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The repository contains the records of published and unpublished research authored by NHS staff working for the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust and its partners. The repository is managed by the Library and Knowledge Services of the Trust and supported by the Non-Medical Research Leads Network Group and the Research and Development Directorate.

If you are a member of RWT staff and you would like to submit an item to the repository, please fill in this online form.

If you have a list of publications you'd like to submit, please e-mail the repository rwh-tr.rwtrepository@nhs.net admin team.

For more information contact the library on 01902 695322 or email or take a look at our website. You will also find guidance on the webpage about publishing your work.

Select a community to browse its collections.

00- All RWT Publications by Year

This community lists all the RWT research outputs, collated by year of publication/issue.

01- Division 1 Surgical Division

This community includes all the groups within the surgical division as of April 2020. Including: Critical Care Services; Cardiology/Cardiothoracic Services; Surgical and Patient Services; Ophthalmology; Womens and Neonatal Group; Trauma and Orthopaedics Group; Head and Neck Group.

02- Division 2 Emergency and Medical Services Division

This community includes all the groups within the emergency and medical services division as of April 2020. Including: patient access group; rehabilitation and ambulatory group; medical group; emergency services group; oncology and haematology group.

03- Division 3 Community, Childrens and Support Services Division

This community includes all the groups within the community, childrens and support division as of April 2020. Including: childrens young people and sexual health; adult community and primary care services; diagnostics; pharmacy; therapies and ambulatory care group.

04- Division 4

This community includes all the groups within the Division 4 as of May 2021. Including Service efficiency and delivery team; Emergency planning team; Corporate outpatients and Cancer tracking and improvement team.

05- Generic Cross Organisation Services

This community includes all those departments that provide generic clinical services across the trust, for example nursing and infection prevention.

06- Corporate Services

This community includes all the non-clinical departments within the trust, for example education and training, library services, finance and governance.

07- Medical Physics and Clinical Engineering

This community includes radiation protection and safety, ultrasound, nuclear medicine, bone densitometry, radiotherapy, medical electronics, medical engineering, surgical instruments and computing.

08- Black Country Pathology Services

Set up in October 2018, the BCPS is a partnership of neighbouring trusts in providing pathology services across the Black Country. The four partners are: Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust; The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust; The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust and Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust.

09- NIHR Clinical Research Network West Midlands

The NIHR CRN West Midlands covers the areas of Shropshire, Staffordshire, County of the West Midlands, Warwickshire, Worcestershire and Herefordshire. The network is hosted by the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust.

10- Honorary Contracts

Much of the research which takes place at the RWT is a collaborative effort between staff and researchers who work for the our partners in Higher Education. These partners have their own research repositories.

11- COVID-19

Articles published by RWT staff are included within this collection.

Reverse myocardial remodeling following valve repair in patients with chronic severe primary degenerative mitral regurgitation.

Billing, John Stephen; Nikolaidis, Nicolas (JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging, Elsevier, 2021-08-11)

Objectives: The aims of this study were to quantify preoperative myocardial fibrosis using late gadolinium enhancement (LGE), extracellular volume fraction (ECV%), and indexed extracellular volume (iECV) on cardiac magnetic ...
Balanced forced-diuresis compared to control as a reno-protective approach in cardiac surgery: secondary outcome of a randomized controlled trial, assessment of neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin levels.

Giri, Ramesh; Wrigley, Benjamin; Nagarajan, Kumaresan; Senanayake, Eshan; Sharman, Emma (World Journal of Otorhinolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Springer Nature, 2021-08-24)

Background: Neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) is a recognised biomarker for acute kidney injury (AKI).This study investigated the impact of balanced forced-diuresis using RenalGuard® system (RG), in reducing ...
Implementation of an acute tonsillitis management protocol within a clinical decisions unit.

Balai, Edward; Bhamra, Navdeep; Gupta, Kumar Keshav; Jolly, Karan; Barraclough, James (Annals of The Royal College of Surgeons of England, The Royal College of Surgeons of England, 2021-08-26)

Introduction: With tonsillectomy surgery subject to increasingly strict commissioning criteria over the past 20 years in the UK, the total number of admissions for acute tonsillitis has been rising steadily. Multiple ...
Emergence of new onset SLE following SARS-CoV-2 vaccination.

Sapkota, Hem Rag (QJM: An International Journal of Medicine, Oxford University Press, 2021-08-27)

No abstract available.
Ethnicity and breast cancer in the UK: Where are we now?

Vidya, Raghavan (European Journal of Surgical Oncology, Elsevier, 2021-08-24)

Outcomes from breast cancer for women in the UK have improved significantly over recent decades. These gains are largely attributable to a combination of earlier diagnosis and access to treatments delivered to patients by ...

Welcome to the RWT Staff Publications Repository

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Reverse myocardial remodeling following valve repair in patients with chronic severe primary degenerative mitral regurgitation.

Balanced forced-diuresis compared to control as a reno-protective approach in cardiac surgery: secondary outcome of a randomized controlled trial, assessment of neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin levels.

Implementation of an acute tonsillitis management protocol within a clinical decisions unit.

Emergence of new onset SLE following SARS-CoV-2 vaccination.

Ethnicity and breast cancer in the UK: Where are we now?

Welcome to the RWT Staff Publications Repository

Communities in RWT Staff Repository

Recently Added

Reverse myocardial remodeling following valve repair in patients with chronic severe primary degenerative mitral regurgitation. ﻿

Balanced forced-diuresis compared to control as a reno-protective approach in cardiac surgery: secondary outcome of a randomized controlled trial, assessment of neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin levels. ﻿

Implementation of an acute tonsillitis management protocol within a clinical decisions unit. ﻿

Emergence of new onset SLE following SARS-CoV-2 vaccination. ﻿

Ethnicity and breast cancer in the UK: Where are we now? ﻿

Reverse myocardial remodeling following valve repair in patients with chronic severe primary degenerative mitral regurgitation.

Balanced forced-diuresis compared to control as a reno-protective approach in cardiac surgery: secondary outcome of a randomized controlled trial, assessment of neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin levels.

Implementation of an acute tonsillitis management protocol within a clinical decisions unit.

Emergence of new onset SLE following SARS-CoV-2 vaccination.

Ethnicity and breast cancer in the UK: Where are we now?