PRIMARY CARE AND MULTIMORBIDITY RESEARCH GROUP

Publications 2021

2021 Publications (46)

 

Adeloye, D, Daines, L, Dockrell, DH, Rudan, I & Sheikh, A 2021, 'International research priorities to address the long-term respiratory effects of COVID-19 in airways disease', The Lancet Respiratory Medicine.

 

Adeloye, D, Daines, L, Rudan, I & Sheikh, A 2021, 'The long-term sequelae of COVID-19: an international consensus on research priorities for patients with pre-existing and new-onset airways disease', The Lancet Respiratory Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2213-2600(21)00286-1

 

Baird D, De Souza N, Logan R, Walker H, Guthrie B, Bell S.  Impact of electronic alerts for acute kidney injury on patient outcomes: interrupted time-series analysis of population cohort data.  Clin Kidney J. 2020 Oct 21;14(2):639-646. doi: 10.1093/ckj/sfaa151. eCollection 2021 Feb.  PMID: 33623690 Free PMC article.

 

Bawa, FLM, Sutton, JW, Mercer, SW & Bond, CM 2021, '“I’m empowered to look after myself” - Mindfulness as a way to manage chronic pain: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of participant experiences in Scotland', Social Science & Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114073

 

Burton JK, Goodman C, Guthrie B, Gordon AL, Hanratty B, Quinn TJ.  Closing the UK care home data gap - methodological challenges and solutions.  Int J Popul Data Sci. 2021 May 12;6(1):1391. doi: 10.23889/ijpds.v5i4.1391.  PMID: 34046529 Free PMC article.

 

Burton JK, McMinn M, Vaughan JE, Fleuriot J, Guthrie B  Care-home outbreaks of COVID-19 in Scotland March to May 2020: national linked data cohort analysis.  Age Ageing. 2021 May 8:afab099. doi: 10.1093/ageing/afab099. Online ahead of print.PMID: 33963849

 

Carr, E, Bendayan, R, Bean, D, Stammers, M, Wang, W, Zhang, H, Searle, T, Kraljevic, Z, Shek, A, Phan, HTT, London, K, Gupta, RK, Shinton, AJ, Wyatt, M, Shi, T, Zhang, X, Pickles, A, Stahl, D, Zakeri, R, Noursadeghi, M, O'Gallagher, K, Rogers, M, Folarin, A, Karwath, A, Wickstrom, KE, Kohn-Luque, A, Slater, L, Cardoso, VR, Bourdeaux, C, Holten, AR, Ball, S, McWilliams, C, Roguski, L, Borca, F, Bachelor, J, Amundsen, EK, Wu, X, Gkoutos, GV, Sun, J, Pinto, A, Guthrie, B, Breen, C, Douiri, A, Wu, H, Curcin, V, Teo, JT, M Shah, A & Dodson, RJB 2021, 'Evaluation and Improvement of the National Early Warning Score (NEWS2) for COVID-19: a multi-hospital study', BMC Medicine, vol. 19, no. 23, 23. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-020-01893-3

 

Chamberlain, RC, Fleetwood, K, Wild, SH, Colhoun, HM, Lindsay, RS, Petrie, JR, McCrimmon, RJ, Gibb, F, Philip, S, Sattar, NA, Kennon, B & Leese, GP 2021, 'Foot ulcer and risk of lower limb amputation or death in people with diabetes: A national population-based retrospective cohort study', Diabetes Care. https://doi.org/10.2337/dc21-1596

 

Chng, NR, Hawkins, K, Fitzpatrick, B, O'Donnell, C, Mackenzie, M, Wyke, S & Mercer, SW 2021, 'Implementing social prescribing in primary care in areas of high socioeconomic deprivation: process evaluation of the ‘Deep End’ community links worker programme ', British Journal of General Practice. https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGP.2020.1153

 

Daines L, Buekers J, Bolado BA, Kocks JWH, Vagheggini G, Poberezhets V, Vogiatzis I, Pinnock H, Vanfleteren LEGW. ERS International Congress 2020: highlights from the General Pneumology Assembly.    ERJ Open Res. 2021 Feb 8;7(1):00841-2020. doi: 10.1183/23120541.00841-2020. eCollection 2021 Jan.  PMID: 33585656 

 

Fleetwood, K, Wild, SH, Smith, DJ, Mercer, SW, Licence, K, Sudlow, CLM & Jackson, CA 2021, 'Association of severe mental illness with stroke outcomes and process-of-care indicators: nationwide cohort study', The British Journal of Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2021.120

 

Fleetwood, K, Wild, SH, Smith, DJ, Mercer, SW, Licence, K, Sudlow, CLM & Jackson, CA 2021, 'Severe mental illness and mortality and coronary revascularisation following a myocardial infarction: a retrospective cohort study', BMC Medicine, vol. 19, no. 1, 67.  https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-021-01937-2

 

Guthrie G, Guthrie B, Walker H, James MT, Selby NM, Tonelli M, Bell S.   Developing an AKI Consensus Definition for Database Research: Findings From a Scoping Review and Expert Opinion Using a Delphi Process.  Am J Kidney Dis. 2021 Jul 12:S0272-6386(21)00730-7. doi: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2021.05.019. Online ahead of print.  PMID: 34298142

 

Hanlon, P, Corcoran, N, Rughani, G, Shah, ASV, Mair, FS, Guthrie, B, Renton, JP & McAllister, DA 2021, 'Observed and expected serious adverse event rates in randomised clinical trials for hypertension: An observational study comparing trials which do and do not focus on older people ', The Lancet. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2666-7568(21)00092-1

 

Ho, I, Azcoaga-Lorenzo, A, Akbari, A, Black, C, Davies, J, Hodgins, P, Khunti, K, Leicester, U, Lyons, RA, McGowan, C, Mercer, SW, Nirantharakumar, K & Guthrie, B 2021, 'Examining variation in the measurement of multimorbidity in research: a systematic review of 566 studies', The Lancet Public Health.  

 

Hodgins, P, McMinn, M, Reed, MJ, Mercer, SW & Guthrie, B 2021, 'Telephone triage of young adults with chest pain: population analysis of NHS24 calls in Scottish unscheduled care', Emergency Medicine Journal.  https://doi.org/dx.doi.org/10.1136/emermed-2020-210594

 

Hu, X-J, Wang, HHX, Li, Y-T, Wu, X-Y, Chen, J-H, Wang, J-J, Wong, SYS & Mercer, SW 2021, 'Healthcare needs, experiences, and treatment burden in primary care patients with multimorbidity: an evaluation of process of care from patients' perspectives', Health Expectations. https://doi.org/doi.org/10.1111/hex.13363

 

Huang, H, Jefferson, E, Gotink, M, Sinclair, C, Mercer, SW & Guthrie, B 2021,  Collaborative improvement in Scottish GP clusters after the Quality and Outcomes Framework: a qualitative study - PubMed (nih.gov) ', British Journal of General Practice.

 

Kanungo , S, Ghosal, S, Kerketta , S, Sinha , A, Mercer, SW, Lee, JT & Pati, S 2021, 'Association of Oral Health with Multimorbidity among Older Adults: Findings from the Longitudinal Ageing Study in India, Wave-1, 2017–2019', International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol. 18, no. 23, 12853. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182312853

 

International COVID-19 Airways Diseases Group 2021, 'The long-term sequelae of COVID-19: an international consensus on research priorities for patients with pre-existing and new-onset airways disease', The Lancet Respiratory Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2213-2600(21)00286-1

 

Livingstone S, Morales DR, Donan PT, Payne K, Thompson aj, Youn J, Guthrie B.   Effect of competing mortality risks on predictive performance of the QRISK3 cardiovascular risk prediction tool in older people and those with comorbidity: external validation population cohort study.  The Lancet Healthy Longevity, Volume 2, Issue 6, June 2021, pages e352 - e361.

 

McKeigue PM, Kennedy S, Weir A, Bishop J, McGurnaghan SJ, McAllister D, Robertson C, Wood R, Lone N, Murray J, Caparrotta TM, Smith-Palmer A, Goldberg D, McMenamin J, Guthrie B, Hutchinson S, Colhoun HM; Public Health Scotland COVID-19 Health Protection Study Group. Relation of severe COVID-19 to polypharmacy and prescribing of psychotropic drugs: the REACT-SCOT case-control study.  BMC Med. 2021 Feb 22;19(1):51. doi: 10.1186/s12916-021-01907-8.  PMID: 33612113 Free PMC article.

 

McKinstry, B, Alexander, H, Maxwell, G, Blaikie, L, Patel, S & Guthrie, B 2021, 'The use of telemonitoring in managing the COVID pandemic: a pilot implementation study', JMIR formative research. https://doi.org/10.2196/20131

 

McMinn, M, Martikainen, P, Härkänen, T, Tolonen, H, Pitkanen, J, Leyland, A & Gray, L 2021, 'Adjustment for survey non-participation using record-linkage and multiple imputation: a validity assessment exercise using the Health 2000 survey ', Scandinavian Journal of Public Health.

 

MacRae, C, Henderson, D, Mercer, SW, Burton, J, De Souza, N, Grill, P, Marwick, C & Guthrie, B 2021, 'Excessive polypharmacy and potentially inappropriate prescribing in 147 care-homes: cross-sectional study', BJGP Open.

 

MacRae C, Mercer S, Guthrie B.  Potentially inappropriate primary care prescribing in people with chronic kidney disease: a cross-sectional analysis of a large population cohort.   Br J Gen Pract. 2020 Dec 14:BJGP.2020.0871. doi: 10.3399/BJGP.2020.0871. Online ahead of print.  PMID: 33947664

 

MacRae C, Mercer SW, Guthrie G, Henderson D. Prevalence of concordant and discordant comorbidity in chronic kidney disease: a large cross-sectional study. BJGP 2021 8 February 2021; bjgp20X714125. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp20X714125

 

Matsuhisa T, Takahashi N, Takahashi K, Yoshikawa Y, Aomatsu M, Sato J, Mercer SW, Ban N. Effect of physician attire on patient perceptions of empathy in Japan: a quasi-randomized controlled trial in primary care.  BMC Fam Pract. 2021 Mar 31;22(1):59. doi: 10.1186/s12875-021-01416-w.  PMID: 33789572

 

Mercer S, Henderson D, Huang H, Donaghy E, Stewart E, Guthrie B, Wang H.  Integration of health and social care: necessary but challenging for all.   Br J Gen Pract. 2021 Sep 30;71(711):442-443. doi: 10.3399/bjgp21X717101. Print 2021 Oct.  PMID: 34593390 No abstract available.

 

Mercer SW, Patterson J, Roson JP, Smith SM, Walton E, Watt G.  The inverse care law and the potential of primary care in deprived areas - The Lancet   Published:February 27, 2021 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)00317-2

 

Pan T, Mercer SW, Zhao Y, McPake B, Desloge A, Atun R, Hulse ESG, Lee JT. BMC Public Health. 2021 Feb 18;21(1):376. doi: 10.1186/s12889-021-10414-7. PMID: 33602174 The association between mental-physical multimorbidity and disability, work productivity, and social participation in China: a panel data analysis - PubMed (nih.gov)

 

Petersen JD, Wehberg S, Packness A, Svensson NH, Hyldig N, Raunsgaard S, Andersen MK, Ryg J, Mercer SW, Søndergaard J, Waldorff FB.  Association of Socioeconomic Status With Dementia Diagnosis Among Older Adults in Denmark.   JAMA Netw Open. 2021 May 3;4(5):e2110432. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.10432.   PMID: 34003271

 

PHOSP-COVID Collaborative Group & Baillie, JK 2021, 'Physical, cognitive, and mental health impacts of COVID-19 after hospitalisation (PHOSP-COVID): a UK multicentre, prospective cohort study', The Lancet Respiratory Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2213-2600(21)00383-0

 

Public Health Scotland COVID-19 Health Protection Study Group 2021, 'Relation of severe COVID-19 to polypharmacy and prescribing of psychotropic drugs: the REACT-SCOT case-control study', BMC Medicine, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 51. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-021-01907-8

 

Rozing, MP, Jonsson, A, Koster-Rasmussen, R, Cop, PHU, Brodersen, J, Bissenbakker, KH, Siersma, V, Mercer, SW, Guassora, AD, Kjellberg, J, Kjellberg, PK, Nielsen, MH, Cop, PHU, Bardram, JE, Martiny, F, Moller, A & Reventlow, S 2021, 'The SOFIA Pilot Trial: A cluster-randomized trial of coordinated, co-produced care to reduce mortality and improve quality of life in people with severe mental illness in the general practice setting', Pilot and Feasibility Studies, vol. 7, no. 168, 168. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-021-00906-z

 

Scottish Diabetes Research Network Epidemiology Group 2021, 'Epidemiology of type 2 diabetes remission in Scotland in 2019: a cross-sectional population-based study', PLoS Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1003828

 

Scottish Diabetes Research Network Epidemiology Group 2021, 'International comparison of glycaemic control in people with type 1 diabetes: an update and extension', Diabetic Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1111/dme.14766

 

Simpson R, Simpson S, Wasilewski M, Mercer S, Lawrence M.  Mindfulness-based interventions for people with multiple sclerosis: a systematic review and meta-aggregation of qualitative research studies.  Disabil Rehabil. 2021 Sep 9:1-15. doi: 10.1080/09638288.2021.1964622. Online ahead of print.  PMID: 34498997

 

Steele, C, Wodchis, WP, Upshur, R, Tahsin, F, McKinstry, B, Mercer, SW, Palen, TE, Ramsay, T, Thavorn, K & Nie, J 2021, 'Assessing the implementation and effectiveness of the Electronic Patient Reported Outcome Tool for Seniors with Complex Care Needs: Mixed Methods Study ', Journal of medical Internet research, vol. 23, no. 12. https://doi.org/10.2196/29071

 

Stokes, J, Guthrie, B, Mercer, SW, Rice, N & Sutton, M 2021, 'Multimorbidity combinations, costs of hospital care and potentially preventable emergency admissions in England: A cohort study', PLoS Medicine, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. e1003514. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1003514

 

Sturmberg JP, Linn Getz L, Stange HC, Upshur REG, Mercer SW. Beyond multimorbidity: What can we learn from complexity science? - PubMed (nih.gov) . J Eval Clin Pract. 2021;1–7. DOI: 10.1111/jep.13521. 

 

Tahsin, F, Tracy, S, Chau, E, Harvey, S, Loganathan, M, McKinstry, B, Mercer, SW, Nie, J, Ramsey, T, Thavorn, K, Srinatharan, J & Gray, CS 2021, 'Exploring the relationship between the usability of a goal-oriented mobile health application and non-usage attrition in patients with multimorbidity: a blended data analysis approach', Digital Health, vol. 7. https://doi.org/10.1177/20552076211045579

 

Turnbull, A, Donaghy, E, Salisbury, L, Ramsay, P, Rattray, J, Walsh, TS & Lone, NI 2021, 'Polypharmacy and emergency readmission to hospital after critical illness: a population-level cohort study', British Journal of Anaesthesia, vol. 126, no. 2, pp. P415-422. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bja.2020.09.035

 

Wang, HHX & Mercer, SW 2021, 'Understanding barriers to adherence to optimal treatment of elevated blood pressure and hypertension: insights from primary care', JAMA Network Open, vol. 4, no. 12. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.38651

 

Wang, Y, Hu, X-J, Wang, H, Duan, H-Y, Chen, Y, Li, Y-T, Luo, Z-L, Li, X, Wang, J-J & Mercer, SW 2021, 'Follow-up care delivery in community-based hypertension and type 2 diabetes management: a multi-centre, survey study among rural primary care physicians in China', BMC Family Practice, vol. 22, no. 224 (2021), 224 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12875-021-01564-z

 

Williams, T., MacRae, C.Swann, O.Haseeb, H.Cunningham, S., Philip, D., Lamb, C., Levin, R., McDougall, C., McFadzean, J., Piper, I., Turner, A., Turner, S., Van Dijke, M., Urqhuart, D., Guthrie, B. & Langley, Indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on paediatric healthcare use and severe disease: a retrospective national cohort study R., 4 Jan 2021, In: Archives of Disease in Childhood.  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review