Andrew Brown

1 month ago | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Andrew Brown |A. Bell |Josh Hayward |Tiana Felmingham

HIV human immunodeficiency virus SCOPE Sustainable Childhood Obesity Prevention through Community Engagement YEAH! Youth Engagement and Action for Health RCTs randomized control trials 1 INTRODUCTION Community engagement plays an important role in enhancing disease prevention, public health, community initiatives, and other outcomes.1-5 Within public health literature, obesity stands out as a condition that requires community engagement for effective prevention and is a major focus of...

1 month ago | nature.com | Lan Jiang |Andrew Brown

AbstractRandomized controlled trials (RCTs) can produce valid estimates of the benefits and harms of therapeutic interventions. However, incomplete reporting can undermine the validity of their conclusions. Reporting guidelines, such as SPIRIT for protocols and CONSORT for results, have been developed to improve transparency in RCT publications. In this study, we report a corpus of 200 RCT publications, named SPIRIT-CONSORT-TM, annotated for transparency.

2 months ago | bjgp.org | Brian MacKenna |Andrew Brown |Richard Croker |Alex Walker

AbstractBackground: Many patients receive routine medications for long-term conditions (LTCs). Doctors typically issue repeat prescriptions in one to three month durations, but England currently has no national guidance on the optimal duration. Aim: Describe current prescription durations for common LTCs in England, explore and visualise geographical variation, and identify practice factors associated with shorter prescribing duration to inform policy making.

Dec 13, 2024 | tandfonline.com | Ndinda Kusu |Andrew Brown |Augustina Koduah |Herodias Ahimon

ABSTRACTBackground National pharmaceutical services units (NPSUs) – organisational units within the central government usually responsible for pharmaceutical services and management – have an increasingly narrow mandate. Anecdotal evidence points to an increasing focus, almost exclusively, on logistics management, while pharmaceutical care and policy oversight have become fragmented.

Nov 21, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Patricia Clark |Ashley M. DiPasquale |Andrew Brown |Daniela Cocco

In the 1970s, we learned breast conservation therapy (BCT) was not inferior to mastectomy. Early BCT methods could result in deformities that were unacceptable to patients and to their surgeons. By the 1990s, surgeons began to apply the principles of plastic surgery to improve outcomes. The term oncoplastic surgery was first described in the 1990s by Werner Audretsch. We offer a review of principles, techniques, current controversies, and challenges in broadening the utilization of OPS.