Huge thanks to Helen McArdle for covering the latest research by University of Glasgow and The University of Edinburgh describing the patterns of COVID-19 outbreaks in Scotland’s care homes, beyond the first wave of infections.
Jenni Burton 💙💚 ACRC

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New systematic review: many countries want to ‘transform’ primary care, with expanded multidisciplinary teams the most common intervention, but evaluation is weak, and doesn’t usually examine effects on older people or on socioeconomic inequality: link.springer.com/article/10.118…

New research: where you get your data from has big effects on measurement of #multimorbidity : comparison of condition and MM ascertainment using primary care data alone, hospital data alone, or both. ACRC
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Our new systematic review of 50 trials finds that community based interventions, using holistic assessment and care planning, reduce mortality and increase the chance of people being able to live at home: Age_and_Ageing academic.oup.com/ageing/article…

At all ages, people living in more deprived areas have more rapid accrual of chronic conditions and multimorbidity authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S26…

For fracture risk, combined use of multiple falls risk drugs matters as well as the usual individual drug suspects: academic.oup.com/ageing/article…

It ain’t what you do, it’s the way that you do it – the order that people acquire conditions affects mortality as well as the particular combination of conditions that someone has: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

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Bruce Guthrie among the authors of this new paper published in PLOS Medicine:

Predicting lifetime CVD risk is difficult bmccardiovascdisord.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…. New paper featuring ACRC's Jacques Fleuriot and Bruce Guthrie in @BMC #Cardiovascular Daniel Morales

Health policy for older people in England and Scotland - same aims, somewhat different methods. But poor routine performance data means it’s hard to know which is the better approach. Read more in our latest paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.heal… NIHR ARC North East and North Cumbria

As always with P4P much of the 'decline' will be recording changes not worse quality. P4P is no magic bullet, and P4P enthusiasts need to measure impact better bmj.com/content/380/bm…

Reported care quality declined vs England when Scotland abolished QOF pay for performance in 2016 in latest paper by Bruce Guthrie and Daniel Morales

New Briefing Paper from AIM-CISC on public engagement in artificial intelligence- edin.ac/3kGifOv #artificalintelligence #PPIE

New paper. The effects of treatment on quality of life in clinical trials did not vary by multimorbidity (reassuring) although have to remember that most people with multimorbidity (especially complex) or polypharmacy are excluded from trials journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/a…

The QFracture risk prediction tool over-predicts fracture risk in older people - it doesn’t account for competing mortality risk. New prediction tool (CRISK) is better, but still not accurate in OP. We need to develop better clinical prediction tools edin.ac/3XmTi8O

The website for our affiliate programme AIM-CISC is up and running. Pay it a visit to find out more about their valuable work into multiple long term health conditions - ed.ac.uk/usher/aim-cisc

Our Director, Bruce Guthrie, was interviewed for the latest Prognosis magazine - turn to p38 to read what he has to say about tackling the problems of an ageing population:

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Fracture risk prediction in older people using QFracture performs poorly because of lack of accounting for competing mortality risks – we’ve got to do better bmjmedicine.bmj.com/content/1/1/e0…

'Household and area determinants of emergency department attendance and hospitalisation in people with multimorbidity: a systematic review' published in the BMJ_Open

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