College of Medicine and Health
The mission of the College of Medicine and Health is to improve the health and wellbeing of the public, locally and across the world. This is done through swiftly turning new discoveries into treatments therapies, and through nurturing graduates, staff and researchers who are critical thinkers and problem solvers. For more information, please visit http://medicine.exeter.ac.uk
Recent Submissions
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Preexisting comorbidities predicting Covid-19 and mortality in the UK biobank community cohort
(Oxford University Press (OUP) / Gerontological Society of America, 2020)Background: Hospitalized COVID-19 patients tend to be older and frequently have hypertension, diabetes or coronary heart disease (CHD), but whether these co-morbidities are true risk factors (i.e. more common than in the ... -
EEG Markers in Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder - A Possible Outcome Measure for Neurofeedback: A Narrative Review
(SAGE Publications, 8 July 2020)Objectives. There is growing evidence for the use of biofeedback (BF) in affective disorders, dissocial personality disorder, and in children with histories of abuse. Electroencephalogram (EEG) markers could be used as ... -
Social cohesion, mental wellbeing and health-related quality of life among a cohort of social housing residents in Cornwall: a cross sectional study
(BMC, 22 June 2020)BACKGROUND: Research and policy have identified social cohesion as a potentially modifiable determinant of health and wellbeing that could contribute to more sustainable development. However, the function of social cohesion ... -
Response-adaptive designs for binary responses: How to offer patient benefit while being robust to time trends?
(Wiley / PSI (Statisticians in Pharmaceutical Industry), 19 December 2017)Response-adaptive randomisation (RAR) can considerably improve the chances of a successful treatment outcome for patients in a clinical trial by skewing the allocation probability towards better performing treatments as ... -
Combining symbiotic simulation systems with enterprise data storage systems for real-time decision-making
(Taylor & Francis, 18 June 2020)A symbiotic simulation system (S3) enables interactions between a physical system and its computational model representation. To support operational decisions, an S3 uses real-time data from the physical system, which is ...