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USA Journal Club recognition for Keele research
Four members of Keele’s Research institute for Science & Technology in Medicine are authors on a research paper which has been selected as a feature article by the Clinical Chemistry Journal Club programme. This means it will be circulated to several university Journal Clubs in the USA for discussion, together with a slide presentation and podcast, and it will be posted online as a teaching resource. The selection will immediately bring it to a very wide audience of current and future practitioners around the world.
The article is entitled “Inappropriate requesting of HbA1c is widespread: Assessment of prevalence, impact of national guidance and practice-to-practice variability”, and it follows a theme of research in Prof Tony Fryer’s group looking at increasing demand for clinical biochemistry services, drawing on experience from the University Hospital of North Staffordshire. The corresponding author for the paper is Prof Fryer, and the first author is Dr Owen Driskell, holder of a fellowship from the National Institute for Health Research. The other authors are Mr David Holland of Keele’s National Pathology Benchmarking Service, Dr Fahmy Hanna and Prof Peter Jones of ISTM, Dr Martin Tran of the Department of Clinical Biochemistry at UHNS and Mr John Pemberton from Diabetes UK’s North Staffordshire branch. Of these, Prof Fryer, Dr Driskell and Prof Jones are pictured above.
An abstract of the paper can be found online at Clinical Chemistry.
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