Mark Ashworth
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· 4 papers in corpus
observational
2025
BACKGROUND: Chronic pain (CP) is an ill-defined condition, often under-recorded in primary care records. AIM: To determine prevalence, evidence of health inequalities, primary care consultation rates, and healthcare utilisation costs of CP…
review
2023
BACKGROUND: Estimates of chronic pain prevalence using coded primary care data are likely to be substantially lower than estimates derived from community surveys. Most primary care studies have estimated chronic pain prevalence using data s…
observational
2022
BACKGROUND: Long-term exposure to air pollution concentrations is known to be adversely associated with a broad range of single non-communicable diseases, but its role in multimorbidity has not been investigated in the UK. We aimed to asses…
review
2021
BACKGROUND: Defining multimorbidity has proved elusive in spite of attempts to standardise definitions. For national studies, a broad definition is required to capture national diversity. For locally based studies, the definition may need t…