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Impact of COVID-19 lockdown on emergency asthma admissions and deaths: national interrupted time series analyses for Scotland and Wales

Thorax, 2021
Background The COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on people with asthma is poorly understood. We hypothesised that lockdown restrictions were associated with reductions in severe asthma exacerbations requiring emergency asthma admissions and/or leading to death.
G. Davies, Mohammad A. Alsallakh, Shanya Sivakumaran, E. Vasileiou, R. Lyons, C. Robertson, A. Sheikh   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The COVID-19 pandemic’s true death toll in Iran after two years: an interrupted time series analysis of weekly all-cause mortality data

BMC Public Health, 2023
Introduction : This study aimed to investigate overall and age group/region/sex-specific excess all-cause mortality from the inception of the COVID-19 pandemic in Iran until February 2022.
Reza Ebrahimoghli, Abbas Abbasi-Ghahramanloo, Eslam Moradi-Asl, Davoud Adham   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Recent historic increase of infant mortality in France: A time-series analysis, 2001 to 2019

The Lancet Regional Health. Europe, 2022
Summary: Background: The infant mortality rate (IMR) serves as a key indicator of population health. Methods: We used data from the French National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies on births and deaths during the first year of life from 2001
Nhung T.H. Trinh, Sophie de Visme, Jérémie F. Cohen, Tim Bruckner, Nathalie Lelong, Pauline Adnot, Jean-Christophe Rozé, Béatrice Blondel, François Goffinet, Grégoire Rey, Pierre-Yves Ancel, Jennifer Zeitlin, Martin Chalumeau   +12 more
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Impact of COVID-19 national lockdown on asthma exacerbations: interrupted time-series analysis of English primary care data

Thorax, 2021
Background The impact of COVID-19 and ensuing national lockdown on asthma exacerbations is unclear. Methods We conducted an interrupted time-series (lockdown on 23 March 2020 as point of interruption) analysis in asthma cohort identified using a ...
S. A. Shah, J. Quint, B. Nwaru, A. Sheikh   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The effects of new urban motorway infrastructure on road traffic accidents in the local area: a retrospective longitudinal study in Scotland [PDF]

, 2016
Background: The M74 motorway extension, Glasgow, opened in June 2011. One justification for construction was an expectation that it would reduce road traffic accidents (RTAs) on local non-motorway roads.
Humphreys, David K., Mackay, Daniel F., Mitchell, Richard, Ogilvie, David, Olsen, Jonathan R.   +4 more
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Impact of COVID-19 lockdown on the incidence and mortality of acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: national interrupted time series analyses for Scotland and Wales

BMC Medicine, 2021
Background The COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing national lockdowns have dramatically changed the healthcare landscape. The pandemic’s impact on people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) remains poorly understood.
Mohammad A. Alsallakh, Shanya Sivakumaran, S. Kennedy, E. Vasileiou, R. Lyons, C. Robertson, Aziz Sheikh, G. Davies, Colin R. Jim Lewis D. Mark Helen R. Diogo Josie Sarah Ra Simpson McMenamin Ritchie Woolhouse Stagg Marques , Colin Simpson, J. McMenamin, L. Ritchie, M. Woolhouse, H. Stagg, D. Marques, J. Murray, S. Stock, R. Wood, C. McCowan, U. Agrawal, A. Docherty, Rachel H. Mulholland, E. Moore, James Marple, Vicky Hammersley   +24 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Methodology and reporting characteristics of studies using interrupted time series design in healthcare

BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2019
Background Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) are considered the gold standard when evaluating the causal effects of healthcare interventions. When RCTs cannot be used (e.g.
Jemma Hudson, Shona Fielding, Craig R. Ramsay   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mental health impacts of flooding: a controlled interrupted time series analysis of prescribing data in England. [PDF]

, 2017
BACKGROUND: There is emerging evidence that people affected by flooding suffer adverse impacts on their mental well-being, mostly based on self-reports. METHODS: We examined prescription records for drugs used in the management of common mental disorder ...
Armstrong, Ben, Milojevic, Ai, Wilkinson, Paul   +2 more
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Changing Characteristics of Pharmaceutical Prices in China Under Centralized Procurement Policy: A Multi-Intervention Interrupted Time Series

Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2022
Objective: National centralized drug procurement organized by the Chinese government currently represents the largest group purchasing organization worldwide, to establish a reasonable price formation mechanism.
Hongfei Long, Ying Yang, X. Geng, Z. Mao, Zhenhua Mao   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Nurse telephone triage for same day appointments in general practice: multiple interrupted time series trial of effect on workload and costs [PDF]

, 2002
OBJECTIVE: To compare the workloads of general practitioners and nurses and costs of patient care for nurse telephone triage and standard management of requests for same day appointments in routine primary care.
Dutton, E., Godfrey, L., Meakins, J., Richards, D.A., Richardson, G., Russell, D., Tawfik, J.   +6 more
core   +2 more sources