Impact of prior SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 vaccination on the subsequent incidence of COVID-19: a multicentre prospective cohort study among UK healthcare workers – the SIRE... by Nick Andrews, Mary Ramsay, Maria Zambon, Victoria Hall, Sarah Wallace, Susan Hopkins, Jean Timeyin, Tim J G Brooks, Amoolya Vusirikala, Meera Chand, Andre Charlett, Sakib Rokadiya, Colin S Brown, Madhumita Shrotri, Peter D Kirwan, Michele Cole, Natalie Gillson, Ana Atti, Sarah Foulkes, Andrew Taylor-Kerr, Blanche Oguti, Jasmin Islam

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Short-term abstinence from alcohol and changes in cardiovascular risk factors, liver function tests and cancer-related growth factors: a prospective observational study by Gautam Mehta, Rajiv Jalan, Matteo Rosselli, James Maurice, Stewart Macdonald, Alexandra Cronberg, Tanya Khera-Butler, Colin Sumpter, Safa Al-Khatib, Anjly Jain, Christos Charalambous, Amir Gander, Cynthia Ju, Talay Hakan, Roy Sherwood, Devaki Nair, Kevin P Moore

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Sustainability in Reconstructive Breast Surgery: An Eco-audit of the Deep Inferior Epigastric Perforator Flap Pathway by Zahra Ahmed, BSc (Hons), Alexander Zargaran, MRCS, David Zargaran, MRCS, Sara Sousi, MRes, Keiron Hakimnia, Sevasti Panagiota Glynou, BSc (Hons), Julie Davies, PhD, Stephen Hamilton, FRCS (Plast), Afshin Mosahebi, FRCS (Plast)

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Negative symptoms in schizophrenia: a study in a large clinical sample of patients using a novel automated method by Robert Stewart, Hitesh Shetty, Matthew Broadbent, Angus Roberts, Rashmi Patel, Philip McGuire, Richard D Hayes, Nishamali Jayatilleke, Genevieve Gorrell, Chin-Kuo Chang, Richard Jackson, Nadia Foskett, Caroline Johnston

“…Objectives To identify negative symptoms in the clinical records of a large sample of patients with schizophrenia using natural language processing and assess their relationship with clinical outcomes.Design Observational study using an anonymised electronic health record case register.Setting South London and Maudsley NHS Trust (SLaM), a large provider of inpatient and community mental healthcare in the UK.Participants 7678 patients with schizophrenia receiving care during 2011.Main outcome measures Hospital admission, readmission and duration of admission.Results 10 different negative symptoms were ascertained with precision statistics above 0.80. 41% of patients had 2 or more negative symptoms. …”
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Real-world evaluation of physiotherapist-led exercise prehabilitation and rehabilitation during autologous stem cell transplantation in myeloma: a single-centre experience by Orla McCourt, Joanne Land, Neil Rabin, Kwee Yong, Abi Fisher, Jonathan Sive, Charalampia Kyriakou, Michael K Luong, Alasdair Longden

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Treatment preferences of patients with muscle invasive bladder cancer: A discrete choice experiment by Liam Mannion, Verity Watson, Vinod Mullassery, Rajesh Nair, Thomas Charlton, Margaret Northover, Deborah Enting, Mieke Van Hemelrijck, Muhammad Shamim Khan, Ramesh Thurairaja, Suzanne Amery, Kathryn Chatterton, Kate Smith, Simon Hughes

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Mixed methods evaluation of the Getting it Right First Time programme in elective orthopaedic surgery in England: an analysis from the National Joint Registry and Hospital Episode... by Stephen Morris, James Mason, Rosalind Raine, Peter Martin, Naomi J Fulop, Elena Pizzo, Andrew Hutchings, Helen Barratt, Jean Ledger, Raj Mehta, Sarah Jasim, Fiona Aspinal, Rafael Gafoor

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Reduction of elevated Gli3 does not alter the progression of autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease by Lauren G. Russell, Maria Kolatsi‐Joannou, Laura Wilson, Jennifer C. Chandler, Nuria Perretta Tejedor, Georgie Stagg, Karen L. Price, Christopher J. Rowan, Tessa Crompton, Norman D. Rosenblum, Paul J. D. Winyard, David A. Long

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Protocol for a qualitative study to explore acceptability, barriers and facilitators of the implementation of new teleophthalmology technologies between community optometry practic... by Ann Blandford, Konstantinos Balaskas, Rima Hussain, Sarah Abdi, Angela Aristidou, Josie Carmichael, Giulia Cappellaro

“…Data from interviews, observations and self-audiorecordings will be analysed thematically and will be informed by normalisation process theory and an inductive approach.Ethics and dissemination Ethical approval has been received from London-Bromley research ethics committee. Findings will be reported through academic journals and conferences in ophthalmology, health services research, management studies and human-computer interaction.…”
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Protocol for a feasibility study and process evaluation of a psychosocially modelled diabetes education programme for young people with type 1 diabetes: the Youth Empowerment Skill... by Nick Sevdalis, Khalida Ismail, Tayana Soukup, Trevor Murrells, Dulmini Kariyawasam, Stephen Thomas, Judith Parsons, Angus Forbes, Rita Forde, Maria Baldellou Lopez, Marie Jones, Martha Ford-Adams, Nardos Yemane, Siobhan Pender, Alex Silverstien

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Autism common variants associated with white matter alterations at birth: cross-sectional fixel-based analyses of 221 European term-born neonates from the developing human connecto... by Hai Le, Alexandra F. Bonthrone, Alena Uus, Daphna Fenchel, Alexandra Lautarescu, Konstantina Dimitrakopoulou, A. David Edwards, Joseph V. Hajnal, Serena J. Counsell, Lucilio Cordero-Grande, Daan Christiaens, Dafnis Batalle, Maximilian Pietsch, Anthony N. Price, Hamel Patel, Charles Curtis, Harriet Cullen, Maria Deprez, Jacques-Donald Tournier

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CD4 T cell dynamics shape the immune response to combination oncolytic herpes virus and BRAF inhibitor therapy for melanoma by Victoria Jennings, Kevin Harrington, Hardev Pandha, Alan Melcher, Adel Samson, Fiona Errington-Mais, Victoria Roulstone, Eva Crespo-Rodriguez, Galabina Bozhanova, Shane Foo, Emmanuel C Patin, Martin McLaughlin, Malin Pedersen, Richard Vile, Joan Kyula, Jehanne Hassan, Lizzie Appleton, Charleen ML Chan Wah Hak, Gabby Baker, Edward Armstrong, Matthew Chiu, Masahiro Ono

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Crosstalk between Innate Lymphoid Cells and Other Immune Cells in the Tumor Microenvironment by Fabian Flores-Borja, Sheeba Irshad, Peter Gordon, Felix Wong, Ibrahim Sheriff, Andrew Tutt, Tony Ng

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Use of Cyclosporine in Uterine Transplantation by Srdjan Saso, Karl Logan, Yazan Abdallah, Louay S. Louis, Sadaf Ghaem-Maghami, J. Richard Smith, Giuseppe Del Priore

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Determination of Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction Uncertainty of Measurement Using Replicate Analysis and a Graphical User Interface with Fieller’s Theorem by James Ian Stuart, Johan Delport, Robert Lannigan, George Zahariadis

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Revealing Elasmobranch Distributions in Turbid Coastal Waters: Insights From Environmental DNA and Particle Tracking by Nick Dunn, Sophie Ward, Joanna Barker, Jake Davies, Sarah Davies, Ben Wray, Peter Robins, Isabelle Apetroaie, Jake Williams, Kevin Hopkins, David Curnick

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Physically Meaningful Surrogate Data for COPD by Harry J. Davies, Ghena Hammour, Hongjian Xiao, Patrik Bachtiger, Alexander Larionov, Philip L. Molyneaux, Nicholas S. Peters, Danilo P. Mandic

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Brain neurons internalise polymeric micron-sized capsules: Insights from in vitro and in vivo studies by Olga Kopach, Olga A. Sindeeva, Kaiyu Zheng, Eleanor McGowan, Gleb B. Sukhorukov, Dmitri A. Rusakov

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Ethnic inequalities in mental and physical multimorbidity in women of reproductive age: a data linkage cohort study by Amelia Jewell, Matthew Broadbent, Stephani Hatch, Mark Ashworth, Megan Pritchard, Sarah Dorrington, Louise Howard, Raquel Catalao

“…Objectives Explore inequalities in risk factors, mental and physical health morbidity in non-pregnant women of reproductive age in contact with mental health services and how these vary per ethnicity.Design Retrospective cohort study.Setting Data from Lambeth DataNet, anonymised primary care records of this ethnically diverse London borough, linked to anonymised electronic mental health records (‘CRIS secondary care database’).Participants Women aged 15–40 years with an episode of secondary mental health care between January 2008 and December 2018 and no antenatal or postnatal Read codes (n=3817) and a 4:1 age-matched comparison cohort (n=14 532).Main outcome measures Preconception risk factors including low/high body mass index, smoking, alcohol, substance misuse, micronutrient deficiencies and physical diagnoses.Results Women in contact with mental health services (whether with or without severe mental illness (SMI)) had a higher prevalence of all risk factors and physical health diagnoses studied. …”
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How do palliative care doctors recognise imminently dying patients? A judgement analysis by Nicola White, Priscilla Harries, Adam JL Harris, Victoria Vickerstaff, Philip Lodge, Catherine McGowan, Ollie Minton, Christopher Tomlinson, Adrian Tookman, Fiona Reid, Patrick Stone

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