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List of 2017 Publications

Alabdali A, Trivedy C, Aljerian N, Kimani P, Lilford R. Incidence and predictors of adverse events and outcomes for adult critically ill patients transferred by paramedics to a tertiary care medical facility. J Health Spec 2017;5:206-11.

Al-Khudairy L, Flowers N, Wheelhouse R, Ghannam O, Hartley L, Stranges S, Rees K. (2017) Vitamin C supplementation for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. doi:10.1002/14651858.CD011114.pub2

Al-Khudairy L, Loveman E, Colquitt JL, Mead E, Johnson RE, Fraser H, Olajide J, Murphy M, Velho RM, O'Malley C, Azevedo LB, Ells LJ, Metzendorf M-I, Rees K. Diet, physical activity and behavioural interventions for the treatment of overweight or obese adolescents aged 12 to 17 years. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2017. Issue 6. Art. No.: CD012691. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD012691.pub1

Achten J, Parsons NR, Kearney RL, Schlüssel MM, Liew AS, Dutton S, Petrou S, Ollivere B, Lamb SE, Costa ML. Cast versus functional brace in the rehabilitation of patients treated nonoperatively for a rupture of the Achilles tendon: protocol for the UK study of tendo achilles rehabilitation (UK STAR) multi-centre randomised trial. BMJ Open 2017; 7:e019628

Bahiru E, De Cates AN, Farr MRB, Jarvis M, Palla M, Rees K, Ebrahim S, Huffman MD. (2017) Fixed-dose combination therapy for the prevention of atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (3). CD009868. doi:10.1002/14651858.CD009868.pub3

Bruce J, Verdun A, Davis S, Achten J, Parsons N, Hennings S, Costa M. Using photographic images to aid wound assessment within a randomised controlled trial of standard wound management versus negative pressure wound therapy: UK WOLLF trial. Trials 2017; 18 (Supplement 1):P283

Clar C, Al-Khudairy L, Loveman E, Kelly SAM, Hartley L, Flowers N, Germanò R, Frost G, Rees K. Low glycaemic index diets for the prevention of cardiovascular disease. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2017, Issue 7. Art. No.: CD004467. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD004467.pub3.

Costa ML, Achten J, Griffin J, Petrou S, Pallister I, Lamb SE, Parsons NR, for the FixDT Trial Investigators. Effect of locking plate fixation versus intramedullary nail fixation on 6-month disability among adults with displaced fracture of the distal tibia: the UK FixDT randomized clinical trial. JAMA 2017; 318:1767–1776

Costa ML, Griffin XL, Parsons N, Dritsaki M, Perry D. Efficacy versus effectiveness in clinical trials. Bone and Joint Journal 2017; 99:419-420

de Cates, AN, Rees K, Jollant F, Perry BI, Bennett K, Joyce K, Leyden E, Harmer C, Hawton K, van Heeringen K, Broome MR. (2017) Are neurocognitive factors associated with repetition of self-harm? A systematic review. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 72 . pp. 261-277. doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2016.10.032

Fernandez MA, Aquilina A, Achten J, Parsons N, Costa ML, Griffin XL. The tip-apex distance in the X-Bolt dynamic plating system. Bone & Joint Research 2017; 6:204-207

Griffin XL, Costa ML, Achten J, Dritsaki M, Baird J, Parsons N. Trial of Acute Femoral Fracture Fixation (TrAFFix): study protocol for a randomised controlled feasibility trial. Trials 2017; 18:538

Hee SW, Willis A, Tudur Smith C, Day S, Miller F, Madan J, Posch M, Zohar S, Stallard N. Does the low prevalence affect the sample size of interventional clinical trials of rare diseases? An analysis of data from the aggregate analysis of clinicaltrials.gov. Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases 2017;12(1):44.

Hee SW, Parsons N, Stallard N. Decision-theoretic designs for a series of trials with correlated treatment effects using the Sarmanov multivariate beta-binomial distribution. Biometrical Journal. 2017;00:1–14. https://doi.org/10.1002/bimj.201600202 

Hee SW, Dritsaki M, Willis A, Underwood M, Patel S. Development of a repository of individual participant data from randomised controlled trials of therapists delivered interventions for low back pain. European Journal of Pain, 2017; 21(5): 815–826, doi: 10.1002/ejp.984

Kearney RS, Parsons N, Mistry D, Young J, Brown J, O'Beirne-Elliman J, Costa M. A protocol for a feasibility randomised controlled trial to assess the difference between functional bracing and plaster cast for the treatment of ankle fractures. Pilot and Feasibility Studies 2017; 3:11

Kelly SAM, Hartley L, Loveman E, Colquitt JL, Jones HM, Al-Khudairy L, Clar C, Germanò R, Lunn HR, Frost G, Rees K. Whole grain cereals for the primary or secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2017, Issue 8. Art. No.: CD005051. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD005051.pub3

Kruisbrink M, Robertson W, Ji C, Miller MA, Geleijnse JM, Cappuccio F. (2017). Association of sleep duration and quality with blood lipids: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective studies. BMJ Open, 7 (12).

Kunz CU, Stallard N, Parsons N, Todd S, Friede T. Blinded versus unblinded estimation of a correlation coefficient to inform interim design adaptations. Biometrical Journal 2017; 59:344-357

Mead E, Brown T, Rees K, Azevedo LB, Whittaker V, Jones D, Olajide J, Mainardi GM, Corpeleijn E, O'Malley C, Beardsmore E, Al-Khudairy L, Baur L, Metzendorf M-I, Demaio A, Ells LJ. Diet, physical activity and behavioural interventions for the treatment of overweight or obese children from the age of 6 to 11 years. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2017. Issue 6. Art. No.: CD012651. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD012651.pub1

Parsons N, Perry DC, Costa ML. All interventions differ, although some are more different than others. Bone and Joint Journal 2017; 99:1123-1124

Parsons NR. Repolr: an R package for fitting proportional-odds models to repeated ordinal scores. WRAP 2017; Online:86725. (Software available at https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=repolr and http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/86725/)

Patel A, Williams N, Parsons N, Ali O, Peters F, Ranat R, Shah J, Spector E, Arasaradnam RP . Risk factors for metachronous adenoma in the residual colon of patients undergoing curative surgery for colorectal cancer. International Journal of Colorectal Disease 2017; 32:1609-1616

Plant CE, Parsons NR, Costa ML. Do radiological and functional outcomes correlate for fractures of the distal radius? Bone and Joint Journal 2017; 99:376-382

Robertson W, Fleming J, Kamal A, Hamborg T, Khan KA, Griffiths F, Stewart-Brown S, Stallard N, Petrou S, Simkiss D, Harrison E, Kim SW, Thorogood M. (2017) Randomised controlled trial evaluating the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of 'Families for Health', a family-based childhood obesity treatment intervention delivered in a community setting for ages 6 to 11 years. Health Technology Assessment 2017; Volume: 21 Issue:1 (Published 06-Jan-2017).

Robertson W, Fleming J, Kamal A, Hamborg T, Khan KA, Griffiths F, Stewart-Brown S, Stallard N, Petrou S, Simkiss D, Harrison E, Kim SW, Thorogood M. (2017) Randomised controlled trial and economic evaluation of the ‘Families for Health’ programme to reduce obesity in children. Archives of Disease in Childhood;102:416-426..

Johnson Rebecca Robertson Wendy Marsha Towey Stewart-Brown Sarah Clarke Aileen. Changes over time in mental wellbeing, fruit and vegetable consumption, and physical activity in a community based lifestyle intervention: A before and after study Public Health 2017 PUHE-D-16-00535R1

Veronica Nanton; Rebecca Appleton; Jeremy Dale; Julia Roscoe; Thomas Hamborg; Sam H Ahmedzai; Theodoros N Arvanitis; Douglas Badger; Nicholas James; Richard Mendelsohn; Omar Khan; Deepak Parashar; Prashant Patel Journal: JMIR Res Protoc 2017;6(7):e147, doi:10.2196/resprot.7667. Integrated Care in Prostate Cancer (ICARE-P): Nonrandomized Controlled Feasibility Study of Online Holistic Needs Assessment, Linking the Patient and the Health Care Team

Veronica Nanton; Rebecca Appleton; Jeremy Dale; Julia Roscoe; Thomas Hamborg; Sam H Ahmedzai; Theodoros N Arvanitis; Douglas Badger; Nicholas James; Richard Mendelsohn; Omar Khan; Deepak Parashar; Prashant Patel. Integrated Care in Prostate Cancer (ICARE-P): Nonrandomized Controlled Feasibility Study of Online Holistic Needs Assessment, Linking the Patient and the Health Care Team. Authors: Journal: JMIR Res Protoc 2017;6(7):e147, doi:10.2196/resprot.7667

Murphy, Marie, Robertson, Wendy and Oyebode, Oyinlola. (2017) Obesity in international migrant populations. Current Obesity Reports . DOI 10.1007/s13679-017-0274-7

Perry DC, Griffin XL, Dritsaki M, Costa ML, Parsons N. Becoming confident about confidence intervals. Bone and Joint Journal 2017; 99:563-565

Richards SH, Anderson L, Jenkinson CE, Whalley B, Rees K, Davies P, Bennett P, Liu Z, West R, Thompson DR, Taylor RS. Psychological interventions for coronary heart disease. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2017, Issue 4. Art. No.: CD002902. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD002902.pub4.

Stallard N, Miller F, Day S, Hee SW, Madan J, Zohar S, Posch M. Determination of the optimal sample size for a clinical trial accounting for the population size. Biometrical Journal, 2017; 59(4): 609-625, doi:10.1002/bimj.201500228

Kathryn Taylor; Deepak Parashar; George Bouverat; Ann Poulos; Randi Gullien; Elizabeth Stewart; Randi Aarre; Pavel Crystal; Matthew Wallis. Mammographic image quality in relation to positioning of the breast: A multicentre international evaluation of the assessment systems currently used, to provide an evidence base for establishing a standardised method of assessment. Journal: Radiography 23 (2017) 343-349

Wall PDH, Parsons NR, Parsons H, Achten J, Balasubramanian S, Thompson P, Costa ML. A pragmatic randomised controlled trial of periarticular infiltration versus femoral nerve blockade for early pain relief following total knee replacement surgery. Bone and Joint Journal 2017; 99:904-911

Uthman OA, Hartley L, Rees K, Taylor F, Ebrahim S, Clarke A. (2017) Multiple risk factor interventions for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in LMIC : a Cochrane Review. Global Heart, 12 (3). 199-208.e8. doi:10.1016/j.gheart.2016.03.639