Witham MD

No ORCID on file · 4 papers in corpus
2026
Making clinical guidelines work for people with multiple long term conditions: analysis and recommendations from review of single condition guidelines.
BMJ medicine ·doi:10.1136/bmjmed-2025-001495

ObjectivesTo evaluate how UK guidelines for individual health conditions consider coexisting multiple long term conditions and to propose improvements to guideline development processes so that guidelines appropriately account for and consi…

2025
A National Health Service in ‘Serious Trouble’: what do multiple long-term conditions tell us about deterioration in health among people accessing hospital care in the North East of England?
·doi:10.1101/2025.11.14.25340239

Background The transformation of the National Health Service (NHS), outlined in the 10 Year Health Plan for England, must take account of the inexorable rise in the prevalence of multiple long-term conditions (MLTC). However, most evidence…

2024
Identifying combinations of long-term conditions associated with sarcopenia: a cross-sectional decision tree analysis in the UK Biobank study.
BMJ open ·doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2024-085204

ObjectivesThis study aims to determine whether machine learning can identify specific combinations of long-term conditions (LTC) associated with increased sarcopenia risk and hence address an important evidence gap-people with multiple LTC …

2024
Rising to the challenge of defining and operationalising multimorbidity in a UK hospital setting: the ADMISSION research collaborative.
European geriatric medicine ·doi:10.1007/s41999-024-00953-8

PurposeGreater transparency and consistency when defining multimorbidity in different settings is needed. We aimed to: (1) adapt published principles that can guide the selection of long-term conditions for inclusion in research studies of …