Most of the work of Warwick Evidence is for the UK NIHR Health Technology Assessment Programme. However several members of the team contributed to a recent project commissioned by the NIHR Health Services and Delivery Research Programme, on “do not attempt resuscitation” orders. The report concluded that there is evidence of variation and suboptimal practice in relation to DNACPR decisions across health-care settings. There were deficiencies in considering, discussing and implementing the decisions not to attempt resuscitation, as well as unintended consequences of DNACPR decisions being made on other aspects of patient care.

Perkins G D, Griffith F, Slowther A-M, George R, Fritz Z, Satherley P, Williams B, Waugh N, Cooke M W, Chambers S, Mockford C, Freeman K, Grove A, Field R, Owen S, Clarke B, Court R, Hawkes C. Do-not-attempt-cardiopulmonary-resuscitation decisions: an evidence synthesis. Health Services and Delivery Research. 2016;4(11).

Baltatzis M, Chan AK, Jegatheeswaran S, Mason JM, Siriwardena AK. Colorectal cancer with synchronous hepatic metastases: Systematic review of reports comparing synchronous surgery with sequential bowel-first or liver-first approaches. European journal of surgical oncology : the journal of the European Society of Surgical Oncology and the British Association of Surgical Oncology. 2016;42(2):159-65.

Dyakova M, Shantikumar S, Colquitt JL, Drew C, Sime M, MacIver J, Wright N, Clarke A, Rees K. Systematic versus opportunistic risk assessment for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease. The Cochrane database of systematic reviews. 2016;1:Cd010411.

Maheswaran H, Petrou S, MacPherson P, Choko AT, Kumwenda F, Lalloo DG, Clarke A, Corbett EL. Cost and quality of life analysis of HIV self-testing and facility-based HIV testing and counselling in Blantyre, Malawi. BMC medicine. 2016;14(1):34.

Melendez-Torres G, Dickson K, Fletcher A, Thomas J, Hinds K, Campbell R, Murphy S, Bonell C. Positive youth development programmes to reduce substance use in young people: systematic review. International Journal of Drug Policy. 2016.

Melendez-Torres GJ, Bourne A. Illicit drug use and its association with sexual risk behaviour among MSM: more questions than answers? Current opinion in infectious diseases. 2016;29(1):58-63.

Shyangdan DS, Uthman OA, Waugh N. SGLT-2 receptor inhibitors for treating patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a systematic review and network meta-analysis. BMJ open. 2016;6(2).

Taylor-Phillips S, Freeman K, Geppert J, Agbebiyi A, Uthman OA, Madan J, Clarke A, Quenby S, Clarke A. Accuracy of non-invasive prenatal testing using cell-free DNA for detection of Down, Edwards and Patau syndromes: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMJ open. 2016;6(1):e010002.

Taylor-Phillips S, Mistry H, Leslie R, Todkill D, Tsertsvadze A, Connock M, Clarke A. Extending the diabetic retinopathy screening interval beyond 1 year: systematic review. The British journal of ophthalmology. 2016;100(1):105-14.

Professor Norman Waugh,

How can we assess the quality of research into macular disease in the UK?

Read up on it in digest, published by the Macular Society, pp.9-11:

https://www.macularsociety.org/sites/default/files/resource/accessible%20Digest%202016.pdf

Professor Norman Waugh's Research has been mentioned by Fight for Sight:

http://www.fightforsight.org.uk/news-and-views/articles/news/a-global-scan-of-research-into-macular-disease/