Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London Consultation process In accordance with the Health Protection Agency Policy and Guidance on the Development and Delivery of High Level Scientific Advice (OP001), these guidelines were open to public consultation for a three month period (14 May to 6 August ...
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(Romford): Lina Grauslyte, Erika Salciute-Simene; Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (Salisbury): Martin Cook; Stepping Hill Hospital (Stockport): Danny Barling, Phil Broadhurst; University Hospital of North Tees (Stockton-on-Tees): Sarah Purvis; Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust (Truro): Spivey ...
Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are highly prevalent, lead to considerable patient morbidity, incur large financial costs to health-care systems and are one of the most common reasons for antibiotic use worldwide. The growing problem of antimicrobial res
If the observed rate in the control group is less than 15%, we will also assess non-inferiority on the relative risk scale: the risk ratio will be calculated via the delta method [23], and non-inferiority will be concluded if the upper bound of the confidence interval is below 4/3. ...
Pooling data from all respondents provided more statistical power when estimating the impact of COVID-19 on HRQoL over the course of the disease. However, more detailed results for specific symptoms and additional differences between specific subgroups could not be assessed due to the sample size. ...
Thus, Sclerotinia disease is difficult to control and has raised considerable concern. There are several key steps in the life cycle of S. sclerotio- rum, including vegetative growth, infection, sclerotial development, sclerotial myceliogenic germination, sclerotial carpogenic germination and apothe...
Second, there was no access to individual patient-level data, and degree of covariate adjustment undertaken at the study level varied. As such, the analysis could not discount the effect of residual confounding on the link between HIV infection and cardiovascular pathology. Third, the primary ...
It has long been known that HIV-1 infection alters the course of M. tuberculosis infection and substantially increases the risk of active tuberculosis (TB). It has also become clear that TB increases levels of HIV-1 replication, propagation and genetic diversity. Therefore, co-infection provides...
The null hypothesis being tested is that the non-antibiotic treatment (methenamine hippurate) is inferior to the standard treatment of an extended course of prophylactic antibiotic for the prevention of rUTI in women and less cost-effective to the NHS. The alternative hypothesis is that methenamine ...