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Prehospital critical care for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: An observational study examining survival and a stakeholder-focused cost analysis (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 The Author(s). Background: Survival rates from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) remain low, despite remarkable efforts to improve care. A number of ambulance services in the United Kingdom (UK) have developed prehospital critical care tea... Read More about Prehospital critical care for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: An observational study examining survival and a stakeholder-focused cost analysis.

Bladder diary and symptom scores (2016)
Book Chapter

A summary of the use of bladder diaries and symptom scores for the evaluation of lower urinary tract symptoms.

Design and implementation of the AIRWAYS-2 trial: A multi-centre cluster randomised controlled trial of the clinical and cost effectiveness of the i-gel supraglottic airway device versus tracheal intubation in the initial airway management of out of hospital cardiac arrest (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Health outcomes after out of hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) are extremely poor, with only 7–9% of patients in the United Kingdom (UK) surviving to hospital discharge. Currently emergency medical services (EMS) use either tracheal intubation or... Read More about Design and implementation of the AIRWAYS-2 trial: A multi-centre cluster randomised controlled trial of the clinical and cost effectiveness of the i-gel supraglottic airway device versus tracheal intubation in the initial airway management of out of hospital cardiac arrest.

Psychological wellbeing in survivors of cardiac arrest, and its relationship to neurocognitive function (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Objective To characterise psychological wellbeing in survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), and examine its relationship to cognitive function. Patients Forty-one highly functioning cardiac arrest survivors were drawn from the fol... Read More about Psychological wellbeing in survivors of cardiac arrest, and its relationship to neurocognitive function.

A qualitative feasibility study to inform Fluids in Shock (FISH) - a pilot randomised controlled trial of fluid bolus therapy in septic shock (2016)
Journal Article

Objectives & Background
There is increasing evidence that fluid overload may be associated with harm in paediatric critical illness. Fluids in Shock (FiSH) is a combined feasibility and pilot randomised controlled trial (RCT) to determine if restric... Read More about A qualitative feasibility study to inform Fluids in Shock (FISH) - a pilot randomised controlled trial of fluid bolus therapy in septic shock.

Emergency department re-attendances and treatment modifications in young children with uncomplicated community-acquired pneumonia: A PERUKI study (2016)
Journal Article

Objectives & Background
Data on the rate of antibiotic retreatment in children with uncomplicated community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) are lacking. We conducted a service evaluation of CAP management to review assumptions for a large UK-based trial p... Read More about Emergency department re-attendances and treatment modifications in young children with uncomplicated community-acquired pneumonia: A PERUKI study.

Developmental and behavioural associations of burns and scalds in children: A prospective population-based study (2016)
Journal Article

Objective
To investigate child developmental and behavioural characteristics and risk of burns and scalds.

Design
Data on burns in children up to 11 years from 12 966 participants in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children were link... Read More about Developmental and behavioural associations of burns and scalds in children: A prospective population-based study.

Missed opportunities to keep children safe? National survey of injury prevention activities of children's centres (2016)
Journal Article

© The Authors 2016 . Objective: To ascertain the activities undertaken by children's centres to prevent unintentional injuries in the under-fives and, in particular, the prevention of falls, poisoning and scalds. Design: A questionnaire was posted to... Read More about Missed opportunities to keep children safe? National survey of injury prevention activities of children's centres.

Concordance in diabetic foot ulceration: A cross-sectional study of agreement between wound swabbing and tissue sampling in infected ulcers (2016)
Journal Article

© Queen’s Printer and Controller of HMSO 2016. Background: There is inadequate evidence to advise clinicians on the relative merits of swabbing versus tissue sampling of infected diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs). Objectives: To determine (1) concordance b... Read More about Concordance in diabetic foot ulceration: A cross-sectional study of agreement between wound swabbing and tissue sampling in infected ulcers.

Street-level bureaucracy and policy implementation in community public health nursing: A qualitative study of the experiences of student and novice health visitors (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Cambridge University Press. Aim To explore the experiences of student and novice health visitors in implementing health visiting policy reform pre-and post-qualification. Background In England, public health nursing has been subject to major p... Read More about Street-level bureaucracy and policy implementation in community public health nursing: A qualitative study of the experiences of student and novice health visitors.

Translation and psychometric properties of the German version of the University of the West of England Interprofessional Questionnaire (UWE-IP) (2016)
Journal Article

© 2017 Taylor & Francis. The implementation of a bachelor degree in Interprofessional Health Care at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, has fostered the need to evaluate the impact of this innovative programme. The University of the West of Eng... Read More about Translation and psychometric properties of the German version of the University of the West of England Interprofessional Questionnaire (UWE-IP).

Validated constipation symptom and quality-of-life measures neither reflect patient and clinician concerns nor use words familiar to patients (2016)
Journal Article

© MA Healthcare Ltd. Patients' self-reported constipation symptoms, preferred terminology and quality of life (QoL) issues were explored through 14 semi-structured and five unstructured interviews. In a modified Delphi study, 11 clinicians rated the... Read More about Validated constipation symptom and quality-of-life measures neither reflect patient and clinician concerns nor use words familiar to patients.