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Do children with non-malignant life-threatening conditions receive effective palliative care? A pragmatic evaluation of a local service (2002)
Journal Article
Horrocks, S., Somerset, M., & Salisbury, C. (2002). Do children with non-malignant life-threatening conditions receive effective palliative care? A pragmatic evaluation of a local service. Palliative Medicine, 16(5), 410-416. https://doi.org/10.1191/0269216302pm545oa

Introduction: A service established in October 1998 aimed to provide nursing and psychological support in the community to families with children who have non-malignant life-threatening illnesses. The purpose of this study was to conduct a pragmatic... Read More about Do children with non-malignant life-threatening conditions receive effective palliative care? A pragmatic evaluation of a local service.

Visual search in Alzheimer's disease: A deficiency in processing conjunctions of features (2002)
Journal Article
Tales, A., Butler, S. R., Fossey, J., Gilchrist, I. D., Jones, R., & Troscianko, T. (2002). Visual search in Alzheimer's disease: A deficiency in processing conjunctions of features. Neuropsychologia, 40(12), 1849-1857. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0028-3932%2802%2900073-8

Human vision often needs to encode multiple characteristics of many elements of the visual field, for example their lightness and orientation. The paradigm of visual search allows a quantitative assessment of the function of the underlying mechanisms... Read More about Visual search in Alzheimer's disease: A deficiency in processing conjunctions of features.

Toward a self-regulatory form of accountability in the voluntary sector (2002)
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Miller, C. (2002). Toward a self-regulatory form of accountability in the voluntary sector. Policy and Politics, 30(4), 551-566. https://doi.org/10.1332/030557302760590378

Non-profit organisations are private self-regulating bodies. As their social welfare role expands so the need for greater public transparency and accountability increases. This article concentrates on the relationship between the sector and those sta... Read More about Toward a self-regulatory form of accountability in the voluntary sector.

The development of a nurse-led angina management programme (2002)
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Williams, A., Burke, D., & Lockyer, L. (2002). The development of a nurse-led angina management programme. Professional Nurse -London-, 18(2), 86-90

The anxiety caused by living with angina can be very debilitating and affects patients' quality of life. In one trust an angina management programme was set up to provide educational and psychosocial support, with an emphasis on cardiac risk factor m... Read More about The development of a nurse-led angina management programme.

The construction of a modern epidemic: The implications for women of the gendering of coronary heart disease (2002)
Journal Article
Lockyer, L., & Bury, M. (2002). The construction of a modern epidemic: The implications for women of the gendering of coronary heart disease. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 39(5), 432-440. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2648.2002.02308.x

Aim. This aim of this paper is to examine critically the implications for women of a gendered construction of coronary heart disease. Design. The paper takes the form of a literature review between 1969 and 2002 of nursing, medical and social science... Read More about The construction of a modern epidemic: The implications for women of the gendering of coronary heart disease.

Older women's understanding of elder abuse: Quality relationships and the ‘stresses of caregiving’ (2002)
Journal Article
Morbey, H. (2002). Older women's understanding of elder abuse: Quality relationships and the ‘stresses of caregiving’. Journal of Adult Protection, 4(3), 4-13. https://doi.org/10.1108/14668203200200017

Specifically feminist perspectives are largely absent from the developing discourse of elder abuse in the United Kingdom. This paper describes how focus groups were used to gather older women's understandings and experiences of elder abuse. A perspec... Read More about Older women's understanding of elder abuse: Quality relationships and the ‘stresses of caregiving’.

Community-based childhood injury prevention interventions: What works? (2002)
Journal Article
Towner, E., & Dowswell, T. (2002). Community-based childhood injury prevention interventions: What works?. Health Promotion International, 17(3), 273-284. https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/17.3.273

Unintentional injury, with its broad range of injury types, possible countermeasures, and great number of agencies involved in its prevention, lends itself to community-based approaches. In this paper we examine 10 community-based injury prevention p... Read More about Community-based childhood injury prevention interventions: What works?.

Cigarettes, alcohol, drugs and self-esteem: A comparison of 15-16-year-olds from France and the UK (2002)
Journal Article
Miller, P., Plant, M., Choquet, M., & Ledoux, S. (2002). Cigarettes, alcohol, drugs and self-esteem: A comparison of 15-16-year-olds from France and the UK. Journal of Substance Use, 7(2), 71-77. https://doi.org/10.1080/14659890210132090

This paper compares samples of 15-16-year-olds from the UK and France on their use of the Rosenberg Self-esteem Scale (Rosenberg 1965) and on the relationships between total self-esteem and substance use. On all 10 of the scale items French students... Read More about Cigarettes, alcohol, drugs and self-esteem: A comparison of 15-16-year-olds from France and the UK.

Improving the quality of written information for patients (2002)
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Nicklin, J. K. (2002). Improving the quality of written information for patients. Nursing Standard, 16(49), 39-44. https://doi.org/10.7748/ns2002.08.16.49.39.c3253

Good communication with patients is vital. A national audit reported that written information for patients was of poor quality (Audit Commission 1993): this was followed by a number of interrelating studies reinforcing aspects of the report. This lit... Read More about Improving the quality of written information for patients.

Younger people in dementia care: A review of service needs, service provision and models of good practice (2002)
Journal Article
Daker-White, G., Beattie, A., Gilliard, J., & Means, R. (2002). Younger people in dementia care: A review of service needs, service provision and models of good practice. Aging and Mental Health, 6(3), 205-212. https://doi.org/10.1080/13607860220142396

This paper reviews the literature on younger people (under 65 years of age) with dementia, in dementia care. Seventy-four relevant papers were identified by use of a search strategy derived from the methodology of systematic reviews, the majority of... Read More about Younger people in dementia care: A review of service needs, service provision and models of good practice.

New horizons: Developing the novice infection control nurse through work-based learning and the new professional core competencies (2002)
Journal Article
King, D., Meyers, D., Tew, L., & Moore, L. (2002). New horizons: Developing the novice infection control nurse through work-based learning and the new professional core competencies. British Journal of Infection Control, 3(4), 16-20. https://doi.org/10.1177/175717740200300406

This article aims to provide the reader with an example of using the professional core competencies for infection control nurses, together with the self-assessment tool, to provide a framework for the development of a trainee infection control nurse... Read More about New horizons: Developing the novice infection control nurse through work-based learning and the new professional core competencies.

Herpesviruses in brain and Alzheimer's disease (2002)
Journal Article
Hamilton, P. W., Thompson, D., Bartels, P. H., Montironi, R., Walsh, M. Y., Mulholland, K. M., …Itzhakil, R. F. (2002). Herpesviruses in brain and Alzheimer's disease. Journal of Pathology, 197(3), 395-402. https://doi.org/10.1002/path.1127

It has been established, using polymerase chain reaction (PCR), that herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV1) is present in a high proportion of brains of elderly normal subjects and Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients. It was subsequently discovered that th... Read More about Herpesviruses in brain and Alzheimer's disease.