Optimising Xpert-Ultra and culture testing to reliably measure tuberculosis prevalence in the community: findings from surveys in Zambia and South Africa by Richard Hayes, Sarah Fidler, Sian Floyd, María Rupérez, Helen Ayles, Redwaan Vermaak, Kwame Shanaube, Albertus Schaap, Eveline Klinkenberg, Petra de Haas, Barry Kosloff, Thomas Gachie, Pete J Dodd, Chali Wapamesa, Michael J Burnett, Nico Kalisvaart, Tila Mainga, Linda Mureithi

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Joint effects of temperature and humidity with PM2.5 on COPD by Huan Minh Tran, Feng-Jen Tsai, Yuan-Hung Wang, Kang-Yun Lee, Jer-Hwa Chang, Chi-Li Chung, Chien-Hua Tseng, Chien-Ling Su, Yuan-Chien Lin, Tzu-Tao Chen, Kuan-Yuan Chen, Shu-Chuan Ho, Feng-Ming Yang, Sheng-Ming Wu, Kian Fan Chung, Kin-Fai Ho, Kai-Jen Chuang, Hsiao-Chi Chuang

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Do doctors in dispensing practices with a financial conflict of interest prescribe more expensive drugs? A cross-sectional analysis of English primary care prescribing data by Ben Goldacre, Carl Reynolds, Anna Powell-Smith, Alex J Walker, Tom A Yates, Richard Croker, Liam Smeeth

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Determinants of 5-year survival in patients with advanced NSCLC with PD-L1≥50% treated with first-line pembrolizumab outside of clinical trials: results from the Pembro-real 5Y glo... by Mieke Van Hemelrijck, Salvatore Grisanti, Avinash Aujayeb, Martin Forster, Giannis Mountzios, Andrea Napolitano, Bruno Vincenzi, Joachim G J V Aerts, Marina Garassino, Valter Torri, Solange Peters, Alex Friedlaender, Alfredo Addeo, Giuseppe Lo Russo, Roberto Ferrara, Diego Signorelli, Alessandro Russo, So Yeon Kim, Jarushka Naidoo, Scott Gettinger, Heather Wakelee, Martin Sebastian, Mark Awad, Abdul Rafeh Naqash, Alessio Cortellini, Raffaele Giusti, Michele De Tursi, Federica Zoratto, Marco Russano, Rita Chiari, Biagio Ricciuti, Andrea De Giglio, Alain Gelibter, Giuseppe Tonini, Amin H Nassar, Alessandra Curioni-Fontecedro, Eleni Karapanagiotou, Emilio Bria, Jack Bell, Paolo Bironzo, Joao V Alessi, Alessandro Morabito, David J Pinato, Francesco Passiglia, Carlo Genova, Francesca Mazzoni, Alessandro Inno, Francesco Grossi, Luca Cantini, Lorenza Landi, Luigi Della Gravara, Margarita Majem, Uma Mukherjee, Federica Biello, Alessandro Leonetti, Annalisa Guida, Marianna Macerelli, Gabriele Minuti, Giulio Metro, Thomas Newsom-Davis, Eleni Josephides, Andrea Camerini, Elisa Roca, David O’Reilly, Mingjia Li, Laura Mezquita, Teresa Gorría, Claudia A M Fulgenzi, Lauren Young, Joel W Neal, Javier Baena, Francesco Pantano, Jacobo Rogado, Mary Jo Fidler, Teresa Beninato, Federica Pecci, Alessandro Di Federico, Kazuki Takada, Leonardo Brunetti, Talal El Zarif, Laura Moliner, Alberto Servetto, Sukumar Kalvapudi, Sai Yendamuri, Edoardo Garbo, Giuseppina Rita Di Fazio, Monica Loza, Ritujith Jayakrishnan, Michele Montrone, Nichola O Awosika, Bartlomiej Tomasik, Maximilian Rost, Isabelle Monnet, Francesco Agustoni, Artur Katz, Dwight Hall Owen, Michele Ghidini, Armida D’Incecco, Gianpaolo Spinelli, Monica Verrico, Manuel Dupont, Rafael Di Marco Barros, Diego Luigi Cortinovis, Chiara Bennati, Frank Aboubakar Nana, Anne-Marie Dingemans, Taher Abu Hejleh

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Multicentre Harmonisation of a Six-Colour Flow Cytometry Panel for Naïve/Memory T Cell Immunomonitoring by Iole Macchia, Valentina La Sorsa, Irene Ruspantini, Massimo Sanchez, Valentina Tirelli, Maria Carollo, Giorgio Fedele, Pasqualina Leone, Giovanna Schiavoni, Carla Buccione, Paola Rizza, Paola Nisticò, Belinda Palermo, Stefania Morrone, Helena Stabile, Aurelia Rughetti, Marianna Nuti, Ilaria Grazia Zizzari, Cinzia Fionda, Roberta Maggio, Cristina Capuano, Concetta Quintarelli, Matilde Sinibaldi, Chiara Agrati, Rita Casetti, Andrea Rozo Gonzalez, Floriana Iacobone, Angela Gismondi, Filippo Belardelli, Mauro Biffoni, Francesca Urbani

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Quality of care delivery in patients with acute heart failure: insights from the international REPORT-HF registryResearch in context by Wan Ting Tay, Tiew-Hwa Katherine Teng, Wouter Ouwerkerk, Christiane E. Angermann, Kenneth Dickstein, John G.F. Cleland, Ulf Dahlstrom, Georg Ertl, Mahmoud Hassanein, Sergio V. Perrone, Mathieu Ghadanfar, Anja Schweizer, Achim Obergfell, Sean P. Collins, Gerasimos Filippatos, Carolyn S.P. Lam, Jasper Tromp

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Can social adversity and mental, physical and oral multimorbidity form a syndemic? A concept and protocol paper by Easter Joury, Easter Joury, Eliana Nakhleh, Ed Beveridge, Derek Tracy, Derek Tracy, Derek Tracy, Derek Tracy, Ellie Heidari, Ellie Heidari, David Shiers, David Shiers, David Shiers, Silke Vereeken, Emily Peckham, Simon Gilbody, Simon Gilbody, Jayati Das-Munshi, Farida Fortune, Farida Fortune, Vishal R. Aggarwal, Masuma Mishu, Masuma Mishu, Joseph Firth, Joseph Firth, Kamaldeep Bhui, Kamaldeep Bhui, Kamaldeep Bhui, Kamaldeep Bhui

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UK cancer vaccine advance – Recognising and realising opportunities by Charles Craddock, Philip Earwaker, Matthew Fittall, Elisa Fontana, Divya Ganesh, Marco Gerlinger, Qamar Ghafoor, Robert P Jones, Victoria Kunene, Lennard Lee, Rebecca Lee, Siow-Ming Lee, Mark Linch, Martin Little, Justin Liu, Hayley McKenzie, Russell Petty, David J Pinato, Thomas Powles, Andrew Protheroe, Tim Robinson, Paul J Ross, Kai Keen Shiu, James Spicer, Stefan Symeonides, Michael Tilby, Dale Vimalachandran, Jenny Y Wang, Andrew Wardley, Helen Winter

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Diagnosis, screening, and follow-up of patients with familial interstitial lung disease: Results from an international survey by Emil Vilstrup Moen, Thomas Skovhus Prior, Michael Kreuter, Wim A. Wuyts, Maria Molina-Molina, Marlies Wijsenbeek, Antonió Morais, Argyrios Tzouvelekis, Christopher J. Ryerson, Fabian Caro, Ivette Buendia-Roldan, Jesper M. Magnusson, Joyce S. Lee, Julie Morisett, Justin M. Oldham, Lauren K. Troy, Manuela Funke-Chambour, Maria Laura Alberti, Raphael Borie, Simon L. F. Walsh, Sujeet Rajan, Yasuhiro Kondoh, Yet H Khor, Elisabeth Bendstrup

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The significance of isolated de novo red patches in the bladder in patients referred with suspected urinary tract cancer: Results from the IDENTIFY study by Sinan Khadhouri, Kevin Gallagher, Kenneth R. MacKenzie, Taimur T. Shah, Chuanyu Gao, Eleanor Zimmermann, Miles Mannas, Taeweon Lee, Giancarlo Marra, Juan Gomez Rivas, Gautier Marcq, Mark A. Assmus, Taha Ucar, Francesco Claps, Matteo Boltri, Giuseppe Pizzuto, Tara Burnhope, Nkwam Nkwam, George Tanasescu, Nicholas E. Boxall, Alison P. Downey, Troy A. Sukhu, Marta Antón‐Juanilla, Sonpreet Rai, Madeline Moore, Kathryn Bandeira de Mello, Sian Parsons, John S. McGrath, Veeru Kasivisvanathan, IDENTIFY Study Group: Pubmed indexed collaborator authors

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FAecal micRobiota transplantation in primary sclerosinG chOlangitis (FARGO): study protocol for a randomised, multicentre, phase IIa, placebo-controlled trial by Laith Alrubaiy, Rachel Cooney, Tariq Iqbal, Mohammed Nabil Quraishi, Susan Manzoor, Christopher Quince, Palak J Trivedi, Andrew D Beggs, Alexandra Vince, Chris Weston, Benjamin Mullish, Sahida Shabir, Nicola Jackson, Anna Rowe, Victoria Homer, Willem van Schaik, Peter Rimmer, Sarah Al-Shakhshir, Arzoo Patel, Derick Gyimah, Miriam Hares, Elena Efstathiou

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Harnessing the tumor microenvironment: targeted cancer therapies through modulation of epithelial-mesenchymal transition by Antonino Glaviano, Hannah Si-Hui Lau, Lukas M. Carter, E. Hui Clarissa Lee, Hiu Yan Lam, Elena Okina, Donavan Jia Jie Tan, Wency Tan, Hui Li Ang, Daniela Carbone, Michelle Yi-Hui Yee, Muthu K. Shanmugam, Xiao Zi Huang, Gautam Sethi, Tuan Zea Tan, Lina H. K. Lim, Ruby Yun-Ju Huang, Hendrik Ungefroren, Elisa Giovannetti, Dean G. Tang, Tullia C. Bruno, Peng Luo, Mads Hald Andersen, Bin-Zhi Qian, Jun Ishihara, Derek C. Radisky, Salem Elias, Saurabh Yadav, Minah Kim, Caroline Robert, Patrizia Diana, Kurt A. Schalper, Tao Shi, Taha Merghoub, Simone Krebs, Anjali P. Kusumbe, Matthew S. Davids, Jennifer R. Brown, Alan Prem Kumar

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Pragmatic algorithm for visual assessment of 4-Repeat tauopathies in [18F]PI-2620 PET Scans by Theresa Bauer, Matthias Brendel, Mirlind Zaganjori, Alexander M. Bernhardt, Alexander Jäck, Sophia Stöcklein, Maximilian Scheifele, Johannes Levin, Thilo van Eimeren, Alexander Drzezga, Osama Sabri, Henryk Barthel, Robert Perneczky, Günter Höglinger, Nicolai Franzmeier, Johannes Gnörich

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SEAD reference panel with 22,134 haplotypes boosts rare variant imputation and genome-wide association analysis in Asian populations by Meng-Yuan Yang, Jia-Dong Zhong, Xin Li, Geng Tian, Wei-Yang Bai, Yi-Hu Fang, Mo-Chang Qiu, Cheng-Da Yuan, Chun-Fu Yu, Nan Li, Ji-Jian Yang, Yu-Heng Liu, Shi-Hui Yu, Wei-Wei Zhao, Jun-Quan Liu, Yi Sun, Pei-Kuan Cong, Saber Khederzadeh, Pian-Pian Zhao, Yu Qian, Peng-Lin Guan, Jia-Xuan Gu, Si-Rui Gai, Xiang-Jiao Yi, Jian-Guo Tao, Xiang Chen, Mao-Mao Miao, Lan-Xin Lei, Lin Xu, Shu-Yang Xie, Jin-Chen Li, Ji-Feng Guo, David Karasik, Liu Yang, Bei-Sha Tang, Fei Huang, Hou-Feng Zheng

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Study protocol for an observational cohort study of heat stress impacts in pregnancy in The Gambia, West Africa [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations] by Jane E Hirst, Ana Bonell, Abdul Sesay, Leonidas G. Ioannou, Bubacarr Bah, Kris A. Murray, Andy Haines, Sophie E. Moore, David Jeffries, Neil S Maxwell, Ana Vicero-Cabrera, Apolline Saucy, Cally Tan, Emmanuel Okoh, Dorothy Watters, Bakary Sonko, Williams Oluwatosin Adefila, Yahaya Idris, Mam Leigh-Nabou, Jarra Manneh, Andreas Flouris, Sainabou Bojang, Amanda N Sferruzzi-Perri, Andrew Prentice

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EUFOREA meeting on defining disease states in allergic rhinitis: towards a unified language in AR by G. K. Scadding, D. M. Conti, D. M. Conti, S. Scheire, V. Backer, M. Blaiss, L. O. Cardell, L. O. Cardell, W. De Yun, A. K. Ellis, W. Fokkens, A. T. Fox, T. Gilbert Kruz, S. Halken, P. W. Hellings, P. W. Hellings, P. W. Hellings, V. Hox, L. Kalogjera, S. Lau, S. Marinho, M. McDonald, R. Mösges, R. Mösges, J. Mullol, S. Nasser, R. Pawankar, D. Price, D. Price, D. Ryan, G. Scadding, P. Smith, M. Sosa Kostrábová, M. Vazquez-Ortiz, U. Wahn, L. Zhang, P. Gevaert

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The Eczema Bathing Study: Weekly versus daily bathing for people with eczema? Protocol of an online, randomised controlled trial [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved wit... by Paul Leighton, Wei Chern Gavin Fong, Ingrid Muller, Laura Howells, Arabella Baker, Eleanor J Mitchell, Eleanor Harrison, Leila Thuma, Yimin Jiang, Lucy Bradshaw, Alan Montgomery, Fiona Cowdel, Matthew J Ridd, Jane Ravenscroft, Reiko J Tanaka, Miriam Santer, Richard Swinden, Nicholas Hilken, Carron Layfield, Richard Dooley, Sophia Collins, Clare Upton, Tracy Owen, Firoza Davies, Devin Patel, Mars Eddis-Finbow, Hywel C Williams, Goldie Putrym, Kim S Thomas, Amanda Roberts

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The Eczema Bathing Study: Weekly versus daily bathing for people with eczema? Protocol of an online, randomised controlled trial [version 1; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved wit... by Paul Leighton, Wei Chern Gavin Fong, Ingrid Muller, Laura Howells, Arabella Baker, Eleanor J Mitchell, Eleanor Harrison, Leila Thuma, Yimin Jiang, Lucy Bradshaw, Alan Montgomery, Fiona Cowdel, Matthew J Ridd, Jane Ravenscroft, Reiko J Tanaka, Miriam Santer, Richard Swinden, Nicholas Hilken, Carron Layfield, Richard Dooley, Sophia Collins, Clare Upton, Tracy Owen, Firoza Davies, Devin Patel, Mars Eddis-Finbow, Hywel C Williams, Goldie Putrym, Kim S Thomas, Amanda Roberts

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Utilizing a Wireless Radar Framework in Combination With Deep Learning Approaches to Evaluate Obstructive Sleep Apnea Severity in Home-Setting Environments by Lee KT, Liu WT, Lin YC, Chen Z, Ho YH, Huang YW, Tsai ZL, Hsu CW, Yeh SM, Lin HY, Majumdar A, Chen YL, Kuan YC, Lee KY, Feng PH, Chen KY, Kang JH, Lee HC, Ho SC, Tsai CY

“…Kun-Ta Lee,1 Wen-Te Liu,2– 6 Yi-Chih Lin,3,7 Zhihe Chen,8 Yu-Hsuan Ho,9 Yu-Wen Huang,9 Zong-Lin Tsai,9 Chih-Wei Hsu,9 Shang-Min Yeh,9 Hsiao Yi Lin,9 Arnab Majumdar,8 Yen-Ling Chen,10 Yi-Chun Kuan,3,11– 13 Kang-Yun Lee,4,6 Po-Hao Feng,4,6 Kuan-Yuan Chen,4,6 Jiunn-Horng Kang,5,6,14– 16 Hsin-Chien Lee,17 Shu-Chuan Ho,2,6,* Cheng-Yu Tsai2– 6,16,18,* 1Respiratory Therapy Room, Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Taipei Medical University-Shuang Ho Hospital, New Taipei City, Taiwan; 2School of Respiratory Therapy, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan; 3Sleep Center, Taipei Medical University-Shuang Ho Hospital, New Taipei City, Taiwan; 4Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Taipei Medical University-Shuang Ho Hospital, New Taipei City, Taiwan; 5Research Center of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan; 6Research Center of Thoracic Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan; 7Department of Otolaryngology, Taipei Medical University-Shuang Ho Hospital, New Taipei City, Taiwan; 8Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College London, London, UK; 9Advanced Technology Lab, Wistron Corporation, Taipei, Taiwan; 10Institute of Biomedical Informatics, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan; 11Department of Neurology, Taipei Medical University-Shuang Ho Hospital, New Taipei City, Taiwan; 12Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan; 13Taipei Neuroscience Institute, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan; 14Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; 15Graduate Institute of Nanomedicine and Medical Engineering, College of Biomedical Engineering, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan; 16Professional Master Program in Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan; 17Department of Psychiatry, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; 18School of Biomedical Engineering, College of Biomedical Engineering, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan*These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Cheng-Yu Tsai, School of Biomedical Engineering, College of Biomedical Engineering, Taipei Medical University, 250 Wuxing Street, Taipei, 11031, Taiwan, Tel +886-2-2736-1661, Fax +886-2-2739-1143, Email b117101018@tmu.edu.tw Shu-Chuan Ho, School of Respiratory Therapy, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, 250 Wuxing Street, Taipei, 11031, Taiwan, Tel +886-2-2736-1661, Fax +886-2-2739-1143, Email shu-chuan@tmu.edu.twObjective: Common examinations for diagnosing obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) are polysomnography (PSG) and home sleep apnea testing (HSAT). …”
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Investigation of the use of a sensor bracelet for the presymptomatic detection of changes in physiological parameters related to COVID-19: an interim analysis of a prospective coho... by Stefanie Aeschbacher, David Conen, Diederick E Grobbee, Raphael Twerenbold, Thomas Lung, Theo Rispens, Jakob Kjellberg, Lorenz Risch, Martin Risch, Marianna Mitratza, Harald Renz, Spiros Denaxas, Billy Franks, Diederick Grobbee, Martina Rothenbühler, Janneke Wijgert, Santiago Montes, Richard Dobson, Hans Reitsma, Christian Simon, Titia Leurink, Charisma Hehakaya, Patricia Bruijning, Kirsten Grossmann, Ornella C Weideli, Marc Kovac, Fiona Pereira, Nadia Wohlwend, Corina Risch, Dorothea Hillmann, Daniel Leibovitz, Vladimir Kovacevic, Andjela Markovic, Paul Klaver, Timo B Brakenhoff, George S Downward, Ariel Dowling, Maureen Cronin, Brianna M Goodale, Brianna Goodale, Ornella Weideli, Regien Stokman, Hans Van Dijk, Eric Houtman, Jon Bouwman, Kay Hage, Lotte Smets, Marcel van Willigen, Maui Chodura, Niki de Vink, Tessa Heikamp, Timo Brakenhoff, Wendy van Scherpenzeel, Wout Aarts, Alison Kuchta, Antonella Chiucchiuini, Steve Emby, Annemarijn Douwes, George Downward, Nathalie Vigot, Pieter Stolk, Duco Veen, Daniel Oberski, Amos Folarin, Pablo Fernandez Medina, Eskild Fredslund

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