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Duncan Edwards
Researcher at University of Cambridge
Publications - 37
Citations - 887
Duncan Edwards is an academic researcher from University of Cambridge. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cohort study & Stroke. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 33 publications receiving 520 citations. Previous affiliations of Duncan Edwards include University College London.
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The epidemiology of multimorbidity in primary care: a retrospective cohort study
Anna Cassell,Duncan Edwards,Amelia Harshfield,Kirsty Rhodes,James Brimicombe,Rupert Payne,Simon J. Griffin +6 more
TL;DR: Multimorbidity is common, socially patterned, and associated with increased health service utilisation, and these findings support the need to improve the quality and efficiency of health services providing care to patients with multimorbidities at both practice and national level.
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Association of comorbidity and health service usage among patients with dementia in the UK: a population-based study
TL;DR: It is shown that in the UK, people with dementia with higher numbers of comorbidities die earlier and have considerably higher health service usage in terms of primary care consultations, hospital admissions and prescribing.
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Spatial distribution of clinical computer systems in primary care in England in 2016 and implications for primary care electronic medical record databases: a cross-sectional population study
Evangelos Kontopantelis,Richard Stevens,Peter Joseph Benedict Helms,Duncan Edwards,Tim Doran,Darren M. Ashcroft +5 more
TL;DR: PCDs based on single clinical computer systems are geographically clustered in England, with EMIS having a stronger presence in the West of England, London and the South; SystmOne in the East and some regions in theSouth; and Vision in London, the South, Greater Manchester and Birmingham.
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How can we best detect atrial fibrillation
TL;DR: A systematic review to address five questions relating to how to best detect atrial fibrillation, finding that primary care practitioners may not accurately detect AF on ECG, but consistently high accuracy can be achieved by healthcare professionals with adequate training.
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Development and validation of the Cambridge Multimorbidity Score
Rupert Payne,Silvia C. Mendonca,Marc N Elliott,Catherine L. Saunders,Duncan Edwards,Martin Marshall,Martin Roland +6 more
TL;DR: The Cambridge Multimorbidity Score is robust and can be either tailored or not tailored to specific health outcomes, and will be valuable to those planning clinical services, policymakers allocating resources and researchers seeking to account for the effect of multimorbidality.