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  1. Article ; Online: Validation of a comorbidity questionnaire in patients with neurological disorders.

    Vijiaratnam, Nirosen / Vadera, Shree / Lefringhausen, Katharina / Girges, Christine / Schrag, Anette

    BMJ neurology open

    2023  Volume 5, Issue 2, Page(s) e000464

    Abstract: Rational: Several tools exist to assess comorbidities in neurological disorders, the most widely used being the Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI), but it has several limitations. The Comorbidity and General Health Questionnaire (CGHQ) is a newly designed ...

    Abstract Rational: Several tools exist to assess comorbidities in neurological disorders, the most widely used being the Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI), but it has several limitations. The Comorbidity and General Health Questionnaire (CGHQ) is a newly designed tool, which includes additional comorbidities associated with health-related quality of life (HR-QOL) and outcomes in neurological disorders.
    Aims and objectives: To assess the feasibility and validity of the CGHQ in patients with neurological disease.
    Method: Two hundred patients attending a general neurological clinic were invited to complete the CGHQ along with the EQ-5D-5L questionnaire. The CCI was simultaneously completed by the assessor. CGHQ comorbidity scores were compared with CCI, symptom burden and EQ-5D-5L scores.
    Results: The CGHQ captured 22 additional comorbidities not included on the CCI and more comorbidities were endorsed on the CGHQ. The CGHQ correlated weakly to moderately with CCI comorbidity scores. While both the CGHQ and CCI correlated negatively with the EQ-5D-5L Visual Analogue Scale, only the CGHQ correlated negatively with the EQ-5D-5L summary index. The CGHQ but not the CCI correlated strongly and positively with symptom burden scores.
    Conclusion: The CGHQ allows a more comprehensive assessment of comorbidities than the CCI and better correlates with patients' overall symptom burden and HR-QOL in neurological patients.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-08-30
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ISSN 2632-6140
    ISSN (online) 2632-6140
    DOI 10.1136/bmjno-2023-000464
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  2. Article: Case Report: Acute Onset Fear of Falling and Treatment With "Cognitive Physical Therapy".

    Castro, Patricia / Vadera, Shree / Bancroft, Matthew James / Buttell, Joseph / Kaski, Diego

    Frontiers in neurology

    2021  Volume 12, Page(s) 707840

    Abstract: Fear of falling (FoF) is prevalent in older adults, especially those with previous falls, and typically starts insidiously. We present a 78-year-old woman with an abrupt onset FoF and no history of falls, balance problems, vertigo, oscillopsia, ... ...

    Abstract Fear of falling (FoF) is prevalent in older adults, especially those with previous falls, and typically starts insidiously. We present a 78-year-old woman with an abrupt onset FoF and no history of falls, balance problems, vertigo, oscillopsia, psychiatric or psychological issues to account for this. These cognitive changes led to a behavioural alteration of her gait that became slow and wide-based, with her gaze fixed on the floor. She began a tailored program of "Cognitive Physical Therapy (CPT)" combining cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and physical rehabilitation. 1 month later her 6 m walk time and steps were reduced by a 25 and 35%, respectively, and the stride length increased by 34%, with further improvement 2 months later. We postulate that the abrupt onset of symptoms triggered a central shift toward postural hypervigilance and anxiety, suppression of anticipatory (feed forward) postural adjustments (APA) leading to FoF. CPT improved objective gait parameters related to FoF and reduced postural anxiety suggesting that early diagnosis and prompt treatment may avoid chronic symptoms and social isolation.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-08-06
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Case Reports
    ZDB-ID 2564214-5
    ISSN 1664-2295
    ISSN 1664-2295
    DOI 10.3389/fneur.2021.707840
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  3. Article: Do screening tools assess palliative care needs and 12-month mortality in patients admitted to hepatology in-patient wards?

    Low, Joseph / Carroll, Catherine / Wilson, Jo / Craig, Rachel / Vadera, Shree / Cococcia, Sara / Thorburn, Douglas / Stone, Patrick / Marshall, Aileen / Vickerstaff, Victoria

    Frontline gastroenterology

    2021  Volume 13, Issue 3, Page(s) 211–217

    Abstract: Background: Many liver patients have unmet palliative care needs, but liver clinicians are unclear whom to refer to specialist palliative care (SPC). The Supportive and Palliative Care Indicator Tool (SPICT) and the Bristol Prognostic Screening Tool ( ... ...

    Abstract Background: Many liver patients have unmet palliative care needs, but liver clinicians are unclear whom to refer to specialist palliative care (SPC). The Supportive and Palliative Care Indicator Tool (SPICT) and the Bristol Prognostic Screening Tool (BPST) could help identify suitable patients, but neither has been tested for this role. This study evaluated their role as screening tools for palliative care needs and for predicting 12-month mortality.
    Methods: A case note review of hepatology in-patients, who were not peritransplant and post-transplant status, was conducted in one tertiary unit. Main outcomes were clinical judgement of need for SPC referral, BPST scores, SPICT attribution of caseness and 12-month survival status. Discriminatory ability of tools was assessed using sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value (PPV), negative predictive value (NPV) and area under the receiver operating characteristic (AUROC) curve.
    Results: 117 medical notes were reviewed for survival analysis, 47 of which were additionally assessed for suitability for SPC referral, using clinical judgement. SPICT (sensitivity=93%; PPV=93%; AUROC=0.933) and BPST (sensitivity=59%, PPV=79%, AUROC=0.693) demonstrated excellent and good performance, respectively, in predicting patients' need for SPC referral. SPICT and BPST only had moderate ability at predicting death at 12 months (PPV: 54% and 56%, respectively).
    Conclusion: SPICT and BPST show potential as screening tools for identifying patients for referral to SPC. Further work is needed to determine how to implement these tools in a clinical setting.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-05-27
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2521857-8
    ISSN 2041-4137
    ISSN 2041-4137
    DOI 10.1136/flgastro-2020-101709
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  4. Article ; Online: Exploring UK medical school differences: the MedDifs study of selection, teaching, student and F1 perceptions, postgraduate outcomes and fitness to practise.

    McManus, I C / Harborne, Andrew Christopher / Horsfall, Hugo Layard / Joseph, Tobin / Smith, Daniel T / Marshall-Andon, Tess / Samuels, Ryan / Kearsley, Joshua William / Abbas, Nadine / Baig, Hassan / Beecham, Joseph / Benons, Natasha / Caird, Charlie / Clark, Ryan / Cope, Thomas / Coultas, James / Debenham, Luke / Douglas, Sarah / Eldridge, Jack /
    Hughes-Gooding, Thomas / Jakubowska, Agnieszka / Jones, Oliver / Lancaster, Eve / MacMillan, Calum / McAllister, Ross / Merzougui, Wassim / Phillips, Ben / Phillips, Simon / Risk, Omar / Sage, Adam / Sooltangos, Aisha / Spencer, Robert / Tajbakhsh, Roxanne / Adesalu, Oluseyi / Aganin, Ivan / Ahmed, Ammar / Aiken, Katherine / Akeredolu, Alimatu-Sadia / Alam, Ibrahim / Ali, Aamna / Anderson, Richard / Ang, Jia Jun / Anis, Fady Sameh / Aojula, Sonam / Arthur, Catherine / Ashby, Alena / Ashraf, Ahmed / Aspinall, Emma / Awad, Mark / Yahaya, Abdul-Muiz Azri / Badhrinarayanan, Shreya / Bandyopadhyay, Soham / Barnes, Sam / Bassey-Duke, Daisy / Boreham, Charlotte / Braine, Rebecca / Brandreth, Joseph / Carrington, Zoe / Cashin, Zoe / Chatterjee, Shaunak / Chawla, Mehar / Chean, Chung Shen / Clements, Chris / Clough, Richard / Coulthurst, Jessica / Curry, Liam / Daniels, Vinnie Christine / Davies, Simon / Davis, Rebecca / De Waal, Hanelie / Desai, Nasreen / Douglas, Hannah / Druce, James / Ejamike, Lady-Namera / Esere, Meron / Eyre, Alex / Fazmin, Ibrahim Talal / Fitzgerald-Smith, Sophia / Ford, Verity / Freeston, Sarah / Garnett, Katherine / General, Whitney / Gilbert, Helen / Gowie, Zein / Grafton-Clarke, Ciaran / Gudka, Keshni / Gumber, Leher / Gupta, Rishi / Harlow, Chris / Harrington, Amy / Heaney, Adele / Ho, Wing Hang Serene / Holloway, Lucy / Hood, Christina / Houghton, Eleanor / Houshangi, Saba / Howard, Emma / Human, Benjamin / Hunter, Harriet / Hussain, Ifrah / Hussain, Sami / Jackson-Taylor, Richard Thomas / Jacob-Ramsdale, Bronwen / Janjuha, Ryan / Jawad, Saleh / Jelani, Muzzamil / Johnston, David / Jones, Mike / Kalidindi, Sadhana / Kalsi, Savraj / Kalyanasundaram, Asanish / Kane, Anna / Kaur, Sahaj / Al-Othman, Othman Khaled / Khan, Qaisar / Khullar, Sajan / Kirkland, Priscilla / Lawrence-Smith, Hannah / Leeson, Charlotte / Lenaerts, Julius Elisabeth Richard / Long, Kerry / Lubbock, Simon / Burrell, Jamie Mac Donald / Maguire, Rachel / Mahendran, Praveen / Majeed, Saad / Malhotra, Prabhjot Singh / Mandagere, Vinay / Mantelakis, Angelos / McGovern, Sophie / Mosuro, Anjola / Moxley, Adam / Mustoe, Sophie / Myers, Sam / Nadeem, Kiran / Nasseri, Reza / Newman, Tom / Nzewi, Richard / Ogborne, Rosalie / Omatseye, Joyce / Paddock, Sophie / Parkin, James / Patel, Mohit / Pawar, Sohini / Pearce, Stuart / Penrice, Samuel / Purdy, Julian / Ramjan, Raisa / Randhawa, Ratan / Rasul, Usman / Raymond-Taggert, Elliot / Razey, Rebecca / Razzaghi, Carmel / Reel, Eimear / Revell, Elliot John / Rigbye, Joanna / Rotimi, Oloruntobi / Said, Abdelrahman / Sanders, Emma / Sangal, Pranoy / Grandal, Nora Sangvik / Shah, Aadam / Shah, Rahul Atul / Shotton, Oliver / Sims, Daniel / Smart, Katie / Smith, Martha Amy / Smith, Nick / Sopian, Aninditya Salma / South, Matthew / Speller, Jessica / Syer, Tom J / Ta, Ngan Hong / Tadross, Daniel / Thompson, Benjamin / Trevett, Jess / Tyler, Matthew / Ullah, Roshan / Utukuri, Mrudula / Vadera, Shree / Van Den Tooren, Harriet / Venturini, Sara / Vijayakumar, Aradhya / Vine, Melanie / Wellbelove, Zoe / Wittner, Liora / Yong, Geoffrey Hong Kiat / Ziyada, Farris / Devine, Oliver Patrick

    BMC medicine

    2020  Volume 18, Issue 1, Page(s) 136

    Abstract: Background: Medical schools differ, particularly in their teaching, but it is unclear whether such differences matter, although influential claims are often made. The Medical School Differences (MedDifs) study brings together a wide range of measures of ...

    Abstract Background: Medical schools differ, particularly in their teaching, but it is unclear whether such differences matter, although influential claims are often made. The Medical School Differences (MedDifs) study brings together a wide range of measures of UK medical schools, including postgraduate performance, fitness to practise issues, specialty choice, preparedness, satisfaction, teaching styles, entry criteria and institutional factors.
    Method: Aggregated data were collected for 50 measures across 29 UK medical schools. Data include institutional history (e.g. rate of production of hospital and GP specialists in the past), curricular influences (e.g. PBL schools, spend per student, staff-student ratio), selection measures (e.g. entry grades), teaching and assessment (e.g. traditional vs PBL, specialty teaching, self-regulated learning), student satisfaction, Foundation selection scores, Foundation satisfaction, postgraduate examination performance and fitness to practise (postgraduate progression, GMC sanctions). Six specialties (General Practice, Psychiatry, Anaesthetics, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Internal Medicine, Surgery) were examined in more detail.
    Results: Medical school differences are stable across time (median alpha = 0.835). The 50 measures were highly correlated, 395 (32.2%) of 1225 correlations being significant with p < 0.05, and 201 (16.4%) reached a Tukey-adjusted criterion of p < 0.0025. Problem-based learning (PBL) schools differ on many measures, including lower performance on postgraduate assessments. While these are in part explained by lower entry grades, a surprising finding is that schools such as PBL schools which reported greater student satisfaction with feedback also showed lower performance at postgraduate examinations. More medical school teaching of psychiatry, surgery and anaesthetics did not result in more specialist trainees. Schools that taught more general practice did have more graduates entering GP training, but those graduates performed less well in MRCGP examinations, the negative correlation resulting from numbers of GP trainees and exam outcomes being affected both by non-traditional teaching and by greater historical production of GPs. Postgraduate exam outcomes were also higher in schools with more self-regulated learning, but lower in larger medical schools. A path model for 29 measures found a complex causal nexus, most measures causing or being caused by other measures. Postgraduate exam performance was influenced by earlier attainment, at entry to Foundation and entry to medical school (the so-called academic backbone), and by self-regulated learning. Foundation measures of satisfaction, including preparedness, had no subsequent influence on outcomes. Fitness to practise issues were more frequent in schools producing more male graduates and more GPs.
    Conclusions: Medical schools differ in large numbers of ways that are causally interconnected. Differences between schools in postgraduate examination performance, training problems and GMC sanctions have important implications for the quality of patient care and patient safety.
    MeSH term(s) Female ; Humans ; Male ; Schools, Medical/standards ; Students, Medical/statistics & numerical data ; United Kingdom
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-05-14
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2131669-7
    ISSN 1741-7015 ; 1741-7015
    ISSN (online) 1741-7015
    ISSN 1741-7015
    DOI 10.1186/s12916-020-01572-3
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  5. Article ; Online: The Analysis of Teaching of Medical Schools (AToMS) survey: an analysis of 47,258 timetabled teaching events in 25 UK medical schools relating to timing, duration, teaching formats, teaching content, and problem-based learning.

    Devine, Oliver Patrick / Harborne, Andrew Christopher / Horsfall, Hugo Layard / Joseph, Tobin / Marshall-Andon, Tess / Samuels, Ryan / Kearsley, Joshua William / Abbas, Nadine / Baig, Hassan / Beecham, Joseph / Benons, Natasha / Caird, Charlie / Clark, Ryan / Cope, Thomas / Coultas, James / Debenham, Luke / Douglas, Sarah / Eldridge, Jack / Hughes-Gooding, Thomas /
    Jakubowska, Agnieszka / Jones, Oliver / Lancaster, Eve / MacMillan, Calum / McAllister, Ross / Merzougui, Wassim / Phillips, Ben / Phillips, Simon / Risk, Omar / Sage, Adam / Sooltangos, Aisha / Spencer, Robert / Tajbakhsh, Roxanne / Adesalu, Oluseyi / Aganin, Ivan / Ahmed, Ammar / Aiken, Katherine / Akeredolu, Alimatu-Sadia / Alam, Ibrahim / Ali, Aamna / Anderson, Richard / Ang, Jia Jun / Anis, Fady Sameh / Aojula, Sonam / Arthur, Catherine / Ashby, Alena / Ashraf, Ahmed / Aspinall, Emma / Awad, Mark / Yahaya, Abdul-Muiz Azri / Badhrinarayanan, Shreya / Bandyopadhyay, Soham / Barnes, Sam / Bassey-Duke, Daisy / Boreham, Charlotte / Braine, Rebecca / Brandreth, Joseph / Carrington, Zoe / Cashin, Zoe / Chatterjee, Shaunak / Chawla, Mehar / Chean, Chung Shen / Clements, Chris / Clough, Richard / Coulthurst, Jessica / Curry, Liam / Daniels, Vinnie Christine / Davies, Simon / Davis, Rebecca / De Waal, Hanelie / Desai, Nasreen / Douglas, Hannah / Druce, James / Ejamike, Lady-Namera / Esere, Meron / Eyre, Alex / Fazmin, Ibrahim Talal / Fitzgerald-Smith, Sophia / Ford, Verity / Freeston, Sarah / Garnett, Katherine / General, Whitney / Gilbert, Helen / Gowie, Zein / Grafton-Clarke, Ciaran / Gudka, Keshni / Gumber, Leher / Gupta, Rishi / Harlow, Chris / Harrington, Amy / Heaney, Adele / Ho, Wing Hang Serene / Holloway, Lucy / Hood, Christina / Houghton, Eleanor / Houshangi, Saba / Howard, Emma / Human, Benjamin / Hunter, Harriet / Hussain, Ifrah / Hussain, Sami / Jackson-Taylor, Richard Thomas / Jacob-Ramsdale, Bronwen / Janjuha, Ryan / Jawad, Saleh / Jelani, Muzzamil / Johnston, David / Jones, Mike / Kalidindi, Sadhana / Kalsi, Savraj / Kalyanasundaram, Asanish / Kane, Anna / Kaur, Sahaj / Al-Othman, Othman Khaled / Khan, Qaisar / Khullar, Sajan / Kirkland, Priscilla / Lawrence-Smith, Hannah / Leeson, Charlotte / Lenaerts, Julius Elisabeth Richard / Long, Kerry / Lubbock, Simon / Burrell, Jamie Mac Donald / Maguire, Rachel / Mahendran, Praveen / Majeed, Saad / Malhotra, Prabhjot Singh / Mandagere, Vinay / Mantelakis, Angelos / McGovern, Sophie / Mosuro, Anjola / Moxley, Adam / Mustoe, Sophie / Myers, Sam / Nadeem, Kiran / Nasseri, Reza / Newman, Tom / Nzewi, Richard / Ogborne, Rosalie / Omatseye, Joyce / Paddock, Sophie / Parkin, James / Patel, Mohit / Pawar, Sohini / Pearce, Stuart / Penrice, Samuel / Purdy, Julian / Ramjan, Raisa / Randhawa, Ratan / Rasul, Usman / Raymond-Taggert, Elliot / Razey, Rebecca / Razzaghi, Carmel / Reel, Eimear / Revell, Elliot John / Rigbye, Joanna / Rotimi, Oloruntobi / Said, Abdelrahman / Sanders, Emma / Sangal, Pranoy / Grandal, Nora Sangvik / Shah, Aadam / Shah, Rahul Atul / Shotton, Oliver / Sims, Daniel / Smart, Katie / Smith, Martha Amy / Smith, Nick / Sopian, Aninditya Salma / South, Matthew / Speller, Jessica / Syer, Tom J / Ta, Ngan Hong / Tadross, Daniel / Thompson, Benjamin / Trevett, Jess / Tyler, Matthew / Ullah, Roshan / Utukuri, Mrudula / Vadera, Shree / Van Den Tooren, Harriet / Venturini, Sara / Vijayakumar, Aradhya / Vine, Melanie / Wellbelove, Zoe / Wittner, Liora / Yong, Geoffrey Hong Kiat / Ziyada, Farris / McManus, I C

    BMC medicine

    2020  Volume 18, Issue 1, Page(s) 126

    Abstract: Background: What subjects UK medical schools teach, what ways they teach subjects, and how much they teach those subjects is unclear. Whether teaching differences matter is a separate, important question. This study provides a detailed picture of ... ...

    Abstract Background: What subjects UK medical schools teach, what ways they teach subjects, and how much they teach those subjects is unclear. Whether teaching differences matter is a separate, important question. This study provides a detailed picture of timetabled undergraduate teaching activity at 25 UK medical schools, particularly in relation to problem-based learning (PBL).
    Method: The Analysis of Teaching of Medical Schools (AToMS) survey used detailed timetables provided by 25 schools with standard 5-year courses. Timetabled teaching events were coded in terms of course year, duration, teaching format, and teaching content. Ten schools used PBL. Teaching times from timetables were validated against two other studies that had assessed GP teaching and lecture, seminar, and tutorial times.
    Results: A total of 47,258 timetabled teaching events in the academic year 2014/2015 were analysed, including SSCs (student-selected components) and elective studies. A typical UK medical student receives 3960 timetabled hours of teaching during their 5-year course. There was a clear difference between the initial 2 years which mostly contained basic medical science content and the later 3 years which mostly consisted of clinical teaching, although some clinical teaching occurs in the first 2 years. Medical schools differed in duration, format, and content of teaching. Two main factors underlay most of the variation between schools, Traditional vs PBL teaching and Structured vs Unstructured teaching. A curriculum map comparing medical schools was constructed using those factors. PBL schools differed on a number of measures, having more PBL teaching time, fewer lectures, more GP teaching, less surgery, less formal teaching of basic science, and more sessions with unspecified content.
    Discussion: UK medical schools differ in both format and content of teaching. PBL and non-PBL schools clearly differ, albeit with substantial variation within groups, and overlap in the middle. The important question of whether differences in teaching matter in terms of outcomes is analysed in a companion study (MedDifs) which examines how teaching differences relate to university infrastructure, entry requirements, student perceptions, and outcomes in Foundation Programme and postgraduate training.
    MeSH term(s) Curriculum/standards ; Education, Medical, Undergraduate/organization & administration ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Surveys and Questionnaires ; United Kingdom
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-05-14
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2131669-7
    ISSN 1741-7015 ; 1741-7015
    ISSN (online) 1741-7015
    ISSN 1741-7015
    DOI 10.1186/s12916-020-01571-4
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