BMJ Open: 2 (4)

Addiction

Research

Quantifying the RR of harm to self and others from substance misuse: results from a survey of clinical experts across Scotland (24 July, 2012)
Mark Taylor, Kirsty Mackay, Jen Murphy, Andrew McIntosh, Claire McIntosh, Seonaid Anderson, Killian Welch

Cardiovascular medicine

Research

Stroke and mortality in patients with incident heart failure: the Diet, Cancer and Health (DCH) cohort study (7 July, 2012)
Gregory Y H Lip, Lars Hvilsted Rasmussen, Flemming Skjøth, Kim Overvad, Torben Bjerregaard Larsen
Cystatin C in a composite risk score for mortality in patients with infective endocarditis: a cohort study (12 July, 2012)
Christian Bjurman, Ulrika Snygg-Martin, Lars Olaison, Michael L X Fu, Ola Hammarsten
Two-dimensional strain profiles in patients with physiological and pathological hypertrophy and preserved left ventricular systolic function: a comparative analyses (17 August, 2012)
Luis Afonso, Ashok Kondur, Mengistu Simegn, Ashutosh Niraj, Pawan Hari, Ramanjit Kaur, Preeti Ramappa, Jyotiranjan Pradhan, Deepti Bhandare, Kim A Williams, Sandip Zalawadiya, Aurelio Pinheiro, Theodore P Abraham
Seasonality, incidence and prognosis in atrial fibrillation and stroke in Denmark and New Zealand (24 August, 2012)
Anette Luther Christensen, Lars Hvilsted Rasmussen, Michael G Baker, Gregory Y H Lip, Claus Dethlefsen, Torben Bjerregaard Larsen
Prevalence, awareness, treatment and control of hypertension in a self-selected sub-Saharan African urban population: a cross-sectional study (24 August, 2012)
Anastase Dzudie, André Pascal Kengne, Walinjom F T Muna, Hamadou Ba, Alain Menanga, Charles Kouam Kouam, Joseph Abah, Yves Monkam, Christian Biholong, Pierre Mintom, Félicité Kamdem, Armel Djomou, Jules Ndjebet, Cyrille Wambo, Henry Luma, Kathleen Blackett Ngu, Samuel Kingue

Protocol

The coronary CT angiography vision protocol: a prospective observational imaging cohort study in patients undergoing non-cardiac surgery (31 July, 2012)
Tej Sheth, Craig Butler, Benjamin Chow, M T V Chan, Ayesha Mitha, Peter Nagele, Vikas Tandon, Lori Stewart, Michelle Graham, G Y S Choi, T Kisten, P K Woodard, Andrew Crean, Y F Abdul Aziz, G Karthikeyan, C K Chow, W Szczeklik, M Markobrada, T. Mastracci, P J Devereaux

Communication

Research

Equal cancer treatment regardless of education level and family support? A qualitative study of oncologists’ decision-making (24 August, 2012)
Nina Cavalli-Björkman, Bengt Glimelius, Peter Strang

Dentistry and oral medicine

Research

Dental status and incident falls among older Japanese: a prospective cohort study (31 July, 2012)
Tatsuo Yamamoto, Katsunori Kondo, Jimpei Misawa, Hiroshi Hirai, Miyo Nakade, Jun Aida, Naoki Kondo, Ichiro Kawachi, Yukio Hirata

Diabetes and endocrinology

Research

Effectiveness and safety of metformin in 51 675 patients with type 2 diabetes and different levels of renal function: a cohort study from the Swedish National Diabetes Register (13 July, 2012)
Nils Ekström, Linus Schiöler, Ann-Marie Svensson, Katarina Eeg-Olofsson, Junmei Miao Jonasson, Björn Zethelius, Jan Cederholm, Björn Eliasson, Soffia Gudbjörnsdottir
A prospective observational study of quality of diabetes care in a shared care setting: trends and age differences (ZODIAC-19) (29 August, 2012)
Kornelis J J van Hateren, Iefke Drion, Nanne Kleefstra, Klaas H Groenier, Sebastiaan T Houweling, Klaas van der Meer, Henk J G Bilo

Ear, nose and throat/otolaryngology

Research

Prevalence and audiological features in carriers of GJB2 mutations, c.35delG and c.101T>C (p.M34T), in a UK population study (31 July, 2012)
Amanda Hall, Marcus Pembrey, Mark Lutman, Colin Steer, Maria Bitner-Glindzicz

Emergency medicine

Research

Reductions in hospital admissions and mortality rates observed after integrating emergency care: a natural experiment (1 August, 2012)
Adrian A Boyle, Vazeer Ahmed, Christopher R Palmer, Tom J H Bennett, Susan M Robinson

Epidemiology

Research

An ecological study on the geographic patterns of ischaemic heart disease in Portugal and its association with demography, economic factors and health resources distribution (2 July, 2012)
Luís Manuel Ferreira-Pinto, Francisco Rocha-Gonçalves, Armando Teixeira-Pinto
A descriptive analysis of notifiable gastrointestinal illness in the Northwest Territories, Canada, 1991–2008 (2 July, 2012)
Aliya Pardhan-Ali, Jeff Wilson, Victoria L Edge, Chris Furgal, Richard Reid-Smith, Maria Santos, Scott A McEwen
Socio-demographic characteristics of women sustaining injuries during pregnancy: a study from the Danish National Birth Cohort (2 July, 2012)
Jasveer Virk, Paul Hsu, Jørn Olsen
Campylobacter epidemiology: a descriptive study reviewing 1 million cases in England and Wales between 1989 and 2011
(12 July, 2012)
Gordon L Nichols, Judith F Richardson, Samuel K Sheppard, Chris Lane, Christophe Sarran
Proximity to health services and child survival in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis (12 July, 2012)
Yemisrach Behailu Okwaraji, Karen M Edmond
Association between socioeconomic status and self-reported diabetes in India: a cross-sectional multilevel analysis (18 July, 2012)
Daniel J Corsi, S V Subramanian
Prevalence of anal incontinence among Norwegian women: a cross-sectional study (30 July, 2012)
Kathrine Rømmen, Berit Schei, Astrid Rydning, Abdul H Sultan, Siv Mørkved
Mapping the receptivity of malaria risk to plan the future of control in Somalia (31 July, 2012)
Abdisalan Mohamed Noor, Victor Adagi Alegana, Anand Prabhakar Patil, Grainne Moloney, Mohammed Borle, Fahmi Yusuf, Jamal Amran, Robert William Snow
Relation of sleep quality and sleep duration to type 2 diabetes: a population-based cross-sectional survey (7 August, 2012)
Peian Lou, Peipei Chen, Lei Zhang, Pan Zhang, Jiaxi Yu, Ning Zhang, Hongmin Wu, Jing Zhao
The 5-minute Apgar score as a predictor of childhood cancer: a population-based cohort study in five million children (8 August, 2012)
Jiong Li, Sven Cnattingus, Mika Gissler, Mogens Vestergaard, Carsten Obel, Jette Ahrensberg, Jørn Olsen
A randomised cross-over cohort study of exposure to emissions from a road tunnel ventilation stack (17 August, 2012)
Christine T Cowie, Wafaa Ezz, Wei Xuan, William Lilley, Nectarios Rose, Michael Rae, Guy B Marks
Reporting of lifetime fractures: methodological considerations and results from the Thai Cohort Study (24 August, 2012)
Janneke Berecki-Gisolf, Rod McClure, Sam-ang Seubsman, Adrian Sleigh
Analysing falls in coronary heart disease mortality in the West Bank between 1998 and 2009 (24 August, 2012)
Niveen M E Abu-Rmeileh, Azza Shoaibi, Martin O'Flaherty, Simon Capewell, Abdullatif Husseini
Do ω-3 or other fatty acids influence the development of ‘growing pains’? A prebirth cohort study (24 August, 2012)
Jean Golding, Kate Northstone, Pauline Emmett, Colin Steer, Joseph R Hibbeln

Evidence based practice

Research

Inter-rater and test–retest reliability of quality assessments by novice student raters using the Jadad and Newcastle–Ottawa Scales (31 July, 2012)
Mark Oremus, Carolina Oremus, Geoffrey B C Hall, Margaret C McKinnon, ECT & Cognition Systematic Review Team

General practice / Family practice

Research

Clinical practice patterns among native and immigrant doctors doing out-of-hours work in Norway: a registry-based observational study (12 July, 2012)
Hogne Sandvik, Steinar Hunskaar, Esperanza Diaz
Observational evidence that urbanisation and neighbourhood deprivation are associated with escalation in chronic pharmacological pain treatment: a longitudinal population-based study in the Netherlands (19 July, 2012)
Carsten Leue, Servaas Buijs, Jacqueline Strik, Richel Lousberg, Jasper Smit, Maarten van Kleef, Jim van Os
Implementation of a low-budget, lifestyle-improvement method in an ordinary primary healthcare setting: a stepwise intervention study (8 August, 2012)
Ann Blomstrand, Nashmil Ariai, Ann-Christine Baar, Britt-Marie Finbom-Forsgren, Jörgen Thorn, Cecilia Björkelund
Case stories in general practice: a focus group study (8 August, 2012)
Eirik Abildsnes, Signe Flottorp, Per Stensland
Understanding variation in primary medical care: a nine-country qualitative study of clinicians’ accounts of the non-clinical factors that shape antibiotic prescribing decisions for lower respiratory tract infection (22 August, 2012) Free
Lucy Brookes-Howell, Kerenza Hood, Lucy Cooper, Paul Little, Theo Verheij, Samuel Coenen, Maciek Godycki-Cwirko, Hasse Melbye, Alicia Borras-Santos, Patricia Worby, Kristin Jakobsen, Herman Goossens, Christopher C Butler

Global health

Research

The impact of a novel franchise clinic network on access to medicines and vaccinations in Kenya: a cross-sectional study (10 July, 2012)
Justin Berk, Achyuta Adhvaryu
The optimal age of measles immunisation in low-income countries: a secondary analysis of the assumptions underlying the current policy (19 July, 2012)
Peter Aaby, Cesário L Martins, May-Lill Garly, Amabelia Rodrigues, Christine S Benn, Hilton Whittle
A model for scale up of family health innovations in low-income and middle-income settings: a mixed methods study (24 August, 2012)
Elizabeth H Bradley, Leslie A Curry, Lauren A Taylor, Sarah Wood Pallas, Kristina Talbert-Slagle, Christina Yuan, Ashley Fox, Dilpreet Minhas, Dana Karen Ciccone, David Berg, Rafael Pérez-Escamilla

Haematology (incl blood transfusion)

Research

Patient self-assessment of hospital pain, mood and health-related quality of life in adults with sickle cell disease (2 July, 2012)
Kofi A Anie, Hannah Grocott, Lauren White, Mendwas Dzingina, Gabriel Rogers, Gavin Cho

Health informatics

Research

Open-source point-of-care electronic medical records for use in resource-limited settings: systematic review and questionnaire surveys (4 July, 2012)
Peter S Millard, Juan Bru, Christopher A Berger
The organising vision for telehealth and telecare: discourse analysis (19 July, 2012)
Trisha Greenhalgh, Rob Procter, Joe Wherton, Paul Sugarhood, Sara Shaw

Health policy

Research

Variation in physical development in schoolboy rugby players: can maturity testing reduce mismatch? (11 July, 2012)
Richard W Nutton, David F Hamilton, James D Hutchison, Martin J Mitchell, A Hamish RW Simpson, James G B MacLean
Can patients really make an informed choice? An evaluation of the availability of online information about consultant surgeons in the United Kingdom (23 August, 2012)
Sarkhell Saadi Radha, Nick Caplan, Alan St Clair Gibson, Michael Shenouda, Sujith Konan, Deiary Kader

Health services research

Research

‘Waiting at the dinner table for scraps’: a qualitative study of the help-seeking experiences of heterosexual men living with HIV infection (17 July, 2012)
Tony Antoniou, Mona R Loutfy, Richard H Glazier, Carol Strike
A qualitative study to identify reasons for discharges against medical advice in the cardiovascular setting (30 July, 2012)
Eberechukwu Onukwugha, Elijah Saunders, C Daniel Mullins, Françoise G Pradel, Marni Zuckerman, F Ellen Loh, Matthew R Weir
Covert checks by standardised patients of general practitioners' delivery of new periodic health examinations: clustered cross-sectional study from a consumer organisation (7 August, 2012)
Franz Piribauer, Kylie Thaler, Mark F Harris
Clinical implications and validity of nursing assessments: a longitudinal measure of patient condition from analysis of the Electronic Medical Record (21 August, 2012)
Michael J Rothman, Alan B Solinger, Steven I Rothman, G Duncan Finlay
Development of a predictive model to identify inpatients at risk of re-admission within 30 days of discharge (PARR-30) (10 August, 2012)
John Billings, Ian Blunt, Adam Steventon, Theo Georghiou, Geraint Lewis, Martin Bardsley
Six months fixed duration multidrug therapy in paucibacillary leprosy: risk of relapse and disability in Agra PB cohort study (13 August, 2012)
Anil Kumar, Anita Girdhar, Bhavneswar Kumar Girdhar
Equity of access to specialist chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS/ME) services in England (2008–2010): a national survey and cross-sectional study (16 August, 2012)
Simon M Collin, Jonathan A C Sterne, William Hollingworth, Margaret T May, Esther Crawley
What components of chronic care organisation relate to better primary care for coronary heart disease patients? An observational study (17 August, 2012)
Jan van Lieshout, Eva Frigola Capell, Sabine Ludt, Richard Grol, Michel Wensing

Protocol

Evaluation of current Australian health service accreditation processes (ACCREDIT-CAP): protocol for a mixed-method research project (4 August, 2012)
Reece Hinchcliff, David Greenfield, Max Moldovan, Marjorie Pawsey, Virginia Mumford, Johanna Irene Westbrook, Jeffrey Braithwaite

Immunology

Research

Long-term prophylaxis in hereditary angio-oedema: a systematic review (11 July, 2012)
Giorgio Costantino, Giovanni Casazza, Ilaria Bossi, Piergiorgio Duca, Marco Cicardi

Protocol

A 24-h helpline for access to expert management advice for food allergy-related anaphylaxis in children: protocol for a pragmatic randomised controlled trial (13 August, 2012)
Maeve M Kelleher, Jonathan O'B Hourihane, Audrey DunnGalvin, Claire Cullinane, John Fitzsimons, Aziz Sheikh

Infectious diseases

Research

An investigation of the effects of the common cold on simulated driving performance and detection of collisions: a laboratory study (2 July, 2012)
Andrew Paul Smith, Samantha Jamson
Views of policymakers, healthcare workers and NGOs on HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP): a multinational qualitative study (2 July, 2012)
Ana Wheelock, Andreas B Eisingerich, Gabriela B Gomez, Emily Gray, Mark R Dybul, Peter Piot
Candida parapsilosis candidaemia in a neonatal unit over 7 years: a case series study
(6 August, 2012)
Lourdes das Neves Miranda, Eliete C A Rodrigues, Silvia F Costa, Inneke Marie van der Heijden, Kátia C Dantas, Renata D Lobo, Mariusa Basso, Gláucia F Varkulja, Vera Lúcia Jornada Krebs, Maria Augusta Bento Cicaroni Gibelli, Paulo R Criado, Anna Sara Levin
Dyslipidaemia in HIV-1-infected patients receiving protease inhibitors after initial treatment with first-line-based non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors: a cross-sectional study (8 August, 2012)
Eric Walter Pefura Yone, André Pascal Kengne, Gloria Ashuntantang, Awa Foueudjeu Betyoumin, Jeanne Ngogang

Intensive care

Research

Relevance of anxiety in clinical practice of Guillain-Barré syndrome: a cohort study (24 August, 2012)
Tarek Sharshar, Andrea Polito, Raphaël Porcher, Takoua Merhbene, Morgane Blanc, Marion Antona, Marie-Christine Durand, Diane Friedman, David Orlikowski, Djillali Annane, Marie-Hélène Marcadet

Protocol

A randomised controlled trial evaluating a rehabilitation complex intervention for patients following intensive care discharge: the RECOVER study (2 July, 2012)
Timothy Simon Walsh, Lisa G Salisbury, Julia Boyd, Pamela Ramsay, Judith Merriweather, Guro Huby, John Forbes, Janice Z Rattray, David M Griffith, Simon J Mackenzie, Alastair Hull, Steff Lewis, Gordon D Murray
A longitudinal qualitative exploration of healthcare and informal support needs among survivors of critical illness: the RELINQUISH protocol (16 July, 2012)
Pam Ramsay, Guro Huby, Janice Rattray, Lisa G Salisbury, Timothy Simon Walsh, Susanne Kean

Medical education and training

Research

Improper cause-of-death statements by specialty of certifying physician: a cross-sectional study in two medical centres in Taiwan (31 July, 2012)
Tain-Junn Cheng, Fang-Chuan Lee, Shio-Jean Lin, Tsung-Hsueh Lu
Prevalence and persistence of depression among undergraduate medical students: a longitudinal study at one UK medical school (13 August, 2012)
Thelma A Quince, Diana F Wood, Richard A Parker, John Benson
‘It's on my iPhone’: attitudes to the use of mobile computing devices in medical education, a mixed-methods study (24 August, 2012)
Sean Wallace, Marcia Clark, Jonathan White
What happens to clinical training fellows? A retrospective study of the 20 years outcome of a Medical Research Council UK cohort (30 August, 2012)
Paul M Stewart, Simone Bryan, Peter Dukes, Hannah Lesley van Oudheusden, Rhoswyn Walker, Patrick H Maxwell

Medical publishing and peer review

Research

How often do US-based human subjects research studies register on time, and how often do they post their results? A statistical analysis of the Clinicaltrials.gov database (29 August, 2012)
Christopher J Gill

Mental health

Research

Differential use of extended and immediate release quetiapine: a retrospective registry study of Finnish inpatients with schizophrenia spectrum and bipolar disorders (2 July, 2012)
Taru Hallinen, Erkki J Soini, Ola Granström, Yrjö Ovaskainen, Esa Leinonen, Hannu J Koponen, Kari Hänninen
Multigene interactions and the prediction of depression in the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (2 July, 2012)
Nicholas S Roetker, James A Yonker, Chee Lee, Vicky Chang, Jacob J Basson, Carol L Roan, Taissa S Hauser, Robert M Hauser, Craig S Atwood

Neurology

Research

Increase in self-reported migraine prevalence in the Danish adult population: a prospective longitudinal population-based study (2 July, 2012)
Han Le, Peer Tfelt-Hansen, Axel Skytthe, Kirsten Ohm Kyvik, Jes Olesen
Prospective analysis of neutralising antibody titres in secondary non-responders under continuous treatment with a botulinumtoxin type A preparation free of complexing proteins—a single cohort 4-year follow-up study (4 August, 2012)
Harald Hefter, Christian Hartmann, Ulrike Kahlen, Marek Moll, Hans Bigalke
Impact of one or two visits strategy on hypertension burden estimation in HYDY, a population-based cross-sectional study: implications for healthcare resource allocation decision making (8 August, 2012)
Pietro Amedeo Modesti, Stefano Rapi, Mohamed Bamoshmoosh, Marzia Baldereschi, Luciano Massetti, Luigi Padeletti, Gian Franco Gensini, Dong Zhao, Dawood Al-Hidabi, Husni Al Goshae

Occupational and environmental medicine

Research

Exposure to hot and cold temperatures and ambulance attendances in Brisbane, Australia: a time-series study (7 July, 2012)
Lyle R Turner, Des Connell, Shilu Tong
Long-term follow-up of cortisol awakening response in patients treated for stress-related exhaustion (10 July, 2012)
Anna Sjörs, Thomas Ljung, Ingibjörg H Jonsdottir
Biomarkers of exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and DNA damage: a cross-sectional pilot study among roofers in South Florida (19 July, 2012)
Berrin Serdar, David Lee, Zihong Dou
Age differences in the associations between sick leave and aspects of health, psychosocial workload and family life: a cross-sectional study (31 July, 2012)
Nathalie C G M Donders, Judith T Bos, Koos van der Velden, Joost W J van der Gulden
Psychosocial risk factors, job characteristics and self-reported health in the Paris Military Hospital Group (PMHG): a cross-sectional study (31 July, 2012)
Jean-François Ferrand, Catherine Verret, Julie Trichereau, Jean-Philippe Rondier, Patrice Viance, René Migliani

Protocol

A multidisciplinary intervention to facilitate return to work in cancer patients: intervention protocol and design of a feasibility study (10 July, 2012)
Iris F Groeneveld, Angela G E M de Boer, Monique H W Frings-Dresen

Ophthalmology

Research

ICAM-1 K469E polymorphism is a genetic determinant for the clinical risk factors of T2D subjects with retinopathy in Indians: a population-based case–control study
(17 August, 2012)
Kumari Vinita, Sarangapani Sripriya, Krishnamurthy Prathiba, Kulothungan Vaitheeswaran, Ravichandran Sathyabaarathi, Mahendran Rajesh, John Amali, Vetrivel Umashankar, Govindasamy Kumaramanickavel, Swakshyar Saumya Pal, Rajiv Raman, Tarun Sharma
Twenty-four-hour effects of bimatoprost 0.01% monotherapy on intraocular pressure and ocular perfusion pressure (23 August, 2012) Free
Jonathan D Tung, Ali Tafreshi, Robert N Weinreb, J Rigby Slight, Felipe A Medeiros, John H K Liu

Paediatrics

Research

Cause-specific infant mortality in a population-based Swedish study of term and post-term births: the contribution of gestational age and birth weight (4 July, 2012)
Maria Altman, Anna-Karin Edstedt Bonamy, Anna-Karin Wikström, Sven Cnattingius
Antiemetic treatment for acute gastroenteritis in children: an updated Cochrane systematic review with meta-analysis and mixed treatment comparison in a Bayesian framework (19 July, 2012)
Ben Carter, Zbys Fedorowicz
Observational follow-up study following two cohorts of children with severe pneumonia after discharge from day care clinic/hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh (27 July, 2012)
Hasan Ashraf, Nur H Alam, Mohammod Jobayer Chisti, Mohammed Abdus Salam, Tahmeed Ahmed, Niklaus Gyr
Adverse drug reaction-related admissions in paediatrics, a prospective single-centre study (24 August, 2012)
Anke A G Posthumus, Carien C W Alingh, Christian C M Zwaan, Kees K van Grootheest, Lidwien L M Hanff, Bregje B C M Witjes, Geert W ‘t Jong, Matthijs de Hoog
Myocardial performance assessment in neonates by one-segment strain and strain rate analysis by tissue Doppler - a quality improvement cohort study (24 August, 2012)
Eirik Nestaas, Asbjørn Støylen, Drude Fugelseth

Protocol

Longitudinal cohort protocol study of oropharyngeal dysphagia: relationships to gross motor attainment, growth and nutritional status in preschool children with cerebral palsy (13 August, 2012)
Katherine A Benfer, Kelly A Weir, Kristie L Bell, Robert S Ware, Peter S W Davies, Roslyn N Boyd

Palliative care

Research

Registration in a quality register: a method to improve end-of-life care—a cross-sectional study (30 August, 2012)
Lisa Martinsson, Carl Johan Fürst, Staffan Lundström, Lena Nathanaelsson, Bertil Axelsson

Protocol

Understanding integrated care pathways in palliative care using realist evaluation: a mixed methods study protocol (2 July, 2012)
Sonia Michelle Dalkin, Diana Jones, Monique Lhussier, Bill Cunningham

Pathology

Research

Morphological study of synovial changes in two-stage reconstructions of the infected hip and knee arthroplasties (13 August, 2012)
Arthur Gontarewicz, Oliver Niggemeyer, Lars Tharun, Livia Grancicova, Wolfgang Rüther, Jozef Zustin
The role of hypoxic-inducible factor (HIF1α) and aldolaseC protein in endometrial carcinogenesis: a retrospective study of 279 patients (24 August, 2012)
Paulette Mhawech-Fauceglia, Dan Wang, Damanzoopinder Samrao, Teodulo Menesses, Heidi Godoy, Faith Ough, Shashikant Lele, Song Liu, Tanja Pejovic

Pharmacology and therapeutics

Research

β-Blocker treatment during pregnancy and adverse pregnancy outcomes: a nationwide population-based cohort study (19 July, 2012)
Kasper Meidahl Petersen, Espen Jimenez-Solem, Jon Traerup Andersen, Morten Petersen, Kasper Brødbæk, Lars Køber, Christian Torp-Pedersen, Henrik Enghusen Poulsen

Public health

Research

A case–control study on risk factors associated with death in pregnant women with severe pandemic H1N1 infection (7 July, 2012)
Furong Li, Guoping Chen, Jianjun Wang, Hong Liu, Jiabing Wu
Sedentary behaviour and life expectancy in the USA: a cause-deleted life table analysis (9 July, 2012)
Peter T Katzmarzyk, I-Min Lee
Understanding factors influencing vulnerable older people keeping warm and well in winter: a qualitative study using social marketing techniques (12 July, 2012)
Angela Mary Tod, Adelaide Lusambili, Catherine Homer, Joanne Abbott, Joanne Mary Cooke, Amanda Jayne Stocks, Kathleen Anne McDaid
Dose–response effects of exercise training on the subjective sleep quality of postmenopausal women: exploratory analyses of a randomised controlled trial (12 July, 2012)
Christopher E Kline, Xuemei Sui, Martica H Hall, Shawn D Youngstedt, Steven N Blair, Conrad P Earnest, Timothy S Church
Health Impact Assessment of increased cycling to place of work or education in Copenhagen (24 July, 2012)
Astrid Ledgaard Holm, Charlotte Glümer, Finn Diderichsen
Self-perceived psychosomatic health in Swedish children, adolescents and young adults: an internet-based survey over time (31 July, 2012)
Peter Friberg, Curt Hagquist, Walter Osika
A chemical analysis examining the pharmacology of novel psychoactive substances freely available over the internet and their impact on public (ill)health. Legal highs or illegal highs? (31 July, 2012)
Tammy C Ayres, John W Bond
Poor uptake of primary healthcare registration among recent entrants to the UK: a retrospective cohort study (6 August, 2012)
Helen R Stagg, Jane Jones, Graham Bickler, Ibrahim Abubakar
Impact of television coverage on the number and type of symptoms reported during a health scare: a retrospective pre–post observational study (17 August, 2012)
Kate Faasse, Greg Gamble, Tim Cundy, Keith J Petrie
The Olympic Regeneration in East London (ORiEL) study: protocol for a prospective controlled quasi-experiment to evaluate the impact of urban regeneration on young people and their families (29 August, 2012)
Neil R Smith, Charlotte Clark, Amanda E Fahy, Vanathi Tharmaratnam, Daniel J Lewis, Claire Thompson, Adrian Renton, Derek G Moore, Kamaldeep S Bhui, Stephanie J C Taylor, Sandra Eldridge, Mark Petticrew, Tricia Greenhalgh, Stephen A Stansfeld, Steven Cummins

Protocol

Touch screen computer health assessment in Australian general practice patients: a cross-sectional study protocol (2 July, 2012)
Sze Lin Yoong, Mariko Leanne Carey, Robert William Sanson-Fisher, Grant Russell, Danielle Mazza, Meredith Makeham, Christine Louise Paul, Kerry Jane Inder, Catherine D'Este

Rehabilitation medicine

Research

Physiotherapy rehabilitation following lumbar spinal fusion: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials (24 July, 2012)
Alison Rushton, Gillian Eveleigh, Emma-Jane Petherick, Nicola Heneghan, Rosalie Bennett, Gill James, Chris Wright
Feasibility and potential effectiveness of a non-pharmacological multidisciplinary care programme for persons with generalised osteoarthritis: a randomised, multiple-baseline single-case study (19 July, 2012)
Thomas J Hoogeboom, Linda Kwakkenbos, Leonie Rietveld, Alfons A den Broeder, Rob A de Bie, Cornelia H M van den Ende

Reproductive medicine, obstetrics and gynaecology

Research

Human semen quality in the new millennium: a prospective cross-sectional population-based study of 4867 men (2 July, 2012)
Niels Jørgensen, Ulla Nordström Joensen, Tina Kold Jensen, Martin Blomberg Jensen, Kristian Almstrup, Inge Ahlmann Olesen, Anders Juul, Anna-Maria Andersson, Elisabeth Carlsen, Jørgen Holm Petersen, Jorma Toppari, Niels E Skakkebæk
Reproductive outcomes following induced abortion: a national register-based cohort study in Scotland (6 August, 2012)
Siladitya Bhattacharya, Alison Lowit, Sohinee Bhattacharya, Edwin Amalraj Raja, Amanda Jane Lee, Tahir Mahmood, Allan Templeton
How long after a miscarriage should women wait before becoming pregnant again? Multivariate analysis of cohort data from Matlab, Bangladesh (20 August, 2012)
Julie DaVanzo, Lauren Hale, Mizanur Rahman
The paternal role in pre-eclampsia and giving birth to a small for gestational age infant; a population-based cohort study (30 August, 2012)
Anna-Karin Wikström, Jóhanna Gunnarsdóttir, Sven Cnattingius

Protocol

Perineal resuturing versus expectant management following vaginal delivery complicated by a dehisced wound (PREVIEW): protocol for a pilot and feasibility randomised controlled trial (24 July, 2012)
Lynn Dudley, Christine Kettle, Pamela Carter, Peter Thomas, Khaled M Ismail

Research methods

Research

When data are not missing at random: implications for measuring health conditions in the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (12 July, 2012)
Martin R Frankel, Michael P Battaglia, Lina Balluz, Tara Strine

Respiratory medicine

Research

Asthma and allergies in Jamaican children aged 2–17 years: a cross-sectional prevalence survey (12 July, 2012)
Eulalia K Kahwa, Norman K Waldron, Novie O Younger, Nancy C Edwards, Jennifer M Knight-Madden, Kay A Bailey, Yvonne B Wint, Karen N Lewis-Bell

Sexual health

Research

Comparative assessment of CDS, CLSI disc diffusion and Etest techniques for antimicrobial susceptibility testing of Neisseria gonorrhoeae: a 6-year study
(2 July, 2012)
Vikram Singh, Manju Bala, Monika Kakran, V Ramesh
Syphilis infection among homosexual men reporting contact with syphilis: a case control study (19 August, 2012)
Ajith P Weerakoon, Christopher K Fairley, Tim RH Read, Catriona Bradshaw, Catherine Forrester, Melanie Bissessor, Ian Denham, Marcus Y Chen

Protocol

An HIV/STI prevention intervention for internally displaced women in Leogane, Haiti: study protocol for an N-of-1 pilot study (18 July, 2012)
Carmen H Logie, CarolAnn Daniel, Peter A Newman, Mona R Loutfy

Sports and exercise medicine

Research

Heat illness surveillance in schoolboys participating in physical education class in tropical climate: an analytical prospective descriptive study (7 July, 2012)
Juraiporn Somboonwong, Sompol Sanguanrungsirikul, Chatchatchai Pitayanon
The evidence underpinning sports performance products: a systematic assessment (18 July, 2012)
Carl Heneghan, Jeremy Howick, Braden O'Neill, Peter J Gill, Daniel S Lasserson, Deborah Cohen, Ruth Davis, Alison Ward, Adam Smith, Greg Jones, Matthew Thompson

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Table of contents

January 2012 - Volume 2 - 4

Addiction

Research

Cardiovascular medicine

Research

Protocol

Communication

Research

Dentistry and oral medicine

Research

Diabetes and endocrinology

Research

Ear, nose and throat/otolaryngology

Research

Emergency medicine

Research

Epidemiology

Research

Evidence based practice

Research

General practice / Family practice

Research

Global health

Research

Haematology (incl blood transfusion)

Research

Health informatics

Research

Health policy

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