Objective To provide deeper insight into why patients are admitted to hospital with gout and discover potential targets for better disease control. Design Data from semi-structured interviews were ...

Introduction Globally, acute generalised peritonitis (AGP) is a common medical and surgical emergency which is a major contributor to non-trauma deaths despite improvements in diagnosis and surgical ...

Objectives Examination of current temporal trends and clinical management patterns of eating disorders (ED) in primary care is lacking. We aimed to calculate annual incidence rates of EDs in primary ...

12 Department of General Surgery, Nottingham City Hospital, Nottingham, UK 13 Department of Upper GI Surgery, Royal Preston Hospital, Preston, UK 14 Department of Oesophago-Gastric Surgery, Salford ...

6 South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK Introduction Self-harm and suicide are major public health concerns among children and adolescents. Many risk and protective factors for ...

Introduction Neck pain (NP) is a common musculoskeletal complaint and is increasing in prevalence. Current clinical practice guidelines and systematic reviews recommended conservative, pharmacological ...

Introduction Deep learning techniques are gaining momentum in medical research. Evidence shows that deep learning has advantages over humans in image identification and classification, such as facial ...

Objectives This article presents the findings from a scoping review which explored the nature of interprofessional online learning in primary healthcare. The review was informed by the following ...

Rationale and objective Salt reduction remains a global challenge and different salt reduction strategies have been studied in China. This study is to systematically evaluate evidence from randomised ...

Introduction Patients with ischaemic mitral regurgitation (MR) have markedly increased cardiovascular mortality compared with those with primary MR. The sex-based prognosis of patients with ischaemic ...

Introduction Infants born late preterm (34+0 to 36+6 weeks’ gestational age) have frequent episodes of intermittent hypoxaemia compared with term infants. Caffeine citrate reduces apnoea and ...

Design and objectives Every organisation has a unique culture. There is a widely held view that a positive organisational culture is related to positive patient outcomes. Following the Preferred ...