Improving the diagnostic accuracy of referrals for papilloedema (DIPP) study: protocol for a mixed-methods study by Luke Bennetto, Beth Stuart, Jonathan Benger, Matthew J Ridd, Helen Bolton, William Hollingworth, Michael Bowen, Amar Shah, Samuel William David Merriel, Alyson Huntley, Victoria Wilson, Maria Theresa Redaniel, Paul Roy, Denize Atan, Frank Moore, Olivia Skrobot, Mary-Ann Sherratt, Marcia Lucraft, Christina Stokes

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School-based mindfulness training in early adolescence: what works, for whom and how in the MYRIAD trial? by Susan Ball, Obioha C Ukoumunne, Tamsin Ford, Sarah Byford, Tim Dalgleish, Willem Kuyken, Jesus Montero-Marin, Kate Tudor, Alice Tickell, Catherine Crane, Ariane Petit, Elise Sellars, Laura Taylor, Maris Vainre, Benjamin Jones, Kirsty Griffiths, Elizabeth Nuthall, J Mark G Williams, Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Katie Fletcher, Emma Medlicott, Anam Raja, Matthew Allwood, Louise Aukland, Tríona Casey, Nicola Dalrymple, Katherine De Wilde, Eleanor-Rose Farley, Jennifer Harper, Nils Kappelmann, Maria Kempnich, Liz Lord, Lucy Palmer, Alice Philips, Isobel Pryor-Nitsch, Lucy Radley, Anna Sonley, Jem Shackleford, Mark T Greenberg, Verena Hinze, Saz Ahmed, Marc Bennett, Lucy Foulkes, Cait Griffin, Konstantina Komninidou, Rachel Knight, Suzannah Laws, Jovita Leung, Jenna Parker, Blanca Piera Pi-Sunyer, Ashok Sakhardande, Lucy Warriner, Brian Wainman

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Safety of a co-designed cognitive behavioural therapy intervention for people with type 1 diabetes and eating disorders (STEADY): a feasibility randomised controlled trialResearch... by Marietta Stadler, Natalie Zaremba, Amy Harrison, Jennie Brown, Divina Pillay, Jacqueline Allan, Rachael Tan, Salma Ayis, Emmanouela Konstantara, Janet Treasure, David Hopkins, Khalida Ismail

“…Methods: Feasibility parallel-group, randomised (blocks of four) controlled open-label trial (RCT) of STEADY against usual care (Control) at King's College London, UK. Participants were referred by clinicians or self-referred via social media advertisements. …”
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SPIRIT-DEFINE explanation and elaboration: recommendations for enhancing quality and impact of early phase dose-finding clinical trials protocolsResearch in context by Moreno Ursino, Guillermo Villacampa, Jan Rekowski, Munyaradzi Dimairo, Olga Solovyeva, Deborah Ashby, Jordan Berlin, Oliver Boix, Melanie Calvert, An-Wen Chan, Courtney H. Coschi, Thomas R. Jeffry Evans, Elizabeth Garrett-Mayer, Robert M. Golub, Christina Guo, Kathryn S. Hayward, Sally Hopewell, John D. Isaacs, S. Percy Ivy, Thomas Jaki, Olga Kholmanskikh, Andrew Kightley, Shing Lee, Rong Liu, Adrian Mander, Lynley V. Marshall, James Matcham, Dhrusti Patel, Richard Peck, Khadija Rerhou Rantell, Dawn P. Richards, Mahtab Rouhifard, Lesley Seymour, Yoshiya Tanaka, Christopher J. Weir, Johann de Bono, Christina Yap

“…ICR-CTSU receives programmatic infrastructure funding from Cancer Research UK (C1491/A25351; CTUQQR-Dec22/100004), which has contributed to accelerating the advancement and successful completion of this work.…”
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CONSORT-DEFINE explanation and elaboration: recommendations for enhancing reporting quality and impact of early phase dose-finding clinical trialsResearch in context by Jan Rekowski, Christina Guo, Olga Solovyeva, Munyaradzi Dimairo, Mahtab Rouhifard, Dhrusti Patel, Emily Alger, Deborah Ashby, Jordan Berlin, Oliver Boix, Melanie Calvert, An-Wen Chan, Courtney H. Coschi, Johann de Bono, Thomas R. Jeffry Evans, Elizabeth Garrett–Mayer, Robert M. Golub, Kathryn S. Hayward, Sally Hopewell, John D. Isaacs, S. Percy Ivy, Thomas Jaki, Olga Kholmanskikh, Andrew Kightley, Shing Lee, Rong Liu, Israel Maia, Adrian Mander, Lynley V. Marshall, James Matcham, Richard Peck, Khadija Rerhou Rantell, Dawn P. Richards, Lesley Seymour, Yoshiya Tanaka, Moreno Ursino, Christopher J. Weir, Christina Yap

“…Funding: This work is a further extension of the CONSORT-DEFINE study, which was funded by the UK Medical Research Council (MRC)-National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Methodology Research Programme (MR/T044934/1). …”
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A model based cost-utility analysis of Embedding referral to structured self-management education into standard practice (Embedding) compared to usual care for people with type 2 d... by Melanie J Davies, Alan Brennan, Danielle H Bodicoat, Daniel John Pollard, Anju Keetharuth, Michelle Hadjiconstantinou, Agnieszka Glab, Joesph P Mensa, Alison Northern

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Intervening to eliminate the centre-effect variation in home dialysis use: protocol for Inter-CEPt—a sequential mixed-methods study designing an intervention bundle by Sarah Damery, Kerry Allen, Lisa Dikomitis, Harry Hill, David Coyle, Maatla Tshimologo, Mark Lambie, Simon J Davies, Iestyn Williams, James Fotheringham, Louise Phillips-Darby, Ivonne Solis-Trapala

“…Introduction Use of home dialysis by centres in the UK varies considerably and is decreasing despite attempts to encourage greater use. …”
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Vitamin D associates with improved quality of life in participants with irritable bowel syndrome: outcomes from a pilot trial by Sue F Plummer, Iveta Garaiova, Elizabeth A Williams, Bernard M Corfe, Simon Tazzyman, Nicholas Richards, Andrew R Trueman, Amy L Evans, Vicky A Grant

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Realist inquiry into Maternity care @ a Distance (ARM@DA): realist review protocol by Andrew Booth, Catrin Evans, Stephen Timmons, Helen Spiby, Mark Clowes, Nia Jones, Kerry Evans, Benash Nazmeen, Candice Sunney, Georgia Clancy

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Virtual online consultations: advantages and limitations (VOCAL) study by Trisha Greenhalgh, Joe Wherton, Sara Shaw, Charles Gutteridge, Emma Byrne, Isabel Hodkinson, Shanti Vijayaraghavan, Desirée Campbell-Richards, Satya Bhattacharya, Philippa Hanson, Seendy Ramoutar, Anna Collard, Joanne Morris

“…The study is based in 2 contrasting clinical settings (diabetes and cancer) in a National Health Service (NHS) acute trust in London, UK. Main data sources are: microlevel—audio, video and screen capture to produce rich multimodal data on 45 remote consultations; mesolevel—interviews, ethnographic observations and analysis of documents within the trust; macrolevel—key informant interviews of national-level stakeholders and document analysis. …”
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Single-cell morphological tracking of cell states to identify small-molecule modulators of liver differentiation by Rebecca E. Graham, Runshi Zheng, Jesko Wagner, Asier Unciti-Broceta, David C. Hay, Stuart J. Forbes, Victoria L. Gadd, Neil O. Carragher

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Behaviours preceding suicides at railway and underground locations: a multimethodological qualitative approach by Lisa Marzano, Jay-Marie Mackenzie, Jo Borrill, Emily Hawkins, Bob Fields, Ian Kruger, Ian Noonan

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Characteristics of the Volunteer Service Management System for National Parks in the United Kingdom by Tianyi REN, Chuanbo HONG, Yinglin WANG

“…This research aims to critically analyze and summarize the core characteristics of the UK’s volunteer service management system for national parks, so as to offer insights and references for China’s ongoing efforts in establishing its own volunteer service management system for national parks.MethodsThis research takes 14 national parks in the UK as the research object, collects the official data and literature on national parks in the UK and systematically sorts out special management contents such as management documents, management agencies, and management funds through text analysis. …”
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A proof-of-concept analysis of data from the first NHS clinic for young adults with comorbid cannabis use and psychotic disorders by Marta Di Forti, Benjamin W. Bond, Edoardo Spinazzola, Giulia Trotta, Jodie Lynn, Richard Malkin, Naba Kamran Siddiqui, Sultan Demir, Titilayomi Opadokun, Perry B.M. Leung, Zhikun Li, Andrea Quattrone, Gabriella Baxter, Elizabeth Appiah-Kusi, Tom P. Freeman, Hannah Walsh, Tommaso Squeri, Daria Semikina, Felicity Amberson-Jones, Isabelle Austin-Zimmerman, Tim Meynen, Diego Quattrone, Robin M. Murray

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The prevalence and prognostic significance of Sarcopenia and Adipopenia in Pleural Mesothelioma by Andrew C. Kidd, Gordon W. Cowell, Geoffrey A. Martin, Jenny Ferguson, Dean A. Fennell, Matt Evison, Kevin G. Blyth

“…Clinical data and CT images were retrieved for 111 patients from 4 UK centres. Skeletal muscle (at L3 and T4) and fat tissue areas (at L3 only) were measured on pre- and post-chemotherapy CT scans (ImageJ software) and normalised for height. …”
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Communities & Crowds: a toolkit for hybrid volunteering with cultural heritage collections by Geoffrey Belknap, Samantha Blickhan, Lynn Wray, Alex Fitzpatrick, Lincoln Anderson, Lawrence Brooks, Jacob Fox, Paulien ten Hagen, Matt Hick, Adrian Hine, Maureen Rowe, Sandra Rowe, Rebecca Smith, Ruth Quinn

“…Communities & Crowds is an AHRC-funded collaboration between the NSMM (Bradford, UK), the Adler Planetarium (Chicago, IL), National Museums Scotland (NMS) (Edinburgh, UK), and Oxford University (Oxford, UK). …”
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AI education for clinicians by Tim Schubert, Tim Oosterlinck, Robert D. Stevens, Patrick H. Maxwell, Mihaela van der Schaar

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Splicing accuracy varies across human introns, tissues, age and disease by S. García-Ruiz, D. Zhang, E. K. Gustavsson, G. Rocamora-Perez, M. Grant-Peters, A. Fairbrother-Browne, R. H. Reynolds, J. W. Brenton, A. L. Gil-Martínez, Z. Chen, D. C. Rio, J. A. Botia, S. Guelfi, L. Collado-Torres, M. Ryten

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Validation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease recording in the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD-GOLD) by John R Hurst, Jennifer K Quint, Hana Müllerova, Liam Smeeth, Harriet Forbes, Susan Eaton, Rachael L DiSantostefano, Kourtney Davis

“…We assessed the accuracy of different approaches using the Clinical Practice Research Datalink, a UK electronic health record database.Setting 951 participants registered with a CPRD practice in the UK between 1 January 2004 and 31 December 2012. …”
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