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Claire Bradford, project director at SHAPE (the Strategic Health Asset Planning and Evaluation iniatitive), outlines the many benefits available to estates and facilities teams via the web-enabled, evidence-based application--which "informs and supports the strategic planning of serv...
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PMID: 21961389
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We analysed the trends in the epidemiology of TB in children in London aged 0-14 years between 1999 and 2006.
Data were extracted from the Enhanced TB Surveillance System.
Between 1999 and 2006, there were 1370 cases of TB in children. Incidence was higher in older ch...
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PMID: 20587642
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Cholangitis after Roux-en-Y hepaticojejunostomy is usually caused by anastomotic stricture. A small number of cases present without evidence of obstruction and are ascribed to reflux of gastro-intestinal content into the biliary tree above the anastomosis (sump syndrome). Despite pro...
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PMID: 21669568
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London's Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust has installed a complete barrier laundry system from Electrolux Professional at its St Thomas' Hospital location for specialist washing of an estimated 7,000 microfibre cloths and 5,000 microfibre mops each day from both the St Thomas' and Guy's Hosp...
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PMID: 21585147
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Addressing a 220-strong audience at London's Barts Hospital at the launch of a new NHS Sustainable Development Unit (NHS SDU) publication, Route Map for Sustainable Health, senior NHS and NHS SDU speakers highlighted the magnitude of the challenge faced by the service over the next 5-40 years in meet...
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PMID: 21585143
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During the Great Plague of London (1665), William Winstanley veered from his better known roles as arbiter of success and failure in his works of biography or as a comic author under the pseudonym Poor Robin, and instead engaged with his reading audience as a plague writer in the rare book The Christ...
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PMID: 21461312
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There have been many studies of the link between the level of policing in an area and the behaviour of local drivers, but those that have been conducted in the United Kingdom were either small scale or were conducted many years ago. Consequently, a practical trial was carried out in London in May 200...
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PMID: 21376921
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Heart disease is a major cause of death in young adults with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is common and is associated with hypertension. The aims of this study were to evaluate whether there is a relationship between LVH and BP in children with CKD...
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PMID: 21115627
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Partner notification in primary care is problematic and of limited effectiveness despite enthusiasm from primary care providers to engage with sexually transmissible infection (STI) management. Innovative partner notification strategies must be relevant to the primary care context. The aim of the pre...
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PMID: 21371378
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Health care costs are rising faster than inflation in almost all developed countries. Improving the efficiency of health care will go some way to address this issue. There has been a significant improvement in the delivery of sexual health care with a particular focus on innovation. In this issue, Ba...
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PMID: 21371374
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As the incidence of respiratory and allergic symptoms has been reported to be increased in children attending schools in close proximity to busy roads, it was hypothesised that PM from roadside schools would display enhanced oxidative potential (OP). Two consecutive one-week air quality monitoring ca...
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PMID: 21818283
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Nurse Jeanette Singer has pioneered care for children with liver disease and their families.
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PMID: 21739796
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The present report summarises a meeting held by the Food & Health Forum at the Royal Society of Medicine, London, on 27 May 2010. The objective of the meeting was to review the problems associated with the use of evidence-based nutrition and to discuss what constitutes the efficacy for foods and foo...
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PMID: 20860884
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We sought to examine the results of our institutional preference for induction chemotherapy, cytoreductive surgery and intraoperative hyperthermic pleural irrigation. We undertook a retrospective study of patients undergoing surgery for Masaoka stage IVA thymoma following induction chemotherapy over...
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PMID: 21172935
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In this paper Sir John Tomes HonFRCS LDS FRS (1815-95), surgeon-dentist, is presented as the agent through whose membership of the Royal Society the previously disorganized profession of dentistry shared in the process of reform and scientific progress that engaged the medical profes...
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PMID: 21553637
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Little is known about how to remedy the unmet mental health needs associated with major terrorist attacks, or what outcomes are achievable with evidence-based treatment. This article reports the usage, diagnoses and outcomes associated with the 2-year Trauma Response Programme (TRP) for those affect...
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PMID: 20178677
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A database search found 5 studies that examined the psychometrics of the NPDS. These supported its validity and reliability. The present study added to these by evaluating the internal consistency, factor structure, discriminatory power and responsiveness to change during rehabilitation. The NPDS wa...
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PMID: 21031290
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The aim of this audit was to analyse the impact of an open access clinic for the treatment of soft tissue knee injuries with regard to delay to treatment.
Data from 100 consecutive patients seen in our sports clinic in 2000 were collected. Following this audit, an Acute Knee Clinic was introduced an...
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PMID: 20663276
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Although the use of yoga as a complementary therapy is common in palliative care, there is little evidence regarding current practice to inform service provision and research. The aim was to explore and compare yoga classes offered by palliative care services in New Delhi and London. Semi-structured...
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PMID: 21135788
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These results are examined in light of previous analyses of East Smithfield and what is known about diet and sexually mediated access to resources in medieval England....
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PMID: 20853482
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We initiated a randomised controlled pre-surgical study of celecoxib versus no treatment in women with primary breast cancer to determine the effects of COX-2 inhibition on markers of biological response. Postmenopausal women (50-80 years of age) with stage I or II, primary breast cancer, were rando...
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PMID: 20697803
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Equal access for all based on need is part of a conceptualisation of quality underpinning recent UK NHS policies.
To develop metrics for access to maternity care from routinely available data in order to inform inequalities monitoring and commissioning.
Cross-sectional cohort design using case-note...
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PMID: 20688756
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We identified 819 cases, of whom 389 returned surveillance questionnaires. A subset of 267 faecal samples was submitted for typing by sequencing of the triose phosphate isomerase (tpi) and ribosomal RNA genes, and/or a separate duplex PCR of the tpi gene. Typing was successful in 199 (75%) samples b...
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PMID: 20144251
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London's Great Ormond Street Hospital, renowned worldwide for the quality of its treatment for children and young people has, the NHS Trust which operates it acknowledges, "been battling for some time with buildings nearing the end of their useful life and in need of replacement". Cu...
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PMID: 20882905
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It is recognised that hospital-acquired infection is a multi-faceted problem, and control of infection (CoI) can only be achieved via a combination of design and management factors, not by a single identifiable factor. This article reports on a research project by the Medical Archite...
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PMID: 20882903
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There is a paucity of British and international literature on the psychological, sociological and cultural correlates of breast health in ethnic minority women.
This two centre qualitative study was part of a larger study that aimed to examine the influence of culture on the lived experience of Paki...
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PMID: 20584625
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SSLPs were seen as a trusted source of support and information for carers of pre-school children. Integration of oral health promotion into SSLPs has the potential to tap into early interventions which tackle the wider support needs of carers of pre-school children while also supporting the developm...
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PMID: 21046909
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To identify maternity and sexual healthcare professionals' training needs regarding routine enquiry for domestic abuse.
A cross-sectional survey, part of a theory-based evaluation of a routine enquiry for domestic abuse intervention in a South London teaching hospital.
Two hundred and twenty-eight m...
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PMID: 20638695
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To assess the relevance of cystatin C, as a marker of mild-to-moderate renal impairment, for vascular and nonvascular mortality in older people.
Prospective cohort study.
Re-survey in 1997 to 1998 of survivors in the 1970 Whitehall study of London civi...
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PMID: 20337853
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To determine pre- and postoperative predictors of energy expenditure in children with congenital heart disease requiring open heart surgery; and to compare measured resting energy expenditure with current predictive equations.
Prospective resting energy expenditure data were collected, using indirec...
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PMID: 20124946
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We present novel allele combinations, healthy control population data, results of screening the PRNP ORF in DNA from the entire referral series and the CEPH human genome diversity cell line panel. Of the 10 alleles detected in patients for which detailed cases histories are presented, 4 are unreport...
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PMID: 20583301
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We present novel allele combinations, healthy control population data, results of screening the PRNP ORF in DNA from the entire referral series and the CEPH human genome diversity cell line panel. Of the 10 alleles detected in patients for which detailed cases histories are presented, 4 are unreport...
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PMID: 20583301
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We present novel allele combinations, healthy control population data, results of screening the PRNP ORF in DNA from the entire referral series and the CEPH human genome diversity cell line panel. Of the 10 alleles detected in patients for which detailed cases histories are presented, 4 are unreport...
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PMID: 20583301
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We present novel allele combinations, healthy control population data, results of screening the PRNP ORF in DNA from the entire referral series and the CEPH human genome diversity cell line panel. Of the 10 alleles detected in patients for which detailed cases histories are presented, 4 are unreport...
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PMID: 20583301
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We present novel allele combinations, healthy control population data, results of screening the PRNP ORF in DNA from the entire referral series and the CEPH human genome diversity cell line panel. Of the 10 alleles detected in patients for which detailed cases histories are presented, 4 are unreport...
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PMID: 20583301
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We present novel allele combinations, healthy control population data, results of screening the PRNP ORF in DNA from the entire referral series and the CEPH human genome diversity cell line panel. Of the 10 alleles detected in patients for which detailed cases histories are presented, 4 are unreport...
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PMID: 20583301
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We present novel allele combinations, healthy control population data, results of screening the PRNP ORF in DNA from the entire referral series and the CEPH human genome diversity cell line panel. Of the 10 alleles detected in patients for which detailed cases histories are presented, 4 are unreport...
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PMID: 20583301
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We present novel allele combinations, healthy control population data, results of screening the PRNP ORF in DNA from the entire referral series and the CEPH human genome diversity cell line panel. Of the 10 alleles detected in patients for which detailed cases histories are presented, 4 are unreport...
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PMID: 20583301
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We present novel allele combinations, healthy control population data, results of screening the PRNP ORF in DNA from the entire referral series and the CEPH human genome diversity cell line panel. Of the 10 alleles detected in patients for which detailed cases histories are presented, 4 are unreport...
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PMID: 20583301
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We present novel allele combinations, healthy control population data, results of screening the PRNP ORF in DNA from the entire referral series and the CEPH human genome diversity cell line panel. Of the 10 alleles detected in patients for which detailed cases histories are presented, 4 are unreport...
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PMID: 20583301
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We present novel allele combinations, healthy control population data, results of screening the PRNP ORF in DNA from the entire referral series and the CEPH human genome diversity cell line panel. Of the 10 alleles detected in patients for which detailed cases histories are presented, 4 are unreport...
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PMID: 20583301
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We present novel allele combinations, healthy control population data, results of screening the PRNP ORF in DNA from the entire referral series and the CEPH human genome diversity cell line panel. Of the 10 alleles detected in patients for which detailed cases histories are presented, 4 are unreport...
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PMID: 20583301
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