Publications by authors named "T J Doran"
Objective: To examine trends in diagnosis of gender dysphoria and related conditions in children and young people attending primary care practices in England.
Design: Longitudinal analysis of electronic primary care records from the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) Aurum database linked to hospital and Index of Multiple Deprivation data.
Setting: Primary care practices in England between 2011 and 2021.
Objectives: To explore the acceptability and feasibility of detection of atrial fibrillation (AF) by emergency medical services (EMS) and identify potential barriers and facilitators to implementing a formal pathway to facilitate follow-up in primary care, which could reduce the risk of AF-related stroke.
Design: Qualitative study using focus groups and one-to-one interviews guided by a semistructured topic guide.
Setting: North East England.
Article Synopsis
- - This study investigates long-COVID symptoms and diagnoses in England, focusing on their prevalence and risk factors using electronic health records of over 1.5 million individuals with confirmed COVID infections.
- - It found that 7.4% experienced long-COVID symptoms, with cough and back pain as the most common issues, while only a small fraction received formal long-COVID diagnostic codes.
- - Key risk factors identified include female sex, non-white ethnicity, obesity, and pre-existing conditions like anxiety and diabetes, helping clinicians identify at-risk individuals for better management.
Objectives: To explore whether: (i) people with severe mental illness (SMI) experience worse oral health than the general population, and (ii) the risk factors for poor oral health in people with SMI.
Methods: Cross-sectional data were extracted from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (1999-2016), including on self-rated oral health, oral pain, tooth loss, periodontitis stage, and number of decayed, missing, and filled teeth. Candidate risk factors for poor oral health included demographic characteristics, lifestyle factors, physical health comorbidities, and dental hygiene behaviours.
Background: Reductions in local government funding implemented in 2010 due to austerity policies have been associated with worsening socioeconomic inequalities in mortality. Less is known about the relationship of these reductions with healthcare inequalities; therefore, we investigated whether areas with greater reductions in local government funding had greater increases in socioeconomic inequalities in emergency admissions.
Methods: We examined inequalities between English local authority districts (LADs) using a fixed-effects linear regression to estimate the association between LAD expenditure reductions, their level of deprivation using the Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) and average rates of (all and avoidable) emergency admissions for the years 2010-2017.