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Response to an Earthquake in Bangladesh: Experiences and lessons learnt (2015)
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Biswas, A., Mashreky, S., Dala, K., & Deave, T. (2016). Response to an Earthquake in Bangladesh: Experiences and lessons learnt. Open Journal of Earthquake Research, 5(1), 1-6

A powerful earthquake occurred in Nepal on 25th April 2015 where the highest measure of the tremor was 7.9 on the Richter scale with a minimum of 6.6. The death toll was around 3000 and thousands were injured in the devastation of the disaster. The e... Read More about Response to an Earthquake in Bangladesh: Experiences and lessons learnt.

Why doesn't the client listen to me? Challenging ethnocentricities through clinical supervision to promote cultural competencies (2015)
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Deering, K. (2015). Why doesn't the client listen to me? Challenging ethnocentricities through clinical supervision to promote cultural competencies

This paper aims to argue how developing self-awareness through clinical supervision may promote nurses’ cultural competencies in inpatient mental health care. Such capabilities include the ability to effectively work with those who may differences in... Read More about Why doesn't the client listen to me? Challenging ethnocentricities through clinical supervision to promote cultural competencies.

Psychosocial Care for Injured Children: Worldwide Survey among Hospital Emergency Department Staff (2015)
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Lyttle, M. D., Alisic, E., Hoysted, C., Kassam-Adams, N., Landolt, M. A., Curtis, S., …Babl, F. E. (2016). Psychosocial Care for Injured Children: Worldwide Survey among Hospital Emergency Department Staff. Journal of Pediatrics, 170, 227-233.e6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpeds.2015.10.067

© 2016 Elsevier Inc. Objective To examine emergency department (ED) staff's knowledge of traumatic stress in children, attitudes toward providing psychosocial care, and confidence in doing so, and also to examine differences in these outcomes accordi... Read More about Psychosocial Care for Injured Children: Worldwide Survey among Hospital Emergency Department Staff.

Patient-directed therapy during in-patient stroke rehabilitation: Stroke survivors' views of feasibility and acceptability (2015)
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Horne, M., Thomas, N., McCabe, C., Selles, R., Vail, A., Tyrrell, P., & Tyson, S. (2015). Patient-directed therapy during in-patient stroke rehabilitation: Stroke survivors' views of feasibility and acceptability. Disability and Rehabilitation, 37(25), 2344-2349. https://doi.org/10.3109/09638288.2015.1024341

© 2015 Informa UK Ltd. All rights reserved. Purpose: Patient-led therapy, in which patients work outside therapy sessions without direct supervision, is a possible way to increase the amount of therapy stroke patients' receive without increasing staf... Read More about Patient-directed therapy during in-patient stroke rehabilitation: Stroke survivors' views of feasibility and acceptability.

Assessing the impacts of the first year of rotavirus vaccination in the United Kingdom (2015)
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Marlow, R., Muir, P., Vipond, B., Lyttle, M., Trotter, C., & Finn, A. (2015). Assessing the impacts of the first year of rotavirus vaccination in the United Kingdom. Eurosurveillance, 20(48), https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2015.20.48.30077

© 2015, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). All rights reserved. The United Kingdom (UK) added rotavirus (RV) vaccine (Rotarix GlaxoSmithKline) to the national vaccine schedule in July 2013. During the 2012–2014 rotavirus seaso... Read More about Assessing the impacts of the first year of rotavirus vaccination in the United Kingdom.

Evaluation of a heart failure self-management programme (2015)
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Cook, J., & Horrocks, S. (2015). Evaluation of a heart failure self-management programme. British Journal of Cardiac Nursing, 10(12), 603-608. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjca.2015.10.12.603

Background: Supported self-care has the potential to improve quality of life (QoL) for people with heart failure (HF), while reducing dependency on acute care to manage exacerbation. Methods: A series of HF self-management programmes (HF-SMP) we... Read More about Evaluation of a heart failure self-management programme.

Nursing culture: An enemy of evidence-based practice? A focus group exploration (2015)
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Henderson, E. M., & Fletcher, M. (2015). Nursing culture: An enemy of evidence-based practice? A focus group exploration. Journal of Child Health Care, 19(4), 550-557. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367493514530956

© 2014, © The Author(s) 2014. Evidence-based practice (EBP) is challenging for most nurses due to the time constraints of caring for patients and the emerging pressures of a changing health service. To explore these challenges, and thus to establish... Read More about Nursing culture: An enemy of evidence-based practice? A focus group exploration.

Risk and protective factors for falls on one level in young children: Multicentre case–control study (2015)
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Kendrick, D., Majsak-Newman, G., Goodenough, T., Hayes, M., Hindmarch, P., Watson, M., …Kendrick, D. (2015). Risk and protective factors for falls on one level in young children: Multicentre case–control study. Injury Prevention, 21(6), 381-388. https://doi.org/10.1136/injuryprev-2015-041581

© 2015, BMJ. All rights reserved. Background Childhood falls are an important global public health problem, but there is lack of evidence about their prevention. Falls on one level result in considerable morbidity and they are costly to health servic... Read More about Risk and protective factors for falls on one level in young children: Multicentre case–control study.

Toward ensuring health equity: Readability and cultural equivalence of OMERACT patient-reported outcome measures (2015)
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Tugwell, P. S., Singh, J. A., Duruöz, M. T., Sreih, A. G., Flurey, C., Maxwell, L. J., …Guillemin, F. (2015). Toward ensuring health equity: Readability and cultural equivalence of OMERACT patient-reported outcome measures. Journal of Rheumatology, 42(12), 2448-2459. https://doi.org/10.3899/jrheum.141168

© Copyright 2015 The Journal of Rheumatology. All rights reserved. Objective. The goal of the Outcome Measures in Rheumatology (OMERACT) 12 (2014) equity working group was to determine whether and how comprehensibility of patient-reported outcome mea... Read More about Toward ensuring health equity: Readability and cultural equivalence of OMERACT patient-reported outcome measures.

Update on outcome measure development for large vessel vasculitis: Report from OMERACT 12 (2015)
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Merkel, P. A., Mackie, S. L., Aydin, S. Z., Direskeneli, H., Sreih, A., Alibaz-Oner, F., …Kamali, P. A. M. (2015). Update on outcome measure development for large vessel vasculitis: Report from OMERACT 12. Journal of Rheumatology, 42(12), 2465-2469. https://doi.org/10.3899/jrheum.141144

© Copyright 2015 The Journal of Rheumatology. All rights reserved. Objective. The rarity of large vessel vasculitis (LVV) is a major factor limiting randomized controlled trials in LVV, resulting in treatment choices in these diseases that are guided... Read More about Update on outcome measure development for large vessel vasculitis: Report from OMERACT 12.

Trends in admission and death rates due to paediatric head injury in England, 2000-2011 (2015)
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Marlow, R., Mytton, J., Maconochie, I. K., Taylor, H., & Lyttle, M. (2015). Trends in admission and death rates due to paediatric head injury in England, 2000-2011. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 100(12), 1136-1140. https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2015-308615

Background The number of children admitted to hospital is increasing year on year, with very short-stay admissions doubling in the last decade. Childhood head injury accounts for half a million emergency department attendances in the UK every year. T... Read More about Trends in admission and death rates due to paediatric head injury in England, 2000-2011.

Epidemiology of unintentional child injuries in the makwanpur district of Nepal: A household survey (2015)
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Pant, P. R., Towner, E., Ellis, M., Manandhar, D., Pilkington, P., & Mytton, J. (2015). Epidemiology of unintentional child injuries in the makwanpur district of Nepal: A household survey. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 12(12), 15118-15128. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph121214967

© 2015 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Secondary sources of information indicate that the proportion of child deaths due to injuries is increasing in Nepal. This study aimed to describe the epidemiology of unintentional injuries in... Read More about Epidemiology of unintentional child injuries in the makwanpur district of Nepal: A household survey.

The impact of injuries on health service resource use and costs in primary and secondary care in the English NHS (2015)
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Kendrick, D., Sleney, J., Beckett, K., Coupland, C., Baines, D. L., Christie, N., …Kendrick, D. (2016). The impact of injuries on health service resource use and costs in primary and secondary care in the English NHS. Journal of Public Health, 38(4), e464-e471. https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdv173

© The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Faculty of Public Health. All rights reserved. Background: Injuries in working age adults are common, but few studies examine NHS resource use or costs. Methods: Costing study based... Read More about The impact of injuries on health service resource use and costs in primary and secondary care in the English NHS.

Nurses’ Role in Cardiovascular Risk Assessment and Management in People with Inflammatory Arthritis: A European Perspective (2015)
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Ferreira, R. J., Primdahl, J., Ferreira, R. J. O., Garcia-Diaz, S., Ndosi, M., Palmer, D., & van Eijk-Hustings, Y. (2016). Nurses’ Role in Cardiovascular Risk Assessment and Management in People with Inflammatory Arthritis: A European Perspective. Musculoskeletal Care, 14(3), 133-151. https://doi.org/10.1002/msc.1121

Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Introduction: Cardiovascular risk (CVR) assessment and management in patients with inflammatory arthritis (IA) is recommended but European nurses’ involvement in this role has not been well studied. Aim: The... Read More about Nurses’ Role in Cardiovascular Risk Assessment and Management in People with Inflammatory Arthritis: A European Perspective.

Exploration, development, and validation of patient-reported outcomes in antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis using the OMERACT process (2015)
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Robson, J. C., Milman, N., Tomasson, G., Dawson, J., Cronholm, P. F., Kellom, K., …Merkel, P. A. (2015). Exploration, development, and validation of patient-reported outcomes in antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis using the OMERACT process. Journal of Rheumatology, 42(11), 2204-2209. https://doi.org/10.3899/jrheum.141143

The Journal of Rheumatology Copyright © 2015. All rights reserved. Objective. Antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis (AAV) is a group of linked multisystem life- and organ-threatening diseases. The Outcome Measures in Rheuma... Read More about Exploration, development, and validation of patient-reported outcomes in antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis using the OMERACT process.

Feasibility and domain validation of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) flare core domain set: Report of the OMERACT 2014 RA Flare Group plenary (2015)
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Bartlett, S. J., Bykerk, V. P., Cooksey, R., Choy, E. H., Alten, R., Christensen, R., …Bingham, C. O. (2015). Feasibility and domain validation of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) flare core domain set: Report of the OMERACT 2014 RA Flare Group plenary. Journal of Rheumatology, 42(11), 2185-2189. https://doi.org/10.3899/jrheum.141169

The Journal of Rheumatology Copyright © 2015. All rights reserved. Objective. The Outcome Measures in Rheumatology (OMERACT) Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) Flare Group was established to develop an approach to identify and measure RA flares. An overview o... Read More about Feasibility and domain validation of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) flare core domain set: Report of the OMERACT 2014 RA Flare Group plenary.

Establishing the research priorities of paediatric emergency medicine clinicians in the UK and Ireland (2015)
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Hartshorn, S., O'Sullivan, R., Maconochie, I. K., Bevan, C., Cleugh, F., & Lyttle, M. (2015). Establishing the research priorities of paediatric emergency medicine clinicians in the UK and Ireland. Emergency Medicine Journal, 32(11), 864-868. https://doi.org/10.1136/emermed-2014-204484

Objective: Paediatric Emergency Research in the UK and Ireland (PERUKI) is a collaborative clinical studies group established in August 2012. It consists of a network of 43 centres from England, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and aims... Read More about Establishing the research priorities of paediatric emergency medicine clinicians in the UK and Ireland.

Postural modification to the standard Valsalva manoeuvre for emergency treatment of supraventricular tachycardias (REVERT): A randomised controlled trial (2015)
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Appelboam, A., Reuben, A., Mann, C., Gagg, J., Ewings, P., Barton, A., …Benger, J. (2015). Postural modification to the standard Valsalva manoeuvre for emergency treatment of supraventricular tachycardias (REVERT): A randomised controlled trial. Lancet, 386(10005), 1747-1753. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736%2815%2961485-4

© 2015 Appelboam et al. Open Access article distributed under the terms of CC BY-ND-NC. Background The Valsalva manoeuvre is an internationally recommended treatment for supraventricular tachycardia, but cardioversion is rare in practice (5-20%), nec... Read More about Postural modification to the standard Valsalva manoeuvre for emergency treatment of supraventricular tachycardias (REVERT): A randomised controlled trial.

A mixed-method study of pain management practice in a UK children’s hospital: Identification of barriers and developing strategies to maintain effective in-patient paediatric pain management (2015)
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Henderson, E. M., Beckett, K., Henderson, E. M., Parry, S., Stoddart, P., & Fletcher, M. (2016). A mixed-method study of pain management practice in a UK children’s hospital: Identification of barriers and developing strategies to maintain effective in-patient paediatric pain management. Nursing Open, 3(1), 19-29. https://doi.org/10.1002/nop2.33

© 2015 The Authors. Aim To assess Acute Pain Service and paediatric pain management efficacy in a UK specialist paediatric hospital to inform wider recommendations for future sustainability. Background UK paediatric acute pain services vary. Although... Read More about A mixed-method study of pain management practice in a UK children’s hospital: Identification of barriers and developing strategies to maintain effective in-patient paediatric pain management.

Approaches used by parents to keep their children safe at home: A qualitative study to explore the perspectives of parents with children aged under five years (2015)
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Ablewhite, J., McDaid, L., Hawkins, A., Peel, I., Goodenough, T., Deave, T., …Kendrick, D. (2015). Approaches used by parents to keep their children safe at home: A qualitative study to explore the perspectives of parents with children aged under five years. BMC Public Health, 15(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-015-2252-x

© 2015 Ablewhite et al. Background: Childhood unintentional injury represents an important global health problem. Many unintentional injuries experienced by children aged under 5 years occur within the home and are preventable. The aim of this study... Read More about Approaches used by parents to keep their children safe at home: A qualitative study to explore the perspectives of parents with children aged under five years.