Publications by authors named "A H BRIGGS"

Objectives: Papers reporting value sets typically only report the standard errors (SEs) around each estimated coefficient in value set models. This is important information but does not help those building cost effectiveness models, who need to know the uncertainty around the values of health states in order to conduct sensitivity analyses. This paper's aim is to demonstrate how SEs around HRQoL values can be calculated, using the example of the UK EQ-5D-3L value set.

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Using the Australiasian electronic Persistent Pain Outcomes Collaboration, a binational pain registry collecting standardized clinical data from paediatric ePPOC (PaedsePPOC) and adult pain services (AdultePPOC), we explored and characterized nationally representative chronic pain phenotypes and associations with clinical and sociodemographic factors, health care utilization, and medicine use of young people. Young people ≥15.0 and <25.

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  • Older adults receive better perioperative care when a multidisciplinary approach is used, leading to shorter hospital stays and fewer readmissions.
  • Interviews with healthcare providers revealed issues with communication due to fragmented health information systems, creating a burden on clinicians and resulting in duplicated services.
  • Clinicians highlighted the need for improved, direct communication linked to patient charts and suggested enhancing technology and interprofessional collaboration to improve efficiency and safety in perioperative care.
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Background: Telemedicine is increasingly used within healthcare worldwide. More is known about its efficacy in treating different conditions and its application to different contexts than about service-users' and practitioners' experiences or how best to support implementation.

Aims: To review adult service-users' experiences of synchronous video consultations with nurses, allied health professionals and psychological therapists, find out how consultations impact different groups of service-users and identify requirements for their conduct at individual, organisational, regional, and national levels.

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Anxiety is highly prevalent in Alzheimer's disease (AD), correlating with cerebrospinal fluid/positron emission tomography biomarkers and disease progression. Relationships to plasma biomarkers are unclear. Herein, we compare levels of plasma biomarkers in research participants with and without anxiety at cognitively normal, mild cognitive impairment, and AD dementia stages.

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