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Do home adaptation interventions help to reduce emergency fall admissions? A national longitudinal data-linkage study of 657,536 older adults living in Wales (UK) between 2010 and 2017

Age and Ageing, 2021
Background falls are common in older people, but evidence for the effectiveness of preventative home adaptations is limited. Aim determine whether a national home adaptation service, Care&Repair Cymru (C&RC), identified individuals at risk of falls ...
J. Hollinghurst, H. Daniels, R. Fry, A. Akbari, S. Rodgers, A. Watkins, S. Hillcoat-Nallétamby, Neil Williams, S. Nikolova, D. Meads, A. Clegg   +10 more
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Electronic health records to facilitate clinical research [PDF]

, 2016
Electronic health records (EHRs) provide opportunities to enhance patient care, embed performance measures in clinical practice, and facilitate clinical research. Concerns have been raised about the increasing recruitment challenges in trials, burdensome
Blomster, Juuso I., Cowie, Martin R., Curtis, Lesley H., Duclaux, Sylvie, Ford, Ian, Fritz, Fleur, Goldman, Samantha, Janmohamed, Salim, Kreuzer, Jörg, Leenay, Mark, Michel, Alexander, Ong, Seleen, Pell, Jill P., Southworth, Mary Ross, Stough, Wendy Gattis, Thoenes, Martin, Zalewski, Andrew, Zannad, Faiez   +17 more
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Optimizing patient risk stratification for colonoscopy screening and surveillance of colorectal cancer: The role for linked data [PDF]

, 2017
No abstract available for this ...
Cameron Platell, David B. Preen, Dayna R. Cenin, Dayna R. Cenin, Hooi C. Ee, Iris Lansdorp-Vogelaar, Lakkhina Troeung, Max Bulsara, Max Bulsara, Peter O’Leary   +9 more
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Variation in compulsory psychiatric inpatient admission in England:a cross-sectional, multilevel analysis [PDF]

, 2014
Background: Rates of compulsory admission have increased in England in recent decades, and this trend is accelerating. Studying variation in rates between people and places can help identify modifiable causes.
Bhui, K., Crepaz-keay, D., Cyhlarova, E., Keown, P., Mcbride, O., Parsons, H., Scott, J., Twigg, Liz, Weich, S.   +8 more
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The Belfast Youth Development Study (BYDS): A prospective cohort study of the initiation, persistence and desistance of substance use from adolescence to adulthood in Northern Ireland [PDF]

, 2018
Background: Substance misuse persists as a major public health issue worldwide with significant costs for society. The development of interventions requires methodologically sound studies to explore substance misuse causes and consequences. This Cohort
Higgins, Kathryn, Jordan, Julie Anne, McCann, Mark, McCartan, Claire, McLaughlin, Aisling, Percy, Andrew, Perra, Oliver   +6 more
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Cancer PRSweb – an Online Repository with Polygenic Risk Scores (PRS) for Major Cancer Traits and Their Phenome-wide Exploration in Two Independent Biobanks

bioRxiv, 2020
To facilitate scientific collaboration on polygenic risk scores (PRS) research, we created an extensive PRS online repository for 49 common cancer traits integrating freely available genome-wide association studies (GWAS) summary statistics from three ...
L. Fritsche, Snehal Patil, Lauren J. Beesley, Peter Vandehaar, M. Salvatore, Robert B Peng, D. Taliun, Xiang Zhou, B. Mukherjee   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Strategies for ascertaining timing of address changes in administrative data

International Journal of Population Data Science
Addresses captured in administrative health data can facilitate the analysis of place-based exposures and their influence on health. If patients change address, hospital records are updated when individuals next use health services: precise timing of ...
Joseph Lam, Mario Cortina-Borja, Peter Christen, Richard Thomas, Robert Aldridge, Ruth Blackburn, Ruth Gilbert, Andy Boyd, Katie Harron   +8 more
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Community environment, cognitive impairment and dementia in later life: results from the Cognitive Function and Ageing Study [PDF]

, 2015
Background: Few studies have investigated the impact of the community environment, as distinct from area deprivation, on cognition in later life. This study explores cross-sectional associations between cognitive impairment and dementia and environmental
,, Barnes, Linda E., Brayne, Carol, Jones, Andrew P., Matthews, Fiona E., Prina, A. Matthew, Wu, Yu-Tzu   +6 more
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Predicting the Need for Transition from Pediatric to Adult Pain Services: A Retrospective, Longitudinal Study Using the Electronic Persistent Pain Outcome Collaboration (ePPOC) Databases

Children, 2023
A proportion of youth with chronic pain do not respond to interdisciplinary pain management and may require transition to adult pain services. This study sought to characterize a cohort of patients referred to pediatric pain services who subsequently ...
Joel Champion, M. Crawford, Tiina Jaaniste   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Green–blue space exposure changes and impact on individual-level well-being and mental health: a population-wide dynamic longitudinal panel study with linked survey data

Public Health Research, 2023
Background Cross-sectional evidence suggests that living near green and blue spaces benefits mental health; longitudinal evidence is limited. Objectives To quantify the impact of changes in green and blue spaces on common mental health disorders, well ...
Rebecca S Geary, Daniel A Thompson, Joanne K Garrett, Amy Mizen, Francis M Rowney, Jiao Song, Mathew P White, Rebecca Lovell, Alan Watkins, Ronan A Lyons, Susan Williams, Gareth Stratton, Ashley Akbari, Sarah C Parker, Mark J Nieuwenhuijsen, James White, Benedict W Wheeler, Richard Fry, Dialechti Tsimpida, Sarah E Rodgers   +19 more
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