Usher Institute

2025

Racing against a stopped clock: Inequitable access to stroke thrombectomy

Squires, C. & Duignan, A., 12 May 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. 2 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

Mapping the global landscape of task shifting and sharing: trends, geographic disparities, and terminology from 1970 to 2022

Das, S., Grant, L. & Fearon, D., 10 May 2025, In: Critical Public Health. 35, 1, 2501495.

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Optimizing participation in a Pulmonary Rehabilitation Programme for people living with Chronic Respiratory Diseases in rural India: a feasibility study.

RESPIRE Collaboration, Jebaraj, P., Paul, B., Isaac, R., Reddy, S. R., Kumar, R., Vikas, B., Das, D., Norrie, J., Weller, D. & Pinnock, H., 9 May 2025, In: Journal of Global Health. 15, 11 p., 04143.

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The effects of exercise on secondary prevention and health-related quality of life in people with existing vascular disease: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials

Broderick, C., Stewart, M., Thomson, K., Sellers, C., Fenton, C., Cowie, J., Xu, W., St-Jean, C., Charteris, K., Nundy, M., Vardhan, V., Krishan, P., Pistol, J., Rodríguez, L., Todhunter-Brown, A., van Wijck, F., Cameron, S., Keerie, C., Taylor, R. S. & Stansby, G. & 1 others, Mead, G., 9 May 2025, In: EClinicalMedicine. 83, 16 p., 103201.

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Artificial Intelligence-generated answers to patients’ questions on asthma: the AIR-Asthma study

AIR-Asthma Task Force, Nigra, M., Aliverti, A., Angelucci, A., Braido, F., Canonica, G. W., Bossios, A., Pinnock, H. & Aliberti, S., 8 May 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice.

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Imposter participants? Towards a reflexive epistemology of ‘suspected participants’

Garcia Iglesias, J., Heaphy, B., Yodovich, N., Atherton, S. & Merchant, A., 5 May 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: International Journal of Qualitative Methods. 9 p.

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CONSORT 2025 statement: updated guideline for reporting randomised trials

Hopewell, S., Chan, A.-W., Collins, G. S., Hróbjartssson, A., Moher, D., Schulz, K. F., Tunn, R., Aggarwal, R., Berkwits, M., Berlin, J. A., Bhandari, N., Butcher, N. J., Campbell, M. K., Chidebe, R. C. W., Elbourne, D., Farmer, A., Fergusson, D. A., Golub, R. M., Goodman, S. N. & Hoffmann, T. C. & 19 others, Ioannidis, J. P., Kahan, B. C., Knowles, R. L., Lamb, S. E., Lewis, S., Loder, E., Offringa, M., Ravaud, P., Richards, D. P., Rockhold, F. W., Schriger, D. L., Siegfried, N. L., Staniszewska, S., Taylor, R. S., Thabane, L., Torgerson, D., Vohra, S., White, I. R. & Boutron, I., 3 May 2025, In: The Lancet. 405, 10489, p. 1633-1640

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Composition of plant-based diets and the incidence and prognosis of inflammatory bowel disease: a multinational retrospective cohort study

EPIC Investigators, Chen, J., Sun, Y., Dan, L., Wellens, J., Yuan, S., Yang, H., Tong, T. Y. N., Cross, A. J., Papadimitriou, N., Meyer, A., Dahm, C. C., Larsson, S. C., Wolk, A., Ludvigsson, J. F., Tsilidis, K., Giovannucci, E., Satsangi, J., Wang, X. & Theodoratou, E. & 2 others, Chan, S. S. M. & Li, X., 1 May 2025, In: The Lancet Regional Health Europe. 52, 14 p., 101264.

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Targeting Investigation and Treatment in Type 2 Myocardial Infarction

Taggart, C., Ferry, A., Barker, S., Williams, K., Souter, G., Bularga, A., Wereski, R., McDermott, M. J., Williams, M. C., Boeddinghaus, J., White, C., Singh, J. S., Boath, K., Fujisawa, T., Tuck, C., Briola, A., Lewis, S., Anand, A., Dweck, M. R. & Newby, D. E. & 3 others, Al-Shahi Salman, R., Mills, N. L. & Chapman, A. R., May 2025, In: JACC: Advances. 4, 5, 101738.

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Patient satisfaction with General Practice in Scotland 2011/12 to 2021/22

Henderson, D., Donaghy, E., Sweeney, K., Guthrie, B., Thompson, A., Wang, H. H. & Mercer, S. W., 30 Apr 2025, In: PLoS ONE. 20, 4, 15 p., e0322095.

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Respiratory Syncytial Virus hospitalisation burden in children below 18 years in six European countries (2016-2023) pre- and post-COVID-19 pandemic

Nair, H., Jollivet, O., Urchueguía-Fornes, A., Chung-Delgado, K., Johannesen, C. K., Lehtonen, T., Gideonse, D., Cohen, R. A., Kramer , R., Orrico-Sánchez, A., Fischer, T. K., Heikkinen, T., van Boven, M., Campbell, H. & Osei-Yeboah, R., 30 Apr 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: International Journal of Infectious Diseases. 155, 9 p., 107903.

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Integration of Multi-Omics Data to Unveil the Molecular Landscape and Role of piRNAs in Early-Onset Colorectal Cancer

Zhou, S., Yu, L., Zhao, J., Xiao, Q., Sun, J., Wang, L., Zhou, Y., Lu, Y., Dunlop, M. G., Theodoratou, E., Zhang, H., Ding, K. & Li, X., 29 Apr 2025, In: BMC Medicine. 23, 17 p., 250.

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Trans-ancestry transcriptome-wide association and functional studies to uncover novel susceptibility genes and therapeutic targets for colorectal cancer

Wang, L., Hu, L., Sun, J., Zhao, J., Zhou, S., Liu, L., Yu, W., Hu, Y., Zhou, D., Meng, X., Yuan, Z., Zhang, H., Farrington, S. M., Timofeeva, M., Ding, K., Little, J., Dunlop, M. G., Theodoratou, E. & Li, X., 29 Apr 2025, In: npj Precision Oncology . 9, 10 p., 124.

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SPIRIT 2025 explanation and elaboration: updated guideline for protocols of randomised trials

Hróbjartsson, A., Boutron, I., Hopewell, S., Moher, D., Schulz, K. F., Collins, G. S., Tunn, R., Aggarwal, R., Berkwits, M., Berlin, J. A., Bhandari, N., Butcher, N. J., Campbell, M. K., Chidebe, R. C. W., Elbourne, D. R., Farmer, A. J., Fergusson, D. A., Golub, R. M., Goodman, S. N. & Hoffmann, T. C. & 19 others, Ioannidis, J. P. A., Kahan, B. C., Knowles, R. L., Lamb, S. E., Lewis, S., Loder, E., Offringa, M., Ravaud, P., Richards, D. P., Rockhold, F. W., Schriger, D. L., Siegfried, N. L., Staniszewska, S., Taylor, R. S., Thabane, L., Torgerson, D. J., Vohra, S., White, I. R. & Chan, A.-W., 28 Apr 2025, In: BMJ Oncology. 389, e081660.

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Cognitive frailty: a useful concept or a source of confusion? Insights from a survey of European geriatricians

Timmons, S., Faherty, M., Curtin, C., Ferrara, M. C., Bellelli, G., Brunetti, E., Bo, M., Morandi, A., Cherubini, A., Fedecostante, M., Coin, A., Shenkin, S. D. & Soysal, P., 25 Apr 2025, In: BMC Geriatrics. 25, 7 p., 280.

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Development and Validation of a Machine Learning Risk Prediction Model for Asthma Attacks in Adults in Primary Care

Tibble, H., Sheikh, A. & Tsanas, T., 23 Apr 2025, In: npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine. 35, 24, 9 p., 24.

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The medicalisation of menstruation: a double-edged sword

Marwick, K., Ford, A. & Campbell , J., 23 Apr 2025, Wellcome Open Research, (Wellcome Open Research ).

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Adaptive Activation Steering: A Tuning-Free LLM Truthfulness Improvement Method for Diverse Hallucinations Categories

Wang, T., Jiao, X., Zhu, Y., Chen, Z., He, Y., Chu, X., Gao, J., Wang, Y. & Ma, L., 22 Apr 2025, WWW '25: Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2025. ACM Association for Computing Machinery, p. 2562-2578 17 p.

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Breast cancer-specific survival by molecular subtype in different age groups of women in Scotland

Mesa Eguiagaray, I., Wild, S. H., Williams, L. J., Jin, K., Bird, S., Brewster, D. H., Hall, P. S. & Figueroa, J. D., 22 Apr 2025, In: Breast Cancer Research. 27, 12 p., 59.

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ColaCare: Enhancing Electronic Health Record Modeling through Large Language Model-Driven Multi-Agent Collaboration

Wang, Z., Zhu, Y., Zhao, H., Zheng, X., Sui, D., Wang, T., Tang, W., Wang, Y., Harrison, E. M., Pan, C., Gao, J. & Ma, L., 22 Apr 2025, WWW '25: Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2025. ACM Association for Computing Machinery, p. 2250-2261 12 p.

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Financial incentives for smoking cessation among (expectant) parents: a systematic review of facilitators and barriers to implementation

van der Spek, L., Breunis, L. J., Scheffers-van Schayck, T., Bauld, L., Ista, E. & Been, J. V., 22 Apr 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Tobacco Control. 10 p., e059198.

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Decoding the genetic and environmental forces in propelling the surge of early-onset colorectal cancer

Zhao, J., Ji, H., Li, K., Yu, G., Zhou, S., Xiao, Q., Dunlop, M., Theodoratou, E., Li, X. & Ding, K., 18 Apr 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Chinese Medical Journal. 12 p.

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Use and awareness of health measurement scales among UK doctors for primary prediction of cardiovascular events: A survey-based pilot study

MacDougall, M. & Mohammed, S., 17 Apr 2025, In: Heart. 111, Suppl2, p. A3 1 p.

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Quantitative measurement of morphometric indicators of skeletal muscle cell behaviour and quality

Hardman, D., Hennig, K., Martins, I. B., Roman, W., Gomes, E. R. & Bernabeu, M. O., 16 Apr 2025, In: Journal of the Royal Society. Interface. 22, 225, 13 p., 20240634.

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Small vessel disease contributions to acute delirium: a pilot feasibility MRI study

Clancy, U., Cheng, Y., Jardine, C., Doubal, F., MacLullich, A. M. J. & Wardlaw, J. M., 16 Apr 2025, In: Age and Ageing. 54, 4

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Improving access to diabetes technologies in children and young people with type 1 diabetes: healthcare professionals’ perspectives and views

Dlugatch, R., Rankin, D., Evans, M., Oliver, N., NG, S. M. & Lawton, J., 15 Apr 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Diabetic Medicine. 15 p.

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The psychometric properties of a new outcome measure of resilience for people living with dementia: The Bangor Dementia Resilience Scale.

Roberts, J. (Lead Author), MacLeod, C., Windle, G., Hoare, Z., Stott, J., Sullivan, M. P., Camic, P., Brotherhood, E. & Crutch, S., 15 Apr 2025, In: BMC Psychology. 13, 13 p., 388.

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Effect modification and interaction between ethnicity and socioeconomic factors in severe COVID-19: analyses of linked national data for Scotland

McCabe, R., Kibuchi, E., Amele, S., Irizar, P., Sheikh, A., Jeffrey, K., Rudan, I., Simpson, C. R., McCowan, C., Ritchie, L., Robertson, C., Leyland, A. H., Demou, E., Pearce, A. & Katikireddi, S. V., 14 Apr 2025, In: BMJ Open. 15, 4, 12 p., e092727.

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Hygiene behaviours are critical for addressing neglected tropical diseases

Mutapi, F. & Woolhouse, M., 14 Apr 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Nature Human Behaviour. 7 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review

Nature-based interventions for older adults: A systematic review of intervention types and methods, health effects and pathways

Tong, K., Thompson, C. W., Carin-Levy, G., Liddle, J., Morton, S. & Mead, G. E., 10 Apr 2025, In: Age and Ageing. 54, 4, p. 1-14 14 p., afaf084.

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Hearts Meet Wires: Navigating the Ethical and Social Implications of Care Robotics

De Togni, G., 23 Jul 2025, The Future of Humans and Emotional Machines: Narratives from Japanese Culture in the 21st Century. Giannoulis, E. & Frommann, B. (eds.). Routledge, (Contemporary Japan Series).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

Translational genomics of osteoarthritis in 1,962,069 individuals

Estonian Biobank Research Team, FinnGen, Genes and Health Research Team, HUNT All-In Pain, Million Veteran Program, Regeneron Genetics Center & DBDS Genomic Consortium, 9 Apr 2025, In: Nature.

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A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Abemaciclib in Combination with Adjuvant Endocrine Therapy for HR+, HER2–, Node-Positive, High-Risk Early Breast Cancer

Davie, A., Traoré, S., Badreldin, W., Torstensson, A., Cakar, E., Mccullough, A. C., Tempelaar, S., Fenwick, E. & Hall, P. S., 8 Apr 2025, In: Advances in Therapy.

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Cardiac Troponins and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Prediction

Shah, A. S. V., Keene, S. J., Pennells, L., Kaptoge, S., Kimenai, D. M., Walker, M., Halley, J. D., Rocha, S., Hoogeveen, R. C., Gudnason, V., Bakker, S. J. L., Wannamethee, S. G., Pareek, M., Eggers, K. M., Jukema, J. W., Hankey, G. J., deLemos, J. A., Ford, I., Omland, T. & Lyngbakken, M. N. & 53 others, Psaty, B., deFilippi, C. R., Wood, A. M., Danesh, J., Welsh, P., Sattar, N., Mills, N. L., Di Angelantonio, E., The CAPRICE Co-Investigators, Thorsteinsdottir, I., Gudmundsson, E. F., Launer, L. J., Gudnason, V., Nambi, V., Ballantyne, C. M., Jia, X., Hoogeveen, R. C., Whincup, P. H., Wannamethee, S. G., Psaty, B., Selinger, S., Kizer, J. R., Ayers, C., Vigen, R., Delemos, J. A., Campbell, A., Hayward, C., Sudlow, C., Shah, A. S. V., Almeida, O. P., Bell, D. A., Flicker, L., Hankey, G. J., Omland, T., Lyngbakken, M., DeFilippi, C. R., Olsen, M. H., Nilsson, P. M., Bhatt, D. L., Pareek, M., Zethelius, B., Lind, L., Eggers, K. M., Bakker, S. J. L., Kieneker, L. M., Gansevoort, R. T., Ford, I., Sattar, N., Trompet, S., Jukema, J. W., Perel, P., Lee, K.-K. & McAllister, D., 7 Apr 2025, In: Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 85, 14, p. 1471-1484

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The role of open standards in catalysing knowledge transfer to deliver climate adaptive care

Orton, M., Swann, O., Samuel, G., Drury, P., Kalogeropoulos, D., Pencheon, D., Celentano, K., Babayeju, B. & Grant, L., 7 Apr 2025, In: npj Digital Medicine. 8, 4 p., 191.

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A blood- and brain-based EWAS of smoking

Chybowska, A. D., Bernabeu, E., Yousefi, P., Suderman, M., Hillary, R. F., Clark, R., MacGillivray, L., Murphy, L., Harris, S. E., Corley, J., Campbell, A., Spires-Jones, T. L., McCartney, D. L., Cox, S. R., Price, J. F., Evans, K. L. & Marioni, R. E., 4 Apr 2025, In: Nature Communications. 16, 1, 3210 .

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Multiple Symptoms Study 3 - An extended-role general practitioner clinic for patients with persistent physical symptoms: a Randomised Controlled Trial

Burton, C., Mooney, C., Sutton, L., White, D., Dawson, J., Fryer, K., Greco, M., Horspool, M., Neilson, A., Rowlands, G., Sanders, T., Thomas, R., Thomas, S., Cooper, C., Woodward, J., Turton, E., Waheed, W., Kumar, P., Ridsdale, K. & Mallender, E. & 1 others, Deary, V., 2 Apr 2025, In: Health and Social Care Delivery Research . 13, 15, 24 p.

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The COVID-19 pandemic in children and young people during 2022-24: what new did we learn?

EAVE II collaboration, Rudan, I., Kerr, S., Simpson, C. R., Kurdi, A., Adeloye, D., Robertson, C. & Sheikh, A., 2 Apr 2025, In: Journal of Global Health. 15, 01002.

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The Relationship Between Food Insecurity and Mental Health Among Syrians and Syrian Refugees Working in Agriculture During COVID-19

Calia, C., El-Gayar, A., Zuntz, A.-C., Abdullateef, S., Almashhor, E., Grant, L. & Boden, L., 2 Apr 2025, In: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 22, 4, p. 1-20 20 p., 549.

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Delirium on presentation with a hip fracture is associated with adverse outcomes: a multicentre observational study of 18,040 patients using national clinical registry data

Penfold, R., Farrow, L., Hall, A. J., Clement, N. D., Ward, K., Donaldson, L., Johansen, A., Duckworth, A., Anand, A., Hall, D. E., Guthrie, B. & MacLullich, A. M. J., 1 Apr 2025, In: Bone and Joint Journal. 107B, 4, p. 470-478 9 p.

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Effectiveness of an online asthma education program in adults with asthma in general practice: results from a cluster randomised controlled trial

Eck, S., Baumgärtel, A., Hapfelmeier, A., Linde, K., Sanftenberg, L., Stark, S., Schultz, K., McClatchey, K., Pinnock, H. & Schneider, A., 1 Apr 2025, In: Respiratory Medicine. 9 p., 108041.

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Estimation of respiratory syncytial virus-associated hospital admissions in five European countries using attribution analysis

PROMISE Investigators, Johannesen, C. K., Gideonse, D., Osei-Yeboah, R., Lehtonen, T., Jollivet, O., Cohen, R. A., Urchueguía-Fornes, A., Herrero-Silvestre, M., López-Lacort, M., Kramer , R., Fischer, T. K., Heikkinen, T., Nair, H., Campbell, H. & van Boven, M., 1 Apr 2025, In: Lancet. 51, 30 p., 101227.

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Lessons from the PROTECT-CH COVID-19 platform trial in care homes

Bath, P. M. W., Ball, J., Boyd, M., Gage, H., Glover, M., Godfrey, M., Guthrie, B., Hewitt, J., Howard, R., Jaki, T., Juszczak, E., Lasserson, D., Leighton, P., Leyland, V., Lim, W. S., Logan, P., Meakin, G., Montgomery, A., Ogollah, R. & Passmore, P. A. & 6 others, Quinlan, P. R., Rick, C., Royal, S., Shenkin, S. D., Upton, C. & Gordon, A. L., 1 Apr 2025, In: Health Technology Assessment. 26 p.

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Lessons learned from the development and implementation of a shared decision making process for severe stroke using a digital communication platform

Visvanathan, A., Morton, S., Macraild, A., Black, P., Gilbert, S., Barber, M., Dennis, M., O'brien, R. & Mead, G., 1 Apr 2025, In: Journal of Clinical Pathways. 11, 2

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Ten questions concerning the future of residential indoor air quality and its environmental justice implications

Booker, D., Petrou, G., Chatzidiakou, L., Das, D., Farooq, F., Ferguson, L., Jutila, O. I., Milczewska, K., Modlich, M., Rangel, A. M., Thakrar, S. K., Yeoman, A. M., Davies, M., Mead, M. I., Miller, M. R., Wild, O., Shi, Z., Mavrogianni, A. & Doherty, R. M., 15 Jun 2025, In: Building and Environment. 278, 16 p., 112957.

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Med Hums 101: What is Medical Humanities?

Fixter, A., Ledin, C., Patton, V., Surawy-Stepney, E. & Woods, A., 31 Mar 2025, The Polyphony 20 p.

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Proposing a multi-method phenomenological approach in exploring the perceived daily life experiences of people with dementia in their dementia care environments and immediate outdoor settings

Scott, I., Mercieca, A. (Lead Author), Ward Thompson, C. & Wilkinson, H., 31 Mar 2025, In: Frontiers in Dementia. 4, p. 1-22 22 p., 1502911.

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Neuroimaging biomarkers on routine Computed Tomography (CT) after acute stroke and their association with post-stroke delirium: A cohort study

Barugh, A., Farrall, A., Ferguson, K., Shenkin, S. D., MacLullich, A. M. J. & Mead, G., 30 Mar 2025, In: Journal of Stroke & Cerebrovascular Diseases. 7 p.

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Active prevention and treatment of post-critical illness anemia – is it time for large effectiveness trials

Walsh, T. S., 28 Mar 2025, In: JAMA Network Open. 8, 3, 3 p., e252368.

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Clinical Trials

Gregory, S., Saunders, S. & Ritchie, C., 28 Mar 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) The Management of Early Alzheimer's Disease: Biological and technological advances. Chan, D. (ed.). Academic Press

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