In most randomised controlled trials, individual patients are randomised to a treatment or
control group, but sometimes this is undesirable or even impossible and groups (clusters) of …

Evaluations of service delivery interventions with contemporaneous controls often yield null
results, even when the intervention appeared promising in advance. There can be many …

The dengue viruses (DVsa) are reported to infect 40-100 million people each year, and with
more than half the world's population living in areas at risk of infection, the World Health …

Objective To assess the validity of case mix adjustment methods used to derive
standardised mortality ratios for hospitals, by examining the consistency of relations …

Background Although acute hospitals offer a twenty-four hour seven day a week service
levels of staffing are lower over the weekends and some health care processes may be less …

Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs), with their well-ordered pore networks and tunable
surface chemistries, offer a versatile platform for preparing well-defined nanostructures …

A long-term dataset of reported flooding based on reports from the UK Met Office and the UK
Centre for Ecology and Hydrology is described. This is possibly a unique dataset as the …

Beam damage caused during acquisition of the highest resolution images is the current
limitation in the vast majority of experiments performed in a scanning transmission electron …

The frequency of visits to Emergency Departments (ED) varies greatly between populations.
This may reflect variation in patient behaviour, need, accessibility, and service configuration …

The spread of multidrug resistance among bacterial pathogens poses a serious threat to
public health worldwide. Recent approaches towards combating antimicrobial resistance …