Veronica Neves Fialho Queiroz, Luiz Guilherme Villares da Costa, Rogerio Póvoa Barbosa, Flávio Takaoka, Luc De Baerdemaeker, Daniel Souza Cesar, Ulisses Cardoso D’Orto, José Roberto Galdi, Vijaya Gottumukkala, Juan P Cata, Sabrine N T Hemmes, Markus W Hollman, Alain Kalmar, Lucas A B de Moura, Renato M Mariano, Idit Matot, Guido Mazzinari, Gary H Mills, Irimar de Paula Posso, Alexandre Teruya, Marcos Francisco Vidal Melo, Juraj Sprung, Toby N Weingarten, Tanja A Treschan, Seppe Koopman, Leonid Eidelman, Lee-Lynn Chen, Jae-Woo Lee, Jose J Ariño Irujo, Beatriz Tena, Harald Groeben, Paolo Pelosi, Marcelo Gama de Abreu, Marcus J Schultz, Ary Serpa Neto

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e021643. Published online 2018 Aug 23. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-021643

PMCID:: PMC6112402

Article PDF–413K

Cardiovascular Medicine

Protocol

Effects of menaquinone-7 supplementation in patients with aortic valve calcification: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

Jes Sanddal Lindholt, Niels Erik Frandsen, Maise Høigaard Fredgart, Kristian A Øvrehus, Jordi Sanchez Dahl, Jacob Eifer Møller, Lars Folkestad, Grazina Urbonaviciene, Søren Warberg Becker, Jess Lambrechtsen, Søren Auscher, Susanne Hosbond, Dilek Hunerel Alan, Lars Melholt Rasmussen, Oke Gerke, Hans Mickley, Axel Diederichsen

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e022019. Published online 2018 Aug 23. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-022019

PMCID:: PMC6112404

Article PDF–487K

Research

Effects of reproductive period duration and number of pregnancies on midlife ECG indices: a secondary analysis from the Women’s Health Initiative Clinical Trial

Nisha I Parikh, Kristopher Kapphahn, Haley Hedlin, Jeffrey E Olgin, Matthew A Allison, Jared W Magnani, Kelli R Ryckman, Molly E Waring, Marco Valentin Perez, Barbara V Howard

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e019129. Published online 2018 Aug 17. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-019129

PMCID:: PMC6104755

Article PDF–304K

Outcomes of patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and acute myocardial infarction: a propensity score-matched, 15-year nationwide population-based study in Asia

Victor Chien-Chia Wu, Tien-Hsing Chen, Michael Wu, Shao-Wei Chen, Chih-Hsiang Chang, Chun-Wei Chang, Ching-Chang Chen, Katie Pei-Hsuan Wu, Ming-Jer Hsieh, Chao-Yung Wang, Shang-Hung Chang, Fen-Chiung Lin, I-Chang Hsieh, Pao-Hsien Chu, Ming-Shien Wen

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e019741. Published online 2018 Aug 23. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-019741

PMCID:: PMC6112399

Article PDF–873K

Effect of vitamin D on ventricular remodelling in heart failure: a meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials

Jin-Dong Zhao, Jing-Jing Jia, Ping-Shuan Dong, Di Zhao, Xu-Ming yang, Dao-Lin Li, Hui-Feng Zhang

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e020545. Published online 2018 Aug 30. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020545

PMCID:: PMC6119442

Article PDF–2.6M

Relation of serum uric acid to asymptomatic proximal extracranial artery stenosis in a middle-aged Chinese population: a community-based cross-sectional study

Xiaolei Yang, Haichen Lv, Tesfaldet Habtemariam Hidru, Jing Wu, Henghui Liu, Youxin Wang, Kejia Liu, Yunlong Xia, Yong Zhou, Yinong Jiang

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e020681. Published online 2018 Aug 23. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020681

PMCID:: PMC6112387

Article PDF–466K

Links between blood pressure and medication intake, well-being, stress, physical activity and symptoms reported via a mobile phone-based self-management support system: a cohort study in primary care

Charles Taft, Inger Hallberg, Ulrika Bengtsson, Karin Manhem, Karin Kjellgren

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e020849. Published online 2018 Aug 23. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020849

PMCID:: PMC6112389

Article PDF–1.7M

Perioperative urinary thromboxane metabolites and outcome of coronary artery bypass grafting: a nested case-control study

Hanning Liu, Zhengxi Xu, Cheng Sun, Qianlong Chen, Ning Bao, Wen Chen, Zhou Zhou, Xiaoqi Wang, Zhe Zheng

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e021219. Published online 2018 Aug 30. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-021219

PMCID:: PMC6119430

Article PDF–517K

Is elevation of N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide at discharge associated with 2-year composite endpoint of all-cause mortality and heart failure hospitalisation after transcatheter aortic valve implantation? Insights from a multicentre prospective OCEAN-TAVI registry in Japan

Kazuki Mizutani, Masahiko Hara, Mana Nakao, Tsukasa Okai, Keiko Kajio, Takashi Murakami, Toshihiko Shibata, Minoru Yoshiyama, Toru Naganuma, Futoshi Yamanaka, Akihiro Higashimori, Norio Tada, Kensuke Takagi, Motoharu Araki, Hiroshi Ueno, Minoru Tabata, Shinichi Shirai, Yusuke Watanabe, Masanori Yamamoto, Kentaro Hayashida

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e021468. Published online 2018 Aug 17. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-021468

PMCID:: PMC6104765

Article PDF–727K

Risk of cardiac and non-cardiac adverse events in community-dwelling older patients with atrial fibrillation: a prospective cohort study in the Netherlands

Sander van Doorn, Annerien Tavenier, Frans H Rutten, Arno W Hoes, Karel G M Moons, Geert-Jan Geersing

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e021681. Published online 2018 Aug 23. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-021681

PMCID:: PMC6112390

Article PDF–243K

Does specialist review for patients with suspected heart failure predict better outcomes? An observational study on the utility of compliance with NICE guidelines

Geraint Morton, Legate Philip, Thomas Gilpin, Pik Ee Chan, Kaushik Guha, Paul R Kalra

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e021856. Published online 2018 Aug 23. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-021856

PMCID:: PMC6112396

Article PDF–255K

Communications

Protocol

Does pictorial health information improve health behaviours and other outcomes? A systematic review protocol

Danielle Schubbe, Sarah Cohen, Renata W Yen, Maria VD Muijsenbergh, Peter Scalia, Catherine H Saunders, Marie-Anne Durand

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e023300. Published online 2018 Aug 13. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-023300

PMCID:: PMC6091907

Article PDF–225K

Convergent parallel mixed-methods study to understand information exchange in paediatric critical care and inform the development of safety-enhancing interventions: a protocol study

Jessica Tomasi, Carly Warren, Lauren Kolodzey, Sonia Pinkney, Anne-Marie Guerguerian, Roxanne Kirsch, Jackie Hubbert, Christina Sperling, Patricia Sutton, Peter Laussen, Patricia Trbovich

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e023691. Published online 2018 Sep 1. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-023691

PMCID:: PMC6120652

Article PDF–858K

Complementary Medicine

Protocol

Single-arm, open-label, dose-escalation phase I study to evaluate the safety of a herbal medicine SH003 in patients with solid cancer: a study protocol

Chunhoo Cheon, Sohyeon Kang, Youme Ko, Mia Kim, Bo-Hyoung Jang, Yong-Cheol Shin, Seong-Gyu Ko

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e019502. Published online 2018 Aug 5. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-019502

PMCID:: PMC6078237

Article PDF–277K

Validating traditional Chinese syndrome features in varied stages of chronic gastritis malignant transformation: study protocol for a cross-sectional study

Yin Zhang, Yue Liu, Rui Song, Li Zhang, Zeqi Su, Yannan Li, Runhua Chen, Ning Shi, Xia Zhao, Shiyu Du, Xia Ding

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e020939. Published online 2018 Aug 30. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020939

PMCID:: PMC6119419

Article PDF–1.4M

Dentistry and Oral Medicine

Research

Oral human papillomavirus infection in England and associated risk factors: a case–control study

Vanessa Hearnden, Craig Murdoch, Katy D’Apice, Susan Duthie, Nicholas J Hayward, Hilary Jane Powers

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e022497. Published online 2018 Aug 19. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-022497

PMCID:: PMC6104753

Article PDF–312K

Dermatology

Protocol

Evaluation of capillary pathologies by nailfold capillaroscopy in patients with psoriasis vulgaris: study protocol for a prospective, controlled exploratory study

Christine Fink, Samuel Kilian, Ines Bertlich, Elti Hoxha, Felicitas Bardehle, Alexander Enk, Holger A Haenssle

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e021595. Published online 2018 Aug 10. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-021595

PMCID:: PMC6089272

Article PDF–359K

Systemic immunomodulatory treatments for atopic dermatitis: protocol for a systematic review with network meta-analysis

Aaron Mark Drucker, Alexandra Ellis, Zarif Jabbar-Lopez, Zenas Z N Yiu, Bernd W M Arents, Tim Burton, Phyllis I Spuls, Denise Küster, Jochen Schmitt, Carsten Flohr

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e023061. Published online 2018 Aug 29. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-023061

PMCID:: PMC6119412

Article PDF–229K

Diabetes and Endocrinology

Protocol

Effect of 6 months hybrid closed-loop insulin delivery in young people with type 1 diabetes: a randomised controlled trial protocol

Martin de Bock, Sybil A McAuley, Mary Binsu Abraham, Grant Smith, Jennifer Nicholas, Geoff R Ambler, Fergus J Cameron, Jan M Fairchild, Bruce R King, Elizabeth A Geelhoed, Elizabeth A Davis, David Norman O’Neal, Timothy W Jones

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e020275. Published online 2018 Aug 13. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020275

PMCID:: PMC6091910

Article PDF–568K

Association between type 1 diabetes mellitus and educational attainment in childhood: a systematic review protocol

Natalie Jayne Oakley, Dylan Kneale, Mala Mann, Mariann Hilliar, Jeanette Tan, Colin Dayan, John W Gregory, Robert French

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e021893. Published online 2018 Aug 30. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-021893

PMCID:: PMC6119409

Article PDF–215K

Proinsulin in the identification and risk stratification of gestational diabetes mellitus: study protocol for a prospective, longitudinal cohort study

Rajesh Peter, Dominic Bright, Wai-Yee Cheung, Stephen D Luzio, Gareth J Dunseath

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e022571. Published online 2018 Aug 29. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-022571

PMCID:: PMC6119441

Article PDF–212K

Research

Evaluation of ADA HbA1c criteria in the diagnosis of pre-diabetes and diabetes in a population of Chinese adolescents and young adults at high risk for diabetes: a cross-sectional study

Ge Li, Lanwen Han, Yonghui Wang, Yanglu Zhao, Yu Li, Junling Fu, Ming Li, Shan Gao, Steven M Willi

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e020665. Published online 2018 Aug 8. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020665

PMCID:: PMC6089273

Article PDF–567K

Natalie Nanayakkara, Sanjeeva Ranasinha, Adelle M Gadowski, Wendy A Davis, Jeffrey Ronald Flack, Natalie Wischer, Sof Andrikopoulos, Sophia Zoungas

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e020677. Published online 2018 Aug 17. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020677

PMCID:: PMC6104781

Article PDF–614K

Prevalence of diabetes, pre-diabetes and associated risk factors: second National Diabetes Survey of Pakistan (NDSP), 2016–2017

Abdul Basit, Asher Fawwad, Huma Qureshi, A S Shera, NDSP Members

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e020961. Published online 2018 Aug 5. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020961

Correction in:: BMJ Open. 2018; 8(11): e020961corr1.

PMCID:: PMC6078264

Article PDF–714K

Diagnostics

Research

Diagnostic accuracy of point shear wave elastography and transient elastography for staging hepatic fibrosis in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: a meta-analysis

Weixi Jiang, Sirun Huang, Hua Teng, Peipei Wang, Meng Wu, Xia Zhou, Haitao Ran

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e021787. Published online 2018 Aug 23. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-021787

PMCID:: PMC6112406

Article PDF–1.3M

Predictive value of the urinary dipstick test in the management of patients with urinary tract infection-associated symptoms in primary care in Indonesia: a cross-sectional study

Franciscus Ginting, Adhi Kristianto Sugianli, R Lia Kusumawati, Ida Parwati, Menno D de Jong, Constance Schultsz, Frank van Leth

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e023051. Published online 2018 Aug 29. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-023051

PMCID:: PMC6119407

Article PDF–427K

Ear, Nose and Throat/Otolaryngology

Protocol

Association between subjective tinnitus and cognitive performance: protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis

Nathan A Clarke, Michael A Akeroyd, Helen Henshaw, Derek J Hoare

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e023700. Published online 2018 Aug 13. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-023700

PMCID:: PMC6091911

Article PDF–231K

Research

Systematic investigation of childhood sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) in Beijing: validation of survey methodology

Xiaodan Li, Jun Tai, Zhifei Xu, Jun Ma, Xiaoxia Peng, Yongping Pan, Xiaoyan Yan, Guixiang Wang, Yunxiao Wu, Li Zheng, Jiangnan Du, Wentong Ge, Jie Zhang, Yamei Zhang, Xin Ni

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e021097. Published online 2018 Aug 29. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-021097

PMCID:: PMC6119448

Article PDF–1.0M

Emergency Medicine

Research

Factors influencing the decision to convey or not to convey elderly people to the emergency department after emergency ambulance attendance: a systematic mixed studies review

Johan Oosterwold, Dennis Sagel, Sivera Berben, Petrie Roodbol, Manda Broekhuis

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e021732. Published online 2018 Aug 30. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-021732

PMCID:: PMC6119414

Article PDF–1.6M

Acute poisoning in Shenyang, China: a retrospective and descriptive study from 2012 to 2016

Yajie Zhang, Boxin Yu, Nana Wang, Tiegang Li

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e021881. Published online 2018 Aug 29. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-021881

PMCID:: PMC6119445

Article PDF–1.1M

Epidemiology

Protocol

Head and neck cancer risk factors in India: protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis

Aayush Poddar, Ritchlynn Ronald Aranha, Gothandam K Muthukaliannan, Ramesh Nachimuthu, Rama Jayaraj

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e020014. Published online 2018 Aug 20. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020014

PMCID:: PMC6104749

Article PDF–214K

FLUID trial: a protocol for a hospital-wide open-label cluster crossover pragmatic comparative effectiveness randomised pilot trial

Lauralyn McIntyre, Monica Taljaard, Tracy McArdle, Alison Fox-Robichaud, Shane W English, Claudio Martin, John Marshall, Kusum Menon, John Muscedere, Deborah J Cook, Charles Weijer, Raphael Saginur, Alies Maybee, Akshai Iyengar, Alan Forster, Ian D Graham, Steven Hawken, Colin McCartney, Andrew JE Seely, Ian G Stiell, Kednapa Thavorn, Dean A Fergusson

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e022780. Published online 2018 Aug 23. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-022780

PMCID:: PMC6112401

Article PDF–458K

Validating injury burden estimates using population birth cohorts and longitudinal cohort studies of injury outcomes: the VIBES-Junior study protocol

Belinda J Gabbe, Joanna F Dipnall, John W Lynch, Frederick P Rivara, Ronan A Lyons, Shanthi Ameratunga, Mariana Brussoni, Fiona E Lecky, Clare Bradley, Pam M Simpson, Ben Beck, Joanne C Demmler, Jane Lyons, Amy Schneeberg, James E Harrison

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e024755. Published online 2018 Aug 5. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-024755

PMCID:: PMC6078268

Article PDF–226K

Testicular Cancer in New Zealand (TCNZ) study: protocol for a national case–control study

Jason K Gurney, James Stanley, Katherine McGlynn, Lorenzo Richiardi, Caroline Shaw, Richard Edwards, Tony R Merriman, Bridget Robson, Jonathan Koea, Melissa McLeod, Martin A Kennedy, Diana Sarfati

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e025212. Published online 2018 Aug 5. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-025212

PMCID:: PMC6078234

Article PDF–388K

Research

Incidence and prevalence of cardiovascular disease in English primary care: a cross-sectional and follow-up study of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) Research and Surveillance Centre (RSC)

William Hinton, Andrew McGovern, Rachel Coyle, Thang S Han, Pankaj Sharma, Ana Correa, Filipa Ferreira, Simon de Lusignan

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e020282. Published online 2018 Aug 20. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020282

PMCID:: PMC6104756

Article PDF–340K

Education level and health-related quality of life after oesophageal cancer surgery: a nationwide cohort study

Anna Regina Schandl, Asif Johar, Kalle Mälberg, Pernilla Lagergren

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e020702. Published online 2018 Aug 23. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020702

PMCID:: PMC6112400

Article PDF–724K

Coronary stenosis as a modifier of the effect of cold spells on the risk of sudden cardiac death: a case-crossover study in Finland

Niilo R I Ryti, M Juhani Junttila, Harri Antikainen, Marja-Leena Kortelainen, Heikki V Huikuri, Jouni J K Jaakkola

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e020865. Published online 2018 Aug 5. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020865

PMCID:: PMC6078232

Article PDF–194K

Binational cohort study comparing the management and outcomes of pregnant women with a BMI >50–59.9 kg/m² and those with a BMI ≥60 kg/m²

Stephen J McCall, Zhuoyang Li, Jennifer J Kurinczuk, Elizabeth Sullivan, Marian Knight

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e021055. Published online 2018 Aug 10. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-021055

PMCID:: PMC6089316

Article PDF–249K

Housing, neighbourhood and sociodemographic associations with adult levels of physical activity and adiposity: baseline findings from the ENABLE London study

Claire M Nightingale, Alicja R Rudnicka, Bina Ram, Aparna Shankar, Elizabeth S Limb, Duncan Procter, Ashley R Cooper, Angie S Page, Anne Ellaway, Billie Giles-Corti, Christelle Clary, Daniel Lewis, Steven Cummins, Peter H Whincup, Derek G Cook, Christopher G Owen

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e021257. Published online 2018 Aug 17. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-021257

PMCID:: PMC6104748

Article PDF–441K

Contextual characteristics associated with the perceived neighbourhood scale in a cross-sectional study in a large urban centre in Brazil

Fabiano de Almeida Célio, Amélia Augusta de Lima Friche, M Zane Jennings, Amanda Cristina de Souza Andrade, Cesar Coelho Xavier, Fernando Proietti, Claudia J Coulton, Waleska Teixeira Caiaffa

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e021445. Published online 2018 Aug 20. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-021445

PMCID:: PMC6104762

Article PDF–352K

Caesarean sections and the prevalence of preterm and early-term births in Brazil: secondary analyses of national birth registration

Fernando C Barros, Dacio de Lyra Rabello Neto, Jose Villar, Stephen H Kennedy, Mariangela F Silveira, Jose Luis Diaz-Rossello, Cesar G Victora

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e021538. Published online 2018 Aug 5. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-021538

PMCID:: PMC6078248

Article PDF–1.3M

Association of socioeconomic factors and the risk for unintentional injuries among children in Japan: a cross-sectional study

Nobuhiro Sato, Yusuke Hagiwara, Junta Ishikawa, Kohei Akazawa

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e021621. Published online 2018 Aug 13. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-021621

PMCID:: PMC6091896

Article PDF–248K

Lifetime cigarette smoking and chronic widespread and regional pain in later adulthood: evidence from the 1946 British birth cohort study

Rebecca Bendayan, Rachel Cooper, Stella G Muthuri

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e021896. Published online 2018 Aug 29. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-021896

PMCID:: PMC6119432

Article PDF–231K

Sugar and energy content of carbonated sugar-sweetened beverages in Haidian District, Beijing: a cross-sectional study

Lizi Lin, Chenxiong Li, Chuyao Jin, Yuanzhou Peng, Kawther M Hashem, Graham A MacGregor, Feng J He, Haijun Wang

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e022048. Published online 2018 Aug 13. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-022048

PMCID:: PMC6091898

Article PDF–462K

Sunbed use 2007–2015 and skin cancer projections of campaign results 2007–2040 in the Danish population: repeated cross-sectional surveys

Brian Køster, Maria KH Meyer, Therese M-L Andersson, Gerda Engholm, Peter Dalum

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e022094. Published online 2018 Aug 29. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-022094

PMCID:: PMC6119446

Article PDF–887K

To what extent is the elevated risk of psychological distress in people with diabetes accounted for by physical disability? Findings from a large population-based study

Elza Elmira, Emily Banks, Grace Joshy

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e022767. Published online 2018 Aug 30. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-022767

PMCID:: PMC6119431

Article PDF–474K

Implications of parental lifestyle changes and education level on adolescent offspring weight: a population based cohort study - The HUNT Study, Norway

Marit Naess, Erik R Sund, Turid Lingaas Holmen, Kirsti Kvaløy

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e023406. Published online 2018 Aug 30. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-023406

PMCID:: PMC6119406

Article PDF–778K

Ethics

Protocol

Protocol for a scoping review about ethics in transition programmes for adolescents and young adults with neurodisabilities

Aline Bogossian, Jan Willem Gorter, Eric Racine

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e020914. Published online 2018 Aug 17. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020914

PMCID:: PMC6104787

Article PDF–655K

Factors contributing to practitioner choice when declining involvement in legally available care: A scoping protocol

Janine Brown, Donna Goodridge, Lilian Thorpe, Mary Chipanshi

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e023901. Published online 2018 Aug 17. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-023901

PMCID:: PMC6104793

Article PDF–216K

Research

‘Adding another spinning plate to an already busy life’. Benefits and risks in patient partner–researcher relationships: a qualitative study of patient partners’ experiences in a Canadian health research setting

Jenny Leese, Graham Macdonald, Sheila Kerr, Lianne Gulka, Alison M Hoens, Wendy Lum, Bao Chau Tran, Anne F Townsend, Linda C Li

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e022154. Published online 2018 Aug 17. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-022154

PMCID:: PMC6104752

Article PDF–557K

Evidence Based Practice

Protocol

Pain education for patients with non-specific low back pain in Nepal: protocol of a feasibility randomised clinical trial (PEN-LBP Trial)

Saurab Sharma, Mark P Jensen, G Lorimer Moseley, J Haxby Abbott

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e022423. Published online 2018 Aug 10. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-022423

PMCID:: PMC6089285

Article PDF–310K

Enhancing peer support experience for patients discharged from acute psychiatric care: protocol for a randomised controlled pilot trial

Liana Urichuk, Marianne Hrabok, Katherine Hay, Pamela Spurvey, Daniella Sosdjan, Michelle Knox, Allen Fu, Shireen Surood, Robert Brown, Jeff Coulombe, Jill Kelland, Katherine Rittenbach, Mark Snaterse, Adam Abba-Aji, Xin-Min Li, Pierre Chue, Andrew J Greenshaw, Vincent I O Agyapong

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e022433. Published online 2018 Aug 17. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-022433

PMCID:: PMC6104746

Article PDF–228K

Research

Impact of the communication and patient hand-off tool SBAR on patient safety: a systematic review

Martin Müller, Jonas Jürgens, Marcus Redaèlli, Karsten Klingberg, Wolf E Hautz, Stephanie Stock

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e022202. Published online 2018 Aug 23. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-022202

PMCID:: PMC6112409

Article PDF–664K

Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Protocol

Efficacy and tolerance of early administration of tranexamic acid in patients with cirrhosis presenting with acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding: a study protocol for a multicentre, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial (the EXARHOSE study)

Matthieu Heidet, Roland Amathieu, Etienne Audureau, Oriane Augusto, Violaine Nicolazo de Barmon, Amandine Rialland, David Schmitz, François Pierrang, Jean Marty, Charlotte Chollet-Xémard, Olivier Thirion, Line Jacob

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e021943. Published online 2018 Aug 10. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-021943

PMCID:: PMC6089293

Article PDF–591K

Incidence of household transmission of acute gastroenteritis (AGE) in a primary care sentinel network (1992–2017): cross-sectional and retrospective cohort study protocol

Simon de Lusignan, Emmanouela Konstantara, Mark Joy, Julian Sherlock, Uy Hoang, Rachel Coyle, Filipa Ferreira, Simon Jones, Sarah J O’Brien

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e022524. Published online 2018 Aug 23. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-022524

PMCID:: PMC6112382

Article PDF–556K

General practice / Family practice

Protocol

Xylitol for the prevention of acute otitis media episodes in children aged 2–4 years: protocol for a pragmatic randomised controlled trial

Nav Persaud, Andreas Laupacis, Amir Azarpazhooh, Catherine Birken, Jeffrey S Hoch, Wanrudee Isaranuwatchai, Jonathan L Maguire, Muhammad M Mamdani, Kevin Thorpe, Christopher Allen, Dalah Mason, Christine Kowal, Farnaz Bazeghi, Patricia Parkin, The TARGet Kids! Collaboration

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e020941. Published online 2018 Aug 5. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020941

PMCID:: PMC6078241

Article PDF–435K

Integration of musculoskeletal physical therapy care in the patient-centred medical home (IMPaC): protocol for a single-site randomised clinical trial

Erik Carvalho, Janet P Bettger, Lynn Bowlby, Marissa Carvalho, Daniel Dore, Misty W Corcoran, Ashley A Harris, Jennifer Bond, Adam P Goode

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e022953. Published online 2018 Aug 8. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-022953

PMCID:: PMC6089277

Article PDF–206K

Protocol paper for the ‘Harnessing resources from the internet to maximise outcomes from GP consultations (HaRI)’ study: a mixed qualitative methods study

Maureen Seguin, Laura Hall, Helen Atherton, Rebecca Barnes, Geraldine Leydon, Elizabeth Murray, Catherine Pope, Sue Ziebland, Fiona A Stevenson

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e024188. Published online 2018 Aug 10. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-024188

PMCID:: PMC6089307

Article PDF–189K

Research

Electronic, mobile and telehealth tools for vulnerable patients with chronic disease: a systematic review and realist synthesis

Sharon Parker, Amy Prince, Louise Thomas, Hyun Song, Diana Milosevic, Mark Fort Harris

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e019192. Published online 2018 Aug 29. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-019192

PMCID:: PMC6119429

Article PDF–1.9M

Understanding usual care for patients with multimorbidity: baseline data from a cluster-randomised trial of the 3D intervention in primary care

Katherine Chaplin, Peter Bower, Mei-See Man, Sara T Brookes, Daisy Gaunt, Bruce Guthrie, Cindy Mann, Stewart W Mercer, Imran Rafi, Alison R G Shaw, Chris Salisbury

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e019845. Published online 2018 Aug 29. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-019845

PMCID:: PMC6119425

Article PDF–1.8M

Retirement, job satisfaction and attitudes towards mandatory accreditation: a Danish survey study in general practice

Merethe Kirstine Andersen, Line Bjørnskov Pedersen, Frans Boch Waldorff

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e020419. Published online 2018 Aug 13. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020419

PMCID:: PMC6091901

Article PDF–346K

Effectiveness of a peer-mediated educational intervention in improving general practitioner diagnostic assessment and management of dementia: a cluster randomised controlled trial

Dimity Pond, Karen Mate, Nigel Stocks, Jane Gunn, Peter Disler, Parker Magin, John Marley, Nerida Paterson, Graeme Horton, Susan Goode, Natasha Weaver, Henry Brodaty

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e021125. Published online 2018 Aug 17. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-021125

PMCID:: PMC6104761

Article PDF–693K

Utilisation of primary care before a childhood cancer diagnosis: do socioeconomic factors matter?: A Danish nationwide population-based matched cohort study

Christina Friis Abrahamsen, Jette Møller Ahrensberg, Peter Vedsted

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e023569. Published online 2018 Aug 17. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-023569

PMCID:: PMC6104784

Article PDF–1.0M

Geriatric Medicine

Protocol

Measuring health-related quality of life of care home residents, comparison of self-report with staff proxy responses for EQ-5D-5L and HowRu: protocol for assessing proxy reliability in care home outcome testing

Adeela Usman, Sarah Lewis, Kathryn Hinsliff-Smith, Annabelle Long, Gemma Housley, Jake Jordan, Heather Gage, Tom Dening, John R F Gladman, Adam L Gordon

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e022127. Published online 2018 Aug 17. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-022127

PMCID:: PMC6104798

Article PDF–252K

Meanings of ‘centredness’ in long-term care facilities: a scoping review protocol

Genevieve Thompson, Chloe Lyn Shindruk, Adebusola Abiodun Adekoya, Lisa Demczuk, Susan McClement

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e022498. Published online 2018 Aug 10. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-022498

PMCID:: PMC6089323

Article PDF–215K

Laying the foundation for a core set of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health for community-dwelling adults aged 75 years and above in general practice: a study protocol

Johanna Tomandl, Stephanie Book, Susann Gotthardt, Stefan Heinmueller, Elmar Graessel, Ellen Freiberger, Thomas Kuehlein, Susann Hueber, Stefanie Hoyer

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e024274. Published online 2018 Aug 5. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-024274

PMCID:: PMC6078227

Article PDF–347K

Increasing engagement in advance care planning using a behaviour change model: study protocol for the STAMP randomised controlled trials

Terri R Fried, Colleen A Redding, Steven Martino, Andrea Paiva, Lynne Iannone, Maria Zenoni, Laura A Blakley, Joseph S Rossi, John O’Leary

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e025340. Published online 2018 Aug 10. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-025340

PMCID:: PMC6089328

Article PDF–532K

Research

Ethnic differences in frailty: a cross-sectional study of pooled data from community-dwelling older persons in the Netherlands

Carmen Betsy Franse, Amy van Grieken, Li Qin, Rene J F Melis, Judith A C Rietjens, Hein Raat

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e022241. Published online 2018 Aug 8. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-022241

PMCID:: PMC6089282

Article PDF–352K

Can trained volunteers improve the mealtime care of older hospital patients? An implementation study in one English hospital

Fiona F A Howson, Sian M Robinson, Sharon X Lin, Rosanna Orlando, Cyrus Cooper, Avan A P Sayer, Helen C Roberts

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e022285. Published online 2018 Aug 5. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-022285

PMCID:: PMC6078263

Article PDF–612K

Global Health

Protocol

Protocol for the study of cervical cancer screening technologies in HIV-infected women living in Rwanda

Gad Murenzi, Jean-Claude Dusingize, Theogene Rurangwa, Jean d’Amour Sinayobye, Athanase Munyaneza, Anthere Murangwa, Thierry Zawadi, Tiffany Hebert, Pacifique Mugenzi, Adebola Adedimeji, Leon Mutesa, Kathryn Anastos, Philip E Castle

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e020432. Published online 2018 Aug 5. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020432

PMCID:: PMC6078254

Article PDF–477K

Village-Integrated Eye Worker trial (VIEW): rationale and design of a cluster-randomised trial to prevent corneal ulcers in resource-limited settings

Kieran S O’Brien, Raghunandan Byanju, Ram Prasad Kandel, Bimal Poudyal, Mariya Gautam, John A Gonzales, Travis C Porco, John P Whitcher, Muthiah Srinivasan, Madan Upadhyay, Thomas M Lietman, Jeremy D Keenan, The Village-Integrated Eye Worker Trial Group

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e021556. Published online 2018 Aug 10. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-021556

PMCID:: PMC6089291

Article PDF–255K

Research

Community-based health insurance and healthcare service utilisation, North-West, Ethiopia: a comparative, cross-sectional study

Desta Debalkie Atnafu, Hiwot Tilahun, Yihun Mulugeta Alemu

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e019613. Published online 2018 Aug 8. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-019613

PMCID:: PMC6089309

Article PDF–235K

Qualitative accounts from Syrian health professionals regarding violations of the right to health, including the use of chemical weapons, in opposition-held Syria

Katherine H A Footer, Emily Clouse, Diana Rayes, Zaher Sahloul, Leonard S Rubenstein

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e021096. Published online 2018 Aug 5. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-021096

PMCID:: PMC6078235

Article PDF–234K

Systematic review to identify proxy indicators to quantify the impact of eHealth tools on maternal and neonatal health outcomes in low-income and middle-income countries including Delphi consensus

Caroline Perrin, Lothaire Hounga, Antoine Geissbuhler

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e022262. Published online 2018 Aug 17. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-022262

PMCID:: PMC6104789

Article PDF–1.3M

HIV/AIDS

Protocol

Effectiveness of female condom in preventing HIV and sexually transmitted infections: a systematic review protocol

Ruth KB Mome, Alison B Wiyeh, Eugene J Kongnyuy, Charles Shey Wiysonge

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e023055. Published online 2018 Aug 5. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-023055

PMCID:: PMC6078242

Article PDF–209K

Research

Perinatally acquired HIV-positive status disclosure and associated factors in Dire Dawa and Harar, Eastern Ethiopia: a health facility-based cross-sectional study

Melkamu Merid Mengesha, Yadeta Dessie, Aklilu Abrham Roba

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e019554. Published online 2018 Aug 30. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-019554

PMCID:: PMC6119410

Article PDF–382K

Assessing the completeness and accuracy of South African National Laboratory CD4 and viral load data: a cross-sectional study

Ingrid Valerie Bassett, Mingshu Huang, Christie Cloete, Sue Candy, Janet Giddy, Simone Claire Frank, Robert A Parker

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e021506. Published online 2018 Aug 23. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-021506

PMCID:: PMC6112393

Article PDF–221K

Progress in voluntary medical male circumcision for HIV prevention supported by the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief through 2017: longitudinal and recent cross-sectional programme data

Stephanie M Davis, Jonas Z Hines, Melissa Habel, Jonathan M Grund, Renee Ridzon, Brittney Baack, Jonathan Davitte, Anne Thomas, Valerian Kiggundu, Naomi Bock, Paran Pordell, Caroline Cooney, Irum Zaidi, Carlos Toledo

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e021835. Published online 2018 Sep 1. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-021835

PMCID:: PMC6120649

Article PDF–429K

Haematology (Incl Blood Transfusion)

Research

Sociodemographic and psychological determinants of influenza vaccine intention among recipients of autologous and allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplant: a cross-sectional survey of UK transplant recipients using a modified health belief model

Paul D E Miller, Alice S Forster, Thushan I de Silva, Hayley Leonard, Chloe Anthias, Michaela Mayhew, Matthias Klammer, Susan Paskar, Erin Hurst, Karl Peggs, Alejandro Madrigal, John A Snowden

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e021222. Published online 2018 Aug 8. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-021222

PMCID:: PMC6089289

Article PDF–261K

Psychometric properties of the Patient Reported Outcomes, Burdens and Experiences (PROBE) questionnaire

Chatree Chai-Adisaksopha, Mark W Skinner, Randall Curtis, Neil Frick, Michael B Nichol, Declan Noone, Brian O’Mahony, David Page, Jeffrey Stonebraker, Lehana Thabane, Mark Crowther, Alfonso Iorio

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e021900. Published online 2018 Aug 8. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-021900

PMCID:: PMC6089314

Article PDF–336K

Health Economics

Protocol

Protocol of economic evaluation and equity impact analysis of mHealth and community groups for prevention and control of diabetes in rural Bangladesh in a three-arm cluster randomised controlled trial

Hassan Haghparast-Bidgoli, Sanjit Kumar Shaha, Abdul Kuddus, Md Alimul Reza Chowdhury, Hannah Jennings, Naveed Ahmed, Joanna Morrison, Kohenour Akter, Badrun Nahar, Tasmin Nahar, Carina King, Jolene Skordis-Worrall, Neha Batura, Jahangir A Khan, Anthony Mansaray, Rachael Hunter, A K Azad Khan, Anthony Costello, Kishwar Azad, Edward Fottrell

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e022035. Published online 2018 Aug 20. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-022035

PMCID:: PMC6104763

Article PDF–251K

Research

Cost-effectiveness of habit-based advice for weight control versus usual care in general practice in the Ten Top Tips (10TT) trial: economic evaluation based on a randomised controlled trial

Nishma Patel, Rebecca J Beeken, Baptiste Leurent, Rumana Z Omar, Irwin Nazareth, Stephen Morris

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e017511. Published online 2018 Aug 13. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-017511

PMCID:: PMC6091904

Article PDF–1.2M

Excess costs of alcohol-dependent patients in German psychiatric care compared with matched non-alcohol-dependent individuals from the general population: a secondary analysis of two datasets

Judith Dams, Angela Buchholz, Ludwig Kraus, Jens Reimer, Norbert Scherbaum, Alexander Konnopka, Hans-Helmut König

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e020563. Published online 2018 Aug 29. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020563

PMCID:: PMC6119434

Article PDF–259K

Cost-effectiveness of a domestic violence and abuse training and support programme in primary care in the real world: updated modelling based on an MRC phase IV observational pragmatic implementation study

Estela Capelas Barbosa, Talitha Irene Verhoef, Steve Morris, Francesca Solmi, Medina Johnson, Alex Sohal, Farah El-Shogri, Susanna Dowrick, Clare Ronalds, Chris Griffiths, Sandra Eldridge, Natalia V Lewis, Angela Devine, Anne Spencer, Gene Feder

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e021256. Published online 2018 Aug 29. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-021256

PMCID:: PMC6119435

Article PDF–936K

Comparative morbidities and the share of emergencies in hospital admissions in deprived areas: a method and evidence from English administrative data

Barry McCormick, Peter-Sam Hill, Stuart Redding

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e022573. Published online 2018 Aug 20. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-022573

PMCID:: PMC6104760

Article PDF–503K

Health Informatics

Protocol

Impact of sharing electronic health records with patients on the quality and safety of care: a systematic review and narrative synthesis protocol

Ana Luisa Neves, Alexander W Carter, Lisa Freise, Liliana Laranjo, Ara Darzi, Erik K Mayer

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e020387. Published online 2018 Aug 13. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020387

PMCID:: PMC6091908

Article PDF–495K

Electronic patient-generated health data to facilitate prevention and health promotion: a scoping review protocol

Vasileios Nittas, Margot Mütsch, Frederic Ehrler, Milo Alan Puhan

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e021245. Published online 2018 Aug 10. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-021245

PMCID:: PMC6089308

Article PDF–616K

Digital health app development standards: a systematic review protocol

Michelle Helena Van Velthoven, James Smith, Glenn Wells, David Brindley

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e022969. Published online 2018 Aug 17. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-022969

PMCID:: PMC6104800

Article PDF–220K

Engaging patients and family members in the evaluation of a mental health patient portal: protocol for a mixed-methods study

Gillian Strudwick, Craig Kuziemsky, Richard G Booth, Sarah Collins, Anna Chyjek, Moshe Sakal, Alexandra Harris, John Strauss

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e025508. Published online 2018 Aug 23. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-025508

PMCID:: PMC6112388

Article PDF–235K

Health Policy

Research

Cancer patients’ organisation participation in heath policy decision-making: a snapshot/cluster analysis of the EU-28 countries

Kyriakos Souliotis, Lily-Evangelia Peppou, Chara Tzavara, Eirini Agapidaki, Dimitrios Varvaras, Oreste Buonomo, Dominique Debiais, Stanimir Hasurdjiev, Francois Sarkozy

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e018896. Published online 2018 Aug 5. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-018896

PMCID:: PMC6078250

Article PDF–980K

Health Services Research

Protocol

Examining ‘institutional entrepreneurship’ in healthcare redesign and improvement through comparative case study research: a study protocol

Angela Melder, Prue Burns, Ian Mcloughlin, Helena Teede

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e020807. Published online 2018 Aug 5. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020807

PMCID:: PMC6078238

Article PDF–1.2M

Research

Providing routine chronic disease preventive care in community substance use services: a pilot study of a multistrategic clinical practice change intervention

Danika Tremain, Megan Freund, Paula Wye, Jenny Bowman, Luke Wolfenden, Adrian Dunlop, Kate Bartlem, Christophe Lecathelinais, John Wiggers

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e020042. Published online 2018 Aug 17. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020042

PMCID:: PMC6104796

Article PDF–274K

Good, bad or indifferent: a longitudinal multi-methods study comparing four modes of training for healthcare professionals in one Australian state

Priya Martin, Saravana Kumar, LuJuana Abernathy, Matthew Browne

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e021264. Published online 2018 Aug 5. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-021264

PMCID:: PMC6078272

Article PDF–366K

Determinants of patient choice for hospital readmission after township hospitalisation: a population-based retrospective study in China

Yan Zhang, Yadong Niu, Liang Zhang

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e021516. Published online 2018 Aug 8. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-021516

PMCID:: PMC6089325

Article PDF–665K

Neonatal intensive care nurses’ knowledge and beliefs regarding kangaroo care in China: a national survey

Yao Zhang, Qingqi Deng, Binghua Zhu, Qiufang Li, Fang Wang, Hua Wang, Xinfen Xu, Linda Johnston

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e021740. Published online 2018 Aug 30. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-021740

PMCID:: PMC6119424

Article PDF–248K

Natasha Campling, Amanda Cummings, Michelle Myall, Susi Lund, Carl R May, Neil W Pearce, Alison Richardson

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e022021. Published online 2018 Aug 17. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-022021

PMCID:: PMC6104759

Article PDF–985K

Resource use of healthcare services 1 year after stroke: a secondary analysis of a cluster-randomised controlled trial of a client-centred activities of daily living intervention

Malin Tistad, Maria Flink, Charlotte Ytterberg, Gunilla Eriksson, Susanne Guidetti, Kerstin Tham, Lena von Koch

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e022222. Published online 2018 Aug 5. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-022222

PMCID:: PMC6078276

Article PDF–268K

Utilisation willingness for institutional care by the elderly: a comparative study of empty nesters and non-empty nesters in Shandong, China

Yangyang Qian, Wen Qin, Chengchao Zhou, Dandan Ge, Li Zhang, Long Sun

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e022324. Published online 2018 Aug 17. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-022324

PMCID:: PMC6104795

Article PDF–386K

Cost–utility analysis of low-intensity case management to increase contact with health services among ex-prisoners in Australia

Qinglu Cheng, Stuart A Kinner, Xing J Lee, Kathryn J Snow, Nicholas Graves

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e023082. Published online 2018 Aug 5. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-023082

PMCID:: PMC6078233

Article PDF–521K

‘Has she seen me?’: a multiple methods study of the pharmaceutical care needs of older people with sensory impairment in Scotland

Nour Alhusein, Leah Macaden, Annetta Smith, Kathleen M Stoddart, Andrea J Taylor, Kirsty Killick, Thilo Kroll, Margaret C Watson

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e023198. Published online 2018 Aug 5. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-023198

PMCID:: PMC6078270

Article PDF–609K

Health Canada’s use of expedited review pathways and therapeutic innovation, 1995–2016: cross-sectional analysis

Joel Lexchin

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e023605. Published online 2018 Aug 30. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-023605

PMCID:: PMC6119438

Article PDF–362K

The role of osteopathy in the Swiss primary health care system: a practice review

Paul Vaucher, Mia Macdonald, Dawn Carnes

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e023770. Published online 2021 Oct 6. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-023770

PMCID:: PMC6120650

Article PDF–767K

Immunology (Including Allergy)

Protocol

Clinical and multi-omics cross-phenotyping of patients with autoimmune and autoinflammatory diseases: the observational TRANSIMMUNOM protocol

Roberta Lorenzon, Encarnita Mariotti-Ferrandiz, Caroline Aheng, Claire Ribet, Ferial Toumi, Fabien Pitoiset, Wahiba Chaara, Nicolas Derian, Catherine Johanet, Iannis Drakos, Sophie Harris, Serge Amselem, Francis Berenbaum, Olivier Benveniste, Bahram Bodaghi, Patrice Cacoub, Gilles Grateau, Chloe Amouyal, Agnes Hartemann, David Saadoun, Jeremie Sellam, Philippe Seksik, Harry Sokol, Joe-Elie Salem, Eric Vicaut, Adrien Six, Michelle Rosenzwajg, Claude Bernard, David Klatzmann

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e021037. Published online 2018 Aug 30. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-021037

PMCID:: PMC6119447

Article PDF–799K

Infectious Diseases

Protocol

Efficacy of cloxacillin versus cefazolin for methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia (CloCeBa): study protocol for a randomised, controlled, non-inferiority trial

Charles Burdet, Paul Loubet, Vincent Le Moing, William Vindrios, Marina Esposito-Farèse, Morgane Linard, Tristan Ferry, Laurent Massias, Pierre Tattevin, Michel Wolff, François Vandenesch, Nathalie Grall, Caroline Quintin, France Mentré, Xavier Duval, François-Xavier Lescure

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e023151. Published online 2018 Sep 1. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-023151

PMCID:: PMC6120654

Article PDF–454K

Research

Immunological failure in HIV-infected adults from 2003 to 2015 in Southwest Ethiopia: a retrospective cohort study

Hailay Abrha Gesesew, Paul Ward, Kifle Woldemichael, Lillian Mwanri

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e017413. Published online 2018 Aug 17. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-017413

PMCID:: PMC6104792

Article PDF–679K

Association between Helicobacter pylori infection and tumor markers: an observational retrospective study

Mei-Yan Xu, Bing Cao, Yan Chen, Natalie Musial, Shuai Wang, Jian Yin, Lan Liu, Qing-Bin Lu

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e022374. Published online 2018 Aug 23. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-022374

PMCID:: PMC6112394

Article PDF–280K

Intensive Care

Protocol

Manual ventilation to prevent hypoxaemia during endotracheal intubation of critically ill adults: protocol and statistical analysis plan for a multicentre randomised trial

Jonathan D Casey, David R Janz, Derek W Russell, Derek J Vonderhaar, Aaron M Joffe, Kevin M Dischert, Ryan M Brown, Michael G Lester, Aline N Zouk, Swati Gulati, William S Stigler, Todd W Rice, Matthew W Semler

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e022139. Published online 2018 Aug 10. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-022139

PMCID:: PMC6089322

Article PDF–830K

Research

Are large randomised controlled trials in severe sepsis and septic shock statistically disadvantaged by repeated inadvertent underestimates of required sample size?

Joshua L C Wong, Alexina J Mason, Anthony C Gordon, Stephen J Brett

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e020068. Published online 2018 Aug 29. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020068

PMCID:: PMC6119416

Article PDF–749K

Validation of the ICH score in patients with spontaneous intracerebral haemorrhage admitted to the intensive care unit in Southern Spain

Sonia Rodríguez-Fernández, Encarnación Castillo-Lorente, Francisco Guerrero-Lopez, David Rodríguez-Rubio, Eduardo Aguilar-Alonso, Jesús Lafuente-Baraza, Francisco Javier Gómez-Jiménez, Juan Mora-Ordóñez, Ricardo Rivera-López, María Dolores Arias-Verdú, Guillermo Quesada-García, Miguel Ángel Arráez-Sánchez, Ricardo Rivera-Fernández

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e021719. Published online 2018 Aug 13. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-021719

PMCID:: PMC6091906

Article PDF–636K

Medical Education and Training

Protocol

Representation of social determinants of health in German medical education: protocol of a content analysis study

Franziska Hommes, Simon Drees, Karin Geffert, Peter von Philipsborn, Jan M Stratil

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e020696. Published online 2018 Aug 17. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020696

PMCID:: PMC6104802

Article PDF–227K

Protocol for a mixed-methods evaluation of a massive open online course on real world evidence

Edward Meinert, Abrar Alturkistani, David Brindley, Alison Carter, Glenn Wells, Josip Car

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e025188. Published online 2018 Aug 13. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-025188

PMCID:: PMC6091905

Article PDF–205K

Research

What non-technical skills competencies are addressed by Australian standards documents for health professionals who work in secondary and tertiary clinical settings? A qualitative comparative analysis

Monica Peddle, Margaret Bearman, Natalie Radomski, Lisa Mckenna, Debra Nestel

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e020799. Published online 2018 Aug 5. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020799

PMCID:: PMC6078249

Article PDF–629K

Assessing minimal medical statistical literacy using the Quick Risk Test: a prospective observational study in Germany

Mirjam Annina Jenny, Niklas Keller, Gerd Gigerenzer

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e020847. Published online 2018 Aug 23. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020847

Correction in:: BMJ Open. 2018; 8(10): e020847corr2.

PMCID:: PMC6112405

Article PDF–815K

Effectiveness of traditional lectures and case methods in Swedish general practitioners’ continuing medical education about COPD: a cluster randomised controlled trial

Hanna Sandelowsky, Ingvar Krakau, Sonja Modin, Björn Ställberg, Sven-Erik Johansson, Anna Nager

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e021982. Published online 2018 Aug 10. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-021982

PMCID:: PMC6089265

Article PDF–1.9M

Psychiatry as a career choice among medical students: a cross-sectional study examining school-related and non-school factors

Lee Seng Esmond Seow, Boon Yiang Chua, Rathi Mahendran, Swapna Verma, Hui Lin Ong, Ellaisha Samari, Siow Ann Chong, Mythily Subramaniam

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e022201. Published online 2018 Aug 17. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-022201

PMCID:: PMC6104786

Article PDF–247K

New graduate doctors’ preparedness for practice: a multistakeholder, multicentre narrative study

Lynn V Monrouxe, Alison Bullock, Gerard Gormley, Kathrin Kaufhold, Narcie Kelly, Camille Emilie Roberts, Karen Mattick, Charlotte Rees

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e023146. Published online 2018 Aug 29. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-023146

PMCID:: PMC6119440

Article PDF–315K

Mental Health

Protocol

Cancer and suicidal ideation and behaviours: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis

Raffaella Calati, Fang Fang, Elizabeth Mostofsky, Qing Shen, Valentina Elisabetta Di Mattei, Jesus Garcia-Foncillas, Enrique Baca-Garcia, Andrea Cipriani, Philippe Courtet

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e020463. Published online 2018 Aug 10. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020463

PMCID:: PMC6089268

Article PDF–221K

Combining online Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT) with a parent-training programme for parents with partners suffering from alcohol use disorder: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

Philip Lindner, Ola Siljeholm, Magnus Johansson, Martin Forster, Sven Andreasson, Anders Hammarberg

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e020879. Published online 2018 Aug 10. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020879

PMCID:: PMC6089295

Article PDF–327K

MAGDALENA: study protocol of a randomised, placebo-controlled trial on cognitive development at 2 years of age in children exposed to SSRI in utero

Essi Heinonen, Barbara Szymanska-von Schultz, Viktor Kaldo, Josefine Nasiell, Ewa Andersson, Mikaela Bergmark, Margareta Blomdahl-Wetterholm, Lisa Forsberg, Erik Forsell, Anna Forsgren, Sandra Frööjd, Amy Goldman, Eva-Mari Nordenadler, Myrto Sklivanioti, Mats Blennow, Katarina Wide, Lars L Gustafsson

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e023281. Published online 2018 Aug 5. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-023281

PMCID:: PMC6078226

Article PDF–720K

Feasibility and impact of data-driven learning within the suicide prevention action network of thirteen specialist mental healthcare institutions (SUPRANET Care) in the Netherlands: a study protocol

Kim Setkowski, Jan Mokkenstorm, Anton JLM van Balkom, Gerdien Franx, Inge Verbeek- van Noord, Dave A Dongelmans, Merijn Eikelenboom, Renske Gilissen

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e024398. Published online 2018 Aug 20. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-024398

PMCID:: PMC6104797

Article PDF–221K

The HARMONIC trial: study protocol for a randomised controlled feasibility trial of Shaping Healthy Minds—a modular transdiagnostic intervention for mood, stressor-related and anxiety disorders in adults

Melissa Black, Caitlin Hitchcock, Anna Bevan, Cliodhna O Leary, James Clarke, Rachel Elliott, Peter Watson, Louise LaFortune, Sarah Rae, Simon Gilbody, Willem Kuyken, David Johnston, Jill M Newby, Tim Dalgleish

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e024546. Published online 2018 Aug 5. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-024546

PMCID:: PMC6078277

Article PDF–615K

Overcoming insomnia: protocol for a large-scale randomised controlled trial of online cognitive behaviour therapy for insomnia compared with online patient education about sleep

Håvard Kallestad, Øystein Vedaa, Jan Scott, Gunnar Morken, Ståle Pallesen, Allison G Harvey, Phil Gehrman, Frances Thorndike, Lee Ritterband, Tore Charles Stiles, Børge Sivertsen

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e025152. Published online 2018 Aug 30. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-025152

PMCID:: PMC6119451

Article PDF–472K

Research

Comparison of hospital admission rates for psychiatric patients cared for by multidisciplinary outreach teams with and without peer specialist: a retrospective cohort study of Japanese Outreach Model Project 2011–2014

Yoshifumi Kido, Norito Kawakami, Mami Kayama

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e019090. Published online 2018 Aug 17. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-019090

PMCID:: PMC6104750

Article PDF–495K

Outcomes of an individual counselling programme in Grozny, Chechnya: a randomised controlled study

Annick Lenglet, Barbara Lopes-Cardozo, Leslie Shanks, Curtis Blanton, Concetta Feo, Zalina Tsatsaeva, Kyuri Idrisov, Paul A Bolton, Giovanni Pintaldi

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e019794. Published online 2018 Aug 23. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-019794

PMCID:: PMC6112398

Article PDF–477K

Development of a population pharmacokinetic model of olanzapine for Chinese health volunteers and patients with schizophrenia

Anning Li, Shuangmin Ji, Weihua Yue, Hao Yan, Fang Dong, Canjun Ruan, Wenbiao Li, Wei Lu, Dai Zhang, Chuanyue Wang

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e020070. Published online 2018 Aug 17. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020070

PMCID:: PMC6104801

Article PDF–1.4M

Self-perception of adaptation among homicidally bereaved individuals following a psychoeducational intervention: a UK longitudinal qualitative study

Filipa Alves-Costa, Catherine Hamilton-Giachritsis, Hope Christie, Sarah L Halligan

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e020443. Published online 2018 Aug 5. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020443

PMCID:: PMC6078228

Article PDF–715K

Morita Therapy for depression (Morita Trial): a pilot randomised controlled trial

Holly Victoria Rose Sugg, David A Richards, Julia Frost

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e021605. Published online 2018 Aug 10. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-021605

PMCID:: PMC6089263

Article PDF–564K

Clinicians’ views on treatment adaptations for men with eating disorders: a qualitative study

Emma Kinnaird, Caroline Norton, Kate Tchanturia

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e021934. Published online 2018 Aug 5. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-021934

PMCID:: PMC6078225

Article PDF–222K

Cost-effectiveness of interventions for perinatal anxiety and/or depression: a systematic review

Elizabeth M Camacho, Gemma E Shields

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e022022. Published online 2018 Aug 10. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-022022

PMCID:: PMC6089324

Article PDF–1.1M

Design of a treatment pathway for insomnia in prison settings in England: a modified Delphi study

Lindsay H Dewa, Lamiece Hassan, Jenny Shaw, Jane Senior

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e022406. Published online 2018 Aug 29. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-022406

PMCID:: PMC6119453

Article PDF–1.2M

Trends in gender and socioeconomic inequalities in mental health following the Great Recession and subsequent austerity policies: a repeat cross-sectional analysis of the Health Surveys for England

Rachel M Thomson, Claire L Niedzwiedz, Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e022924. Published online 2018 Aug 30. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-022924

PMCID:: PMC6119415

Article PDF–1.3M

Organisation and delivery of liaison psychiatry services in general hospitals in England: results of a national survey

Andrew Walker, Jessica Rose Barrett, William Lee, Robert M West, Elspeth Guthrie, Peter Trigwell, Alan Quirk, Mike J Crawford, Allan House

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e023091. Published online 2018 Sep 1. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-023091

PMCID:: PMC6120655

Article PDF–230K

Neurology

Protocol

Multiple Sclerosis-Secondary Progressive Multi-Arm Randomisation Trial (MS-SMART): a multiarm phase IIb randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial comparing the efficacy of three neuroprotective drugs in secondary progressive multiple sclerosis

Peter Connick, Floriana De Angelis, Richard A Parker, Domenico Plantone, Anisha Doshi, Nevin John, Jonathan Stutters, David MacManus, Ferran Prados Carrasco, Frederik Barkhof, Sebastien Ourselin, Marie Braisher, Moira Ross, Gina Cranswick, Sue H Pavitt, Gavin Giovannoni, Claudia Angela Gandini Wheeler-Kingshott, Clive Hawkins, Basil Sharrack, Roger Bastow, Christopher J Weir, Nigel Stallard, Siddharthan Chandran, Jeremy Chataway

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e021944. Published online 2018 Aug 30. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-021944

PMCID:: PMC6119433

Article PDF–1.8M

Research

Small volume plasma exchange for Guillain-Barré syndrome in resource-limited settings: a phase II safety and feasibility study

Badrul Islam, Zhahirul Islam, Shafiqur Rahman, Hubert P Endtz, Margreet C Vos, Mathieu van der Jagt, Peter A van Doorn, Bart C Jacobs, Quazi Deen Mohammad

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e022862. Published online 2018 Aug 17. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-022862

PMCID:: PMC6104782

Article PDF–920K

Nutrition and Metabolism

Research

Prospective cohort study of overweight and obesity among rural Indian adults: sociodemographic predictors of prevalence, incidence and remission

Rajesh Kumar Rai, Lindsay M Jaacks, Sabri Bromage, Anamitra Barik, Wafaie W Fawzi, Abhijit Chowdhury

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e021363. Published online 2018 Aug 30. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-021363

PMCID:: PMC6119421

Article PDF–564K

Evaluation of the nutrient content of yogurts: a comprehensive survey of yogurt products in the major UK supermarkets

J Bernadette Moore, Annabelle Horti, Barbara A Fielding

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e021387. Published online 2018 Sep 18. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-021387

PMCID:: PMC6144340

Article PDF–1.6M

Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Protocol

Development of a core outcome set for immunomodulation in pregnancy (COSIMPREG): a protocol for a systematic review and Delphi study

Jelmer R Prins, Floor Holvast, Janneke van ’t Hooft, Arend F Bos, Jan Willem Ganzevoort, Sicco A Scherjon, Sarah A Robertson, Sanne J Gordijn

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e021619. Published online 2018 Aug 5. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-021619

PMCID:: PMC6078247

Article PDF–212K

Impact of maternity waiting homes on facility delivery among remote households in Zambia: protocol for a quasiexperimental, mixed-methods study

Nancy A Scott, Jeanette L Kaiser, Taryn Vian, Rachael Bonawitz, Rachel M Fong, Thandiwe Ngoma, Godfrey Biemba, Carol J Boyd, Jody R Lori, Davidson H Hamer, Peter C Rockers

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e022224. Published online 2018 Aug 10. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-022224

PMCID:: PMC6089313

Article PDF–997K

Predicting intrapartum fetal compromise at term using the cerebroplacental ratio and placental growth factor levels (PROMISE) study: randomised controlled trial protocol

Helen Sherrell, Vicky Clifton, Sailesh Kumar

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e022567. Published online 2018 Aug 13. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-022567

PMCID:: PMC6091912

Article PDF–296K

What are the factors that contribute to the development of sexual dysfunction in breastfeeding women? A systematic scoping review protocol

Miguel Fuentealba-Torres, Denisse Cartagena-Ramos, Juan Carlos Sierra, Lúcia Alves Lara, Sérgio Pires Okano, Thaís Zamboni Berra, Luana Seles Alves, Ana Carolina Andrade Biaggi Leite, Mellina Yamamura, Isília Aparecida Silva, Lucila Castanheira Nascimento, Ricardo Alexandre Arcêncio

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e022863. Published online 2018 Aug 30. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-022863

PMCID:: PMC6119408

Article PDF–212K

Effects of interpregnancy interval on pregnancy complications: protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis

Amanuel Tesfay Gebremedhin, Annette K Regan, Eva Malacova, M Luke Marinovich, Stephen Ball, Damien Foo, Gavin Pereira

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e025008. Published online 2018 Aug 6. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-025008

PMCID:: PMC6089264

Article PDF–209K

Research

Modifying maternal sleep position in the third trimester of pregnancy with positional therapy: a randomised pilot trial

Allan J Kember, Heather M Scott, Louise M O’Brien, Ali Borazjani, Michael B Butler, Jesse H Wells, Andre Isaac, Kaishin Chu, Jerry Coleman, Debra L Morrison

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e020256. Published online 2018 Aug 29. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020256

PMCID:: PMC6119420

Article PDF–856K

Awareness of cervical cancer among women attending an HIV treatment centre: a cross-sectional study from Morocco

Essaada Belglaiaa, Tiatou Souho, Latifa Badaoui, Michel Segondy, Jean-Luc Prétet, David Guenat, Christiane Mougin

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e020343. Published online 2018 Aug 23. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020343

PMCID:: PMC6112383

Article PDF–246K

Maternal seafood intake and the risk of small for gestational age newborns: a case–control study in Spanish women

Carmen Amezcua-Prieto, Juan Miguel Martínez-Galiano, Inmaculada Salcedo-Bellido, Rocío Olmedo-Requena, Aurora Bueno-Cavanillas, Miguel Delgado-Rodríguez

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e020424. Published online 2018 Aug 17. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020424

Correction in:: BMJ Open. 2018; 8(11): bmjopen-2017-020424corr1.

PMCID:: PMC6104785

Article PDF–248K

In which groups of pregnant women can the caesarean delivery rate likely be reduced safely in the USA? A multicentre cross-sectional study

Jin-Wen Zhang, Ware Branch, Matthew Hoffman, Ank De Jonge, Sheng-Hui Li, James Troendle, Jun Zhang

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e021670. Published online 2018 Aug 5. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-021670

PMCID:: PMC6078266

Article PDF–253K

An exploration of how women in the UK perceive the provision of care received in an early pregnancy assessment unit: an interpretive phenomenological analysis

Wendy Norton, Lynn Furber

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e023579. Published online 2018 Aug 17. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-023579

PMCID:: PMC6104788

Article PDF–255K

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Protocol

Psychosocial factors at work and inflammatory markers: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis

Hisashi Eguchi, Kazuhiro Watanabe, Norito Kawakami, Emiko Ando, Hideaki Arima, Yumi Asai, Akiomi Inoue, Reiko Inoue, Mai Iwanaga, Kotaro Imamura, Yuka Kobayashi, Norimitsu Nishida, Yasumasa Otsuka, Asuka Sakuraya, Kanami Tsuno, Akihito Shimazu, Akizumi Tsutsumi

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e022612. Published online 2018 Aug 29. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-022612

PMCID:: PMC6119426

Article PDF–227K

Research

Mathieu Rivière, Ariane Leroyer, Lionel Ferreira Carreira, Thierry Blanchon, Laurent Plancke, Maria Melchior, Nadia Younès

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e020770. Published online 2018 Aug 5. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020770

PMCID:: PMC6078252

Article PDF–393K

Does the performance of five back-associated exercises relate to the presence of low back pain? A cross-sectional observational investigation in regional Australian council workers

Charles Philip Gabel, Hamid Reza Mokhtarinia, Jonathan Hoffman, Jason Osborne, E-Liisa Laakso, Markus Melloh

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e020946. Published online 2018 Aug 8. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020946

PMCID:: PMC6089271

Article PDF–346K

A call for Applied Knowledge and Lived Interdisciplinarity in the medical care of depressed employees: a cross-sectional survey with German occupational physicians and psychotherapists

Lina Nassri, Isabell Schneider, Petra Maria Gaum, Jessica Lang

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e021786. Published online 2018 Aug 13. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-021786

PMCID:: PMC6091909

Article PDF–274K

Oncology

Protocol

Early prediction of lenvatinib treatment efficacy by using ¹⁸F-FDG PET/CT in patients with unresectable or advanced thyroid carcinoma that is refractory to radioiodine treatment: a protocol for a non-randomized single-arm multicenter observational study

Satoshi Takeuchi, Tohru Shiga, Kenji Hirata, Jun Taguchi, Keiichi Magota, Shin Ariga, Tomohiro Gouda, Yoshihito Ohhara, Rio Homma, Yasushi Shimizu, Ichiro Kinoshita, Yasushi Tsuji, Akihiro Homma, Hiroaki Iijima, Nagara Tamaki, Hirotoshi Dosaka-Akita

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e021001. Published online 2018 Aug 30. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-021001

PMCID:: PMC6119439

Article PDF–451K

Complementary vaccination protocol with dendritic cells pulsed with autologous tumour lysate in patients with resected stage III or IV melanoma: protocol for a phase II randomised trial (ACDC Adjuvant Trial)

Laura Ridolfi, Francesco de Rosa, Laura Fiammenghi, Massimiliano Petrini, Anna Maria Granato, Valentina Ancarani, Elena Pancisi, Valentina Soldati, Serena Cassan, Jenny Bulgarelli, Angela Riccobon, Giorgia Gentili, Oriana Nanni, Massimo Framarini, Francesca Tauceri, Massimo Guidoboni

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e021701. Published online 2018 Aug 5. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-021701

PMCID:: PMC6078243

Article PDF–221K

Protocol for the avatar acceptability study: a multiperspective cross-sectional study evaluating the acceptability of using patient-derived xenografts to guide personalised cancer care in Australia and New Zealand

Claire E Wakefield, Emma L Doolan, Joanna E Fardell, Christina Signorelli, Veronica F Quinn, Kathy F Tucker, Andrea F Patenaude, Glenn M Marshall, Richard B Lock, Gabrielle Georgiou, Richard J Cohn

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e024064. Published online 2018 Aug 8. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-024064

PMCID:: PMC6089310

Article PDF–238K

Research

Is time to progression associated with post-progression survival in previously treated metastatic non-small cell lung cancer with BRAF V600E mutation? A secondary analysis of phase II clinical trial data

Junlong Li, Medha Sasane, Jie Zhang, Jing Zhao, Marie Louise Ricculli, Zhiwen Yao, Suman Redhu, James Signorovitch

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e021642. Published online 2018 Aug 17. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-021642

PMCID:: PMC6104743

Article PDF–404K

Prevalence and clinicopathological characteristics of mismatch repair-deficient colorectal carcinoma in early onset cases as compared with late-onset cases: a retrospective cross-sectional study in Northeastern Iran

Ladan Goshayeshi, Kamran Ghaffarzadegan, Alireza Khooei, Abbas Esmaeilzadeh, Mahla Rahmani Khorram, Hooman Mosannen Mozaffari, Behzad Kiani, Benyamin Hoseini

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e023102. Published online 2018 Aug 30. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-023102

PMCID:: PMC6119423

Article PDF–837K

Paediatrics

Research

Development of a simple, practice-based tool to assess quality of paediatric emergency care delivery in resource-limited settings: identifying critical actions via a Delphi study

Rajesh Kirit Daftary, Brittany Lee Murray, Teri Ann Reynolds

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e021123. Published online 2018 Aug 8. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-021123

PMCID:: PMC6089303

Article PDF–705K

Development and evaluation of a hospital discharge information package to empower parents in caring for a child with a fever

Josephine S van de Maat, Daphne van Klink, Anine den Hartogh-Griffioen, Eva Schmidt-Cnossen, Hester Rippen, Amber Hoek, Sarah Neill, Monica Lakhanpaul, Henriette A Moll, Rianne Oostenbrink

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e021697. Published online 2018 Aug 30. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-021697

PMCID:: PMC6119437

Article PDF–1.6M

Patient-Centred Medicine

Protocol

Use of a patient-centred educational exchange (PCEE) to improve patient’s self-management of medicines after a stroke: a randomised controlled trial study protocol

Judith Ann Coombes, Debra Rowett, Jennifer A Whitty, W Neil Cottrell

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e022225. Published online 2018 Aug 30. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-022225

PMCID:: PMC6119418

Article PDF–372K

Research

Validity and reliability of a medical record review method identifying transitional patient safety incidents in merged primary and secondary care patients’ records

Marije A van Melle, Dorien L M Zwart, Judith M Poldervaart, Otto Jan Verkerk, Maaike Langelaan, Henk F van Stel, Niek J de Wit

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e018576. Published online 2018 Aug 13. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-018576

PMCID:: PMC6091899

Article PDF–448K

Defining good health and care from the perspective of persons with multimorbidity: results from a qualitative study of focus groups in eight European countries

Fenna R M Leijten, Maaike Hoedemakers, Verena Struckmann, Markus Kraus, Sudeh Cheraghi-Sohi, Antal Zemplényi, Rune Ervik, Claudia Vallvé, Mirjana Huiĉ, Thomas Czypionka, Melinde Boland, Maureen P M H Rutten-van Mölken

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e021072. Published online 2018 Aug 30. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-021072

PMCID:: PMC6119413

Article PDF–271K

Impact of patient characteristics on the Canadian Patient Experiences Survey–Inpatient Care: survey analysis from an academic tertiary care centre

Fraser D Rubens, Diana M Rothwell, Amal Al Zayadi, Sudhir Sundaresan, Tim Ramsay, Alan Forster

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e021575. Published online 2018 Aug 30. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-021575

Correction in:: BMJ Open. 2018; 8(9): e021575corr1.

PMCID:: PMC6119436

Article PDF–688K

Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Protocol

Effects of methylphenidate on cognition and behaviour in children with neurofibromatosis type 1: a study protocol for a randomised placebo-controlled crossover trial

Natalie A Pride, Belinda Barton, Paul Hutchins, David R Coghill, Mayuresh S Korgaonkar, Stephen J C Hearps, Melissa Rouel, Stephanie Malarbi, Kathryn N North, Jonathan M Payne

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e021800. Published online 2018 Aug 30. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-021800

PMCID:: PMC6119452

Article PDF–1.0M

Public Health

Research

Promoting hygienic weaning food handling practices through a community-based programme: intervention implementation and baseline characteristics for a cluster randomised controlled trial in rural Gambia

Buba Manjang, Karla Hemming, Chris Bradley, Jeroen Ensink, James T Martin, Jama Sowe, Abdou Jarju, Sandy Cairncross, Semira Manaseki-Holland

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e017573. Published online 2018 Aug 5. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-017573

PMCID:: PMC6078275

Article PDF–439K

Determinants of patient and health system delay among Italian and foreign-born patients with pulmonary tuberculosis: a multicentre cross-sectional study

Annalisa Quattrocchi, Martina Barchitta, Carmelo G A Nobile, Rosa Prato, Giovanni Sotgiu, Alessandra Casuccio, Francesco Vitale, Antonella Agodi

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e019673. Published online 2018 Aug 5. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-019673

PMCID:: PMC6078265

Article PDF–272K

Prevalence of low birth weight and its association with maternal body weight status in selected countries in Africa: a cross-sectional study

Zhifei He, Ghose Bishwajit, Sanni Yaya, Zhaohui Cheng, Dongsheng Zou, Yan Zhou

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e020410. Published online 2018 Aug 29. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020410

PMCID:: PMC6119454

Article PDF–270K

Workplace health promotion for employees working in offshore wind parks in the German exclusive economic zone: a mixed-methods study

Janika Mette, Marcial Velasco Garrido, Alexandra Marita Preisser, Volker Harth, Stefanie Mache

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e020493. Published online 2018 Aug 5. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020493

PMCID:: PMC6078244

Article PDF–368K

Impact of missing individual patient data on 18 meta-analyses of randomised trials in oncology: Gustave Roussy experience

Florence Fayard, Claire Petit, Benjamin Lacas, Jean Pierre Pignon

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e020499. Published online 2018 Aug 13. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020499

PMCID:: PMC6091903

Article PDF–699K

Sexual minority status and suicidal behaviour among Chinese adolescents: a nationally representative cross-sectional study

Yeen Huang, Pengsheng Li, Lan Guo, Xue Gao, Yan Xu, Guoliang Huang, Xueqing Deng, Ciyong Lu

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e020969. Published online 2018 Aug 8. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020969

PMCID:: PMC6089305

Article PDF–265K

Ethnic differences in cardiovascular morbidity and mortality among patients with breast cancer in the Netherlands: a register-based cohort study

Laura Deen, Josefien Buddeke, Ilonca Vaartjes, Michiel L Bots, Marie Norredam, Charles Agyemang

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e021509. Published online 2018 Aug 17. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-021509

PMCID:: PMC6104747

Article PDF–230K

Maternal anemia and underweight as determinants of pregnancy outcomes: cohort study in eastern rural Maharashtra, India

Archana Patel, Amber Abhijeet Prakash, Prabir Kumar Das, Swarnim Gupta, Yamini Vinod Pusdekar, Patricia L Hibberd

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e021623. Published online 2018 Aug 8. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-021623

PMCID:: PMC6089300

Article PDF–1.1M

Factors influencing developmental delay among young children in poor rural China: a latent variable approach

Jingxu Zhang, Sufang Guo, Ying Li, Qianwei Wei, Cuihong Zhang, Xiaoli Wang, Shusheng Luo, Chunxia Zhao, Robert W Scherpbier

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e021628. Published online 2018 Sep 1. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-021628

PMCID:: PMC6120651

Article PDF–470K

Exploring how Brazilian immigrant mothers living in the USA obtain information about physical activity and screen time for their preschool-aged children: a qualitative study

Ana Cristina Lindsay, Carlos André Moura Arruda, Márcia Maria Tavares Machado, Gabriela Pereira De Andrade, Mary L Greaney

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e021844. Published online 2018 Aug 6. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-021844

PMCID:: PMC6089290

Article PDF–255K

What are the perceived influences on asthma self-management at the workplace? A qualitative study

Katherina Heinrichs, Patricia Vu-Eickmann, Stefan Hummel, Jalal Gholami, Adrian Loerbroks

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e022126. Published online 2018 Aug 29. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-022126

PMCID:: PMC6119450

Article PDF–917K

Impact of adverse media reporting on public perceptions of the doctor–patient relationship in China: an analysis with propensity score matching method

Jing Sun, Shiyang Liu, Qiannan Liu, Zijuan Wang, Jun Wang, Cecile Jia Hu, Mark Stuntz, Jing Ma, Yuanli Liu

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e022455. Published online 2018 Aug 17. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-022455

PMCID:: PMC6104794

Article PDF–221K

Prevalence of long-term health conditions in adults with autism: observational study of a whole country population

Ewelina Rydzewska, Laura Anne Hughes-McCormack, Christopher Gillberg, Angela Henderson, Cecilia MacIntyre, Julie Rintoul, Sally-Ann Cooper

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e023945. Published online 2018 Sep 1. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-023945

Correction in:: BMJ Open. 2018; 8(11): e023945corr1.

PMCID:: PMC6120653

Article PDF–253K

Qualitative Research

Protocol

Process evaluation of a randomised controlled trial of a pharmacological strategy to improve hypertension control: protocol for a qualitative study

Abdul Salam, Ruth Webster, Anushka Patel, Pavithra Godamunne, Arunasalam Pathmeswaran, H Asita de Silva, Anthony Rogers, Stephen Jan, Tracey-Lea Laba

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e022317. Published online 2018 Aug 17. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-022317

PMCID:: PMC6104790

Article PDF–485K

Research

‘Better to save one life than build a seven-storied pagoda’: a qualitative study of health education for patients with acute coronary syndrome and type 2 diabetes mellitus in Shanghai, China

Xian-Liang Liu, Karen Willis, Chiung-Jung (Jo) Wu, Yan Shi, Maree Johnson

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e019351. Published online 2018 Aug 23. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-019351

PMCID:: PMC6112403

Article PDF–465K

Knowledge mobilisation: an ethnographic study of the influence of lay mindlines on eczema self-management in primary care in the UK

Fiona Cowdell

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e021498. Published online 2018 Aug 29. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-021498

PMCID:: PMC6119411

Article PDF–433K

Rehabilitation Medicine

Protocol

Effects of a 6-month self-rehabilitation programme in addition to botulinum toxin injections and conventional physiotherapy on limitations of patients with spastic hemiparesis following stroke (ADJU-TOX): protocol study for a randomised controlled, investigator blinded study

Celine Bonnyaud, Philippe Gallien, Pierre Decavel, Philippe Marque, Claire Aymard, Frédéric Pellas, Marie-Eve Isner, François Constant Boyer, François Muller, Jean-Christophe Daviet, Patrick Dehail, Brigitte Perrouin-Verbe, Nicolas Bayle, Emmanuel Coudeyre, Dominic Perennou, Isabelle Laffont, Jacques Ropers, Nabila-Yasmine Domingo-Saidji, Djamel Bensmail, Nicolas Roche

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e020915. Published online 2018 Aug 30. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020915

PMCID:: PMC6119443

Article PDF–682K

Research

Mixed methods process evaluation of an enhanced community-based rehabilitation intervention for elderly patients with hip fracture

Jessica Louise Roberts, Aaron W Pritchard, Michelle Williams, Nikki Totton, Val Morrison, Nafees Ud Din, Nefyn H Williams

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e021486. Published online 2018 Aug 8. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-021486

PMCID:: PMC6089270

Article PDF–366K

Does perturbation-based balance training prevent falls among individuals with chronic stroke? A randomised controlled trial

Avril Mansfield, Anthony Aqui, Cynthia J Danells, Svetlana Knorr, Andrew Centen, Vincent G DePaul, Alison Schinkel-Ivy, Dina Brooks, Elizabeth L Inness, George Mochizuki

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e021510. Published online 2018 Aug 17. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-021510

PMCID:: PMC6104758

Article PDF–456K

Standard reference values of the upper body posture in healthy young female adults in Germany: an observational study

Daniela Ohlendorf, Vanessa Fisch, Charlotte Doerry, Sebastian Schamberger, Gerhard Oremek, Hanns Ackermann, Johannes Schulze

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e022236. Published online 2018 Aug 5. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-022236

PMCID:: PMC6078251

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Reproductive Medicine

Research

Risk of metabolic disorders in childless men: a population-based cohort study

Ane Berger Bungum, Clara Helene Glazer, Jens Peter Bonde, Peter M Nilsson, Aleksander Giwercman, Sandra Søgaard Tøttenborg

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e020293. Published online 2018 Aug 17. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020293

PMCID:: PMC6104745

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Research Methods

Protocol

Project SWEAT (Summer Weight and Environmental Assessment Trial): study protocol of an observational study using a multistate, prospective design that examines the weight gain trajectory among a racially and ethnically diverse convenience sample of economically disadvantaged school-age children

Laura C Hopkins, Christine Penicka, Carly Evich, Blake Jones, Carolyn Gunther

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e021168. Published online 2018 Aug 29. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-021168

PMCID:: PMC6119428

Article PDF–567K

Sex and gender differences in caregiving burden experienced by family caregivers of persons with dementia: a systematic review protocol

Chen Xiong, Melissa Biscardi, Emily Nalder, Angela Colantonio

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e022779. Published online 2018 Aug 13. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-022779

PMCID:: PMC6091900

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Clinical and cost-effectiveness of one-session treatment (OST) versus multisession cognitive–behavioural therapy (CBT) for specific phobias in children: protocol for a non-inferiority randomised controlled trial

Barry D Wright, Cindy Cooper, Alexander J Scott, Lucy Tindall, Shehzad Ali, Penny Bee, Katie Biggs, Trilby Breckman, Thompson E Davis III, Lina Gega, Rebecca Julie Hargate, Ellen Lee, Karina Lovell, David Marshall, Dean McMillan, M Dawn Teare, Jonathan Wilson

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e025031. Published online 2018 Aug 17. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-025031

PMCID:: PMC6104754

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Protocol for a scoping review to support development of a CONSORT extension for randomised controlled trials using cohorts and routinely collected health data

Linda Kwakkenbos, Mahrukh Imran, Kimberly A McCord, Margaret Sampson, Ole Fröbert, Chris Gale, Lars G Hemkens, Sinead M Langan, David Moher, Clare Relton, Merrick Zwarenstein, Eric I Benchimol, Isabelle Boutron, Marion K Campbell, David Erlinge, Sena Jawad, Philippe Ravaud, Danielle B Rice, Maureen Sauve, Tjeerd P van Staa, Lehana Thabane, Rudolf Uher, Helena M Verkooijen, Edmund Juszczak, Brett D Thombs

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e025266. Published online 2018 Aug 5. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-025266

PMCID:: PMC6078273

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Respiratory Medicine

Research

Alcohol and the risk of pneumonia: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Evangelia Simou, John Britton, Jo Leonardi-Bee

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e022344. Published online 2018 Aug 22. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-022344

PMCID:: PMC6112384

Article PDF–613K

Rheumatology

Protocol

A randomised placebo-controlled double-blind trial to assess the safety of intramuscular administration of allogeneic mesenchymal stromal cells for digital ulcers in systemic sclerosis: the MANUS Trial protocol

Femke C C van Rhijn-Brouwer, Hendrik Gremmels, Joost O Fledderus, Arnold H Schuurman, Femke Bonte-Mineur, Madelon C Vonk, Alexandre E Voskuyl, Jeska K de Vries-Bouwstra, J Henk Coert, Timothy R D J Radstake, Jacob M van Laar, Marianne C Verhaar, the MANUS Study Group

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e020479. Published online 2018 Aug 20. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020479

PMCID:: PMC6104757

Article PDF–512K

Research

Gout and hearing impairment in the elderly: a retrospective cohort study using the US Medicare claims data

Jasvinder A Singh, John D Cleveland

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e022854. Published online 2018 Aug 20. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-022854

PMCID:: PMC6104764

Article PDF–243K

Smoking and Tobacco

Research

Differential intervention effectiveness of a universal school-based resilience intervention in reducing adolescent substance use within student subgroups: exploratory assessment within a cluster-randomised controlled trial

Rebecca Kate Hodder, Megan Freund, Jenny Bowman, Luke Wolfenden, Elizabeth Campbell, Julia Dray, Christophe Lecathelinais, Christopher Oldmeadow, John Attia, John Wiggers

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e021047. Published online 2018 Aug 29. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-021047

PMCID:: PMC6119444

Article PDF–1.0M

Sports and Exercise Medicine

Research

Ginkgo biloba extract for prevention of acute mountain sickness: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials

Tou-Yuan Tsai, Shih-Hao Wang, Yi-Kung Lee, Yung-Cheng Su

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e022005. Published online 2018 Aug 17. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-022005

PMCID:: PMC6104799

Article PDF–798K

Surgery

Protocol

Global prevalence and incidence of surgical site infections after appendectomy: a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol

Celestin Danwang, Temgoua Ngou Mazou, Joel Noutakdie Tochie, Rolf Nyah Tuku Nzalie, Jean Joel Bigna

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e020101. Published online 2018 Aug 30. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020101

PMCID:: PMC6119422

Article PDF–206K

Weight loss surgery for obstructive sleep apnoea with obesity in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol

Zhiyong Dong, Brian Y Hong, Ashley M Yu, John Cathey, Sheikh Mohammed Shariful Islam, Cunchuan Wang

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e020876. Published online 2018 Aug 29. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020876

PMCID:: PMC6119449

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Laparoscopic or open distal gastrectomy after neoadjuvant chemotherapy for advanced gastric cancer: study protocol for a randomised phase II trial

Ziyu Li, Fei Shan, Xiangji Ying, Lianhai Zhang, Hui Ren, Shuangxi Li, Yongning Jia, Rulin Miao, Kan Xue, Zhemin Li, Yinkui Wang, Chao Yan, Yan Zhang, Fei Pang, Jiafu Ji

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e021633. Published online 2018 Aug 10. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-021633

PMCID:: PMC6089315

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Arthroscopic-assisted balloon tibioplasty versus open reduction internal fixation (ORIF) for treatment of Schatzker II–IV tibial plateau fractures: study protocol of a randomised controlled trial

Ji-Qi Wang, Bing-Jie Jiang, Wei-Jun Guo, Wei-Jiang Zhang, A-Bing Li, You-Ming Zhao

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e021667. Published online 2018 Aug 8. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-021667

PMCID:: PMC6089321

Article PDF–338K

Research

Short-term outcomes after emergency surgery for complicated peptic ulcer disease from the UK National Emergency Laparotomy Audit: a cohort study

Benjamin E Byrne, Michael Bassett, Chris A Rogers, Iain D Anderson, Ian Beckingham, Jane M Blazeby

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e023721. Published online 2018 Aug 20. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-023721

PMCID:: PMC6104767

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Urology

Protocol

Robot-assisted radical cystectomy with intracorporeal urinary diversion versus open radical cystectomy (iROC): protocol for a randomised controlled trial with internal feasibility study

James W F Catto, Pramit Khetrapal, Gareth Ambler, Rachael Sarpong, Muhammad Shamim Khan, Melanie Tan, Andrew Feber, Simon Dixon, Louise Goodwin, Norman R Williams, John McGrath, Edward Rowe, Anthony Koupparis, Chris Brew-Graves, John D Kelly

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e020500. Published online 2018 Aug 8. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020500

Correction in:: BMJ Open. 2019; 9(8): e020500corr1.

PMCID:: PMC6089318

Article PDF–1.0M

Research

Reuse of intermittent catheters: a qualitative study of IC users’ perspectives

Miriam Avery, Jacqui Prieto, Ikumi Okamoto, Samantha Cullen, Bridget Clancy, Katherine N Moore, Margaret Macaulay, Mandy Fader

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e021554. Published online 2018 Aug 17. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-021554

PMCID:: PMC6104744

Article PDF–273K

Attitude towards active surveillance: a cross-sectional survey among patients with uroandrological disorders

Paolo Capogrosso, Luca Boeri, Eugenio Ventimiglia, Ilenya Camozzi, Walter Cazzaniga, Francesco Chierigo, Roberta Scano, Alberto Briganti, Francesco Montorsi, Andrea Salonia

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e022495. Published online 2018 Aug 29. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-022495

PMCID:: PMC6119427

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Pioglitazone use and Parkinson’s disease: a retrospective cohort study in Taiwan

Hsiu-Feng Wu, Li-Ting Kao, Jui-Hu Shih, Hui-Han Kao, Yu-Ching Chou, I-Hsun Li, Senyeong Kao

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e023302. Published online 2018 Aug 29. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-023302

PMCID:: PMC6119417

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Corrections

Correction: Randomised controlled trial to determine the efficacy and safety of prescribed water intake to prevent kidney failure due to autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (PREVENT-ADPKD)

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e018794corr1. Published online 2018 Aug 5. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-018794corr1

Corrects:: BMJ Open. 2018; 8(1): e018794.

PMCID:: PMC6078274

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Correction: A pushing chronic care forward in Abu Dhabi by identifying priorities and addressing barriers: a modified Delphi technique

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e020189corr1. Published online 2018 Aug 10. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020189corr1

Corrects:: BMJ Open. 2018; 8(6): e020189.

PMCID:: PMC6089306

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Correction: Patent foramen ovale closure, antiplatelet therapy or anticoagulation in patients with patent foramen ovale and cryptogenic stroke: a systematic review and network meta-analysis incorporating complementary external evidence

BMJ Open. 2018; 8(8): e023761corr1. Published online 2018 Aug 17. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-023761corr1

Corrects:: BMJ Open. 2018; 8(7): e023761.

PMCID:: PMC6104780

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