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Richard A Parker
Researcher at University of Edinburgh
Publications - 130
Citations - 6381
Richard A Parker is an academic researcher from University of Edinburgh. The author has contributed to research in topics: Randomized controlled trial & Population. The author has an hindex of 41, co-authored 117 publications receiving 5273 citations. Previous affiliations of Richard A Parker include Novartis & Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
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Use of drains versus no drains after burr-hole evacuation of chronic subdural haematoma: a randomised controlled trial
Thomas Santarius,Peter J. Kirkpatrick,Dharmendra Ganesan,Hui Ling Chia,Ibrahim Jalloh,Peter Smielewski,Hugh K. Richards,Hani J. Marcus,Richard A Parker,Stephen J. Price,Ramez W. Kirollos,John D. Pickard,Peter J. Hutchinson +12 more
TL;DR: Use of a drain after burr-hole drainage of chronic subdural haematoma is safe and associated with reduced recurrence and mortality at 6 months.
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Obesity and fractures in postmenopausal women.
TL;DR: A surprisingly high prevalence of obesity is demonstrated in postmenopausal women presenting to the FLS with low‐trauma fracture, which has important public heath implications in view of the rapidly rising increase in obesity in many populations.
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Risk of adverse events including serious infections in rheumatoid arthritis patients treated with tocilizumab: a systematic literature review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
TL;DR: Tocilizumab in combination with MTX as a treatment for RA is associated with a small but significantly increased risk of AEs, which is comparable with that of other biologics.
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High-sensitivity troponin in the evaluation of patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome: a stepped-wedge, cluster-randomised controlled trial.
Anoop S V Shah,Anoop S V Shah,Atul Anand,Fiona E. Strachan,Amy V. Ferry,Kuan Ken Lee,Andrew R. Chapman,Dennis Sandeman,Catherine L. Stables,Philip D Adamson,Jack P.M. Andrews,Mohamed Anwar,John Hung,A. Moss,Rachel O’Brien,Colin Berry,Iain N Findlay,Simon Walker,Anne Cruickshank,Alan Reid,Alasdair Gray,Paul O. Collinson,Fred S. Apple,David A. McAllister,Donogh Maguire,Keith A.A. Fox,David E. Newby,Chris Tuck,Ronald Harkess,Richard A Parker,Catriona Keerie,Christopher J. Weir,Nicholas L. Mills,Nicholas L. Mills,Lucy Marshall,Stacey Stewart,Takeshi Fujisawa,Catalina A. Vallejos,Athanasios Tsanas,Mischa Hautvast,Jean McPherson,Lynn McKinlay,Jonathan Malo,Colin Fischbacher,Bernard L. Croal,Stephen J Leslie,Allan Walker,Tony Wackett,Roma Armstrong,Laura Stirling,Claire MacDonald,Imran Sadat,Frank Finlay,Heather Charles,Pamela Linksted,Stephen Young,Bill Alexander,Christopher J A Duncan +57 more
TL;DR: The implementation of an hs-cTnI assay was evaluated in consecutive patients who had been admitted to the hospitals' emergency departments with suspected acute coronary syndrome and its findings question whether the diagnostic threshold for myocardial infarction should be based on the 99th centile derived from a normal reference population.