Publications by authors named "R W Hubbard"
Background: Evidence on whether general practice rates of investigation in symptomatic patients using chest x-ray (CXR) affects outcomes is equivocal.
Aim: Determine if there is an association between rates of general practice (GP) requested CXR and lung cancer outcomes.
Design And Setting: Retrospective observational study (England) Methods: Cancer registry data for patients diagnosed with lung cancer 2014-2018 was linked to data on GP CXRs 2013-2017.
The recent cisplatin and carboplatin ("platinum") chemotherapy shortage, first announced on February 10, 2023, has impacted cancer patients nationwide. Here, we quantify the extent to which the shortage affected platinum chemotherapy prescribing and short-term mortality. This cohort study included 11 797 adults with advanced solid cancers who initiated first-line therapy during the 1-year period before (February 1, 2022-February 9, 2023) or during (February 10, 2023-January 31, 2024) the platinum shortage.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Findings on the link between the number of children and dementia risk are inconsistent, mostly studied in females, suggesting pregnancy-related changes may be a key factor in this association.
Methods: The Adult Changes in Thought Study is a cohort of adults aged ≥65 years from Kaiser Permanente Washington. The primary exposure was the number of children (0, 1, 2, 3 or ≥4), and the outcome was an incident dementia diagnosis.
Background: Frailty is an indicator of individual vulnerability and differentiates health status among people of the same chronological age.
Objectives: This study aimed to determine whether baseline frailty index (FI) was associated with systemic anticancer therapy treatment outcomes in older adults with solid cancers.
Design: Retrospective cohort study.