Publications by authors named "J C Sneddon"
Background: There is wide variation in antibiotic prescribing across care-homes for older people, with implications for resident outcomes and antimicrobial resistance.
Objective: To quantify variation in antibiotic prescribing and associations with resident, care-home and general practice characteristics.
Design: Population-based analyses using administrative data.
Background: Antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) programmes seek to reduce the risk of antimicrobial resistance by minimizing inappropriate antimicrobial use. The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic was characterized by initial widespread use of antimicrobials in patients with COVID-19, with potential negative effects on AMS efforts.
Objective: To explore the impact of the pandemic on the AMS workforce in Scottish acute care hospitals.
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- * A case study of a 37-year-old male showed that after 5 years of persistent elbow pain and an MRI confirming the condition, the patient underwent surgery for both the hypertrophied ligament and lateral epicondylitis, resulting in complete symptom relief.
- * The text underscores the importance of recognizing this condition to facilitate early surgical intervention, preventing further joint damage, and aims to enhance awareness among nurses and hand surgeons regarding its diagnosis and treatment.
Objective: Personal values and personality traits are both important aspects of personality, but much is still unknown about the fundamental differences between the constructs, including how their patterns of temporal stability compare. This paper investigated patterns of intra-individual stability in both values and traits.
Method: Quantile correlations were estimated between each of the 20 refined personal values and the same values 2 years later in a large longitudinal sample of Australian adults (N = 2875).
The UK Antimicrobial Registry (UKAR) has been developed to capture data on real world usage of antimicrobial agents with an initial focus on those used to treat drug-resistant infections. Several industry partners have committed support for the study, which is included in the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) portfolio in England with similar arrangements in the three devolved UK nations. The two antimicrobials in the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) subscription model pilot (cefiderocol and ceftazidime/avibactam) are included in the UKAR and future expansion of work in this area is planned.
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