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Confirmation of traumatic cardiac arrest in children: A literature review to inform the peruki ptca consensus study (2017)
Journal Article

Aims Traumatic cardiac arrest (TCA) is associated with high mortality and poor neurological outcomes. Several methods of confirming cardiac arrest are utilised including auscultation of heart sounds, palpation of pulses and echocardiography. We did a... Read More about Confirmation of traumatic cardiac arrest in children: A literature review to inform the peruki ptca consensus study.

Defining mild traumatic brain injury: How classification differs across studies when applied to a large prospective data set. A PREDICT prospective cohort study (2017)
Journal Article

Aims Mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) in children is a major public health issue, yet there is wide variation in the way ‘mild’ TBI is defined in the literature and in guidelines. To date no study has prospectively detailed the proportion of childre... Read More about Defining mild traumatic brain injury: How classification differs across studies when applied to a large prospective data set. A PREDICT prospective cohort study.

Diagnostic accuracy of the NEXUS II head injury clinical decision rule in children. A PREDICT prospective cohort study (2017)
Journal Article

Aims Clinical decision rules (CDRs) can be applied in Emergency Departments (EDs) to optimise the use of computed tomography (CT) in children with head trauma. The National Emergency X- Radiography Utilisation Study II (NEXUS II) CDR, as amended for... Read More about Diagnostic accuracy of the NEXUS II head injury clinical decision rule in children. A PREDICT prospective cohort study.

Suppressing Inflammation in Rheumatoid Arthritis: Does Patient Global Assessment Blur the Target? A Practice-Based Call for a Paradigm Change (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017, American College of Rheumatology Objective: In current management paradigms of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), patient global assessment (PGA) is crucial to decide whether a patient has attained remission (target) or needs reinforced therapy. We i... Read More about Suppressing Inflammation in Rheumatoid Arthritis: Does Patient Global Assessment Blur the Target? A Practice-Based Call for a Paradigm Change.

Factors associated with acute urinary retention in thrombolysed acute stroke patients - A retrospective cohort study (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Background: Acute Urinary Retention (AUR) is common after stroke. Aim: This study tried to identify factors that may predispose acute ischaemic stroke patients to develop AUR post thrombolysis. A secondary aim was to evaluate whether any factors inf... Read More about Factors associated with acute urinary retention in thrombolysed acute stroke patients - A retrospective cohort study.

Pilot Study Comparing Closed Versus Open Tracheal Suctioning in Postoperative Neonates and Infants with Complex Congenital Heart Disease (2017)
Journal Article

Copyright © 2017 by the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies. Objectives: To determine the hemodynamic effect of tracheal suction method in the first 36 hours after high-risk in... Read More about Pilot Study Comparing Closed Versus Open Tracheal Suctioning in Postoperative Neonates and Infants with Complex Congenital Heart Disease.

Opportunistic trial recruitment during routine primary care consultations for acute conditions: a mixed methods evaluation of recruitment performance and barriers (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Background: Evaluating the effectiveness of interventions for acute conditions in primary care often necessitates clinicians opportunistically recruiting patient during time-pressured consultations. Aim: To describe the performance of, barriers to, a... Read More about Opportunistic trial recruitment during routine primary care consultations for acute conditions: a mixed methods evaluation of recruitment performance and barriers.

Adapting the QuinteT Recruitment Intervention (QRI) to optimise recruitment in an ongoing randomised controlled trial (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Randomised Controlled Trials (RCTs) are the most rigorous study design to evaluate healthcare interventions. However, their success relies on patient recruitment. The QuinteT Recruitment Intervention (QRI) aims to address recruitment difficulties an... Read More about Adapting the QuinteT Recruitment Intervention (QRI) to optimise recruitment in an ongoing randomised controlled trial.

Why do patients seek primary medical care in emergency departments? An ethnographic exploration of access to general practice (2017)
Journal Article

Objectives: To describe how processes of primary care access influence decisions to seek help at the emergency department (ED).Design: Ethnographic case study combining non-participant observation, informal and formal interviewing.Setting: Six genera... Read More about Why do patients seek primary medical care in emergency departments? An ethnographic exploration of access to general practice.