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Alison Ward
Researcher at University of Oxford
Publications - 109
Citations - 4428
Alison Ward is an academic researcher from University of Oxford. The author has contributed to research in topics: Health care & Population. The author has an hindex of 33, co-authored 103 publications receiving 3916 citations. Previous affiliations of Alison Ward include National Institute for Health Research & Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research.
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Cardiovascular disease risk in healthy children and its association with body mass index: systematic review and meta-analysis.
TL;DR: Having a body mass index outside the normal range significantly worsens risk parameters for cardiovascular disease in school aged children and could be larger than previously thought.
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Self-monitoring of oral anticoagulation: systematic review and meta-analysis of individual patient data
Carl Heneghan,Alison Ward,Rafael Perera,Clare Bankhead,Alice Fuller,Richard Stevens,Kairen Bradford,S Tyndel,Pablo Alonso-Coello,Jack Ansell,Jack Ansell,Rebecca J. Beyth,Artur Bernardo,Thomas Christensen,M. E. Cromheecke,Robert Edson,David Fitzmaurice,Alain Gadisseur,Josep M. García-Alamino,Chris Gardiner,Michael Hasenkam,Alan K. Jacobson,Scott Kaatz,Farhad Kamali,Tayyaba Khan,Eve Knight,Heinrich Körtke,Marcel Levi,David B. Matchar,David B. Matchar,David B. Matchar,Bárbara Menéndez-Jándula,Ivo Rakovac,Christian Schaefer,Andrea Siebenhofer,Juan Carlos Souto,Rubina Sunderji,Rubina Sunderji,Kenneth Gin,Kenneth Gin,Karen F. Shalansky,Karen F. Shalansky,Heinz Völler,Otto Wagner,Armin Zittermann +44 more
TL;DR: The analysis showed that self-monitoring and self-management of oral coagulation is a safe option for suitable patients of all ages and patients should also be offered the option to self-manage their disease with suitable health-care support as back-up.
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Home measurement of blood pressure and cardiovascular disease: systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective studies.
TL;DR: The relationship between home blood pressure and risk for all-cause mortality, cardiovascular mortality and cardiovascular events was examined in a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective studies of home BP.
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Self‐monitoring and self‐management of oral anticoagulation
Carl Heneghan,Josep M. García-Alamino,Elizabeth A Spencer,Alison Ward,Rafael Perera,Clare Bankhead,Pablo Alonso-Coello,David Fitzmaurice,Kamal R Mahtani,Igho Onakpoya +9 more
TL;DR: The quality of evidence was generally low to moderate, and the effects on thrombotic events, major haemorrhages, and all-cause mortality of self-monitoring or self-management of oral anticoagulant therapy compared to standard monitoring was evaluated.
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Impact of dermoscopy and short‐term sequential digital dermoscopy imaging for the management of pigmented lesions in primary care: a sequential intervention trial
Scott W. Menzies,Jon Emery,Margaret Staples,S Davies,Brian R McAvoy,Jane Fletcher,K R Shahid,Gabrielle Reid,Michelle Avramidis,Alison Ward,Robert Charles Burton,J M Elwood +11 more
TL;DR: The benign to malignant ratio of excised pigmented skin lesions is suboptimal in primary care and should be reduced to zero in order to improve care quality.