Comparative evaluation of a low‐cost solar powered otoscope with a traditional device among health care workers in Malawi by Katharine Balfour, Amy McCarthy, Shi Ying Hey, Obaid Kousha, Emmanuel Singano, Wakisa Mulwafu, David F. D. L. Walker, Andrew Blaikie

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Chest pain presentations to hospital during the COVID-19 lockdown: Lessons for public health media campaigns. by Amy V Ferry, Collette Keanie, Martin A Denvir, Nicholas L Mills, Fiona E Strachan

“…We performed a service evaluation project in NHS Lothian to explore how and why the COVID-19 pandemic and public health advice had affected chest pain presentations and help-seeking behaviour at an individual patient level using a qualitative interview approach.…”
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The Gordian Knot of <i>C. auris</i>: If You Cannot Cut It, Prevent It by Vasiliki Rapti, Katerina Iliopoulou, Garyfallia Poulakou

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Low Cost Inertial Sensors for the Motion Tracking and Orientation Estimation of Human Upper Limbs in Neurological Rehabilitation by Lu Bai, Matthew G. Pepper, Yong Yan, Malcolm Phillips, Mohamed Sakel

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Reimagined MPFL Reconstruction: Retinacular Fixation of the Doubled Hamstring Graft at the Patella and Suture Anchor-Based Femoral Fixation by Muhammed Ehsan Nazeer, Sagar Goel, Muhammed Nazeer, Gowrishankar Sreenivasan, Mohsin Nazeer Muhammed, Suzaan Shajil

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Neurosurgical training and education – General European certification is supported: Results of an EANS survey by Ramon Navarro, Benjamin Mehigan, Nicoló Marchesini, Andreas K. Demetriades, Jesus Lafuente

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Understanding the performance and reliability of NLP tools: a comparison of four NLP tools predicting stroke phenotypes in radiology reports by Arlene Casey, Emma Davidson, Claire Grover, Richard Tobin, Andreas Grivas, Huayu Zhang, Patrick Schrempf, Patrick Schrempf, Alison Q. O’Neil, Alison Q. O’Neil, Liam Lee, Michael Walsh, Freya Pellie, Freya Pellie, Karen Ferguson, Vera Cvoro, Vera Cvoro, Honghan Wu, Honghan Wu, Heather Whalley, Heather Whalley, Grant Mair, Grant Mair, William Whiteley, William Whiteley, Beatrice Alex, Beatrice Alex

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Development of an intervention to manage benzodiazepine dependence and high-risk use in the context of escalating drug related deaths in Scotland: an application of the MRC framewo... by Karen Berry, Catriona Matheson, Joe Schofield, Joshua Dumbrell, Tessa Parkes, Duncan Hill, Mary Kilonzo, Graeme MacLennan, Duncan Stewart, Trina Ritchie, Michael Turner

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617 A Phase I study of a tumor-targeted, fibroblast activation protein (FAP)-CD40 agonist (RO7300490) in patients with advanced solid tumors by Antoine Hollebecque, Victor Moreno, Do-Youn Oh, Ignacio Melero, James Spicer, Iben Spanggaard, Fiona C Thistlethwaite, Stefan Symeonides, Maria Lostes Baradji, Dae Lee, Corinne Rusterholz, Olivera Cirovic, Yvonne Zhao, Nicole Kratochwil, Bernhard Reis, Alexandra Epp, Georgios Kazantzidis

Mediating role of avoidance of trauma disclosure and social disapproval in ICD-11 post-traumatic stress disorder and complex post-traumatic stress disorder: cross-sectional study i... by Monika Kvedaraite, Odeta Gelezelyte, Thanos Karatzias, Neil P. Roberts, Evaldas Kazlauskas

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Developing a Sustainable Antimicrobial Stewardship (AMS) Programme in Ghana: Replicating the Scottish Triad Model of Information, Education and Quality Improvement by Jacqueline Sneddon, Daniel Afriyie, Israel Sefah, Alison Cockburn, Frances Kerr, Lucie Byrne-Davis, Elaine Cameron

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Transfer of training from an internal medicine boot camp to the workplace: enhancing and hindering factors by Joanne Kerins, Samantha Eve Smith, Suzanne Anderson Stirling, Judy Wakeling, Victoria Ruth Tallentire

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From hormone replacement therapy to regenerative scaffolds: A review of current and novel primary hypothyroidism therapeutics by Maria Heim, Maria Heim, Ian J. Nixon, Elaine Emmerson, Anthony Callanan

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1006 High doses of MHC-II neoantigens in peptide cancer vaccines induce tumor-specific inhibitory cytolytic CD4+ T cells by Naveen Sharma, James Allison, Andres Salazar, Hussein Sultan, Ton Schumacher, Ivana Djuretic, Yik Andy Yeung, Jeffrey Ward, Marco Colonna, Yuang Song, Samuel Ameh, Robert Schreiber, Kenneth Murphy, Yoshiko Takeuchi, Corazon Arthur, Kathleen Sheehan, Kelly D Moynihan, Vladimir Sukhov, Maria Firulyova, Tian-Tian Liu, Maxim Artyomov

Comparing the Impact of Primary Care Practice Design in Two Inner City UK Homelessness Services by Martina Zeitler, Andrea E. Williamson, John Budd, Ruth Spencer, Anton Queen, Richard Lowrie

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A convolutional neural network STIFMap reveals associations between stromal stiffness and EMT in breast cancer by Connor Stashko, Mary-Kate Hayward, Jason J. Northey, Neil Pearson, Alastair J. Ironside, Johnathon N. Lakins, Roger Oria, Marie-Anne Goyette, Lakyn Mayo, Hege G. Russnes, E. Shelley Hwang, Matthew L. Kutys, Kornelia Polyak, Valerie M. Weaver

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Adherence to self-care in patients with heart failure in the HeartCycle study by Stut W, Deighan C, Clel, JG, Jaarsma T

“…Wim Stut,1 Carolyn Deighan,2 John G Cleland,3 Tiny Jaarsma4 1Philips Research Europe, Eindhoven, the Netherlands; 2The Heart Manual Department, NHS Lothian, Edinburgh, UK; 3National Heart and Lung Institute, Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals Imperial College, London, UK; 4Department of Social and Welfare studies, Faculty of Health Sciences, Link&ouml;ping University, Link&ouml;ping, Sweden Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate a novel online education and coaching program to promote self-care among patients with heart failure. …”
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Debriefing strategies for interprofessional simulation—a qualitative study by Catherine Holmes, Edward Mellanby

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The acceptability to patients of video-consulting in general practice: semi-structured interviews in three diverse general practices. by Sophie Leng, Margaret MacDougall, Brian McKinstry

“…Method & Results:  We used semi-structured interviews to survey 270 patients in NHS Lothian. Three diverse General Practices were chosen purposively and sequential patients attending the practice at a range of different times of day were invited to participate. …”
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GP-led adapted comprehensive geriatric assessment for frail older people: a multi-methods evaluation of the ‘Living Well Assessment’ quality improvement project in Scotland by Eddie Donaghy, Franca Still, Helen Frost, Julia Lutte, Susan D Shenkin, Helen E Jones, Stewart W Mercer

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