Effectiveness of financial support interventions to reduce adverse health outcomes among households in fuel poverty in the United Kingdom.

Objectives: This systematic review intended to assess the effectiveness of financial support interventions for household fuel poverty in the UK in terms of reducing adverse impacts on the health and wellbeing of recipients.

Methods: Bibliographic databases and grey literature sources were searched from the UK for studies that evaluated the health and wellbeing of participants following financial support to optimize indoor heating. Two independent reviewers carried out screening, data extraction and quality assessment of the articles.

An Analysis of 183 Heart Transplants for Pediatric or Congenital Heart Disease-Impact of High Panel Reactive Antibody.

Background: We reviewed our management strategy and outcome data for all 179 patients with pediatric and/or congenital heart disease who underwent 183 heart transplants from January 1, 2011, to December 31, 2021, and evaluated the impact of elevated panel reactive antibody (PRA).

Methods: High PRA was defined as PRA >10%. Univariate associations with long-term survival were assessed with Cox proportional hazards models.

Economic evaluation of surgical treatments for women with stress urinary incontinence: a cost-utility and value of information analysis.

Objectives: Stress urinary incontinence (SUI) and stress-predominant mixed urinary incontinence (MUI) are common conditions that can have a negative impact on the quality of life of patients and serious cost implications for healthcare providers. The objective of this study was to assess the cost-effectiveness of nine different surgical interventions for treatment of SUI and stress-predominant MUI from a National Health Service and personal social services perspective in the UK.

Methods: A Markov microsimulation model was developed to compare the costs and effectiveness of nine surgical interventions.

Surgical treatments for women with stress urinary incontinence: a systematic review of economic evidence.

Background: Surgical interventions for the treatment of stress urinary incontinence (SUI) in women are commonly employed following the failure of minimally invasive therapies. Due to the limited information available on the relative cost-effectiveness of available surgeries for treating SUI, a de novo economic analysis was conducted to assess costs and effects of all relevant surgeries. To inform the economic analysis, the objective of this review was to identify and assess the quality of existing economic evaluation studies on different surgical interventions for the treatment of SUI in women.

Surgical interventions for women with stress urinary incontinence: systematic review and network meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials.

Objectives: To compare the effectiveness and safety of surgical interventions for women with stress urinary incontinence.

Design: Systematic review and network meta-analysis.

Eligibility Criteria For Selecting Studies: Randomised controlled trials evaluating surgical interventions for the treatment of stress urinary incontinence in women.

Surgical treatments for women with stress urinary incontinence: the ESTER systematic review and economic evaluation.

Background: Urinary incontinence in women is a distressing condition that restricts quality of life and results in a large economic burden to both the NHS and women themselves.

Objective: To evaluate the clinical effectiveness, safety and cost-effectiveness of surgical treatment for stress urinary incontinence (SUI) in women and explore women's preferences.

Design: An evidence synthesis, a discrete choice experiment (DCE) and an economic decision model, with a value-of-information (VOI) analysis.

Obesity in Scotland: a persistent inequality.

Background: Obesity is a health problem in its own right and a risk factor for other conditions such as cardiovascular disease. The prevalence of overweight and obesity increased in Scotland between 1995 and 2008 with socio-economic inequalities persisting in adults over time and increasing in children. This paper explores changes in the underlying distribution of body mass index (BMI) which is less well understood.

Fringe benefits? The impact of the Multidisciplinary Public Health Forum in the UK outside of England.

The impact of the UK Multidisciplinary Public Health Forum in developing the public health workforce has been the subject of some discussion. However, much of the work to date has focused on the impact of the Forum in the English context. This paper uses the same techniques used to examine the impact of the Forum in England to describe the situation in Scotland.