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Few eligible patients get access to publicly funded weight management programmes in England

  • 28 Sep 2023
Screen shot of Karen Coulman's weight management paper in PLOS Medicine
Paper:

Access to publicly funded weight management services in England using routine data from primary and secondary care (2007–2020): An observational cohort study

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Developing suicide prevention tools for young people

Screenshot of Lucy Biddle's paper about developing digital suicide prevention tools for young people
Paper:

Developing Suicide Prevention Tools in the Context of Digital Peer Support: Qualitative Analysis of a Workshop With Multidisciplinary Stakeholders

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A premature baby sleeps in an incubator in hospital

Study shines light on successes of PReCePT programme

Screenshot of the PReCePT study paper
Paper:

Quality improvement interventions to increase the uptake of magnesium sulphate in preterm deliveries for the prevention of cerebral palsy (PReCePT study): a cluster randomised controlled trial

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Improving diabetes management in children and young people from under-served communities

Screenshot of paper about developments in the design and delivery of self-management support for children and young people with diabetes
Paper:

Developments in the design and delivery of self-management support for children and young people with diabetes: A narrative synthesis of systematic reviews

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Using automation to streamline living systematic reviews

Screenshot of Julian Higgins paper about automation in living systematic reviews
Paper:

A narrative review of recent tools and innovations toward automating living systematic reviews and evidence syntheses

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Taking multiple antipsychotics increases risk of developing high blood pressure

Screenshot of paper about antipsychotic medication and the risk of metabolic disorders
Paper:

Antipsychotic Medication and Risk of Metabolic Disorders in People With Schizophrenia: A Longitudinal Study Using the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink

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A drug worker giving a service user clean hypodermic needles and syringes

Helping people who inject drugs care for their veins and avoid bacterial infection – the REACT toolkit

  • 23 Aug 2023
Screenshot of paper about the REACT toolkit aimed at reducing bacterial and soft tissue infections in people who inject drugs
Paper:

Development, acceptability and feasibility of a personalised, behavioural intervention to prevent bacterial skin and soft tissue infections among people who inject drugs: a mixed-methods Person-Based Approach study

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