Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

Imaging-based biological age estimation predicts competing mortality risk in lung cancer screening

Abstract Lung cancer screening (LCS) participants have a high competing risk of non-lung cancer related death, which limits screening benefit. We hypothesized that imaging-based biological age can identify individuals at higher risk of non-lung cancer mortality. Low dose computed...

Surgical waiting times in patients with high‐ and low‐risk renal cell carcinoma in England

Objectives To assess to what extent hospitals meet the uniform English National Health Service ‘timely’ treatment standard, what happens after a breach, and determinants of delay for patients with high‐risk renal cell carcinoma (RCC). Patient and Methods Population‐based study us...

Survival benefit of deceased donor kidney transplantation versus continued dialysis: international target trial emulation

Abstract Objective To quantify the survival benefit of deceased donor kidney transplantation versus continued dialysis according to patients’ characteristics (age, diabetes, cardiovascular disease), donor quality (standard criteria donor or expanded criteria donor) and donor retr...

Group Poetry and Quilt‐Making –Creative Public Involvement Approaches to Contentious Concepts in Frailty Research

INTRODUCTION: 'Frailty' as a concept is being increasingly integrated into healthcare, but the language around frailty is contentious and potentially stigmatising to patients. It is therefore important to understand how patients' lived experiences relate to the concept of frailty...

Hospital-Level Determinants of Mortality After Pancreas Surgery

OBJECTIVE: To identify modifiable hospital-level determinants of mortality after pancreas surgery and assess their cumulative protective effects through the development of a Hospital Resource Index (HRI) on a global scale. BACKGROUND: Ninety-day mortality rates after pancreas sur...

More Than Meets the Eye: A Qualitative Exploration of the Experience of Remission in Chronic Skin Disease

This study explores the lived experience of remission in chronic skin disease (CSD), a clinically significant but underexamined phase of the chronic relapse–remission cycle. Although the psychological burden of active CSD is well established, far less is known about how individua...