… Sarah Brien from Southampton General Hospital and colleagues interviewed 34 participants
with COPD of varying severity and varying quality of life (QoL). Identifying four themes (…

Purpose Quality-of-life (QoL) scores in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have
a weak relationship with physiologic impairment. We investigated factors associated with …

Background Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is popular with patients, yet
how patients use CAM in relation to orthodox medicine (OM) is poorly understood. Aim To …

Background: Understanding how homeopaths make clinical decisions is important in terms
of optimising patient care, yet currently little is understood about this process. Most current …

OBJECTIVE: The role of the consultation in mediating improved clinical outcomes has been
demonstrated in both conventional and complementary medicine but to date no depth study …

Introduction: Hering’s ‘Law of Cure’ is considered important in homeopathy and thought to
predict a positive outcome to treatment. No formal outcome measures are currently available …

… This data was analyzed by the lead author CE; and author SB checked 15% of this analysis.
Although data from diaries and observations informed the final model none of this data has …

… PS is the trial statistician, SB leads the qualitative component of the trial, and LO is the …
PS drafted the Data Analysis Plan and SB drafted the qualitative analysis plan, and all authors …

This study investigated the prevalence and level of Escherichia coli O157 on samples of
beef trimmings (n=1351), beef carcasses (n=132) and bovine head meat (n=132) in a beef …

Aims: To (i) monitor the presence of Enterobacteriaceae as indicators of faecal contamination
on pig carcasses, (ii) examine the potential use of chilling as a critical control point (CCP) …