Objectives Clinical management of giant cell arteritis (GCA) involves balancing the risks and burdens arising from the disease with those arising from treatment, but there is little research on the ...

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 Single photon emission computed tomography ventilation/perfusion (SPECT V/Q) imaging has many proponents within the nuclear medicine community and has already largely replaced planar V/Q ...

1 NIHR CLAHRC for North West London, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London, UK 2 Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London, UK Setting A wide range ...

Purpose The Royal College of General Practitioners Research and Surveillance Centre (RCGP RSC) is one of the longest established primary care sentinel networks. In 2015, it established a new data and ...

Original research: Relationship between psychosocial problems and satisfaction with GP communication in German primary care practices: a structural equation model based on the cross-sectional GPCare-1 ...

Objectives To explore urologists’ perceptions of barriers to, and facilitators of, adherence to international antimicrobial prophylaxis (AP) guidelines for endourological procedures in Jordan and to ...

Objectives To explore the chained mediating role of self-efficacy and e-health literacy in the association between social support and technophobia in older adults in urban communities. Design A ...

Objective To evaluate serial application of the Wessex Head Injury Matrix (WHIM) in diagnosis of prolonged disorders of consciousness (PDOC). Specifically, to determine whether the trajectory of ...

Background Atypical Haemolytic Uremic Syndrome (aHUS) is a rare but life-threatening thrombotic microangiopathy. If inadequately managed, aHUS can lead to progressive kidney failure, cardiovascular ...

Objectives The relationship between the volume of medical procedures conducted in hospitals and the resulting health outcomes has been described for various surgical and non-surgical medical ...

Introduction Fibrotic interstitial lung diseases (F-ILD) are severe and often progressive lung disorders that frequently lead to respiratory failure, with patients experiencing high symptom burdens, ...