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Charing Cross Hospital
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Introduction: People with painful diabetic neuropathy lack effective and tolerable treatments. Physical and psychological interventions may help but require further study and combination to maximise effects. Objectives: This single-site, 3-arm, parallel, randomised feasibility tr...
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Abstract Introduction About 13,000 new patients are diagnosed annually with a primary brain tumour in the UK and less than 20% of patients survive 10 years post-diagnosis. Patient-Reported Outcomes and Experiences (PROMs & PREMs) are largely used in clinical trials that recruit f...
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BACKGROUND: Oral anticoagulants (OACs), including vitamin K antagonists and direct OACs, reduce stroke risk in atrial fibrillation (AF), yet breakthrough ischemic stroke still occurs in 1-2% of patients annually despite adequate therapy. The mechanisms underlying these events rem...
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Cocaine‐Induced Midline Destructive Lesions: A Historical Review of Diagnostic Mimicry
ABSTRACT Objective To review the historical evolution of cocaine‐induced midline destructive lesions (CIMDL), from cocaine's medical introduction to contemporary diagnostic classification. Data Sources PubMed/MEDLINE, Embase, Scopus and Google Scholar were searched from inception...
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Post-treatment transitions after active cancer care often lack clear ownership, timelines and closure rules, shifting coordination work onto survivors and staff. We aimed to identify how these failures arise and to co-design a handover standard for post-treatment survivorship car...