Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic, systemic, inflammatory disease. Stiffness is a major symptom of RA which is commonly reported by patients, affects patients’ daily life, and is relevant to patients in relation to fluctuating aspects of RA such... Read More about Understanding the patient experience of stiffness, and developing a stiffness patient-recorded outcome measure in rheumatoid arthritis.
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A practice nurse e-Appraisal project: Strategy; development; implementation & sustainability (2016)
Report
This innovative e-appraisal project commissioned by NHS England (BGSW) introduced new ways of thinking for the development of practice nurses across Bath, Gloucestershire, Swindon & Wiltshire.
The success of the project can be seen through the imp... Read More about A practice nurse e-Appraisal project: Strategy; development; implementation & sustainability.
User-centred design using Gamestorming (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
© 2016 IMIA and IOS Press. User-centered design (UX) is becoming a standard in software engineering and has tremendous potential in healthcare. The purpose of this tutorial will be to demonstrate and provide participants with practice in usercentred... Read More about User-centred design using Gamestorming.
G255(P) Psychological interventions for patients of all ages with mild traumatic brain injury: A systematic review (2016)
Journal Article
Introduction Head injury is the commonest injury type in UK children accounting for 350,000 Emergency Department attendances every year. While many of these are trivial a significant proportion have a mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) which is synon... Read More about G255(P) Psychological interventions for patients of all ages with mild traumatic brain injury: A systematic review.
Seeking support after hospitalisation for injury: A nested qualitative study of the role of primary care (2016)
Journal Article
© 2016 British Journal of General Practice. Background In the UK, studies suggest that the transition from hospital to home after an injury can be a difficult time and many patients report feeling inadequately prepared. Patients often use primary car... Read More about Seeking support after hospitalisation for injury: A nested qualitative study of the role of primary care.
Identifying flares in rheumatoid arthritis: Reliability and construct validation of the OMERACT RA Flare Core Domain Set (2016)
Journal Article
Objective: To evaluate the reliability of concurrent flare identification using 3 methods (patient, rheumatologist and Disease Activity Score (DAS)28 criteria), and construct validity of candidate items representing the Outcome Measures in Rheumatolo... Read More about Identifying flares in rheumatoid arthritis: Reliability and construct validation of the OMERACT RA Flare Core Domain Set.
Pneumonia in adults - Quality standard QS110 (2016)
Report
Introduction
This quality standard covers adults (18 years and older) with a suspected or confirmed diagnosis of community acquired pneumonia. For more information see the pneumonia topic overview.
Why this quality standard is needed
Pneumonia i... Read More about Pneumonia in adults - Quality standard QS110.
Adoption of speech recognition technology in community healthcare nursing (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
© 2016 IMIA and IOS Press. Adoption of new health information technology is shown to be challenging. However, the degree to which new technology will be adopted can be predicted by measures of usefulness and ease of use. In this work these key determ... Read More about Adoption of speech recognition technology in community healthcare nursing.
Remission in rheumatoid arthritis: Working toward incorporation of the patient perspective at OMERACT 12 (2016)
Journal Article
The Journal of Rheumatology Copyright © 2016. All rights reserved. Objective. The treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) should target patient-relevant outcomes, making patient perspective on remission essential. In 2010, patients, physicians, health... Read More about Remission in rheumatoid arthritis: Working toward incorporation of the patient perspective at OMERACT 12.
Patient preferences for psychological support in inflammatory arthritis: A multicentre survey (2016)
Journal Article
Objectives. Inflammatory arthritis (IA) can lead to anxiety, depression, pain and fatigue. Psychological support can improve quality of life and selfmanagement; and European and American guidelines recommend support be offered. This study examined pa... Read More about Patient preferences for psychological support in inflammatory arthritis: A multicentre survey.