Mark Ashworth

TL;DR: This review provides foundations for evidence-based intervention design by establishing psychological determinants most influential in stroke survivors’ medication adherence by mapping identified determinants into the Theoretical Domains Framework.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a retrospective cohort study to explore cause of death and a nested case-control study to identify risk factors associated with mortality using primary care population data from 1 April 2004 to 31 March 2014.

TL;DR: The non-English language preference group was associated with a greater risk of some aspects of cardiovascular disease than the Englishlanguage preference group, probably reflecting shared cultural and behavioural risk.

TL;DR: In incentive schemes in London and the South-East NHS Regions in the two consecutive years since 1999, most of the changes to the incentives and prescribing indicators favoured improvements in prescribing quality, rather than cost control.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined whether people with dementia recorded in a specialist database (from a mental health and dementia care service) differ from those recorded in primary care, and they found that using the specialist database may underrepresent those patients who have more frailty, reflecting differential referral to mental health services, and demonstrating how the patient pathways are an important consideration when undertaking database studies.