Outputs (417)

Unlocking potential: The transformative power of coaching for doctoral students (2024)
Journal Article

Coaching doctoral students to enhance their well-being involves personalised guidance to improve emotional, social and academic skills, fostering self-awareness, and promoting positive coping mechanisms. The goal is to navigate challenges collaborati... Read More about Unlocking potential: The transformative power of coaching for doctoral students.

The RELIEF feasibility trial: Topical lidocaine patches in older adults with rib fractures (2024)
Journal Article

Background: Lidocaine patches, applied over rib fractures, may reduce pulmonary complications in older patients. Known barriers to recruiting older patients in emergency settings necessitate a feasibility trial. We aimed to establish whether a defini... Read More about The RELIEF feasibility trial: Topical lidocaine patches in older adults with rib fractures.

Developing emotional preparedness and mental resilience through high-fidelity simulation: A ‘bridge too far’ for institutions teaching major trauma management and mass-casualty medicine? (2024)
Journal Article

Background: Clinical acumen represents only part of being adequately equipped to attend a major incident. The emotive sights, sounds and smells of these dynamic environments are all-encompassing experiences, and responders must also be armed with the... Read More about Developing emotional preparedness and mental resilience through high-fidelity simulation: A ‘bridge too far’ for institutions teaching major trauma management and mass-casualty medicine?.

A multiple criteria decision analysis to establish the use cases and candidate point of care tests to enter into a platform trial of multiple in vitro diagnostic point of care tests in the prehospital environment (2024)
Journal Article

Background
There are increasing demands on Emergency Medical Services. More efficient treatment pathways are required to support conveyance decision making and patient referral in prehospital care. Point of Care testing is increasingly available and... Read More about A multiple criteria decision analysis to establish the use cases and candidate point of care tests to enter into a platform trial of multiple in vitro diagnostic point of care tests in the prehospital environment.

Re-thinking housing inspection and regulation: Using 360 technology as a new approach in environmental health practice training (2024)
Journal Article

Front-line professions such as environmental health require practitioners to demonstrate competence in practice-based skills typically gained only through on-the-job experience. However, practice opportunities have been more scarce, owing mainly to a... Read More about Re-thinking housing inspection and regulation: Using 360 technology as a new approach in environmental health practice training.

Bilateral lower limb examinations for deep vein thrombosis: A single-centre pilot study comparing request and report parameters for bilateral and unilateral referrals (2024)
Journal Article

Introduction
Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is a common pathology with significant morbidity and mortality, often occurring in the lower limb. Ultrasound is the modality of choice for diagnosis of DVT, but all guidance in the United Kingdom assumes a si... Read More about Bilateral lower limb examinations for deep vein thrombosis: A single-centre pilot study comparing request and report parameters for bilateral and unilateral referrals.

The role of community pharmacy in the promotion of continence care: A systematic review (2024)
Journal Article

Community pharmacies are convenient healthcare settings which provide a wide range of services in addition to medicine supply. Continence care is an area where there is an opportunity for the implementation of new innovations to improve clinical and... Read More about The role of community pharmacy in the promotion of continence care: A systematic review.

Association of antenatal or neonatal SARS-COV-2 exposure with developmental and respiratory outcomes, and healthcare usage in early childhood: A national prospective cohort study (2024)
Journal Article

Background: Perinatal exposure to SARS-CoV-2 may affect neurodevelopment before 12 months of age, but longer-term outcomes remain unknown. We examined whether antenatal or neonatal SARS-CoV-2 exposure compared with non-exposure is associated with neu... Read More about Association of antenatal or neonatal SARS-COV-2 exposure with developmental and respiratory outcomes, and healthcare usage in early childhood: A national prospective cohort study.

Clinical and cost effectiveness of paramedics working in general practice: A mixed-methods realist evaluation (2024)
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Background:
General Practice (GP) services are under pressure due increased demand . Alongside substantial national recruitment challenges, there exists a shortage of GPs to meet current need. Resultingly, allied healthcare professionals (AHPs), inc... Read More about Clinical and cost effectiveness of paramedics working in general practice: A mixed-methods realist evaluation.

Factors influencing the outcomes of non-pharmacological interventions for managing fatigue across the lifespan of people living with musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions: a scoping review protocol. (2024)
Journal Article

Fatigue is an important and distressing symptom for many people living with chronic musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions. Many non-pharmacological interventions have been investigated in recent years and some have been demonstrated to be effective in red... Read More about Factors influencing the outcomes of non-pharmacological interventions for managing fatigue across the lifespan of people living with musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions: a scoping review protocol..