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.
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Patient and public involvement (PPI) in health research is now well-established, whilst science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) research has shifted from a focus on science communication alone to public engagement (PE) within its rese... Read More about Public involvement and public engagement: An example of convergent evolution? Findings from a conceptual qualitative review of patient and public involvement, and public engagement, in health and scientific research..
Understanding paramedic work in general practice in the UK: A rapid realist synthesis (2024)
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Background: General practice in the UK is under substantial pressure and practices are increasingly including paramedics as part of their workforce. Little is known about how different models of paramedic working may affect successful implementation... Read More about Understanding paramedic work in general practice in the UK: A rapid realist synthesis.
Working with public contributors in Parkinson's research: What were the changes, benefits and learnings? A critical reflection from the researcher and public contributor perspective (2023)
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Introduction: This paper provides a critical reflection from both the researcher and public contributor (PC) perspective on the benefits and the learnings taken from involving PCs in research related to Parkinson's. Approach toPatient and Public Invo... Read More about Working with public contributors in Parkinson's research: What were the changes, benefits and learnings? A critical reflection from the researcher and public contributor perspective.
World Cafés as a participatory approach to understanding research agendas in primary care with underserved communities: Reflections, challenges and lessons learned (2023)
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Background: Certain communities are underserved by research, resulting in lower inclusion rates, under researched health issues and a lack of attention to how different communities respond to health interventions. Minoritised ethnic groups are often... Read More about World Cafés as a participatory approach to understanding research agendas in primary care with underserved communities: Reflections, challenges and lessons learned.
Evaluating the benefit of early patient and public involvement for product development and testing with small companies (2023)
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Introduction: There is a growing understanding of the benefits of patient and public involvement (PPI), and its evaluation, in research. An online version of the CUBE PPI evaluation framework has been developed. We sought to use the CUBE to evaluate... Read More about Evaluating the benefit of early patient and public involvement for product development and testing with small companies.
General practitioners working in or alongside the emergency department: The GPED mixed-methods study (2022)
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Background: Emergency care is facing a steadily rising demand. In response, hospitals have implemented new models of care that locate general practitioners in or alongside the emergency department. Objectives: We aimed to explore the effects of gener... Read More about General practitioners working in or alongside the emergency department: The GPED mixed-methods study.
Do general practitioners working in or alongside the emergency department improve clinical outcomes or experience? A mixed-methods study (2022)
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OBJECTIVES: To examine the effect of general practitioners (GPs) working in or alongside the emergency department (GPED) on patient outcomes and experience, and the associated impacts of implementation on the workforce. DESIGN: Mixed-methods study: i... Read More about Do general practitioners working in or alongside the emergency department improve clinical outcomes or experience? A mixed-methods study.
Tackling root causes upstream of unhealthy urban development (TRUUD): Protocol of a five-year prevention research consortium (2022)
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Poor quality urban environments substantially increase non-communicable disease. Responsibility for associated decision-making is dispersed across multiple agents and systems: fast growing urban authorities are the primary gatekeepers of new developm... Read More about Tackling root causes upstream of unhealthy urban development (TRUUD): Protocol of a five-year prevention research consortium.
Attitudes and approaches to patient and public involvement across Europe: A systematic review (2020)
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The Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) is making great strides in promoting patient and public involvement (PPI) in health research across Europe, supporting patient organisations to be involved in the projects that it funds. Despite this, the lit... Read More about Attitudes and approaches to patient and public involvement across Europe: A systematic review.
Coronavirus disease 2019 mortality: A multivariate ecological analysis in relation to ethnicity, population density, obesity, deprivation and pollution (2020)
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Background: There is emerging evidence about characteristics that may increase the risk of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) mortality, but they are highly correlated. Methods: An ecological analysis was used to estimate associations between these... Read More about Coronavirus disease 2019 mortality: A multivariate ecological analysis in relation to ethnicity, population density, obesity, deprivation and pollution.
Apart but not alone? A cross-sectional study of neighbour support in a major UK urban area during the COVID-19 lockdown (2020)
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Background: Evidence from a range of major public health incidents shows that neighbour-based action can have a critical role in emergency response, assistance and recovery. However, there is little research to date on neighbour-based action during t... Read More about Apart but not alone? A cross-sectional study of neighbour support in a major UK urban area during the COVID-19 lockdown.
Challenges and opportunities for involving patients and the public in acute antimicrobial medicine development research: An interview study (2019)
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Objectives: To explore what approaches to patient and public involvement (PPI) in antimicrobial medicines development are currently being utilised, what are the impacts of PPI on antimicrobial medicines development and what are the barriers to its im... Read More about Challenges and opportunities for involving patients and the public in acute antimicrobial medicine development research: An interview study.
© 2018 The Author(s). Background: Around 17% of people attending UK cardiac rehabilitation programmes have depression. Optimising psychological wellbeing is a rehabilitation goal, but provision of psychological care is limited. We developed and pilot... Read More about Assessing the effectiveness of Enhanced Psychological Care for patients with depressive symptoms attending cardiac rehabilitation compared with treatment as usual (CADENCE): A pilot cluster randomised controlled trial.
Finding and engaging patients and the public to work collaboratively on an acute infection microbiology research public panel (2018)
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© The Author(s). Background In 2015 the microbiology research team became involved in a large European programme of research aiming to bring new antimicrobial drugs onto the market to combat the increasing problem of multi-drug resistant infection. W... Read More about Finding and engaging patients and the public to work collaboratively on an acute infection microbiology research public panel.
Developing a toolkit for patient and public involvement in antimicrobial medicines development research: Breaking new ground (2017)
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Abstract from the NIHR INVOLVE Conference 2017
Does funded research reflect the priorities of people living with type 1 diabetes? A secondary analysis of research questions (2017)
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© Article author(s) (or their employer(s) unless otherwise stated in the text of the article) 2017. Objectives This study explored the divergence and convergence between funded research about type 1 diabetes and the research agenda of people living w... Read More about Does funded research reflect the priorities of people living with type 1 diabetes? A secondary analysis of research questions.
Extent, quality and impact of patient and public involvement in antimicrobial drug development research: A systematic review (2017)
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© 2017 The Authors Health Expectations Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd Background: Patient and public involvement (PPI) is increasingly recognized as bringing a range of benefits to clinical and health services research. Recent systematic review... Read More about Extent, quality and impact of patient and public involvement in antimicrobial drug development research: A systematic review.
Evaluating patient and public involvement in health research: from theoretical model to practical workshop (2017)
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© 2017 The Authors Health Expectations published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd Background: There is a growing literature on evaluating aspects of patient and public involvement (PPI). We have suggested that at the core of successful PPI is the dynamic i... Read More about Evaluating patient and public involvement in health research: from theoretical model to practical workshop.
A preconsultation web-based tool to generate an agenda for discussion in diabetes outpatient clinics to improve patient outcomes (DIAT): A feasibility study (2017)
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© 2016 Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. Objective To test the feasibility of running a randomised controlled trial of a preconsultation web-based intervention (Presenting Asking Checking Expressing (PACE-D)) to improve the quality of ca... Read More about A preconsultation web-based tool to generate an agenda for discussion in diabetes outpatient clinics to improve patient outcomes (DIAT): A feasibility study.