Health and Safety Reps in COVID-19-Representation Unleashed?

The paper explores the role of UK union health and safety representatives and changes to representative structures governing workplace and organisational Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) during COVID-19. It draws upon a survey of 648 UK Trade Union Congress (TUC) Health and Safety (H&S) representatives, as well as case studies of 12 organisations in eight key sectors. The survey indicates expanded union H&S representation, but only half of the respondents reported H&S committees in their organisations.

Dug: a semantic search engine leveraging peer-reviewed knowledge to query biomedical data repositories.

Motivation: As the number of public data resources continues to proliferate, identifying relevant datasets across heterogenous repositories is becoming critical to answering scientific questions. To help researchers navigate this data landscape, we developed Dug: a semantic search tool for biomedical datasets utilizing evidence-based relationships from curated knowledge graphs to find relevant datasets and explain why those results are returned.

Results: Developed through the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute's (NHLBI) BioData Catalyst ecosystem, Dug has indexed more than 15 911 study variables from public datasets.

Characterisation and application of recombinant FVIII-neutralising antibodies from haemophilia A inhibitor patients.

The development of anti-drug antibodies (ADAs) is a serious outcome of treatment strategies involving biological medicines. Coagulation factor VIII (FVIII) is used to treat haemophilia A patients, but its immunogenicity precludes a third of severe haemophiliac patients from receiving this treatment. The availability of patient-derived anti-drug antibodies can help us better understand drug immunogenicity and identify ways to overcome it.

Enduro World Series (EWS) Mountain Biking Injuries: A 2-year Prospective Study of 2010 Riders.

The sport of Enduro is the newest International Cycling Union sanctioned discipline in mountain biking. There are a number of studies reporting mountain biking injury to date however there are none detailing injuries in Enduro. The aim of the present study was to determine the rate, severity and nature of rider injury during the Enduro World Series.

Depression, Anxiety, and Alcohol Use in Elite Rugby League Players Over a Competitive Season.

Objective: To assess the prevalence of symptoms of depression, anxiety, and rates of alcohol misuse in elite rugby league players in Australasia.

Design: A cross-sectional, epidemiological study with repeated measures.

Setting: Surveys were conducted during the 2015 preseason and in-season.

Design and trial of a new ambulance-to-emergency department handover protocol: 'IMIST-AMBO'.

Background: Information communicated by ambulance paramedics to Emergency Department (ED) staff during handover of patients has been found to be inconsistent and incomplete, and yet has major implications for patients' subsequent hospital treatment and trajectory of care.

Aim: The study's aims were to: (1) identify the existing structure of paramedic-to-emergency staff handovers by video recording and analysing them; (2) involve practitioners in reflecting on practice using the footage; (3) combine those reflections with formal analyses of these filmed handovers to design a handover protocol; (4) trial-run the protocol; and (5) assess the protocol's enactment.

Method: The study was a 'video-reflexive ethnography' involving: structured analysis of videoed handovers (informed by ED clinicians' and ambulance paramedics' comments); ED clinicians and ambulance paramedics viewing their own practices; and rapid at-work training and feedback for paramedics.

Surgical treatment of a Morgagni hernia causing intermittent gastric outlet obstruction.

A Morgagni hernia is a rare diaphragmatic hernia which develops through a congenital defect in the retrosternal area, usually on the right hand side. Because of its congenital aetiology, Morgagni hernias are rarely considered in the differential diagnosis of gastric outlet obstruction symptoms in adults. We present a patient with an incarcerated Morgagni hernia who presented with gastric outlet obstruction.

Right thoracoabdominal stab injury penetrating the liver and gallbladder: lessons in penetrating knife wounds to the chest and abdomen.

The authors report a patient who suffered a penetrating knife injury to the right thoracoabdominal region which penetrated through the liver and both sides of the gallbladder. This injury was treated successfully by laparotomy and cholecystectomy.

Traumatic rupture of a gastrointestinal stromal tumour with intraperitoneal bleeding and haematoma formation.

A 40-year-old man presented with acute abdominal pain and falling haemoglobin after a history of minor abdominal trauma. Radiological imaging showed a large soft tissue mass situated between the anterior stomach wall and peritoneum. At diagnostic laparoscopy, intra-abdominal blood and an encapsulated haematoma were found.

Teaching evidence-based medicine skills can change practice in a community hospital.

Objectives: Several studies have evaluated whether evidence-based medicine (EBM) training courses can improve skills such as literature searching and critical appraisal but to date, few data exist on whether teaching EBM skills and providing evidence-based resources result in change in behavior or clinical outcomes. This study was conducted to evaluate whether a multifaceted EBM intervention consisting of teaching EBM skills and provision of electronic evidence resources changed clinical practice.

Design: Before/after study.