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Could a clinical prediction model help to reduce asthma mis-diagnosis?

To coincide with the publication of their systematic review in npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine today, in the blog below Luke Daines provides more information for those less familiar with...
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What does it mean to secure the renewal?

Monica Fletcher OBE, Knowledge Exchange Lead at the Asthma UK Centre for Applied Research, reflects on the impact of securing a further five years of funding for the Centre. Having...
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Methodology workshop: Using cluster analysis for disease subtyping

A blog written by PhD student Elsie Horne, following February's methodology workshop on cluster analysis for disease subtyping.
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Review of the Prediction Modelling for Clinical Medicine Symposium

Held on Tuesday 24th April, the Prediction Modelling for Clinical Medicine Symposium was organised and chaired by Luke Daines, a fellow Asthma UK Centre for Applied Research (AUKCAR) PhD student...
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Why I'm running the London Marathon 2018 for people with asthma

Hello! Let me introduce myself. My name is Joy and I am a respiratory registrar and researcher based in Swansea. I have always loved lungs! Why wouldn’t you? As a medical student I would see patients feeling breathless and have a need to make them feel better...
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'Season Finale' - my last annual scientific meeting as a PhD student

It was two years ago, when I sat down in a restaurant for my final meal after my statistics crash-course at the University of Bristol...
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It’s all about adherence – my experience at ESPACOMP 2017

The European Society for Patient Adherence, Compliance and Persistence (ESPACOMP) held their annual meeting in the beautiful city of Budapest in early December last year...
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Joint Centre meeting with the MRC & Asthma UK Centre in Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma - a PhD perspective

Conferences can be scary places for a new PhD student, particularly the first one...
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My experience at the ERS Congress

The 27th International Congress of the European Respiratory Society, the largest respiratory meeting in the world, was held in Milan in September. Io Hui shares her thoughts...
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