West Middlesex University Hospital

Impact and sustainability of master trainer-led obstetric emergency skills training in Uganda: a qualitative study

BACKGROUND: Maternal mortality remains a major challenge in Uganda, where the maternal mortality ratio is 189 per 100,000 births - fifty time higher than in the UK. The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' Excellence in Obstetric Skills (EOS) and Resilience in Obste...

The lived experience of trans persons: a bottom-up review co-written by experts by experience and academics.

We present here the first bottom-up review of the lived experience of trans persons, co-written by experts by experience and academics. We sourced the medical and non-medical literature, focusing on first-person narratives, and critically extracted experiential themes, which were...

Capturing quality of life in pouch anal and vaginal fistula: development of PAVF-QoL-14, a patient-reported outcome measure

Abstract Introduction Perianal pouch fistula can significantly affect quality of life, yet no disease-specific patient reported outcome measure (PROM) exists. We have developed and validated a 14-item PROM—the Pouch Anal and Vaginal Fistula Quality of Life scale (PAVF-QoL-14). Me...