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Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a peer-delivered, relational, harm reduction intervention to improve mental health, quality of life, and related outcomes, for people experiencing homelessness and substance use problems: protocol for the ‘SHARPS’ cluster randomised controlled trial

2025 - E-pub ahead of print

Parkes, T., Carver, H., Boyd, J., Cotton, S., Breeman, S., Cooper, D., Forrest, M., Foster, R., Hawthorn, J., Hunt, K., Kilonzo, M., Matheson, C., Maxwell, M., Mercer, S. W., Pauly, B., Scotland, G., Steele, W., Sumnall, H., Wallace, J., Macaulay, L., MacLennan, G.

Trials

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-025-09364-x

Public health economics and upstream income-based policies: from cost to value

2025

McHugh, N., Baker, R., Watson, V., Craig, N., Bomark, D., Bambra, C., McGowan, V. J., Lightbody, R., Donaldson, C.

Journal of Public Health Policy, vol. 46, pp. 925-935

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Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41271-025-00604-7
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Reduction in Sugar Intake after the Introduction of Minimum Unit Pricing for Alcohol in Scotland: a Difference-in-Differences Analysis

2025 - E-pub ahead of print

Leckcivilize, A., Whybrow, S., Gao, N., Kopasker, D., McNamee, P., Ludbrook, A.

The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 101128

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Online: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0002916525007208
Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajcnut.2025.101128

Supplemental imaging modalities for breast cancer screening in women with dense breasts: A systematic review with economic considerations

2026

Duggan, S. N., Azharuddin, M., Hernández, R., Robertson, C., Cooper, D., McCall, E., Manson, P., Virgili, G., Clarke, M., Treweek, S., Brazzelli, M.

Breast, vol. 85, 104668

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Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.breast.2025.104668
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/58efab3c-55a4-4803-8776-5e582f0caa19/download

Is next generation sequencing for the diagnosis of rare diseases worth its cost? A user-based approach to valuation

2025 - E-pub ahead of print

MacDonald, K. V., Heidenreich, S., Krucien, N., Boycott, K. M., Bernier, F. P., Ryan, M., Marshall, D. A.

European Journal of Health Economics

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Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10198-025-01870-8
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/c2ebc7d5-94d3-4530-be2b-3885afb2ff7c/download
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Chronicity rhetoric in health and welfare systems inhibits patient recovery: a qualitative, ethnographic study of fibromyalgia care

2025

Cupit, C., Finlay, T., Pope, C., Hollick, R., Jones, G. T., Locock, L., Macfarlane, G. J., McNamee, P., Martin, K. R., Murchie, P., Choy, E., Ziebland, S., Walker-Bone, K., Eccleston, C., Williams, D. A., Basu, N., For the PACFiND Team

Social Science and Medicine, vol. 382, 118313

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Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118313
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/1efb13dd-2c46-4b88-8792-9526f95ef3d3/download
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'Come and work here!’ Qualitative research exploring community-led initiatives to improve healthcare recruitment and retention in remote and rural areas

2025

Locock, L., Maclaren, A., Skea, Z., Angell, L., Cleland, J., Dawson, T., Denison, A., Dobson, C., Hollick, R., Murchie, P., Skatun, D., Watson, V.

Health and Social Care Delivery Research, vol. 13, no. 34

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Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.3310/DJGR6622
Open Access: http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/6d52838a-8065-412a-b1fa-df99807aa7d4/download

User Preferences for the Use of AI in the National Breast Screening Programme: A Discrete Choice Experiment

2025

Branson, C., Anderson, L., Newlands, R., Lip, G., Loria Rebolledo, L. E., Antunes, M., Scotland, G.

Contributions to Conferences: Papers

Additional Links: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40271-025-00758-2#Sec02

PUrE Randomised Controlled Trial 2: Clinical and Cost Effectiveness of Flexible Ureterorenoscopy and Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy for Lower-pole Stones of 10–25 mm

2025 - E-pub ahead of print

Smith, D., Wiseman, O., Starr, K., Aucott, L., Hernández, R., Thomas, R., MacLennan, S., Clark, C. T., MacLennan, G., McRae, D., Bell, V., Cotton, S., Gall, Z., Turney, B., McClinton, S.

European Urology Focus

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Digital Object Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euf.2025.08.010
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Trifluridine-tipiracil with bevacizumab for treating metastatic colorectal cancer after 2 systemic treatments [ID6298]: NICE Single Technology Appraisal

2025

Cruickshank, M., Kilonzo, M., Ayansina, D., Kumar, S., Manson, P., Brazzelli, M., Samuel, L., Boyers, D.

Commissioned by National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). Aberdeen HTA Group

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