Mark Ashworth

TL;DR: Introduction of pay-for-performance may be one factor contributing to increasing achievement of targets and reducing problems of low performance.

TL;DR: Bariatric surgery is associated with reduced incidence of clinical diabetes in obese participants without diabetes at baseline for up to 7 years after the procedure, and this estimate was robust after varying the comparison group in sensitivity analyses, excluding gestational diabetes, or allowing for competing mortality risk.

TL;DR: A service model for improving the accuracy of blood pressure monitoring in primary care needs to take into account the current proliferation of pressure scale errors in these devices, the lack of uptake of regular checks and the poor quality of some of the devices currently in use.

TL;DR: There is a need for greater transparency in the selection of sets of codes for different conditions, for the reporting of sensitivity analyses using different set of codes, as well as sharing of code sets among researchers.

TL;DR: Cluster randomized trials may be implemented efficiently in large samples from routine care settings by using primary care electronic health records and future studies should develop and test multicomponent methods for remotely delivered intervention.