Dibben C

No ORCID on file · 3 papers in corpus · active 2016-2023
2023
Impact of data source choice on multimorbidity measurement: a comparison study of 2.3 million individuals in the Welsh National Health Service.
BMC medicine ·doi:10.1186/s12916-023-02970-z

BackgroundMeasurement of multimorbidity in research is variable, including the choice of the data source used to ascertain conditions. We compared the estimated prevalence of multimorbidity and associations with mortality using different da…

2023
The impact of varying the number and selection of conditions on estimated multimorbidity prevalence: A cross-sectional study using a large, primary care population dataset.
PLoS medicine ·doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1004208

BackgroundMultimorbidity prevalence rates vary considerably depending on the conditions considered in the morbidity count, but there is no standardised approach to the number or selection of conditions to include.Methods and findingsWe cond…

2016
Identifying risk factors for progression to critical care admission and death among individuals with acute pancreatitis: a record linkage analysis of Scottish healthcare databases.
BMJ open ·doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2016-011474

ObjectivesAcute pancreatitis (AP) can initiate systemic complications that require support in critical care (CC). Our objective was to use the unified national health record to define the epidemiology of AP in Scotland, with a specific focu…