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Impact (REF3a/b)

1 - Clinical Medicine

University of Glasgow

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Individual case studies

Advancing heart disease diagnosis – influencing international guidelines and commercial adoption of automated ECG analysis software (300K)

Changing clinical guidelines and government policy on VTE prevention among women (129K)

Developing the first international diagnostic standard for human cytomegalovirus (158K)

Development and use of new, improved UK child growth charts (198K)

Expanding treatment options and management of acute ischaemic stroke (198K)

Global adoption of statins for cardiovascular disease prevention (192K)

Improved clinical guidelines to manage postoperative infection risk in kidney transplant recipients (139K)

Improved healthcare management of children with disorders of sex development (160K)

Improving tolerability, convenience and cost of bowel cancer chemotherapy (172K)

Landmark advances in outcomes for patients with heart failure (208K)

Novel treatment for psoriatic arthritis receives regulatory approval (158K)

Personalisation of in-vitro fertilisation therapy (395K)

Promoting nutritional balance with the Eat Balanced pizza and Eatwell Everyday website (118K)

Redefining hypertension treatment practice to reduce primary and secondary stroke risk (299K)

Specialist stroke services become the national standard of care (184K)

Statin Therapy: Patient Selection, Clinical Guidelines and revision of safety labelling (271K)

Systemic therapies for ovarian cancer (206K)

Transforming the treatment of atrial fibrillation (204K)

Transforming the treatment of chronic myeloid leukaemia (163K)