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The Usher Institute is a high-energy, interdisciplinary environment dedicated to improving the health of individuals and populations locally and globally through research, innovation, knowledge exchange and education.
The Usher Institute sits within the Edinburgh Medical School. It has 4 core research centres, hosts the Edinburgh Clinical Trials Unit, and is a delivery hub within the Data-Driven Innovation Programme of the Edinburgh and South East Scotland City Region Deal
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Genetic architecture of glycomic and lipidomic phenotypes in isolated populations
This dataset contains the extended supplementary tables from the PhD thesis entitled "Genetic architecture of glycomic and lipidomic phenotypes in isolated populations" by Arianna Landini. Understanding how genetics ... -
Epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 infections in people aged <19 years
The files presented are the standardised data extraction sheets that were used to extract data from the primary included in the systematic review on the epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 infections in children and adolescents ... -
TestEd Survey of Staff and Student Experiences and Perceptions of Novel Covid-19 Testing Platform
Survey of staff and students at the University of Edinburgh related to their participation in a routine, asymptomatic Covid-19 workplace testing pilot. 522 participants completed a pilot survey in April 2021 and 1,750 ... -
EBV serostatus and total number of siblings GWAS summary statistics
GWAS on EBV serostatus/total number of siblings on UKBiobank participants Mendelian randomisation identifies priority groups for prophylactic EBV vaccination. Marisa D. Muckian, MSc; James. F Wilson, DPhil; Graham S. ... -
Co-OPT: Consortium for the Study of Pregnancy Treatments: Antenatal corticosteroids cohort - Data Dictionary
This data dictionary accompanies patient data files from the ongoing Co-Opt study which are held elsewhere on secure systems. The Consortium for the Study of Pregnancy Treatments (Co-OPT) collaboration has been established ... -
Dataset: gender representation at the Royal College of Radiologists' Annual Scientific Meeting
Deidentified dataset extracted from Royal College of Radiologists' Annual Scientific Conference programmes on genders of presenters and types of presentations. -
AAMOS-00 Study: Predicting Asthma Attacks Using Connected Mobile Devices and Machine Learning
Monitoring asthma condition is essential to asthma self-management. However, traditional methods of monitoring require high levels of active engagement and patients may regard this level of monitoring as tedious. Passive ... -
STROBE statement
STROBE (Strengthening the reporting of observational studies in epidemiology) statement describing the preparation of the manuscript 'Towards equality: gender representation at the Royal College of Radiologists’ Annual ... -
Updated bibliography for the IST-3 study
This is a bibliography of publications from the IST-3 trial (International Stroke Trial). This fileset comprises two files containing the same bibliography in different formats (Word and PDF-A respectively), for ... -
InfoBC Discrete Choice Experiment Data
The data describes the responses of 113 self identified patient respondents for a discrete choice experiment investigating trade-offs between hypothetical treatments. A pending abstract for the paper is included ... -
Consequences of RSV Infection in Young Infant
Each year, an estimated 33.1 million episodes of Respiratory Syncytial Virus associated to acute lower respiratory tract infections (RSV-LRTI) occur globally in children under five.In addition to acute morbidity and ... -
Prevention, detection and treatment of adult lung disease including lung cancer in a poor, rural population in Tamil Nadu: feasibility study
The dataset contains socio-demographic characteristics of chronic respiratory disease patients (participants) along with their disease diagnosis, history related to their disease, health behavior and risk factors, variables ... -
Feasibility of Peer-led, Professionals Assisted Pulmonary rehabilitation(PLPAPR): Exploratory multi-centric pilot study
The dataset consist of demographic data, medical history, smoking history, occupation history, height and weight and treatment details. Six-minute walk test (6-MWT), rate of perceived exertion (RPE) using the modified Borg ... -
Bangladesh Hajj Project
This study aimed to understand the pre-Hajj medical check-up process in Bangladesh, and assess the feasibility of integrating an intervention within the existing system which will contribute to reduce the risk of asthma ... -
Optimising the treatment of Bangladeshi adult patients with severe pneumonia and/or ARDS using adaptive version of locally made Bubble CPAP: Feasibility study
The dataset comprises 30 adult patients of Bangladesh aged between 18 and 65 years diagnosed with severe pneumonia and hypoxaemia and/or acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) with or without COVID-19 infection. These ... -
An in vitro - agent-based modelling approach to optimisation of culture medium for generating muscle cells: Live images
Live image data used in the study "An in vitro - agent-based modelling approach to optimisation of culture medium for generating muscle cells". Live imaging was performed using an inverted microscope (Zeiss Cell Observer ... -
A pedagogical research on use of an online learning platform by final year medical students on under five pneumonia
An online portal was developed for final year medical students from five medical universities in Rawalpindi and Islamabad cities of Pakistan on case management of under-five pneumonia. This was a 6 month intervention which ... -
Estimating the Burden of Chronic Respiratory Diseases (CRD) in Bangladesh Using the 4 Country Chronic Respiratory Disease [4CCORD] Study Tools
Despite its leading contribution in mortality and related multi-morbidity, Chronic respiratory diseases (CRD), particularly asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are largely underreported in resource-poor ... -
Feasibility and acceptability of bubble continuous positive airway pressure for treatment of Bangladeshi children with severe pneumonia
The dataset comprises 20 children of Bangladesh aged between 2 and 24 months with severe pneumonia and hypoxaemia. These were obtained in 2021 from two district level hospitals (1) Institute of Child and Mother Health, ... -
Blended learning for primary care physicians on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): A feasibility study in Bangladesh
Quantitative data: The study participants were general practitioners (GPs) providing public and private primary healthcare services in Bangladesh. We administered the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease- physician’s ...