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Can paramedics use FRAX (the WHO Fracture Risk Assessment Tool) to help GPs improve future fracture risk in patients who fall? Protocol for a randomised controlled feasibility study (2014)
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Clarke, S., Bradley, R., Simmonds, B., Salisbury, C., Benger, J., Marques, E., …Gooberman-Hill, R. (2014). Can paramedics use FRAX (the WHO Fracture Risk Assessment Tool) to help GPs improve future fracture risk in patients who fall? Protocol for a randomised controlled feasibility study. BMJ Open, 4(9), e005744-e005744. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2014-005744

© 2014, BMJ Publishing Group. All rights reserved. Introduction: Currently identification, and therefore, management of patients at risk of osteoporotic fracture in the UK is suboptimal. As the majority of patients who fracture have fallen, it follow... Read More about Can paramedics use FRAX (the WHO Fracture Risk Assessment Tool) to help GPs improve future fracture risk in patients who fall? Protocol for a randomised controlled feasibility study.

Advance care planning: Challenges and approaches for pediatricians (2014)
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Heckford, E., & Beringer, A. (2014). Advance care planning: Challenges and approaches for pediatricians. Journal of Palliative Medicine, 17(9), 1049-1053. https://doi.org/10.1089/jpm.2013.0374

© 2014 Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. Background: There is increasing recognition of the value of advance care planning for children with life-limiting conditions. It is important that we acknowledge and reflect on the challenges that this work presents in o... Read More about Advance care planning: Challenges and approaches for pediatricians.

Patients' perspectives on the educational preparation of cardiac nurses (2014)
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Thompson, D. R., Albarran, J., Jones, I., Lockyer, L., Manns, S., & Cox, H. (2014). Patients' perspectives on the educational preparation of cardiac nurses. European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 13(5), 451-458. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474515113507166

© The European Society of Cardiology 2013. Background: Over the last two decades the UK health service has endeavoured to place patient and public involvement at the heart of its modernisation agenda. Despite these aspirations the role of patients in... Read More about Patients' perspectives on the educational preparation of cardiac nurses.

Examining inequalities in the uptake of the school-based HPV vaccination programme in England: A retrospective cohort study (2014)
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Mytton, J. A., Fisher, H., Audrey, S., Mytton, J., Hickman, M., & Trotter, C. (2014). Examining inequalities in the uptake of the school-based HPV vaccination programme in England: A retrospective cohort study. Journal of Public Health, 36(1), 36-45. https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdt042

Background: Although uptake of Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine is high in the United Kingdom, it is unknown whether the programme has been delivered equitably by ethnicity or deprivation. This study aimed to investigate factors associated with HPV... Read More about Examining inequalities in the uptake of the school-based HPV vaccination programme in England: A retrospective cohort study.

The transition to expert: A qualitative study exploring clinical decision making for children under five attending the emergency department with minor respiratory conditions (2014)
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Bowen, L., Purdy, S., Lyttle, M., & Heawood, A. (2014). The transition to expert: A qualitative study exploring clinical decision making for children under five attending the emergency department with minor respiratory conditions. Emergency Medicine Journal, 31(9), 791-791. https://doi.org/10.1136/emermed-2014-204221.31

Using feminist phenomenology to explore women's experiences of domestic violence in pregnancy (2014)
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Baird, K. M., Baird, K., & Mitchell, T. (2014). Using feminist phenomenology to explore women's experiences of domestic violence in pregnancy. British Journal of Midwifery, 22(6), 418-426. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjom.2014.22.6.418

This article presents the philosophical and theoretical dimensions of a doctoral study which aimed to explore women's experiences of domestic violence in pregnancy. The intention is to share some contributions from the literature that enabled the res... Read More about Using feminist phenomenology to explore women's experiences of domestic violence in pregnancy.

Was there a plan? End-of-life care for children with life-limiting conditions: A review of multi-service healthcare records (2014)
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Beringer, A. J., Beringer, A., & Heckford, E. J. (2014). Was there a plan? End-of-life care for children with life-limiting conditions: A review of multi-service healthcare records. Child: Care, Health and Development, 40(2), 176-183. https://doi.org/10.1111/cch.12020

Background: Planning for care at the end of life (EoL) is an essential component of support and care for families of children with life-limiting conditions. The purpose of this review was to compare documented EoL planning with published children's p... Read More about Was there a plan? End-of-life care for children with life-limiting conditions: A review of multi-service healthcare records.

Critical care paramedics: Where is the evidence? A systematic review (2014)
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Von Vopelius-Feldt, J., Wood, J., & Benger, J. (2014). Critical care paramedics: Where is the evidence? A systematic review. Emergency Medicine Journal, 31(12), 1016-1024. https://doi.org/10.1136/emermed-2013-202721

© 2014, BMJ Publishing Group. All rights reserved. Objectives: Paramedic-delivered prehospital critical care is an established concept in a number of emergency medical services around the world and, more recently, has been introduced to the UK. This... Read More about Critical care paramedics: Where is the evidence? A systematic review.

Who does what in prehospital critical care? An analysis of competencies of paramedics, critical care paramedics and prehospital physicians (2014)
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Von Vopelius-Feldt, J., & Benger, J. (2014). Who does what in prehospital critical care? An analysis of competencies of paramedics, critical care paramedics and prehospital physicians. Emergency Medicine Journal, 31(12), 1009-1013. https://doi.org/10.1136/emermed-2013-202895

© 2014, BMJ Publishing Group. All rights reserved. Introduction: Emergency medical services in the UK are facing the challenge of responding to an increasing number of calls, often for non-emergency care, while also providing critical care to the few... Read More about Who does what in prehospital critical care? An analysis of competencies of paramedics, critical care paramedics and prehospital physicians.

Dissemination and evaluation of the European League Against Rheumatism recommendations for the role of the nurse in the management of chronic inflammatory arthritis: Results of a multinational survey among nurses rheumatologists and patients (2014)
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Tubergen, A. V., Torre-Aboki, J. D. L., van Eijk-Hustings, Y., Ndosi, M., Buss, B., Fayet, F., …van Tubergen, A. (2014). Dissemination and evaluation of the European League Against Rheumatism recommendations for the role of the nurse in the management of chronic inflammatory arthritis: Results of a multinational survey among nurses rheumatologists and patients. Rheumatology, 53(8), 1491-1496. https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/keu134

Objectives. The aims of this study were to disseminate, assess agreement with, assess the application of and identify potential barriers for implementation of the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) recommendations for the role of nurses in th... Read More about Dissemination and evaluation of the European League Against Rheumatism recommendations for the role of the nurse in the management of chronic inflammatory arthritis: Results of a multinational survey among nurses rheumatologists and patients.

When do children get burnt? (2014)
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Lyttle, M. D., Verey, F., Lyttle, M., Lawson, Z., Greenwood, R., & Young, A. (2014). When do children get burnt?. Burns, 40(7), 1322-1328. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.burns.2014.01.010

© 2014 Elsevier Ltd and ISBI. All rights reserved. Burns are a cause of more than 5000 paediatric hospital admissions per year in England and Wales. Injury prevention and service provision may be better planned with knowledge of burn timing. Prospect... Read More about When do children get burnt?.

An integrated approach for individualised support: Carers' views (2014)
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Moule, P., Pollard, K., Clarke, J., Lawson, B., Fear, C., Thompson, R., & Young, P. (2014). An integrated approach for individualised support: Carers' views. Journal of Integrated Care, 22(5/6), 253-262. https://doi.org/10.1108/JICA-09-2014-0034

© Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose - The purpose of this paper was to capture carers' views of a service in Bristol funded jointly by the Local Authority and the NHS Clinical Commissioning Group, which offers support to carers in the form of... Read More about An integrated approach for individualised support: Carers' views.

The international federation for emergency medicine framework for quality and safety in the emergency department (2014)
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Lecky, F., Benger, J., Mason, S., Cameron, P., Walsh, C., Bodiwala, G., …Weber, E. (2014). The international federation for emergency medicine framework for quality and safety in the emergency department. Emergency Medicine Journal, 31(11), 926-929. https://doi.org/10.1136/emermed-2013-203000

© 2014, BMJ Publishing Group. All rights reserved. All emergency departments (EDs) have an obligation to deliver care that is demonstrably safe and of the highest possible quality. Emergency medicine is a unique and rapidly developing specialty, whic... Read More about The international federation for emergency medicine framework for quality and safety in the emergency department.

Access to internet in rural and remote Canada (2014)
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Ronquillo, C., Currie, L. M., Currie, L., Ronquillo, C. E., & Dick, T. (2014). Access to internet in rural and remote Canada. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 201, 407-412. https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-415-2-407

Canada is the second largest landmass country in the world, but has one of the lowest population densities. As of 2011, approximately 19% of the Canadian population lives in rural, or remote communities. The purpose of this study was to examine diffe... Read More about Access to internet in rural and remote Canada.