Disease burden and health-related outcomes of patients discharged from hospital following a COPD exacerbation in the United States.

Background: Evidence on trajectory of readmission rates post-hospitalization for COPD exacerbations and combined cardiopulmonary risk in the U.S. is sparse.

Impact of SARS-CoV-2 infection on patients with systemic lupus erythematosus in England prior to vaccination: a retrospective observational cohort study.

Objectives: Determine the prevaccination healthcare impact of COVID-19 in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in England.

Design: Retrospective cohort study of adult patients with SLE from 1 May to 31 October 2020.

Setting: Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) Aurum and Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) databases from general practitioners across England combining primary care and other health-related data.

Epidemiology, Healthcare Resource Utilization, and Mortality of Asthma and COPD in COVID-19: A Systematic Literature Review and Meta-Analyses.

Purpose: There has been concern that asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease [COPD] increase the risk of developing and exacerbating COVID-19. The effect of medications such as inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) and biologics on COVID-19 is unclear. This systematic literature review analyzed the published evidence on epidemiology and the burden of illness of asthma and COPD, and the use of baseline medicines among COVID-19 populations.

The Influence of Obesity on Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes: A Systematic Review And Meta-Analysis.

Obesity is associated with a greater prevalence of symptomatic knee osteoarthritis. Obese patients are thought to have worse outcomes following unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA).The aim is to compare clinical and functional outcomes of UKA in obese to non-obese patients.

Return to work after medial unicompartmental knee arthroplasty: A systematic review.

Introduction: This study aims to evaluate the current literature with regard to the average time to and overall rate of return to work (RTW) following medial unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA).

Methods: A systematic search was conducted on MEDLINE (Ovid), Embase, Pubmed, CINAHL, Web of Science, Scopus, and the Cochrane Library to identify studies reporting RTW after UKA. Primary outcomes were the rate and time to RTW after UKA.

'Does compliance with BOAST guidelines matter for displaced supracondylar fractures in children?': the experience of a tertiary referral major trauma centre over a 3.5-year period.

Supracondylar fractures are the most frequently occurring paediatric fractures about the elbow and can be associated with neurovascular injury. For that reason, the British Orthopaedic Association has published the British Orthopaedic Association Standards for Trauma (BOAST) 11 guidelines, aiming to the best management of supracondylar fractures. The aim of this study was to assess adherence to the BOAST 11 guidelines for displaced supracondylar fractures at a Major Trauma Centre in London, UK between 2015 and 2018 and to see whether adherence to guidelines affected the outcomes.