Publications by authors named "L Duckworth"

Anal squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) incidence has increased, and treatment has shifted from surgery to chemoradiotherapy (CRT), with salvage abdominoperineal resection (APR) being reserved for persistent/recurrent cases. This study evaluates the utility of different Tumor Regression Scoring Systems (TRSS) in predicting survival in anal SCC patients, using pathologists' observations and digital pathology. Cases managed surgically from 2005 to 2019 were collected.

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Background: The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) in England and Wales was the first major child abuse inquiry internationally to appoint survivors to a formal role. The appointment of the Victims and Survivors Consultative Panel (VSCP) reflects growing recognition of the value of lived experience expertise and a broader shift in the policy domain towards public involvement and co-design.

Objective: This article draws on research that sought to understand both the experiences of a group of victims and survivors with related professional expertise consulting to a public inquiry, and the impact they had on the operation of the inquiry.

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Hospital-acquired falls are a continuing clinical concern. The emergence of advanced analytical methods, including NLP, has created opportunities to leverage nurse-generated data, such as clinical notes, to better address the problem of falls. In this nurse-driven study, we employed an iterative process for expert manual annotation of RNs clinical notes to enable the training and testing of an NLP pipeline to extract factors related to falls.

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The World Health Organization (WHO) diagnostic criteria for malignant phyllodes tumor (MPT) may miss a significant number of MPTs with metastatic potential. New refined diagnostic criteria (Refined Criteria) for MPT were recently proposed. The aim of this study is to validate the Refined Criteria.

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Article Synopsis
  • Whipple disease is a rare infection that primarily causes malabsorption and diarrhea, and it's diagnosed through biopsies that typically reveal specific types of foamy macrophages.
  • An analysis of duodenal biopsies stained with periodic acid-Schiff (PAS) from 1993 to 2021 sought to determine the effectiveness of this staining method in diagnosing Whipple disease.
  • The study found that PAS staining was unnecessary for duodenal biopsies lacking foamy histiocytes, as only a small percentage of biopsies with clinical concern showed positive results for Whipple disease confirmation.
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