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Original research

• Do we overtreat patients with presumed neutropenic sepsis? (5 October, 2021)

  Abbey King, Sharon Irvine, Angus McFadyen, Chris Isles
• Thirty-day unplanned readmission in hospitalised asthma patients in the USA (30 September, 2021)

  Neel Patel, Sandeep Singh, Rupak Desai, Aakash Desai, Mohammed Nabeel, Neil Parikh, Gagandeep Singh, Smit Patel, Radhika Parikh, Supriya Mahajan
• Real-world observational study of assessment of CHA₂DS₂-VASc, C₂HEST and HAVOC scores for atrial fibrillation among patients with rheumatological disorders: a nationwide analysis

  (18 October, 2021)

  Wei Syun Hu, Cheng Li Lin
• Factors associated with symptomatic intracranial haemorrhage after intravenous thrombolysis in severe white matter lesions: a retrospective analysis (5 October, 2021)

  Yu Shen, DeFu Li, BoJi Tang, Qian Cao, Zhuo Hou, LiJun Xu
• Effect of cigarette smoking on smoking biomarkers, blood pressure and blood lipid levels among Sri Lankan male smokers (19 October, 2021)

  Prasanna Herath, Savithri Wimalasekera, Thamara Amarasekara, Manoj Fernando, Sue Turale
• Prognostic significance of drivers at work and learning styles in surgical training (8 October, 2021)

  Katie Mellor, Luke Hopkins, David Bryan Thomas Robinson, Osian Penri James, Oliver Luton, Chris Brown, Richard John Egan, Wyn G Lewis
• Predominant learning approaches of medical students in Saudi Arabia (4 August, 2021)

  Reem S AlOmar, Nouf A AlShamlan, Naheel A AlAmer, Nouf I Albrahim, Zainab Z Alshulah, Zahra A Kalalah, Danah M Almoaibed, Hawra Z Alshulah, Musaad R AlRashid, Abdulaziz A Althumairi, Abdullatif K Althunyan
• Is metformin use associated with a reduced risk of oesophageal cancer? A systematic review and meta-analysis (30 September, 2021) Free

  Yue Chen, Xingyu Cheng, Chenyu Sun, Na Hyun Kim, Sujatha Kailas, Faisal Qureshi, Zeid Karadsheh, Yile Wu, Lei Hu, Zhen Zhou, Chandur Bhan, Keun Young Kim, Raveena Manem, Ce Cheng, Qin Zhou