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Keele University
Education•Newcastle-under-Lyme, United Kingdom•
About: Keele University is a education organization based out in Newcastle-under-Lyme, United Kingdom. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Stars. The organization has 11318 authors who have published 26323 publications receiving 894671 citations. The organization is also known as: Keele University.
Topics: Population, Stars, Health care, Context (language use), Politics
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TL;DR: A full cycle approach to evaluation of health care systems is argued for, involving deployment of new methods across the systems development life cycle (SDLC).
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a special issue on groundwater-surface water (SW) interactions, which addresses the linkages between hydrology, biogeochemistry and ecology at nested scales and specifically accounts for small-scale spatial and temporal patterns of SW exchange.
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TL;DR: The findings suggest that the WOMAC is a reliable measure for use in postal surveys and has advantages over other instruments when measuring pain and physical function difficulty related to the knee.
Abstract: This study has used the Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index (WOMAC) in an unsolicited postal questionnaire to investigate the impact of knee pain and disability in the general older population. The study provides WOMAC population data for those aged over 50 and demographic and psychosocial associations with severity of WOMAC scores. A pilot survey (n=240) and repeatability study (n=80) were undertaken to test completion of the WOMAC in this new setting. The main questionnaire was mailed to 8,995 men and women aged over 50 registered with three general practices in North Staffordshire, UK. Completion rates for WOMAC items were high. Substantial reliability was found for pain and physical function scales (both >0.80). Fourteen percent of the over 50 population in this study had severe knee pain, 20% had severe difficulty with at least one area of physical functioning, 12% had both. The strongest link with severe difficulty with physical functioning was chronicity (odds ratio (OR)=6.49, 95% CI 4.65, 9.04). Other independent links were age over 75 years (odds ratio (OR)=4.11, 95% confidence interval (CI) 3.03, 5.58), depression (OR=2.80, 95% CI 2.22, 3.54), bilateral knee injury (OR=2.23, 95% CI 1.63, 3.06) and body mass index>30 (OR=2.00, 95% CI 1.51, 2.64). Similar associations were found for severe pain. The findings suggest that the WOMAC is a reliable measure for use in postal surveys. It has advantages over other instruments when measuring pain and physical function difficulty related to the knee. Chronicity, older age, injury, obesity and depression were all linked with higher WOMAC scores for knee pain severity and disability among knee pain sufferers in the general older population.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used temperature-programmed reduction (TPR) to characterize the anodes of two distinct types of nickel oxide in the anode prior to reduction.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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George Davey Smith | 224 | 2540 | 248373 |
Simon D. M. White | 189 | 795 | 231645 |
James F. Wilson | 146 | 677 | 101883 |
Stephen O'Rahilly | 138 | 520 | 75686 |
Wendy Taylor | 131 | 1252 | 89457 |
Nicola Maffulli | 115 | 1570 | 59548 |
Georg Kresse | 111 | 430 | 244729 |
Patrick B. Hall | 111 | 470 | 68383 |
Peter T. Katzmarzyk | 110 | 618 | 56484 |
John F. Dovidio | 109 | 466 | 46982 |
Elizabeth H. Blackburn | 108 | 344 | 50726 |
Mary L. Phillips | 105 | 422 | 39995 |
Garry P. Nolan | 104 | 474 | 46025 |
Wayne W. Hancock | 103 | 505 | 35694 |
Mohamed H. Sayegh | 103 | 485 | 38540 |