Melanie Sloan

TL;DR: Tailored printed and text message self-help delivered alongside routine smoking cessation support in primary care does not significantly increase short-term abstinence, but may increase long- term abstinence and demonstrated feasibility and acceptability compared with routine cessation support alone.

TL;DR: Patient responses indicated that timely diagnosis could be facilitated if physicians had greater knowledge of lupus/related systemic autoimmune diseases and were more amenable to listening to and believing patient reports of their symptoms.

TL;DR: In this paper, the Covid-19 pandemic necessitated a rapid global transition towards telemedicine; yet much remains unknown about tele-medical acceptability and safety in rheumatology.

TL;DR: The intervention to be evaluated is a web-based program designed to be used by a practice nurse or other smoking cessation advisor, which generates a cessation advice report that is highly tailored to relevant characteristics of the smoker and a three-month programme of automated tailored text messages sent to the smoker’s mobile phone.

TL;DR: The findings indicate that for some women, this type of support by text message for smoking cessation in pregnancy is preferable to face-to-face methods and could be utilized by health professionals, either in addition to current methods or as an alternative.