Improving care experiences for premenstrual symptoms and disorders in the United Kingdom (UK): a mixed-methods approach by E. L. Funnell, N. A. Martin-Key, S. Bahn

“…Conclusions Poor care experiences for premenstrual symptoms in the UK are characterised by dismissive attitudes and perceived lack of knowledge. …”
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Nursing faculty readiness to teach online: a survey of nursing educators from Saudi Arabia and the UK by Mansour Mansour, Naim Abdulmohdi, Abd Alhadi Hasan, Hana Abu-Snieneh, Rani Shatnawi, Firas Taysir Abu-Sneineh, Sahar Elmetwally A. Badawi

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A Nationwide Cross-Sectional Survey of UK Breast Surgeons’ Views on the Management of Ductal Carcinoma In Situ by Gurdeep S. Mannu, Joao H. Bettencourt-Silva, Farid Ahmed, Giles Cunnick

“…We aimed to investigate whether the attitudes of surgeons towards different aspects of DCIS treatment varied by seniority of surgeon or by geographical region within the UK. Materials and Methods. A nationwide online survey targeted at UK breast surgeons was undertaken. …”
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Perception of the Importance of Inherited Genetics and Lifestyle on the Development of Chronic Diseases: A UK Cross‐Sectional Survey by Aamir Hussain, Lourdes Santos‐Merx, Mariasole Da Boit

“…Methods Individuals aged 18 years and over were recruited in 2019 among the UK population and 363 participants completed an anonymous questionnaire. …”
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Life after prostate cancer diagnosis: protocol for a UK-wide patient-reported outcomes study by David H Brewster, Victoria Cairnduff, Eila Watson, Amy Downing, Adam W Glaser, Penny Wright, William Cross, Conan Donnelly, Anna Gavin, Carol Rivas, Richard Wagland, Peter Selby, Luke Hounsome, Therese Kearney, Rebecca Mottram, Majorie Allen, Oonagh McSorley, Hugh Butcher, Paul Kind, James W H Catto, Dyfed Huws, Emma McNair, Lauren Matheson, Johana Nayoan, Mike Horton, Jessica Corner, Julia Verne

“…The Life After Prostate Cancer Diagnosis (LAPCD) study is a UK-wide patient-reported outcomes study which will generate information to improve the health and well-being of men with prostate cancer.Methods and analysis Postal surveys will be sent to prostate cancer survivors (18–42 months postdiagnosis) in all 4 UK countries (n=∼70 000). …”
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Criticism of the Legislature's Approach to the Cost of Justice Services with a Look at the Principles of Fair Trial and UK Law by Pejman Mohamadi, Khalil Ahmadi, Milad Kianpouriannejad

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Associations of Retinal Microvascular Density and Fractal Dimension with Glaucoma: A Prospective Study from UK Biobank by Qi Chen, MD, Suyu Miao, MD, Yuzhe Jiang, MD, Danli Shi, MD, PhD, Weiyun You, MD, Lin Liu, MD, PhD, Mayinuer Yusufu, MTI, Yufan Chen, MD, Ruobing Wang, MD, PhD

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Closing the gap: Intercultural dialogues between undergraduate home students in the UK and international students from China by Hsiu-chih Sheu, Laura Manzie

“… This paper presents research on the potential of classroom dialogues to facilitate greater intercultural communication between undergraduate home students in the UK studying Chinese as a foreign language (CFL) and Master’s level students from China. …”
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Exploring aspects of mentoring for black and minoritised healthcare professionals in the UK: a nominal group technique study by Vimal Sriram, Anita Atwal, Elizabeth A McKay

“…This was followed by the creation of a model covering the important aspects of mentoring for BME healthcare professionals.Setting UK.Participants A nominal group technique workshop with 12 participants briefed on this technique.Results There was strong agreement about the most highly rated attributes. …”
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Standardised packaging, minimum excise tax, and RYO focussed tax rise implications for UK tobacco pricing. by Rosemary Hiscock, Nicole H Augustin, J Robert Branston, Anna B Gilmore

“…This suggests that standardised packaging and a MET will likely contribute to further declines in UK tobacco use.…”
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Real-world assessment of effectiveness and safety of filgotinib in 286 patients with ulcerative colitis in 9 UK centres by David Young, Sohail Rahmany, Deborah Taylor, Emma Davis, Michael Colwill, Sonia Kalyanji Mehta, Roisin Campbell, Karl Hazel, Karishma Sethi-Arora, Susan Ritchie, Ashley I Heinson, Helen Moyses, Keith Bodger, Emma Johnston, Lucy Hicks, Anjan Dhar, Jimmy Limdi, Rachel Cooney, John Paul Seenan, Kamal Patel, Alissa Walsh, Fraser Cummings

“…Methods: A retrospective observational cohort evaluation was conducted across nine UK inflammatory bowel disease centres. Baseline demographic and clinical data, clinical disease activity scores, endoscopic activity indices, and biomarkers (C-reactive protein and faecal calprotectin) were collected at baseline, at 8–12 weeks after initiation (post-induction) and during maintenance (the most recent review) where available. …”
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Comparing the Fiscal Consequences of Controlled and Uncontrolled Osteoarthritis Pain Applying a UK Public Economic Perspective by Rui Martins, Nikos Kotsopoulos, Melodi Kosaner Kließ, Craig Beck, Lucy Abraham, Samuel Large, Patricia Schepman, Mark P. Connolly

“…Lost tax revenue was derived using UK tax rates and national insurance contributions applied to annual earnings. …”
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Retrospective Study of Chronic Coughing in Dogs in a Referral Centre in the UK: 329 Cases (2012–2021) by Carla Asorey Blazquez, Ico Jolly Frahija, Arran Smith, Rachel Miller, Mayank Seth, Edgar Garcia Manzanilla, Ferran Valls Sanchez

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Lithuania’s Binary Worker Classification Vs. A Teleological Interpretation of the EU’s ‘Worker’ Concept by Germany and the UK by Lauschke Hans

“…This issue is examined in light of varying interpretations of the EU’s ‘worker’ concept(s) in the United Kingdom (UK) and Germany, where courts increasingly extend protections to individuals in atypical employment forms by broadly (re-)interpreting traditional terms. …”
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The association between metabolomic profiles of lifestyle and the latent phase of incident chronic kidney disease in the UK Population by Tingting Jin, Yunqi Wu, Siyi Zhang, Ya Peng, Yao Lin, Saijun Zhou, Hongyan Liu, Pei Yu

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Developing generic clinical trial animated explainer videos in the UK: results of a survey and case study by Clare Calvert, Vicki S. Barber, Duncan Appelbe, Kirsty Sprange, Claire Nollett, Fiona Lugg-Widger, Samantha Tanner, Duncan B. Richards

“…The EXPLAIN initiative aimed to determine the top generic clinical trial topics considered most important by different UK trial stakeholders. The top three topics were then turned into AEVs and have been made freely available for use. …”
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ANALYSIS OF FOREIGN EXPERIENCE OF DEVELOPMENT OF COMPETITION AT RETAIL ELECTRICITY MARKETS: UK AND NORTHERN EUROPE COUNTRIES EXPERIENCE by O. Mozgovaya

“…The rewarding experience of retail electricity markets performance demonstrates that the deregulated model of wholesale and retail electricity markets provides mostfavorite competitive mechanism. The UK and Northern Europe countries (Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark) competitive mechanisms practiced at retail electricity markets have analysed. …”
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Uptake, safety and effectiveness of inactivated influenza vaccine in inflammatory bowel disease: a UK-wide study by Abhishek Abhishek, Christian D Mallen, Georgina Nakafero, Matthew J Grainge, Tim Card, Jonathan S Nguyen Van-Tam

“…Objective To investigate (1) the UK-wide inactivated influenza vaccine (IIV) uptake in adults with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), (2) the association between vaccination against influenza and IBD flare and (3) the effectiveness of IIV in preventing morbidity and mortality.Design Data for adults with IBD diagnosed before the 1 September 2018 were extracted from the Clinical Practice Research Datalink Gold. …”
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Measuring serious violence perpetration: comparison of police-recorded and self-reported data in a UK cohort by Rosie Cornish, Alison Teyhan, Kate Tilling, John Macleod, Iain Brennan

“…Objectives To compare risk of self-reported and police-recorded serious violence perpetration in late adolescence and early adulthood using linked UK birth cohort and police data, to examine the association between cohort participation and police-recorded violence, and to use police-records to impute missing self-reported data on violence Methods We included individuals in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) who had been informed about the study's use of their linked data and had not opted out of linkage to police records (n = 12,662). …”
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Dose-response associations of device-measured sleep regularity and duration with incident dementia in 82391 UK adults by Wenxin Bian, Raaj K. Biswas, Matthew N. Ahmadi, Yu Sun Bin, Svetlana Postnova, Andrew J. K. Phillips, Nicholas A. Koemel, Jean-Philippe Chaput, Shantha M. W. Rajaratnam, Peter A. Cistulli, Emmanuel Stamatakis

“…Methods Population-based prospective cohort study of 82,391 adults aged 43 to 79 years from the UK Biobank accelerometry subsample, collected between 2013 and 2015, followed up to 2022. …”
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