William G Dixon
University of Manchester
220 Papers
579 Citations
William G Dixon is an academic researcher from University of Manchester. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Rheumatoid arthritis. The author has an hindex of 45, co-authored 186 publications. Previous affiliations of William G Dixon include Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust & Arthritis Research UK.
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Papers
Exploring the Cross-cultural Acceptability of Digital Tools for Pain Self-reporting: Qualitative Study
S. M. Ali,Rebecca Lee,John McBeth,Ben James,Sean McAlister,Alessandro Chiarotto,William G Dixon,Sabine N. van der Veer +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper , three web-based workshops consisting of a focus group and a user requirement exercise with people who self-identified as being of Black African, South Asian, or White British ethnicity were conducted.
Quantifying the hepatotoxic risk of alcohol consumption in patients with rheumatoid arthritis taking methotrexate
Jenny H. Humphreys,Alexander J. Warner,Ruth Costello,Mark Lunt,Suzanne M M Verstappen,William G Dixon +5 more
TL;DR: Weekly alcohol consumption of <14 units per week does not appear to be associated with an increased risk of transaminitis, and the risk of developing abnormal liver blood tests at different levels of alcohol consumption is quantified.
Who Self-Weighs and What Do They Gain From It? A Retrospective Comparison Between Smart Scale Users and the General Population in England
Matthew Sperrin,Helen Rushton,William G Dixon,Alexis Normand,Joffrey Villard,Angela Chieh,Iain Buchan +6 more
TL;DR: Users of self-weighing technology are a selected sample of the general population and this must be accounted for in studies that employ these data, and more research is needed to understand the extent to which weight change encourages closer monitoring versus closer monitoring driving the weight change.
EULAR points to consider when establishing, analysing and reporting safety data of biologics registers in rheumatology
William G Dixon,Loreto Carmona,Axel Finckh,Merete Lund Hetland,Tore K Kvien,Robert Landewé,Joachim Listing,Paulo Nicola,Ulrik Tarp,Angela Zink,Johan Askling +10 more
TL;DR: Thoughtful design and planning before the establishment of biologics registers will increase their sustainability, versatility and raw data quality, and Harmonisation of analyses and reporting from such registers will improve interpretation of drug safety studies.
High frequency of long-term opioid use among patients with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases initiating opioids for the first time
TL;DR: In this article , the authors investigated the proportion of patients transitioning to long-term opioid use in patients newly initiated on an opioid across six rheumatoid and musculoskeletal diseases (RMD conditions using varying definitions from the literature.