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S59 Reduction in fatalities following introduction of an initial home oxygen risk mitigation form (IHORM) for all new patients on home oxygen in England and Wales
(2019-11)Introduction Home Oxygen can be ordered by any registered Healthcare professional in England and Wales. There are approximately 130,000 patients on Home Oxygen at any time. No specialist training is required to request ... -
Safety and immunogenicity of ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine administered in a prime-boost regimen in young and old adults (COV002): a single-blind, randomised, controlled, phase 2/3 trial
(2020-12)Background Older adults (aged ≥70 years) are at increased risk of severe disease and death if they develop COVID-19 and are therefore a priority for immunisation should an efficacious vaccine be developed. Immunogenicity ... -
Safety and immunogenicity of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine against SARS-CoV-2: a preliminary report of a phase 1/2, single-blind, randomised controlled trial
(2020-07)Background The pandemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) might be curtailed by vaccination. We assessed the safety, reactogenicity, and immunogenicity of a viral vectored coronavirus vaccine ... -
Safety measurement and monitoring in healthcare: a framework to guide clinical teams and healthcare organisations in maintaining safety
(2014)Patients, clinicians and managers all want to be reassured that their healthcare organisation is safe. But there is no consensus about what we mean when we ask whether a healthcare organisation is safe or how this is ... -
Safety of 80 antidepressants, antipsychotics, anti-attention-deficit/ hyperactivity medications and mood stabilizers in children and adolescents with psychiatric disorders: a large scale systematic meta-review of 78 adverse effects
(2020-06)Mental disorders frequently begin in childhood or adolescence. Psychotropic medications have various indications for the treatment of mental disorders in this age group and are used not infrequently off‐label. However, ... -
Safety of service users with severe mental illness receiving inpatient care on medical and surgical wards
(2018-01)This review aimed to synthesize the evidence on the likelihood of harm and mortality on medical and surgical inpatient wards for people with severe mental illness (SMI). From 937 results identified through database ... -
The Salt Swap intervention to reduce salt intake in people with high blood pressure: protocol for a feasibility randomised controlled trial
(2019-10)Background: High salt intake is a risk factor for hypertension and cardiovascular disease. Reducing salt intake has been shown to reduce blood pressure. Despite population-level interventions, including product reformulation ... -
School- and class-level variation in self-harm, suicide ideation and suicide attempts in Danish high schools.
(2018-09)AIM: Strong associations have been found between being exposed to self-harm in family and friends and own self-harm in adolescence. Therefore, self-harm and suicide behaviour might tend to cluster within school and school ... -
Self-harm on roads: Register-based study of methods and characteristics of individuals involved
(2020-12)Background Suicide on roads is receiving increased attention. However, there has been little research on non-fatal road-related self-harm. This study was conducted in order to investigate the characteristics of such ... -
Self-Harm, Suicidal Behaviours, and Cyberbullying in Children and Young People: Systematic Review
(2018-04)Background: Given the concerns about bullying via electronic communication in children and young people and its possible contribution to self-harm, we have reviewed the evidence for associations between cyberbullying ... -
Self-monitoring of Blood Pressure in Patients With Hypertension-Related Multi-morbidity: Systematic Review and Individual Patient Data Meta-analysis
(2019-11)BACKGROUND Studies have shown that self-monitoring of blood pressure (BP) is effective when combined with co-interventions, but its efficacy varies in the presence of some co-morbidities. This study examined whether ... -
Self-reported depression symptoms in haemodialysis patients: Bi-factor structures of two common measures and their association with clinical factors
(2018-08)Objective: To validate the factor structure of two common self-report depression tools in a large sample of haemodialysis (HD) patients and to examine their demographic and clinical correlates, including urine output, ... -
Self-reported experiences of intimate partner violence in a female forensic intellectual disability population
(2019-11)Purpose Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a complex public health and social issue. Women with an intellectual disability (ID) are at greater risk of experiencing IPV. However, little is known about the IPV experiences ... -
Sepsis recognition tools in acute ambulatory care: associations with process of care and clinical outcomes in a service evaluation of an Emergency Multidisciplinary Unit in Oxfordshire
(2018-04)Objective: To assess the performance of currently available sepsis recognition tools in patients referred to a community-based acute ambulatory care unit. Design: Service evaluation of consecutive patients over a 4-month ... -
Sham sleep feedback delivered via actigraphy biases daytime symptom reports in people with insomnia: Implications for insomnia disorder and wearable devices
(2018-07)This study investigated whether providing sham feedback about sleep to individuals with insomnia influenced daytime symptom reports, sleep‐related attentional bias and psychomotor vigilance. Sixty‐three participants meeting ... -
Short-term memory advantage for brief durations in human APOE ε4 carriers
(2020-06)The Apolipoprotein-E (APOE) ε4 gene allele, the highest known genetic risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease, has paradoxically been well preserved in the human population. One possible explanation offered by evolutionary ... -
Side effect profile and comparative tolerability of 21 antidepressants in the acute treatment of major depression in adults: protocol for a network meta-analysis
(2019-05)Introduction: We have recently compared all second-generation as well as selected first-generation antidepressants in terms of efficacy and acceptability in the acute treatment of major depression. Here we present a protocol ... -
The side effect profile of Clozapine in real world data of three large mental hospitals
(2020-01)Objective: Mining the data contained within Electronic Health Records (EHRs) can potentially generate a greater understanding of medication effects in the real world, complementing what we know from Randomised control ... -
Signal variance-based collateral index in DSC perfusion: A novel method to assess leptomeningeal collateralization in acute ischaemic stroke
(2019-02)As a determinant of the progression rate of the ischaemic process in acute large-vessel stroke, the degree of collateralization is a strong predictor of the clinical outcome after reperfusion therapy and may influence ... -
A signature-based machine learning model for distinguishing bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder
(2018)Mobile technologies offer new opportunities for prospective, high resolution monitoring of long-term health conditions. The opportunities seem of particular promise in psychiatry where diagnoses often rely on retrospective and ...
