Publications by authors named "S M McGrath"
Laboratory-based high-sensitivity cardiac troponin testing has been the pillar for emergency stratification of suspected acute coronary syndrome for well over a decade. Point-of-care troponin assays achieving the requisite analytical sensitivity have recently been developed and could accelerate such assessment. This review summarises the latest assays and describes their potential diverse clinical utility in the emergency department, community healthcare, pre-hospital, and other hospital settings.
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- Treatment switching in clinical trials complicates causal inference, making intention-to-treat (ITT) analyses less reliable for determining the true treatment effect.
- The ALTA-1L trial on brigatinib versus crizotinib highlighted this issue, showing more promising results for brigatinib when removed from treatment switching scenarios, via methods like Inverse Probability of Censoring Weights (IPCW).
- Re-analysis using IPCW and g-methods suggested that the treatment effect of brigatinib on overall survival may be significantly better than previously estimated, indicating that standard ITT analysis might underestimate treatment benefits.
Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) is a non-invasive and fast technology that has been increasingly used to analyse livestock diet quality. The objective of this study was to conduct a systematic review of the literature to examine the utilisation of NIRS technology for analysing livestock diet quality, with a focus on identifying trends, methodologies, and challenges in recent research. We conducted a systematic search of the literature on five electronic databases and retrieved 718 studies that have been published on the subject.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Although most patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) receiving a direct oral anticoagulant (DOAC) do not require drug concentration measurements, there are situations where such information could be useful. Existing guidance documents provide usual on-therapy ranges for drug concentrations, but these have important limitations.
Methods: This is a systematic review and meta-analysis of studies reporting trough and peak levels of DOAC regimens approved for stroke prevention in AF.