Objective To address clinical uncertainties about the effectiveness and safety of long-term antibiotic therapy for preventing recurrent urinary tract infections (UTIs) in older adults. Design ...

Objectives To identify different patterns (trajectories) of childhood urinary incontinence and examine which patterns are associated with bladder and bowel symptoms in adolescence. Design Prospective ...

Introduction Damage to peripheral nerves occurs in a variety of health conditions. Preserving nerve integrity, to prevent progressive nerve damage, remains a clinical challenge. Omega-3 ...

Objective To investigate the relationship between temperature extremes and daily number of deaths in Jinan, a temperate city in northern China. Methods Data ondaily number of deaths and meteorological ...

1 Centre for Medical Education, Medical Education Institute, School of Medicine, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK Objectives To explore Foundation trainees’ and trainers’ understandings and ...

Objectives The evolution of multimorbidity describes the continuum from a healthy status to the development of a single disease and further progression to multimorbidity with additional diseases. We ...

Objectives Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) collected in clinical trials should be administered in a standardised way across sites and routinely screened for avoidable missing data in order ...

Objective To investigate how smoking status is recorded in UK primary care; to evaluate whether appropriate multiple imputation (MI) of smoking status yields results consistent with health surveys.

1 Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Q, Rigshospitalet, University Hospital Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark 2 Department of Cardiology, Rigshospitalet, University Hospital Copenhagen, Copenhagen, ...

1 Radboud University Medical Centre, Scientific Institute for Quality of Healthcare, Nijmegen, The Netherlands 2 HAN, University of Applied Sciences Nijmegen, Institute of Health Studies, Nijmegen, ...