306 research outputs found
A Case Study in Journal Editorship: The European Journal of Surgical Oncology (EJSO), 2003 to 2009
No full textThis paper is one of a series of Essays on the Art and Science of Academic Journal Editing and Publishing by Mr David Rew MChir FRCS.In this Case Study in Journal Editorship, Mr Rew describes his experiences and the lessons learned during his time as the Editor in Chief of The European Journal of Surgical Oncology (EJSO), from January 2003 to December 2009.<br/
Preparation for editorship of the EJSO, 1996-2002
No full textThis paper is one of a series of Essays on the Art and Science of Academic Journal Editing and Publishing by Mr David Rew MChir FRCS.In this Case Study on the Art and Science of Academic Journal Editing and Publishing, Mr Rew describes his experiences and the lessons learned during his apprenticeship for the role of Editor in Chief of The European Journal of Surgical Oncology (EJSO), from 1996 to December 2002.<br/
Reflections on the Healthcare Technologies Programme of the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) 2017-2025
No full textThis paper describes the Healthcare Technologies Programme of the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council between 2017 and 2025, from the unique perspective of Mr David Rew, NHS Consultant Surgeon, Clinical Digital Innovation Project Lead at University Hospital Southampton, and Honorary Consultant Surgeon to the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Southampton.Between 2017 and 2019, Mr Rew was an invited member of the Strategic Advisory Team for Healthcare Technologies of the EPSRC, and he has continued to undertake a range of tasks for the Council.In 2023, he chaired the final selection panel of the first national EPSRC Digital Health Hubs competition, which awarded ~£25 Million, shared between five successful regional academic consortia.On the basis of lessons learned from the first competition, the EPSRC launched a second round of this competition in a modified format in July 2025. Mr Rew is pleased to offer his own reflections, observations and perspectives of the work and strategy of the EPSRC Healthcare Technologies team to help advance high quality applications in the current and future rounds of the Digital Health and related competitions<br/
Blood, heat and + dust: Operation Telic and the British medical deployment to the Gulf 2003-2009
No full textThis is the second edition of the e-book Blood Heat and Dust, which describes British Military Medical Operations in Iraq between 2003 and 2009, in the wider context of the military campaign and the transformation of complex trauma care. The Author is Southampton Consultant General Surgeon Colonel David Rew QVRM MChir FRCS, late of the Royal Army Medical Corps and of the UK Defence Medical Services Reserve. The book is Illustrated with original paintings by Squadron Leader Gora Pathak RAF and oil paintings by David Rowlands ([email protected]) and with several hundred original photographs. The Foreword to the second edition is written by former Surgeon General, Lt General Louis P. Lillywhite CB MBE.This e-book is made freely available to download, thanks to the Trustees of the Royal Army Medical Corps Charity, who provided a generous grant for pre-production preparation and typesetting.The Creative Commons CC-BY license permits re-use of content, subject to reference to the source using the citation provided on this page
The development of high impact national and regional journals in medicine and the health sciences
No full textThe international academic journal publishing landscape is complex and in continuous flux. Many Russian editors and publishers wish to bring their journals into the global mainstream and to develop internationally competitive profiles for their work. Bibliometric citation systems are one means by which the quality of journals, of articles and researchers, can be assessed, referenced and compared. Scopus and the Web of Science are two major and respected quality assurance systems for global publishing, within which many academic journals seek formal listings. These listings help develop a wider international profile for any journal. They also provide valuable data through which journals can benchmark their performance against all other journals in any subject field. In turn, this information helps to stimulate competition and quality improvement across the entire academic journal ecosystem. Scopus provides a transparent and continually evolving evaluation and feedback system for journals seeking a listing and those journals that have already been listed within Scopus. An application for a Scopus listing is a process through which a journal is evaluated by several quantitative and qualitative criteria against global benchmarks. A successful listing can sometimes require a series of strategic insights and developments by editors and publishers over several years. In this article, Dr David Rew, a practising clinician and the Subject Chair for Medicine to the Scopus Content Selection Advisory Board since 2009, distils the experience of evaluation of more than 2000 Medical and Health Sciences journals to guide as to what features and strategies give academic journals a better chance of long term success in the competitive world of global academic publishing. The international academic journal publishing landscape is complex and in continuous flux.Many Russian editors and publishers wish to bring their journals into the global mainstream and to develop internationally competitive profiles for their work. Bibliometric citation systems are one means by which the quality of journals, of articles and researchers, can be assessed, referenced and compared. Scopus and the Web of Science are two major and respected quality assurance systems for global publishing, within which many academic journals seek formal listings. These listings help develop a wider international profile for any journal. They also provide valuable data through which journals can benchmark their performance against all other journals in any subject field. In turn, this information helps to stimulate competition and quality improvement across the entire academic journal ecosystem.Scopus provides a transparent and continually evolving evaluation and feedback system for journals seeking a listing and those journals that have already been listed within Scopus. An application for a Scopus listing is a process through which a journal is evaluated by several quantitative and qualitative criteria against global benchmarks. A successful listing can sometimes require a series of strategic insights and developments by editors and publishers over several years.In this article, Dr David Rew, a practising clinician and the Subject Chair for Medicine to the Scopus Content Selection Advisory Board since 2009, distils the experience of evaluation of more than 2000 Medical and Health Sciences journals to guide as to what features and strategies give academic journals a better chance of long term success in the competitive world of global academic publishing.<br/
Curating the world's peer-reviewed literature
No full textNew technologies are transforming academic publishing, including surgical research. The author considers a variety of the new systems, platforms and search engines that are fuelling this information revolution, as well as the bibliometrics and citation analysis necessary for filtering quality material for the increasingly inundated researcher.</p
Clinical outcomes in the Google era: The PB Desai Oration, ASICON 2013
No full textThis article is based upon the PB Desai Oration which was given by the author in Ahmedabad on 28th December 2013 at the National Congress of the Association of Surgeons of India at the invitation of the Executive Board of the Indian Association for Surgical Oncology.</p
A Radical Solution to the Visualisation and Interaction with Timeline Structured Information: UHS Lifelines Electronic Patient Record Interface. David A Rew MA MChir FRCS (Southampton Hospitals and the University of Southampton)
No full text<p>This video is the third talk from our Future Blood Testing: Webinar 2024 series.</p>
<p><strong>A Radical Solution to the Visualisation and Interaction with Timeline Structured Information: UHS Lifelines Electronic Patient Record Interface. David A Rew MA MChir FRCS (Southampton Hospitals and the University of Southampton)</strong></p>
<p><strong>Bio:</strong> Mr David Rew is a Consultant General Surgeon in Southampton, Honorary Surgeon to the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Southampton and Visiting Professor in Clinical Informatics to Southampton Solent University. He served as the Editor in Chief of the European Journal of Surgical Oncology from 2003 to 2009. Since 2009, he has held the position of global Subject Chair for Medicine on the SCOPUS Content Selection Advisory Board, where he has appraised approximately 3,500 clinical journals. Mr Rew claims no specialist knowledge in haematology, blood testing or genomics, beyond being up to date with his Statutory and Mandatory blood transfusion module in the hospital virtual learning environment. For the past 15 years, David Rew has been the concept lead of a productive software development team at University Hospital Southampton, creating radical solutions to the electronic patient record, a whole-of-life breast cancer data set of more than 20,000 records, and a tool for the greater efficiency of cancer multidisciplinary teams, all of which systems sit at the heart of the unique University Hospital Southampton Clinical Data Estate.</p>
<p><strong>Abstract</strong>: The ambitious NHS Digital Transformation Programme faces challenges in delivering efficient and intuitive information to health professionals. Since 2009, we have worked as a small team at University Hospital Southampton (UHS) Clinical Data Estate. Using e-data visualisation principles and a highly agile and iterative approach with minimal financial resources, we have developed a transformative approach to the Electronic Patient Record (EPR) interface.</p>
<p>On UHS Lifelines, the timeframe is continuously incremental as new content accumulates. The interface opens near instantaneously in real time and documents from any time point are immediately accessible without scrolling through lists, menus, multiple frames and software subsystems, and the clinical history can be read subliminally to a valuable degree from the icon patterns. Despite initial constraints, the system evolved into a powerful application at the heart of UHS EPR. Additionally, it led to other software solutions, such as the SCR+ (Somerset Cancer Registry Enhanced) Multi-Disciplinary Team Module for cancer data management. We believe our approach has broad applicability beyond healthcare, potentially benefiting various sectors. We therefore appreciate all opportunities for collaboration to expand the project's impact nationally and beyond.</p>
<p>Further details on this event can be found at:<a href="https://futurebloodtesting.org/event/a-radical-solution-to-the-visualization-and-interaction-with-timeline-structured-information-uhs-lifelines-electronic-patient-record-interface/">A Radical Solution to the Visualization and Interaction with Timeline Structured Information: UHS Lifelines Electronic Patient Record Interface (futurebloodtesting.org)</a></p>
<p>Further details on the full webinar series can be found here:<a href="https://futurebloodtesting.org/events/future-blood-testing-webinar-series/">Future Blood Testing Webinar Series</a></p>
<p>YouTube Link: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlDPzC9F-YE&t=13s">A Radical Solution to the Visualisation and Interaction with Timeline Structured... David A. Rew (youtube.com)</a></p>
<p>This video is an output from the Future Blood Testing Network which is funded by EPSRC under Grant Number EP/W000652/1</p>
Cold steel and warm hearts: the professional ethics and strategic planning of expeditionary warfare.
No full textCancer - A degenerative disorder?
No full textCancer is primarily a disease of ageing epithelia, and of ageing individuals. We now possess detailed insights into the changes in cell regulatory genes and DNA repair systems which accumulate with time and which manifest in malignancy. These demonstrate how cancer is frequently characterized by degenerative change in the genotype, from the most subtle base pair mutations to gross aneuploidy, and by deterioration in cell and tissue regulatory control, be it of proliferation, programmed cell death or signalling. Cancer may thus be as much a phenomenon of loss or deterioration of normal genomic control as of the acquisition of new, neoplastic functions. This distinction may be more than semantic, not least because it governs our approach to the search for therapeutic strategies. This essay considers the concept of cancer as a degenerative disease and its implications, and proposes the neologism aldoplasia to describe this phenomenon of cancer biology.</p
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