Collagenase injection versus limited fasciectomy surgery to treat Dupuytren’s contracture in adult patients in the UK: DISC, a non-inferiority RCT and economic evaluation by Joseph Dias, Puvan Tharmanathan, Catherine Arundel, Charlie Welch, Qi Wu, Paul Leighton, Maria Armaou, Belen Corbacho, Nick Johnson, Sophie James, John Cooke, Christopher Bainbridge, Michael Craigen, David Warwick, Samantha Brady, Lydia Flett, Judy Jones, Catherine Knowlson, Michelle Watson, Ada Keding, Catherine Hewitt, David Torgerson

“…The DISC photography substudy provides an indication of how patient-taken photographs can complement clinic measurements if processes are streamlined further. Further investigation will be key in establishing remote assessment and follow-up for DC patients but noting that clinic measurements remain necessary for final decisions on required care. …”
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Increasing uptake of self-management education programmes for type 2 diabetes in primary care: the Embedding research programme including an RCT by Melanie J Davies, Shona Agarwal, Danielle H Bodicoat, Alan Brennan, Simon Dixon, Helen Eborall, Agnieszka Glab, Laura J Gray, Michelle Hadjiconstantinou, Lisa Huddlestone, Nicky Hudson, Anju Keetharuth, Kamlesh Khunti, Caroline Kristunas, Graham Martin, Alison Northern, Mike Patterson, Daniel Pollard, Rebecca Pritchard, Sally Schreder, Jane Speight, Bernie Stribling, Jackie Sturt, Jess Turner, Christina Weis

“…Interpretive thematic analysis informed by normalisation process theory (NPT) was conducted. Workstream 4: assess cost-effectiveness and sustainability and enable implementation For the health economics, the primary (base-case) analysis estimated the costs of embedding activities as implemented across all practices within the RCT, and the discounted quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs) and costs in the intervention and control conditions. …”
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Queering canons. Methodological heteronormativities and queer inquietudes by Cirus Rinaldi

“…Particular emphasis will be highlighting the needs to reconsider <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">queerly</em> sociological oriented methods and methodology, paying attention to researcher’s <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ambiguous</em> role, her body and emotions in the permanent reflexive research process and in encounters with the (co)-researched.…”
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