Alan Finlayson

TL;DR: Heart failure CF is much higher in the general population than in clinical trials, especially in the elderly, and survival has increased significantly over the last decade, although there is still much room for improvement.

TL;DR: With the exception of Laparoscopic sterilizations, open and laparoscopic gynaecological surgery are associated with comparable risks of adhesion-related readmissions.

TL;DR: Female gender increases the probability of surviving to reach hospital, and this outweighs the excess risk of death occurring in younger women following hospitalization, and overall, men have a higher 30-day case fatality than women.

TL;DR: The increasing survival in patients admitted to hospital suggests that the trial-based efficacy of modern therapies is now translating into population-based effectiveness, however, an individual's life expectancy still halves after a diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction.

TL;DR: Mortality rates were substantially higher in deprived socioeconomic groups than in affluent groups, especially in people younger than 65 years, and population-based out-of-hospital mortality rates fell by a third in men and by a quarter in women.