Returning Individual-Level Urgent or Emergent Research Results to Participants: The Project Baseline Health Study Experience

Background: Returning results to research participants is increasingly recognized as an ethical mandate, yet little is known about best practices to optimally communicate urgent or emergent results.Methods: We describe the development of and experience with a process to return results to participants in the Project Baseline Health Study (PBHS), whi

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A feasibility trial of prehabilitation before oesophagogastric cancer surgery using a multi-component home-based exercise programme: the ChemoFit study

Abstract Background Treatment for locally advanced oesophagogastric adenocarcinoma involves neoadjuvant chemotherapy which has a negative impact on patient fitness.Using ‘prehabilitation’ to increase activity levels and fitness may affect physiology, postoperative outcomes and improve patient wellbeing and quality of life.The aims of the trial

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