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Impact of socioeconomic deprivation on screening for cardiovascular disease risk in a primary prevention population
OBJECTIVES: Investigate the association between socioeconomic deprivation and completeness of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factor recording in primary care, uptake of screening in people with incomplete risk factor...
Do GPs accurately record date of death? A UK observational analysis.
OBJECTIVE: To examine the concordance between dates of death recorded in UK primary care and national mortality records. METHODS: UK primary care data from the Clinical Practice Research Datalink were linked to Office for...
Improved methodology for performing the inverse Abel transform of flame images for color ratio pyrometry.
Jochen AH Dreyer, Radomir I Slavchov, Eric J Rees, Jethro Akroyd, Maurin Salamanca, Sebastian Mosbach, Markus Kraft
Apr 05, 2019
A new method is presented for performing the Abel inversion by fitting the line-of-sight projection of a predefined intensity distribution (FLiPPID) to the recorded 2D projections. The aim is to develop a methodology that is...
Does the availability of a South Asian language in practices improve reports of doctor-patient communication from South Asian patients? Cross sectional analysis of a national patient survey in English general practices.
BACKGROUND: Ethnic minorities report poorer evaluations of primary health care compared to White British patients. Emerging evidence suggests that when a doctor and patient share ethnicity and/or language this is associated with...
Pre-referral GP consultations in patients subsequently diagnosed with rarer cancers
consultation Diagnosis Investigation neoplasm PRIMARY CARE referral Age Factors Delayed Diagnosis Early Detection of Cancer general practitioners Health Services Needs and Demand Humans Medical Audit Neoplasms Practice Patterns Physicians' Primary Health Care Prognosis Rare Diseases Referral and Consultation Review Literature as Topic Time Factors United Kingdom
Missing data and chance variation in public reporting of cancer stage at diagnosis
BACKGROUND: The percentage of cancer patients diagnosed at an early stage is reported publicly for geographically-defined populations corresponding to healthcare commissioning organisations in England, and linked to...
The influence of patient case mix on public health area statistics for cancer stage at diagnosis
Matthew E Barclay, Gary A Abel, Lucy Elliss-Brookes, David C Greenberg, Georgios Lyratzopoulos
Feb 12, 2019
BACKGROUND: statistics comparing the stage at diagnosis of geographically defined populations of cancer patients are increasingly used in public reporting to monitor geographical inequalities but may be confounded by patient...
Post-sampling mortality and non-response patterns in the English Cancer Patient Experience Survey
Imaging activity possibly signalling missed diagnostic opportunities in bladder and kidney cancer
Yin Zhou, Gary A Abel, William Hamilton, Hardeep Singh, Fiona M Walter, Georgios Lyratzopoulos
Aug 25, 2020
INTRODUCTION: Sub-optimal use or interpretation of imaging investigations prior to diagnosis of certain cancers may be associated with less timely diagnosis, but pre-diagnostic imaging activity for urological cancer is unknown....
The Association between Fatalistic Beliefs and Late Stage at Diagnosis of Lung and Colorectal Cancer.
Georgios Lyratzopoulos, Michael Pang-Hsiang Liu, Gary A Abel, Jane Wardle, Nancy L Keating
Apr 21, 2015
Could Ovarian Cancer Prediction Models Improve the Triage of Symptomatic Women in Primary Care? A Modelling Study Using Routinely Collected Data
CA125 is widely used as an initial investigation in women presenting with symptoms of possible ovarian cancer. We sought to develop CA125-based diagnostic prediction models and to explore potential implications of implementing...
Libertarian Party Presidential Candidate Gary Johnson to Visit Winthrop Sept. 5
Winthrop University
Jan 01, 0001
Libertarian Party candidate for president Gary Johnson will visit Winthrop Sept. 5. Johnson served as the Republican governor of New Mexico from 1995-2003. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. in the Tuttle Dining Room in McBryde Hall with...
Published by: Winthrop University
The accuracy of diagnostic coding for acute kidney injury in England - a single centre study.
Laurie A Tomlinson, Alex M Riding, Rupert A Payne, Gary A Abel, Charles R Tomson, Ian B Wilkinson, Martin O Roland, Afzal N Chaudhry
Mar 16, 2013
Prolonged Diagnostic Intervals as Marker of Missed Diagnostic Opportunities in Bladder and Kidney Cancer Patients with Alarm Features
Yin Zhou, Fiona M Walter, Hardeep Singh, William Hamilton, Gary A Abel, Georgios Lyratzopoulos
Jan 05, 2021
BACKGROUND: In England, patients who meet National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guideline criteria for suspected cancer should receive a specialist assessment within 14 days. We examined how quickly bladder...
Primary care use by men with symptoms of possible prostate cancer
OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study is to investigate primary care use by men with recent onset of lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) to identify differences in presentation and investigation that may explain ethnic...
Presenting symptoms of cancer and stage at diagnosis
Minjoung Monica Koo, Ruth Swann, Sean McPhail, Gary A Abel, Lucy Elliss-Brookes, Greg P Rubin, Georgios Lyratzopoulos
Feb 07, 2020
BACKGROUND: Early diagnosis interventions such as symptom awareness campaigns increasingly form part of global cancer control strategies. However, these strategies will have little impact in improving cancer outcomes if the...
What happens to patient experience when you want to see a doctor and you get to speak to a nurse? Observational study using data from the English General Practice Patient Survey.
Charlotte AM Paddison, Gary A Abel, Jenni Burt, John L Campbell, Marc N Elliott, Valerie Lattimer, Martin Roland
Mar 12, 2018
OBJECTIVES: To examine patient consultation preferences for seeing or speaking to a general practitioner (GP) or nurse; to estimate associations between patient-reported experiences and the type of consultation patients actually...
Health Services Research patient experience PRIMARY CARE quality In health care Adolescent Adult Aged Aged 80 and over Appointments and Schedules England Female General Practice Humans Linear Models Logistic Models Male Middle Aged Nurse's Role Patient Preference patient satisfaction Physician's Role Primary Health Care Referral and Consultation Surveys and Questionnaires Workforce Young Adult
Investigating the relationship between consultation length and patient experience
Natasha Elmore, Jenni Burt, Gary Abel, Frances A Maratos, Jane Montague, John Campbell, Martin Roland
Nov 14, 2016
Appointments and Schedules communication General Practice physician–patient relations Primary Health Care Appointments and Schedules Cross-Sectional Studies England Female Humans Male Middle Aged patient satisfaction Physician-Patient Relations Primary Health Care Referral and Consultation Surveys and Questionnaires Time Factors
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