Top ten endometriosis research priorities in the UK and Ireland.

View From Above: Bibliometric and Citation Analysis of Global High Altitude Medicine Research

Introduction: High altitude destinations are popular among international travelers. Travel medicine practitioners should be familiar with altitude physiology and high altitude illness recognition, prophylaxis, and management. We performed the first bibliometric analysis of high altitude medicine research. Methods: All articles published in a specialist hi...

Global Surgery Priorities: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Top ten research priorities for brain and spine cavernous malformations.

Cavernous malformations, also known as cavernomas, aff ect people at any age and occur throughout the CNS. In the brain, they can cause haemorrhagic stroke and epileptic seizures, and in the spinal cord, they can bleed and cause myelopathy. Despite the availability of microsurgical excision and stereotactic radiosurgery for cavernoma treatment and known genetic causes of most familial forms of ...

Disease Control Priorities Third Edition: Time to Put a Theory of Change Into Practice; Comment on “Disease Control Priorities Third Edition Is Published: A Theory of Change Is Needed for Translating Evidence to Health Policy”

The Disease Control Priorities program (DCP) has pioneered the use of economic evidence in health. The theory of change (ToC) put forward by Norheim is a further welcome and necessary step towards translating DCP evidence into better priority setting in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). We also agree that institutionalising evidence for informed priority-setting processes is crucial. Un...

Priority setting partnership to identify the top 10 research priorities for the management of Parkinson's disease

OBJECTIVES This priority setting partnership was commissioned by Parkinson's UK to encourage people with direct and personal experience of the condition to work together to identify and prioritise the top 10 evidential uncertainties that impact on everyday clinical practice for the management of Parkinson's disease (PD). SETTING The UK. PARTICIPANTS Anyone with experience of PD including: p...