The impact of the introduction of tobacco product plain packaging on consumer responses in Ireland: a real-world policy evaluation stratified by socioeconomic groups.

Smoking prevalence remains high in Europe and widening socioeconomic group differences are driving health inequalities. While plain packaging policies disrupt tobacco industry tactics that sustain smoking, evidence of their equity impact is sparse. This study evaluated the implementation of plain packaging in Ireland in 2018 on consumer responses, overall and by the socioeconomic group.

Health care utilization and the associated costs attributable to cardiovascular disease in Ireland: a cross-sectional study.

Background: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of mortality and disability globally. We examined healthcare service utilization and costs attributable to CVD in Ireland in the period before the introduction of a major healthcare reform in 2016.

Methods: Secondary analysis of data from 8113 participants of the first wave of The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing.

Knowledge, attitudes and practices of Irish doctors regarding stop smoking care and electronic cigarettes.

Background: Smoking continues to cause harm on a huge scale in Ireland. Doctors can help this harm through providing safe, effective and clinically sound stop smoking care, but the needs of Irish doctors in this area are largely uncharted.

Aims: We assessed the knowledge, attitudes and practices of Irish doctors regarding stop smoking care and electronic cigarettes.

A retrospective cohort study of outcomes in hospitalised COVID-19 patients during the first pandemic wave in Ireland.

Aim: Describe the epidemiology, resource use and adverse outcomes of COVID-19 patients hospitalised during wave 1 of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ireland. Use this data to identify specific cohorts at high risk of adverse outcomes and to inform acute hospital requirements for future COVID-19 waves in Ireland.

Methods: The Health Service Executive's (HSE) Hospital Inpatient Enquiry (HIPE) system produced a daily database of COVID-19 discharge episodes from the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ireland.

Acute Budd-Chiari syndrome with liver failure: the experience of a policy of initial interventional radiological treatment using transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt.

Background And Aims: The optimal management of acute Budd-Chiari syndrome (BCS) with liver failure is controversial. Options include anticoagulation, portal systemic shunting or liver transplantation. In recent years, transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunts (TIPS) have been tried in place of shunt surgery.