Cara McLaughlin
Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry
4 Papers
Cara McLaughlin is an academic researcher from Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry. The author has contributed to research in topics: Glasgow-Blatchford score & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 3 publications.
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Performance of new thresholds of the Glasgow Blatchford score in managing patients with upper gastrointestinal bleeding.
Stig Borbjerg Laursen,Harry R. Dalton,Iain A. Murray,Nick Michell,Matthew R. Johnston,Michael Schultz,Jane Møller Hansen,Ove B. Schaffalitzky de Muckadell,Oliver Blatchford,Adrian J. Stanley,Chelsea Baines,George Benson,Aidan Cahill,Emily Fawcett,Terry Fesaitu,José A. García,Daniel R. Gaya,Nicola C. Hare,Hyder Hussaini,Hin Leung,Cara McLaughlin,Peter McLeod,William R. Murray,Heather Norton,Nathan O’Donnell,Jeong-Yoon Park,Adibah Salleh,Usama Warshow,Wei Zhang +28 more
TL;DR: A GBS cut-off value of ≤1 and both GBS modifications identify almost twice as many low-risk patients with UGIH as a GBS at a cut-offs value of 0, which could reduce hospital admissions by 15% to 20%.
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Host risk factors and autochthonous hepatitis E infection.
Harry R. Dalton,Richard P. Bendall,Mo Rashid,Vic Ellis,Rachel Ali,Rene Ramnarace,William Stableforth,William Headdon,Rose Abbott,Cara McLaughlin,Emma Froment,Katie J. Hall,Nick Michell,Peter Thatcher,William Henley +14 more
TL;DR: Clinically apparent hepatitis E infection is more common in individuals who consume at least 22 U alcohol/week and patients with established chronic alcoholic liver disease have a low seroprevalence compared with controls, which may represent a ‘culled’ population.
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The management of low-risk primary upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage in the community: a 5-year observational study.
Cara McLaughlin,Louisa Vine,Luke Chapman,Paula Deering,Sam Whittaker,John Beckly,Paul Fortun,Iain A. Murray,S. Hyder Hussaini,Nick Michell,Bill Stableforth,Peter Thatcher,Nicola C. Hare,Jo Palmer,Harry R. Dalton +14 more
TL;DR: Patients presenting with a primary upper upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage aged below 70 years with a Glasgow Blatchford Score of 2 or less are at a low risk, and can be safely managed in the community.
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External assessment and examinations
Cara McLaughlin
- 10 Jun 2022
TL;DR: An overview of the framework for external assessment and examinations in secondary schools with a particular focus on England is given in this paper , where the main vocational qualifications traditionally encountered in secondary school in England have been the General National Vocational Qualifications.