CEBM research projects
Ongoing projects
Electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation
Jamie Hartmann-Boyce
Evaluating the safety and effect of using ECs to help people who smoke achieve long‐term smoking abstinence.
Evidence-based multimorbidity
Elizabeth Spencer, Carl Heneghan
The EBMultimorbidity project focuses on early recognition, screening and treatment of multimorbidity to reduce the morbidity and minimise the risks to individuals while improving their quality of life and reducing costs to the healthcare system.
Salt intake in heart failure patients
Kamal R. Mahtani, Carl Heneghan, David Nunan, Igho Onakpoya, Richard Hobbs, Niah Roberts
This review will be the start of a body of work that will help future guidelines advice on whether there is any benefit (or harm) to low salt diets in heart failure patients.
Completed projects
The potential contribution of paramedics in primary and urgent care
Georgette Eaton, Geoff Wong, Kamal R. Mahtani
Within the United Kingdom, there are now opportunities for paramedics to work across a variety of healthcare settings, with many opting to move into primary care. We undertook a systematic scoping review of published literature to provide an overview of the types of clinical roles paramedics are undertaking in these settings.
Supporting social prescribing in primary care by linking people to local assets: a realist review
Stephanie Tierney, Anne-Marie Boylan, Geoff Wong, Kamal R. Mahtani
Link workers can help patients in primary care to develop a sense of belonging, confidence and sources of advice and assistance. However, this is only likely to happen if patients, GPs and healthcare managers ‘buy-in’ to the link worker role and trust in the skills of the person undertaking it.
Diabetes and COVID-19
Jamie Hartmann-Boyce
COVID-19 has presented particular challenges to people with diabetes - not only are they at greater risk if they contract COVID-19, but the pandemic has also disrupted diabetes care and management.
Green tea and blood pressure effects
Igho Onakpoya, Carl Heneghan, Elizabeth Spencer
African bush mango effects on weight
Igho Onakpoya
Chlorogenic acids in green coffee & BP
Igho Onakpoya