Publications by authors named "Eleanor Swift"
Introduction: The British HIV Association (BHIVA) guidelines were amended during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, allowing for less frequent monitoring of routine bloods. We assessed the impact of this on patient outcomes.
Methods: Between April 2020 and March 2021, routine blood appointments at our HIV clinic were replaced by virtual consultations in 'stable' people living with HIV (PLWH), defined using standard operating procedure (SOP) criteria.
Background: To address if the long-standing association between maternal infection, depression/anxiety in pregnancy, and offspring neurodevelopmental disorder (NDD) is causal, we conducted two negative-control studies.
Methods: Four primary care cohorts of UK children (pregnancy, 1 and 2 years prior to pregnancy, and siblings) born between 1 January 1990 and 31 December 2017 were constructed. NDD included autism/autism spectrum disorder, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, intellectual disability, cerebral palsy, and epilepsy.
Article Synopsis
- - Antipsychotic prescriptions for children and adolescents have been on the rise globally, prompting a study on prescribing trends and reasons for prescriptions in a large English cohort from 2000 to 2019.
- - Using a primary care database (CPRD Aurum), researchers tracked 7,216,791 children and adolescents, identifying 19,496 individuals who received 243,529 antipsychotic prescriptions while analyzing trends by age, gender, and socio-economic status.
- - The study employed an algorithm to determine likely reasons for initial prescriptions due to a lack of direct indication data, highlighting clinical preferences for different types of antipsychotics across varying deprivation levels.
Background: Whilst childbirth is a leading cause of mental illness in women, how it affects women at different ages is unknown.
Aims: We examine whether the effect of childbirth on mental illness varies at different ages.
Methods: From 2,657,751 women identified from a UK population-based primary care database, 355,864 postpartum periods, with no history of mental illness, were matched on year of birth and general practice to 1,420,350 non-postpartum periods.
Background: Little information exists about the prevalence of children exposed to maternal mental illness. We aimed to estimate the prevalence of children and adolescents exposed to maternal mental illness in the UK between 2005 and 2017 using primary care data.
Methods: In this national retrospective cohort study, we included children aged 0-16 years born between Jan 1, 1991, and Dec 31, 2015, who were linked to their mothers and registered on the primary care Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) between 2005 and 2017.