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Medicine dosing by weight in the home: Can parents accurately weigh preschool children? A method comparison study (2011)
Journal Article
Hay, A. D., Peters, T. J., Redmond, N. M., Montgomery, A. A., Costelloe, C., Fletcher, M., & Hollinghurst, S. (2011). Medicine dosing by weight in the home: Can parents accurately weigh preschool children? A method comparison study. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 96(12), 1187-1190. https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2011-300600

Objective: To determine the accuracy with which parents can estimate preschool children's weight using home scales in order to calculate antipyretic dose. Design: Cross-sectional, method comparison study. Setting and participants: 156 preschool child... Read More about Medicine dosing by weight in the home: Can parents accurately weigh preschool children? A method comparison study.

Developing practice and staff: Enabling improvement in care delivery through participatory action research (2011)
Journal Article
Fletcher, M. E., & Beringer, A. (2011). Developing practice and staff: Enabling improvement in care delivery through participatory action research. Journal of Child Health Care, 15(1), 59-70. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367493510395639

We describe the process and outcomes of a programme to enable improvement in care coordination in a children's hospital. Staff identified care coordination issues they wanted to improve and were facilitated to achieve change using a participatory act... Read More about Developing practice and staff: Enabling improvement in care delivery through participatory action research.

'It's more scary not to know': A qualitative study exploring the information needs of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus at the time of diagnosis (2011)
Journal Article
Waldron, N., Brown, S., Hewlett, S., Elliott, B., McHugh, N., & McCabe, C. (2011). 'It's more scary not to know': A qualitative study exploring the information needs of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus at the time of diagnosis. Musculoskeletal Care, 9(4), 228-238. https://doi.org/10.1002/msc.221

Objectives: To identify the information needs of patients newly diagnosed with systemic lupus erythematosus (lupus), to inform the design of a future education package. Methods: Focus groups were conducted in seven rheumatology centres in the UK with... Read More about 'It's more scary not to know': A qualitative study exploring the information needs of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus at the time of diagnosis.

Comparing thought suppression and mindfulness as coping techniques for spider fear (2011)
Journal Article
Hooper, N., Davies, N., Davies, L., & McHugh, L. (2011). Comparing thought suppression and mindfulness as coping techniques for spider fear. Consciousness and Cognition, 20(4), 1824-1830. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2011.05.013

The current study compared thought suppression, focused attention (mindfulness) and unfocused attention as strategies for managing spider fear. Spider fearful participants were exposed to a strategy induction before completing a Behavioural Approach... Read More about Comparing thought suppression and mindfulness as coping techniques for spider fear.

Measuring the population burden of injuries-implications for global and national estimates: A multi-centre prospective UK longitudinal study (2011)
Journal Article
Gabbe, B. J., Towner, E. M., Lyons, R. A., Kendrick, D., Christie, N., Macey, S., & Coupland, C. (2011). Measuring the population burden of injuries-implications for global and national estimates: A multi-centre prospective UK longitudinal study. PLoS Medicine, 8(12), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001140

Background: Current methods of measuring the population burden of injuries rely on many assumptions and limited data available to the global burden of diseases (GBD) studies. The aim of this study was to compare the population burden of injuries usin... Read More about Measuring the population burden of injuries-implications for global and national estimates: A multi-centre prospective UK longitudinal study.

Identification and Referral to Improve Safety (IRIS) of women experiencing domestic violence with a primary care training and support programme: A cluster randomised controlled trial (2011)
Journal Article
Gregory, A., Davies, R. A., Feder, G., Agnew-Davies, R., Baird, K., Dunne, D., …Sharp, D. (2011). Identification and Referral to Improve Safety (IRIS) of women experiencing domestic violence with a primary care training and support programme: A cluster randomised controlled trial. Lancet, 378(9805), 1788-1795. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736%2811%2961179-3

Most clinicians have no training about domestic violence, fail to identify patients experiencing abuse, and are uncertain about management after disclosure. We tested the effectiveness of a programme of training and support in primary health-care pra... Read More about Identification and Referral to Improve Safety (IRIS) of women experiencing domestic violence with a primary care training and support programme: A cluster randomised controlled trial.

What stops children with a chronic illness accessing health care: A mixed methods study in children with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) (2011)
Journal Article
Spatz, A., Collin, S. M., Webb, C. M., Deave, T., Haig-Ferguson, A., Statz, A., & Crawley, E. (2011). What stops children with a chronic illness accessing health care: A mixed methods study in children with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME). BMC Health Services Research, 11, 308. https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-11-308

Background: Paediatric Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) is relatively common and disabling with a mean time out of school of more than one academic year. NICE guidelines recommend referral to specialist services immediately... Read More about What stops children with a chronic illness accessing health care: A mixed methods study in children with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME).

Practice-based research (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Ronquillo, C. E., & Black, A. (2011, November). Practice-based research. Presented at InspireNet 2011 Connect 2011 Conference: Research partnerships in action – Shaping nursing health services in BC, Vancouver, Canada

This invited presentation provided a case study example of what facilitating practice-based research can look like in two health regions in Western Canada.

Relearning in semantic dementia reflects contributions from both medial temporal lobe episodic and degraded neocortical semantic systems: Evidence in support of the complementary learning systems theory (2011)
Journal Article
Mayberry, E. J., Sage, K., Ehsan, S., & Lambon Ralph, M. A. (2011). Relearning in semantic dementia reflects contributions from both medial temporal lobe episodic and degraded neocortical semantic systems: Evidence in support of the complementary learning systems theory. Neuropsychologia, 49(13), 3591-3598. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.09.010

When relearning words, patients with semantic dementia (SD) exhibit a characteristic rigidity, including a failure to generalise names to untrained exemplars of trained concepts. This has been attributed to an over-reliance on the medial temporal reg... Read More about Relearning in semantic dementia reflects contributions from both medial temporal lobe episodic and degraded neocortical semantic systems: Evidence in support of the complementary learning systems theory.

Reverse traffic: Intersecting inequalities in human egg donation (2011)
Journal Article
Nahman, M. (2011). Reverse traffic: Intersecting inequalities in human egg donation. Reproductive BioMedicine Online, 23(5), 626-633. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rbmo.2011.08.003

The paper examines a case of cross-border reproductive care that happens in reverse by looking at Israeli-Romanian transnational ova traffic. The state of Israel claims to have the most IVF clinics per capita in the world, some of the highest success... Read More about Reverse traffic: Intersecting inequalities in human egg donation.

Measuring the outcomes for continence management technologies (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Jutai, J., Southall, K., van den Heuvel, E., Cotterill, N., & Long, A. (2011, November). Measuring the outcomes for continence management technologies. Presented at Gerontological Society of America Annual meeting 2011, Boston, USA

Patient reported outcomes for the evaluation of continence management technologies.

Extending the use of Spanish Computer-assisted Anomia Rehabilitation Program (CARP-2) in people with aphasia (2011)
Journal Article
Adrián, J. A., González, M., Buiza, J. J., & Sage, K. (2011). Extending the use of Spanish Computer-assisted Anomia Rehabilitation Program (CARP-2) in people with aphasia. Journal of Communication Disorders, 44(6), 666-677. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcomdis.2011.06.002

Purpose: To extend the use of the Spanish Computer-assisted Anomia Rehabilitation Program (CARP-2) for anomia from a single case to a group of 15 people with aphasia. To evaluate whether the treatment is active (Phase 1) for this group (Robey & Schul... Read More about Extending the use of Spanish Computer-assisted Anomia Rehabilitation Program (CARP-2) in people with aphasia.

Measures of fatigue: Bristol Rheumatoid Arthritis Fatigue Multi-Dimensional Questionnaire (BRAF MDQ), Bristol Rheumatoid Arthritis Fatigue Numerical Rating Scales (BRAF NRS) for Severity, Effect, and Coping, Chalder Fatigue Questionnaire (CFQ), Checklist Individual Strength (CIS20R and CIS8R), Fatigue Severity Scale (FSS), Functional Assessment Chronic Illness Therapy (Fatigue) (FACIT-F), Multi- (2011)
Journal Article
Hewlett, S., Dures, E., & Almeida, C. (2011). Measures of fatigue: Bristol Rheumatoid Arthritis Fatigue Multi-Dimensional Questionnaire (BRAF MDQ), Bristol Rheumatoid Arthritis Fatigue Numerical Rating Scales (BRAF NRS) for Severity, Effect, and Coping, Chalder Fatigue Questionnaire (CFQ), Checklist Individual Strength (CIS20R and CIS8R), Fatigue Severity Scale (FSS), Functional Assessment Chronic Illness Therapy (Fatigue) (FACIT-F), Multi-. Arthritis and Rheumatism, 63(SUPPL. 11), S263-S286. https://doi.org/10.1002/acr.20579

Implementation: The quality quandary (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Benger, J. (2011, November). Implementation: The quality quandary. Presented at International Conference on Quality and Safety in Emergency Medicine, British Museum, London

Faith is in things not seen: Merleau-Ponty on faith, virtue and the perception of style (2011)
Book Chapter
Meacham, D. E. (2011). Faith is in things not seen: Merleau-Ponty on faith, virtue and the perception of style. In K. Semonovitch, & N. DeRoo (Eds.), Merleau-Ponty at the Limits of Art, Religion, and Perception (185-207). London: Continuum

The rather truncated paraphrasing of Hebrews 11.1 which forms the title of this contribution can also be found in Merleau-Ponty’s 1945 essay ‘Faith and Good Faith,’ where the French phenomenologist writes, ‘[M]an cannot be sincere, since sincerity su... Read More about Faith is in things not seen: Merleau-Ponty on faith, virtue and the perception of style.