Educating nursing home staff on fracture prevention: a cluster randomised trial (2008)
Cox, Helen, Puffer, Suezann, Morton, Veronica, Cooper, Cyrus, Hodson, Jean, Masud, Tahir, ...
Objective: to assess whether specialist osteoporosis nurses delivering training to care home staff can reduce fractures and improve the prescription of treatments to reduce fractures versus usual...
Morris, Rob, Harwood, Rowan H., Baker, Ros, Sahota, Opinder, Armstrong, Sarah, Masud, Tahir
Background: people with vertebral fractures are at high risk of developing hip fractures. Falls risk is important in the pathogenesis of hip fractures. Aim: to investigate if balance tests, in...
Undergraduate education in geriatrics within the United Kingdom (2007)
Gordon, Adam L., Blundell, Adrian G., Gladman, John R. F., Masud, Tahir
Masud, Tahir, Coupland, Carol, Drummond, Avril, Gladman, John, Kendrick, Denise, Sach, Tracey, ...
Abstract Falls in older people are a major public health concern in terms of morbidity, mortality and cost. Previous studies suggest that multifactorial interventions can reduce falls, and many...
Foss, Alexander J. E., Harwood, Rowan H., Osborn, Francis, Gregson, Richard M., Zaman, Anwar, Masud, Tahir
Objective: first eye cataract surgery reduces the risk of falling. Most cataracts in elderly people are bilateral. Some binocular functions (e.g. stereopsis) are associated with falls. We aimed to...
Morris, Rob, Harwood, Rowan H., Baker, Ros, Sahota, Opinder, Armstrong, Sarah, Masud, Tahir
Background: people with vertebral fractures are at high risk of developing hip fractures. Falls risk is important in the pathogenesis of hip fractures. Aim: to investigate if balance tests, in...
Harwood, Rowan H., Sahota, Opinder, Gaynor, Kay, Masud, Tahir, Hosking, David J.
Background: survivors of hip fracture are at 5- to 10-fold risk of a second hip fracture. There is little consensus about secondary prevention. Many are given calcium and vitamin D, but the evidence...
The usefulness of carotid sinus massage in different patient groups (2003)
Kumar, Narasimhan Pradeep, Thomas, Alan, Mudd, Paul, Morris, Robert O., Masud, Tahir
Aim: to determine the positive yield of carotid sinus massage in different patient groups: unexplained syncope, falls, dizziness and controls. Design: observational study. Setting: teaching hospital....
Pearson, Ben, Skelly, Robert, Wileman, Derek, Masud, Tahir
Objective: to compare the views of general practitioners and hospital staff on the reasons for unplanned readmission of older people. Methods: we studied 124 patients aged 65 years or over who...
Masud, Tahir, Jordan, Desda, Hosking, David J.
Objectives: to assess the prevalence of a history of Colles' fracture (occurring after the age of 40 years) and to ascertain the extent of investigation and treatment of osteoporosis in...
Taal, Maarten W., Cassidy, Michael J. D., Pearson, Derek, Green, Desmond, Masud, Tahir
Background. Reduced bone mineral density (BMD) is associated with renal osteodystrophy and osteoporosis in end-stage renal failure patients. Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) is the standard...
Risk factors for reduced bone density in haemodialysis patients (1999)
Taal, Maarten W., Masud, Tahir, Green, Desmond, Cassidy, Michael J. D.
Background. Renal osteodystrophy may result in considerable morbidity for patients with end-stage renal disease. Secondary hyperparathyroidism, adynamic bone disease and osteomalacia, the main bony...
Masud, Tahir, Coupland, Carol, Drummond, Avril, Gladman, John, Kendrick, Denise, Sach, Tracey, ...
Falls in older people are a major public health concern in terms of morbidity, mortality and cost. Previous studies suggest that multifactorial interventions can reduce falls, and many geriatric day...
Masud, Tahir, Coupland, Carol, Drummond, Avril, Gladman, John, Kendrick, Denise, Sach, Tracey, ...
Falls in older people are a major public health concern in terms of morbidity, mortality and cost. Previous studies suggest that multifactorial interventions can reduce falls, and many geriatric day...