Abigail Sabey's Outputs (27)

Developing a framework to guide the evaluation of training in research skills for health and care professionals (2023)
Journal Article

Background: Delivering research skills training to health professionals through short, applied sessions outside a formal higher education program, can help fill gaps in training and build research capacity in clinical settings. This has been the ende... Read More about Developing a framework to guide the evaluation of training in research skills for health and care professionals.

Building capacity among health care librarians to teach evidence-based practice—an evaluation (2021)
Journal Article

Objective: An innovative funding scheme for health care librarians to attend an intensive short course in teaching evidence-based practice was established in the West of England in 2016. This evaluation aims to understand the value of the scheme and... Read More about Building capacity among health care librarians to teach evidence-based practice—an evaluation.

Apart but not Alone: Neighbour support and the COVID-19 lockdown (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Our presentation covers the following themes: (a) Characteristics of neighbour support during the UK COVID-19 lockdown, including a comparison with more formal voluntary and statutory sector support; (b) relationship between area-based deprivation an... Read More about Apart but not Alone: Neighbour support and the COVID-19 lockdown.

An evaluation of a training intervention to support the use of evidence in healthcare commissioning in England (2019)
Journal Article

AIM: Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in England are responsible for the health of their populations through the services they provide, yet we know that the use of evidence to inform commissioning decisions is low. A programme of training in seve... Read More about An evaluation of a training intervention to support the use of evidence in healthcare commissioning in England.

Building capacity in research and evidence in the public health workforce: an innovative programme of training in the West of England (2019)
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Building capacity to use and undertake applied health research: establishing a training programme for the health workforce in the West of England (2019)
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Objectives
Increasing research capacity is important for health services as part of improving the conduct of high quality research which addresses the needs of patients and the public. It is a core function of the 13 Collaborations for Leadership in... Read More about Building capacity to use and undertake applied health research: establishing a training programme for the health workforce in the West of England.

Promoting positive body image and tackling overweight/obesity in children and adolescents: A combined health psychology and public health approach (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 Elsevier Inc. This article draws attention to the dual global problems of disordered eating and overweight/obesity among children and adolescents. It is well recognised that the main risk factor for disordered eating is body dissatisfaction, y... Read More about Promoting positive body image and tackling overweight/obesity in children and adolescents: A combined health psychology and public health approach.

Increasing engagement with evidence in healthcare: A case study in capacity building (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The National Institute for Health Research Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care West (NIHR CLAHRC West) works with partner organisations, including the NHS, local authorities and universities, to conduct applied health res... Read More about Increasing engagement with evidence in healthcare: A case study in capacity building.

Increasing engagement with evidence in healthcare: A case study in capacity building (2017)
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Objectives
The National Institute for Health Research funded the Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care, for the West of England (CLAHRC West) in January 2014, to run for 5 years. CLAHRC West seeks to develop and expand hea... Read More about Increasing engagement with evidence in healthcare: A case study in capacity building.

'It gave me a new lease of life...': GPs' views and experiences of supervising foundation doctors in general practice (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Taylor & Francis. Background: General practice is a popular placement in the second year of Foundation training. Evaluations suggest this is a positive experience for most trainee doctors and benefits their perceptions of primary care, but t... Read More about 'It gave me a new lease of life...': GPs' views and experiences of supervising foundation doctors in general practice.

Views of newly-qualified GPs about their training and preparedness: Lessons for extended generalist training (2015)
Journal Article

©British Journal of General Practice. Background: General practice is becoming increasingly complex due to an ageing population with multiple morbidities and the shift of services from secondary to primary care, yet GP training remains largely the sa... Read More about Views of newly-qualified GPs about their training and preparedness: Lessons for extended generalist training.

Prepared for commissioning? A qualitative study into the views of recently qualified GPs (2013)
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'It's the conversation they'll learn from': Improving assessments for GP Specialist Trainees in hospital posts (2012)
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Mind the gap (2012)
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Experiences of qualified GPs and GP speciality trainees learning together: A mixed methods study (2012)
Journal Article

Workplace-based assessment for GP specialist trainees in hospitals – Part B: What are the views of hospital-based assessors of WPBA? (2011)
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From soap opera to research methods teaching: Developing an interactive website/DVD to teach research in health and social care (2011)
Journal Article

Training in hospitals: What do GP specialist trainees think of workplace-based assessments? (2011)
Journal Article

Background
Workplace-based assessment (WBPA) was introduced in 2007 as a new approach to monitoring competence of GP Specialist Trainees (GP STs). It includes a raft of assessments carried out in the workplace to assess what a trainee actually does... Read More about Training in hospitals: What do GP specialist trainees think of workplace-based assessments?.

Lessons from the UK: Doctors' views of changes in postgraduate training (2010)
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Workplace-based assessment for GP specialist trainees in hospitals: How is it actually working? (2009)
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Is Harvard too often cited as the example to emulate? (2009)
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"It's just new language": What do doctors think of the Foundation Programme assessments? (2006)
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Alternatives to hospital care: What are they and who should decide? (1996)
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Objective: To examine potential for alternatives to care in hospitals for acute admissions, and to compare the decisions about these alternatives made by clinicians with different backgrounds. Design: Standardised tool was used to identify patients w... Read More about Alternatives to hospital care: What are they and who should decide?.

factors associated with inappropriate emergency hospital admission in the UK (1996)
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This paper reports an attempt to assess the factors associated with inappropriate acute hospital admission using the technique of logistic regression. Data were obtained from two separate studies of acute hospital utilization in south-west England, c... Read More about factors associated with inappropriate emergency hospital admission in the UK.

Appropriateness of hospital utilisation: The valididy and reliability of the intensity-severity-discharge review system (ISD-A) in a UK acute hopsital setting (1995)
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The hospital admissions study in England: Are there alternatives to emergency hospital admission? (1995)
Journal Article

Study objective - To assess the potential for substituting alternative forms of care for admission to an acute hospital in particular groups of patients. Design - A screening tool, the intensity-severity-discharge review system with adult criteria (I... Read More about The hospital admissions study in England: Are there alternatives to emergency hospital admission?.

Hospital admissions study: Final report for Avon health authority (1994)
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