Publications by authors named "Silje Welsh"
Introduction: Frailty has consistently demonstrated associations with poorer healthcare outcomes. Vascular guidelines have recognised the importance of frailty assessment. However, an abundance of frailty tools and a lack of prospective studies confirming suitability of routine frailty assessment in clinical practice has delayed the uptake of these guidelines.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Frailty is common in vascular patients and is recognized for its prognostic value. In the absence of consensus, a multitude of frailty assessment tools exist. This systematic review aimed to quantify the variety in these tools and describe their content and application to inform future research and clinical practice.
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- Care homes are critical for research on interventions aimed at improving care quality, making it vital to choose suitable measures based on the specific population and context.
- This scoping review analyzed 396 intervention studies from care homes published between 2015 and 2022, accounting for over 836,000 residents and evaluating various resident outcomes.
- The findings highlighted a wide variety in outcome measures used, with many being assessed only once, indicating a need for standardized tools and methods that involve input from residents, families, and staff to enhance research effectiveness.
Background: This updated systematic review and meta-analysis investigates the putative role of the appendix in ulcerative colitis as a therapeutic target.
Methods: Ovid Medline, Embase, PubMed and CENTRAL were searched with MeSH terms ("appendectomy" OR "appendicitis" OR "appendix") AND ("colitis, ulcerative") through October 2020, producing 1469 references. Thirty studies, including 118 733 patients, were included for qualitative synthesis and 11 for quantitative synthesis.
Background: The timing of laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) for emergency biliary admissions remains inconsistent with national and international guidelines. The perception that LC is difficult in acute cholecystitis and the popularity of the two-session approach to pancreatitis and suspected choledocholithiasis result in delayed management.
Methods: Analysis of prospectively maintained data in a unit adopting a policy of "intention to treat" during the index admission.