Biological and social systems are inherently complex, so it is hardly surprising that few if any
human illnesses can be said to have a single “cause” or “cure.” 1 This article applies the …

Background Primary care is the main source of health care in many health systems, including
the UK National Health Service (NHS), but few objective data exist for the volume and …

A striking feature of UK public services in the 1990s was the rise of performance monitoring (PM),
which records, analyses and publishes data in order to give the public a better idea of …

Objectives To synthesise current evidence for the effects of exenatide and liraglutide on
heart rate, blood pressure and body weight. Design Meta-analysis of available data from …

Background Telephone triage is increasingly used to manage workload in primary care;
however, supporting evidence for this approach is scarce. We aimed to assess the effectiveness …

Background The presence of additional chronic conditions has a significant impact on the
treatment and management of type 2 diabetes (T2DM). Little is known about the patterns of …

Background It is uncertain whether being overweight, but not obese, is associated with
advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD) and how the size and shape of associations between …

… Tim Holt and Sudhesh Kumar New and Emerging Therapies for Diabetes, 111 Tim Holt and
Sudhesh Kumar Support for People Living with Diabetes, 115 Tim Holt and Sudhesh Kumar …

Telephone triage is proposed as a method of managing increasing demand for primary care.
Previous studies have involved small samples in limited settings, and focused on nurse …

Objective This cohort study evaluates the unknown age-specific and gender-specific incidence
of primary shoulder dislocations in the UK. Setting UK primary care data from the Clinical …