [PDF]

Clinical Medicine, 2007
Hospital episode statistics were originally designed to monitor activity and allocate resources in the NHS. Recently their uses have widened to include analysis of individuals' activity, to inform appraisal and revalidation, and monitor performance.
Giles P, Croft, John G, Williams, Robin Y, Mann, David, Cohen, Ceri J, Phillips   +4 more
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Spinal Cord Infarction Versus Idiopathic Transverse Myelitis: Clinical, Radiological, and Functional Insights From a Retrospective Cohort Study

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Spinal cord infarction (SCI) is a rare but devastating myelopathy, characterized by a high disability rate and an unfavorable prognosis. It has often been underdiagnosed and misdiagnosed as idiopathic transverse myelitis (ITM). This study aimed to describe the clinical features, radiological biomarkers, treatments, and functional ...
Zeqiang Ji, Jianlong Zhang, Yiming Shi, Shiyu Shan, Yang Du, Guangshuo Li, Ying Jin, Yani Zhang, Chuanying Wang, Yijun Lin, Yuhao Guo, Decai Tian, Xingquan Zhao, Tian Song   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Comparison of dementia recorded in routinely collected hospital admission data in England with dementia recorded in primary care

Emerging Themes in Epidemiology, 2016
Background Electronic linkage of UK cohorts to routinely collected National Health Service (NHS) records provides virtually complete follow-up for cause-specific hospital admissions and deaths.
Anna Brown, Oksana Kirichek, Angela Balkwill, Gillian Reeves, Valerie Beral, Cathie Sudlow, John Gallacher, Jane Green   +7 more
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Meningovascular Inflammation in Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy‐Related Cortical Superficial Siderosis

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The role of inflammation in cortical superficial siderosis (cSS), a marker of cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) linked to high hemorrhage risk, is unclear. We examined 15 patients with cSS using 3 T post‐contrast vessel wall MRI (VWI) and CSF analysis.
Philipp Arndt, Eya Khadhraoui, Sebastian J. Müller, Katja Neumann, Hendrik Mattern, Sven G. Meuth, Valentina Perosa, Andreas Charidimou, Stefanie Schreiber   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Centralisation of services for children with cleft lip or palate in England: a study of hospital episode statistics

BMC Health Services Research, 2012
Background In 1998, a process of centralisation was initiated for services for children born with a cleft lip or palate in the UK. We studied the timing of this process in England according to its impact on the number of hospitals and surgeons involved ...
Fitzsimons Kate J, Mukarram Shumaila, Copley Lynn P, Deacon Scott A, van der Meulen Jan H   +4 more
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Hospital networks and the dispersal of hospital-acquired pathogens by patient transfer. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2012
Hospital-acquired infections (HAI) are often seen as preventable incidents that result from unsafe practices or poor hospital hygiene. This however ignores the fact that transmissibility is not only a property of the causative organisms but also of the ...
Tjibbe Donker, Jacco Wallinga, Richard Slack, Hajo Grundmann   +3 more
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Hospital episode statistics: improving the quality and value of hospital data: a national internet e-survey of hospital consultants [PDF]

BMJ Open, 2012
HypothesisSenior hospital clinicians are poorly engaged with clinical coding and hospital episode statistics (HES).Aims ▸ To understand the current level of clinical engagement with collection of national data and clinical coding.▸ To gain the views of frontline staff on proposed improvements to hospital statistics.▸ To gain an indication of likely ...
Spencer, Stephen Andrew, Davies, Mark Price   +1 more
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Ketogenic Diet as an Epigenetic Therapy in SETD1B‐Related Epilepsy

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Histone lysine methyltransferases such as SETD1B regulate chromatin structure and gene transcription. Ketone bodies, including butyrate, act as histone deacetylase inhibitors. We report a 4‐year‐old boy with SETD1B‐related absence epilepsy, refractory to conventional medications, who achieved sustained > 90% seizure reduction on the Modified ...
Erica Tsang, Brian S. Gloss, Jessica P. Hayes, Andrew J. A. Holland, Manoj P. Menezes, Joceline A. Branson, Shekeeb S. Mohammad, Jingya J. Yan, Shrujna Patel, Velda X. Han, Russell C. Dale   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

The changing shape of hand trauma: an analysis of Hospital Episode Statistics in England [PDF]

Journal of Hand Surgery (European Volume), 2019
Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) include freely accessible records of all hospital episodes in England. We analysed HES from 1998–1999 to 2014–2015 for diagnoses of hand fractures, tendon injuries, nerve injuries, blood vessel injuries, traumatic amputations and nail bed injuries. Population data were used to calculate the incidence.
Manley, O, Wormald, J, Furniss, D
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