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Is children's choice in health care rhetoric or reality? A scoping review (2008)
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Shaw, K. L., & Coad, J. E. (2008). Is children's choice in health care rhetoric or reality? A scoping review. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 64(4), 318-327. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2648.2008.04801.x

Aim. This paper is a report of a scoping review examining children and young people's health services with respect to choice in order to inform future development of choice initiatives. Background. The importance of including children and young peopl... Read More about Is children's choice in health care rhetoric or reality? A scoping review.

Can patients apply the Ottawa ankle rules to themselves? (2008)
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Blackham, J., Claridge, T., & Benger, J. (2008). Can patients apply the Ottawa ankle rules to themselves?. Emergency Medicine Journal, 25(11), 750-751. https://doi.org/10.1136/emj.2008.057877

Objective: To determine whether patients with an ankle injury obtained the same results as clinicians when applying the Ottawa ankle rules (a validated clinical decision rule) to themselves. Methods: Patients aged >15 years presenting to an inner cit... Read More about Can patients apply the Ottawa ankle rules to themselves?.

An embarrassment of pain perceptions? Towards an understanding of and explanation for the clinical presentation of CRPS type 1 (2008)
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McCabe, C., & Blake, D. R. (2008). An embarrassment of pain perceptions? Towards an understanding of and explanation for the clinical presentation of CRPS type 1. Rheumatology, 47(11), 1612-1616. https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/ken254

Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS), a fairly common problem in rheumatological and orthopaedic practice, is an allodynic pain state of uncertain pathology often variably and unpredictably responsive to treatments. Although published diagnostic cri... Read More about An embarrassment of pain perceptions? Towards an understanding of and explanation for the clinical presentation of CRPS type 1.

Human agency and social suffering (2008)
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Frost, L., & Hoggett, P. (2008). Human agency and social suffering. Critical Social Policy, 28(4), 438-460. https://doi.org/10.1177/0261018308095279

In this paper the authors are primarily exploring the notion of social suffering within a psychosocial paradigm. A brief outline of Bourdieu's concept of social suffering, and a similarly concise explication of the psychosocial subject as contemporar... Read More about Human agency and social suffering.

From students to professionals: Results of a longitudinal study of attitudes to pre-qualifying collaborative learning and working in health and social care in the United Kingdom (2008)
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Miers, M. E., & Pollard, K. (2008). From students to professionals: Results of a longitudinal study of attitudes to pre-qualifying collaborative learning and working in health and social care in the United Kingdom. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 22(4), 399-416. https://doi.org/10.1080/13561820802190483

During a longitudinal evaluation of a pre-qualifying interprofessional curriculum, health and social care students completed questionnaires concerning communication and teamwork skills and interprofessional learning and working. Data were collected o... Read More about From students to professionals: Results of a longitudinal study of attitudes to pre-qualifying collaborative learning and working in health and social care in the United Kingdom.

Student experiences and mentor views of the use of simulation for learning (2008)
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Moule, P., Wilford, A., Sales, R., & Lockyer, L. (2008). Student experiences and mentor views of the use of simulation for learning. Nurse Education Today, 28(7), 790-797. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2008.03.007

This paper presents the findings of a two phase mixed methods study. Phase 1 investigated whether simulation could support the development of a range of clinical skills amongst pre-registration adult and children's nursing students. The second phase... Read More about Student experiences and mentor views of the use of simulation for learning.

Paracetamol plus ibuprofen for the treatment of fever in children (PITCH): Randomised controlled trial (2008)
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Peters, T. J., Montgomery, A. A., Redmond, N. M., Costelloe, C., Hay, A. D., Fletcher, M., & Hollinghurst, S. (2008). Paracetamol plus ibuprofen for the treatment of fever in children (PITCH): Randomised controlled trial. BMJ, 337(7672), 729-733. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.a1302

Objective: To investigate whether paracetamol (acetaminophen) plus ibuprofen are superior to either drug alone for increasing time without fever and the relief of fever associated discomfort in febrile children managed at home. Design: Individually r... Read More about Paracetamol plus ibuprofen for the treatment of fever in children (PITCH): Randomised controlled trial.

Paracetamol plus ibuprofen for the treatment of fever in children (PITCH): Economic evaluation of a randomised controlled trial (2008)
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Hay, A. D., Peters, T. J., Costelloe, C., Hollinghurst, S., Redmond, N., Costello, C., …Fletcher, M. (2008). Paracetamol plus ibuprofen for the treatment of fever in children (PITCH): Economic evaluation of a randomised controlled trial. BMJ, 337(7672), 734-737. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.a1490

Objective: To estimate the cost to the NHS and to parents and carers of treating febrile preschool children with paracetamol, ibuprofen, or both, and to compare these costs with the benefits of each treatment regimen. Design: Cost consequences analys... Read More about Paracetamol plus ibuprofen for the treatment of fever in children (PITCH): Economic evaluation of a randomised controlled trial.

Dietary glycated protein modulates the colonic microbiota towards a more detrimental composition in ulcerative colitis patients and non-ulcerative colitis subjects (2008)
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Mills, D., Tuohy, K., Booth, J., Buck, M., Crabbe, M., Gibson, G., & Ames, J. (2008). Dietary glycated protein modulates the colonic microbiota towards a more detrimental composition in ulcerative colitis patients and non-ulcerative colitis subjects. Journal of Applied Microbiology, 105(3), 706-714. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2672.2008.03783.x

Aim: To investigate the effect of native, heated and glycated bovine serum albumin (BSA) on the ulcerative colitis (UC) and non-UC colonic microbiota in vitro. Methods and Results: Continuous flow culture (CFC) models of the human colonic microbiota... Read More about Dietary glycated protein modulates the colonic microbiota towards a more detrimental composition in ulcerative colitis patients and non-ulcerative colitis subjects.

Relationship between adherence, symptoms, treatment attitudes, satisfaction, and side effects in prisoners taking antipsychotic medication (2008)
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Mills, A., Gray, R., Bressington, D., Lathlean, J., & Mills, D. (2008). Relationship between adherence, symptoms, treatment attitudes, satisfaction, and side effects in prisoners taking antipsychotic medication. Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology, 19(3), 335-351. https://doi.org/10.1080/14789940802113493

Objective: To examine the nature and clinical correlates of adherence in prisoners prescribed antipsychotic medication, and how these differ from findings in people taking antipsychotic medication who are not in prison. Method: Treatment adherence, s... Read More about Relationship between adherence, symptoms, treatment attitudes, satisfaction, and side effects in prisoners taking antipsychotic medication.

The transition to parenthood: What does it mean for fathers? (2008)
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Deave, T., & Johnson, D. (2008). The transition to parenthood: What does it mean for fathers?. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 63(6), 626-633. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2648.2008.04748.x

Title. The transition to parenthood: what does it mean for fathers? Aim. This paper is a report of a study to explore the needs of first-time fathers in relation to the care, support and education provided by healthcare professionals during the anten... Read More about The transition to parenthood: What does it mean for fathers?.

Atropine-resistant bradycardia due to hyperkalaemia (2008)
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Slade, T. J., Grover, J., & Benger, J. (2008). Atropine-resistant bradycardia due to hyperkalaemia. Emergency Medicine Journal, 25(9), 611-612. https://doi.org/10.1136/emj.2007.054114

Symptomatic sinus bradycardia is routinely treated in the emergency department with atropine and pacing. Two cases are presented that illustrate the importance of considering hyperkalaemia, particularly in the presence of atropine-resistant symptomat... Read More about Atropine-resistant bradycardia due to hyperkalaemia.

Trends in incidence of pneumococcal disease before introduction of conjugate vaccine: South West England, 1996-2005 (2008)
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Dance, D. A., SW Pneumococcal Group, , Ihekweazu, C. A., Christensen, H., Stuart, J. M., Cartwright, K., …Fletcher, M. (2008). Trends in incidence of pneumococcal disease before introduction of conjugate vaccine: South West England, 1996-2005. Epidemiology and Infection, 136(8), 1096-1102. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0950268807009715

Introduction of pneumococcal conjugate and polysaccharide vaccines into the United Kingdom's routine immunization programmes is expected to change the epidemiology of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD). We have documented the epidemiology of IPD in... Read More about Trends in incidence of pneumococcal disease before introduction of conjugate vaccine: South West England, 1996-2005.

Alcohol-related adverse consequences: Cross-cultural variations in attribution process among young adults (2008)
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Plant, M. L., Plant, M. A., Kuendig, H., Miller, P., Kuntsche, S., & Gmel, G. (2008). Alcohol-related adverse consequences: Cross-cultural variations in attribution process among young adults. European Journal of Public Health, 18(4), 386-391. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckn007

Background: Social norms around what is culturally accepted in terms of alcohol consumption and drunken comportment appear important regarding the acceptance of alcohol-related adverse consequences; however, investigations often neglect to consider d... Read More about Alcohol-related adverse consequences: Cross-cultural variations in attribution process among young adults.

An evaluation of the recording of folic acid use in the South West Congenital Anomaly Register (2008)
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Mytton, J., Harrison, V., McLoughlin, A., Thompson, R., & Overton, T. (2008). An evaluation of the recording of folic acid use in the South West Congenital Anomaly Register. Prenatal Diagnosis, 28(8), 722-726. https://doi.org/10.1002/pd.2034

Objective: Some congenital anomaly registers arc collecting data on risk factors for pregnancies affected by anomalies; yet the quality of that information is rarely assessed. We assessed the quality of the risk factor data in the South West Congenit... Read More about An evaluation of the recording of folic acid use in the South West Congenital Anomaly Register.