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Risk of incident diabetes among patients treated with statins

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Telemonitoring based service redesign for the management of uncontrolled hypertension

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Completeness and diagnostic validity of recording acute myocardial infarction events in primary care, hospital care, disease registry, and national mortality records

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The gap in life expectancy from preventable physical illness in psychiatric patients

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Implementation of self management support for long term conditions in routine primary care settings

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Associations between the organisation of stroke services, process of care, and mortality in England

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Cost effectiveness of the NHS breast screening programme

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Diagnostic accuracy of conventional or age adjusted D-dimer cut-off values in older patients with suspected venous thromboembolism

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Derivation and validation of QStroke score for predicting risk of ischaemic stroke in primary care

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Breast cancer detection and survival among women with cosmetic breast implants

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Staffing in intensive care units at night

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Oxandrolone no better than placebo for severe pressure ulcers

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Music to calm patients who are ventilated and awake

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Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection or harmless colonisation?

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Prone positioning can save lives

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Parastomal hernia and stoma granuloma

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Rash in haemolytic disease of newborn

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Complication of pellagra in anorexia nervosa

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Diagnostic accuracy studies: how to report and analyse inconclusive test results

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The Ottawa Statement on the ethical design and conduct of cluster randomised trials: précis for researchers and research ethics committees

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Clinicians are right not to like Cohen’s κ

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