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Drinking beer, wine or spirits – does it matter for inequalities in alcohol-related hospital admission? A record-linked longitudinal study in Wales

9 December 2019

Gartner A, Trefan L, Moore S, Akbari A, Paranjothy S, Farewell D. BMC Public Health (2019) 19: 1651 Background
Alcohol-related harm has been found to be higher in disadvantaged groups, despite...

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Developing a standardised approach to the aggregation of inpatient episodes into person-based spells in all specialties and psychiatric specialties

29 November 2019

Rees S, Akbari A, Collins H, Lee SC, Marchant A, Rees A, Thayer D, Wang T, Wood S, John A. BMC medical informatics and decision making (2019) 19: 246 Background Electronic health record (EHR) data...

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An observational study of INR control according to NICE criteria in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation-The SAIL Warfarin Out of Range Descriptors Study (SWORDS)

27 November 2019

Harris DE, Thayer D, Wang T, Brooks C, Murley G, Gravenor M, Hill NR, Lister S, Halcox J. European Heart Journal – Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy (2019) doi.org/10.1093/ehjcvp/pvz071 Aims In...

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Long-term mortality in mothers of infants with neonatal abstinence syndrome: A population-based parallel-cohort study in England and Ontario, Canada

26 November 2019

Guttmann A, Blackburn R, Amartey A, Zhou L, Wijlaars L, Saunders N, Harron K, Chiu M, Gilbert R. PLoS Medicine (2019) doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002974 Background
Opioid addiction is a major...

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Amaya Azcoaga-Lorenzo

Clinical Fellow at University of St Andrews

Amaya Azcoaga-Lorenzo an academic GP my aim is to contribute to a meaningful use of electronic health data to support the development of primary health care. Amaya is working in a project to...

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Diagnosed prevalence of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and hypermobility spectrum disorder in Wales, UK: a national electronic cohort study and case-control comparison

4 November 2019

Demmler JC, Atkinson MD, Reinhold EJ, Choy E, Lyons RA, Brophy ST. BMJ Open (2019) 9:e031365 Objectives To describe the epidemiology of diagnosed hypermobility spectrum disorder (HSD) and...

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Could greater physical activity reduce population prevalence and socio-economic inequalities in children’s mental health problems? A policy simulation

1 October 2019

Chigogora, Sungano; Pearce, Anna; Law, Catherine; Viner, Russell; Chittleborough, Catherine; Griffiths, Lucy J; Hope, Steven Epidemiology (2019), epub ahead of print Background: One in four...

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External validation of the electronic Frailty Index using the population of Wales within the Secure Anonymised Information Linkage Databank

30 September 2019

Hollinghurst J, Fry R, Akbari A, Clegg A, Lyons RA, Watkins A, Rodgers SE. Age and Ageing (2019), 48(6): 922–926 Background frailty has major implications for health and social care services...

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Rowena Bailey

Senior Research Officer and Statistician at Swansea University

Rowena is a Statistician with experience in the application of mathematics for health and social care research, and a particular interest in novel techniques to analyse and visualise large health...