Search Results - "Simpson, Colin"
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Interim findings from first-dose mass COVID-19 vaccination roll-out and COVID-19 hospital admissions in Scotland: a national prospective cohort study
Published in The Lancet (British edition) (01-05-2021)“…The BNT162b2 mRNA (Pfizer–BioNTech) and ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 (Oxford–AstraZeneca) COVID-19 vaccines have shown high efficacy against disease in phase 3 clinical…”
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SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 vaccination rates in pregnant women in Scotland
Published in Nature medicine (01-03-2022)“…Population-level data on COVID-19 vaccine uptake in pregnancy and SARS-CoV-2 infection outcomes are lacking. We describe COVID-19 vaccine uptake and SARS-CoV-2…”
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The accuracy of using administrative healthcare data to identify epilepsy cases: A systematic review of validation studies
Published in Epilepsia (Copenhagen) (01-07-2020)“…Our objective was to undertake a systematic review ascertaining the accuracy of using administrative healthcare data to identify epilepsy cases. We searched…”
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Severe COVID-19 outcomes after full vaccination of primary schedule and initial boosters: pooled analysis of national prospective cohort studies of 30 million individuals in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales
Published in The Lancet (British edition) (15-10-2022)“…Current UK vaccination policy is to offer future COVID-19 booster doses to individuals at high risk of serious illness from COVID-19, but it is still uncertain…”
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Hormone replacement therapy and asthma onset in menopausal women: National cohort study
Published in Journal of allergy and clinical immunology (01-05-2021)“…There is uncertainty about the role of hormonal replacement therapy (HRT) in the development of asthma. We investigated whether use of HRT and duration of use…”
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Genomic epidemiology reveals transmission patterns and dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 in Aotearoa New Zealand
Published in Nature communications (11-12-2020)“…New Zealand, a geographically remote Pacific island with easily sealable borders, implemented a nationwide ‘lockdown’ of all non-essential services to curb the…”
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Developing the EAVE III platform for future health crises
Published in The Lancet infectious diseases (01-11-2023)“…Several world-first studies ensued, the results of which were proactively made available to key decision making bodies; subsequent publications and work…”
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Two-dose ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine protection against COVID-19 hospital admissions and deaths over time: a retrospective, population-based cohort study in Scotland and Brazil
Published in The Lancet (British edition) (01-01-2022)“…Reports suggest that COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness is decreasing, but whether this reflects waning or new SARS-CoV-2 variants—especially delta (B.1.617.2)—is…”
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A systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis of prognostic factors for foot ulceration in people with diabetes: the international research collaboration for the prediction of diabetic foot ulcerations (PODUS)
Published in Health technology assessment (Winchester, England) (01-07-2015)“…Annual foot risk assessment of people with diabetes is recommended in national and international clinical guidelines. At present, these are consensus based and…”
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Epilepsy-related and other causes of mortality in people with epilepsy: A systematic review of systematic reviews
Published in Epilepsy research (01-11-2019)“…•Mortality in epilepsy has remained high and virtually unchanged since the 1950s.•Epilepsy-related mortality predominates causes of death in people with…”
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Implications for COVID-19 vaccine uptake: A systematic review
Published in Journal of infection and public health (01-03-2023)“…Globally, increasing coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination coverage remains a major public health concern in the face of high rates of COVID-19 hesitancy…”
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Uptake of infant and preschool immunisations in Scotland and England during the COVID-19 pandemic: An observational study of routinely collected data
Published in PLoS medicine (22-02-2022)“…In 2020, the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic and lockdown control measures threatened to disrupt routine childhood immunisation programmes with early reports…”
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Total wash elimination for solid phase peptide synthesis
Published in Nature communications (09-12-2023)“…We present a process for solid phase peptide synthesis (SPPS) that completely eliminates all solvent intensive washing steps during each amino acid addition…”
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Genomic Evidence of In-Flight Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Despite Predeparture Testing
Published in Emerging infectious diseases (01-03-2021)“…Since the first wave of coronavirus disease in March 2020, citizens and permanent residents returning to New Zealand have been required to undergo managed…”
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Impact of COVID-19 on accident and emergency attendances and emergency and planned hospital admissions in Scotland: an interrupted time-series analysis
Published in Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine (01-11-2020)“…Objectives Following the outbreak of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) virus and the subsequent global spread of the 2019 novel…”
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Risk of COVID-19 hospital admission among children aged 5–17 years with asthma in Scotland: a national incident cohort study
Published in The lancet respiratory medicine (01-02-2022)“…There is an urgent need to inform policy deliberations about whether children with asthma should be vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2 and, if so, which subset of…”
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COVID-19 hospital admissions and deaths after BNT162b2 and ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccinations in 2·57 million people in Scotland (EAVE II): a prospective cohort study
Published in The lancet respiratory medicine (01-12-2021)“…The UK COVID-19 vaccination programme has prioritised vaccination of those at the highest risk of COVID-19 mortality and hospitalisation. The programme was…”
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The epidemiology, healthcare and societal burden and costs of asthma in the UK and its member nations: analyses of standalone and linked national databases
Published in BMC medicine (29-08-2016)“…There are a lack of reliable data on the epidemiology and associated burden and costs of asthma. We sought to provide the first UK-wide estimates of the…”
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Effectiveness of Influenza Vaccines in Asthma: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Published in Clinical infectious diseases (15-10-2017)“…There is uncertainty about the effectiveness of influenza vaccination in persons with asthma and its impact on asthma outcomes, which may contribute to the…”
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Cohort Profile: Early Pandemic Evaluation and Enhanced Surveillance of COVID-19 (EAVE II) Database
Published in International journal of epidemiology (30-08-2021)Get full text
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