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Tamas Szakmany
Researcher at Cardiff University
Publications - 159
Citations - 4344
Tamas Szakmany is an academic researcher from Cardiff University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Internal medicine. The author has an hindex of 26, co-authored 118 publications receiving 2348 citations. Previous affiliations of Tamas Szakmany include Aneurin Bevan University Health Board & University of Pécs.
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Clinical Risk Prediction Scores in Coronavirus Disease 2019: Beware of Low Validity and Clinical Utility
TL;DR: Several risk stratification tools were developed to predict disease progression in coronavirus disease 2019, with no external validation to date, and three previously published risk-stratification tools in a multicenter study were validated.
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Real World Patterns of Antimicrobial Use and Microbiology Investigations in Patients with Sepsis outside the Critical Care Unit: Secondary Analysis of Three Nation-Wide Point Prevalence Studies.
Maja Kopczynska,Ben Sharif,Harry Unwin,John Lynch,Andrew Forrester,Claudia Zeicu,Sian Cleaver,Svetlana Kulikouskaya,Tom Chandy,Eshen Ang,Emily Murphy,Umair Asim,Bethany C. Payne,Jessica Nicholas,Alessia Waller,Aimee Owen,Zhao Xuan Tan,Robert Ross,Jack Wellington,Yahya Amjad,Vidhi V. Unadkat,Faris Hussain,Jessica Smith,Sashiananthan Ganesananthan,Harriet Penney,Joy Inns,Carys Gilbert,Nicholas Doyle,Amit Kurani,Thomas W. Grother,Paul McNulty,Angelica Sharma,Tamas Szakmany,Tamas Szakmany +33 more
TL;DR: It is shown that antibiotics prescription practice is not accompanied by microbiological investigations, and a significant proportion of sepsis patients are still at risk of not receiving appropriate antibiotics treatment and microbiology investigations; this may be improved by a more thorough implementation ofsepsis screening tools.
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Does transthoracic compared to transhiatal resection alter the early postoperative course of oesophagectomy
TL;DR: The observed early postoperative morbidity and mortality may indicate, that both operative approaches for esophageal carcinoma, transhiatal and transthoracic, can be considered as procedures with similar postoperative risk.
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Probiotics for the Prevention of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomised Controlled Trials
H. A. Cheema,A. Shahid,M. Ayyan,Biah Mustafa,A. Zahid,Maurish Fatima,Muhammad Murad Ehsan,F. Athar,N. Duric,Tamas Szakmany +9 more
TL;DR: Probiotics may reduce the incidence of VAP but due to the low quality of pooled evidence, the use of probiotics warrants caution and large-scale, high-quality RCTs need to be conducted to provide conclusive evidence.
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A Snapshot of Compliance with the Sepsis Six Care Bundle in Two Acute Hospitals in the West Midlands, UK.
Catriona Frankling,Jaimin Patel,Ben Sharif,Teresa Melody,Joyce Yeung,Fang Gao,Tamas Szakmany +6 more
TL;DR: Adherence to the Sepsis Six Care Bundle was assessed and one patient received all six elements of the bundle and compliance was highest for giving intravenous fluids and antibiotics, and lowest for measuring urine output.