Obstetric outcomes in West Cumberland Hospital: is there a risk from Sellafield?
A retrospective study was made of the obstetric outcome of 18,252 babies born in West Cumberland Hospital in the years 1975 to 1985. There were 934 premature births (before 37 weeks), 555 small for...
The effects on prescribing patterns and costs of having a special interest in asthma.
Jones, K P, Harris, C M, Bogle, S M, Foley, R, Usherwood, T P
To define the characteristics of general practices with a special clinical interest in asthma and to estimate the resulting extra prescribing costs, we sent a postal questionnaire to all English...
Nurse-run asthma care in general practice in the United Kingdom has become extremely common, particularly since the introduction of the 1990 contract for general practitioners, but there have been...
OBJECTIVE--To compare measurements of the peak expiratory flow rate taken by the mini Wright peak flow meter and the turbine spirometer. DESIGN--Pragmatic study with randomised order of use of...
Nurse-run asthma care in general practice in the United Kingdom has become extremely common, particularly since the introduction of the 1990 contract for general practitioners, but there have been...
Obstetric outcomes in West Cumberland Hospital: is there a risk from Sellafield?
A retrospective study was made of the obstetric outcome of 18,252 babies born in West Cumberland Hospital in the years 1975 to 1985. There were 934 premature births (before 37 weeks), 555 small for...
The effects on prescribing patterns and costs of having a special interest in asthma.
Jones, K P, Harris, C M, Bogle, S M, Foley, R, Usherwood, T P
To define the characteristics of general practices with a special clinical interest in asthma and to estimate the resulting extra prescribing costs, we sent a postal questionnaire to all English...
OBJECTIVE--To compare measurements of the peak expiratory flow rate taken by the mini Wright peak flow meter and the turbine spirometer. DESIGN--Pragmatic study with randomised order of use of...
Pet birds as a risk factor for lung cancer.
Jones, K. P., Edwards, J. H., Reynolds, S. P., Davies, B. H.
Correlates of asthma morbidity in primary care.
Jones, K. P., Bain, D. J., Middleton, M., Mullee, M. A.
OBJECTIVES--To explore the morbidity of patients diagnosed as asthmatic in general practice, to examine the determinants of this morbidity, and to derive a simple morbidity screening tool for use in...
Targeting asthma care in general practice using a morbidity index.
Jones, K. P., Charlton, I. H., Middleton, M., Preece, W. J., Hill, A. P.
OBJECTIVES--To evaluate a morbidity index as a postal surveillance tool in defining previously diagnosed asthmatic patients needing extra education or management; to determine the accuracy of a...
Jones, K P, Reynolds, S P, Capper, S J, Kalinka, S, Edwards, J H, Davies, B H
Bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) from subjects with a variety of interstitial lung diseases (active sarcoidosis, pigeon breeders' disease (PBD), asymptomatic pigeon breeders, patients with...
Reynolds, S P, Edwards, J H, Jones, K P, Davies, B H
Twenty-one symptomatic subjects with pigeon breeders' lung (PBL) and 10 asymptomatic pigeon breeders, with a similar exposure to pigeon antigens, underwent bronchoalveolar lavage. Total IgG, IgM and...
Tonks, A, Morris, R H K, Price, A J, Thomas, A W, Jones, K P, Jackson, S K
Phosphatidylcholine (PC) is the major phospholipid of pulmonary surfactant and it is hypothesized that PC and its subspecies modulate the functions of alveolar macrophages. The most abundant of these...
Jones, K P, Mullee, M A, Middleton, M, Chapman, E, Holgate, S T
BACKGROUND--Peak flow based asthma self-management plans have been strongly advocated in consensus statements, but convincing evidence for the effectiveness of this approach has been largely lacking....
Salmeterol xinafoate in the treatment of mild to moderate asthma in primary care. UK Study Group.
BACKGROUND--Clinical studies of inhaled salmeterol xinafoate have been conducted mainly in moderately to severely affected asthmatic subjects in hospital settings. This study was conducted to...
General practitioners' views about the statutory annual practice report.
Record, M. C., Spencer, J. A., Jones, R. H., Jones, K. P.
OBJECTIVE--To ascertain the views of primary care professionals about the current purpose, uses, potential, and workload implications of the statutory general practice annual report. DESIGN--Postal...