All Outputs (80)

Improving outcomes from out of hospital cardiac arrest: The Cardiac Arrest Individual Registry and Outcomes Programme (CAIRO) (2015)
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Benger, J., Voss, S., & Thomas, M. (2015). Improving outcomes from out of hospital cardiac arrest: The Cardiac Arrest Individual Registry and Outcomes Programme (CAIRO). Emergency Medicine Journal, 32(6), e17-e17. https://doi.org/10.1136/emermed-2015-204980.16

Background A cardiac arrest occurs when the heart stops beating suddenly. It is one of the most extreme medical emergencies. 60,000 people suffer an out of hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) in the UK each year, with resuscitation attempted in less than... Read More about Improving outcomes from out of hospital cardiac arrest: The Cardiac Arrest Individual Registry and Outcomes Programme (CAIRO).

Intimate partner violence during pregnancy and victim’s perception on miscarriage (2015)
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Biswas, A., Dalal, A. K., Rahman, F., & Deave, T. (2015). Intimate partner violence during pregnancy and victim’s perception on miscarriage

Introduction: Women who suffer intimate partner violence (IPV) encounter reproductive health problems including miscarriages. IPV in Bangladeshi women is known to be acute socio- medical problem. The aim of the current study was to determine the prev... Read More about Intimate partner violence during pregnancy and victim’s perception on miscarriage.

Understanding and meeting information needs following unintentional injury: Comparing the accounts of patients, carers and service providers (2015)
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Kellezi, B., Beckett, K., Earthy, S., Barnes, J., Sleney, J., Clarkson, J., …Kendrick, D. (2015). Understanding and meeting information needs following unintentional injury: Comparing the accounts of patients, carers and service providers. Injury, 46(4), 564-571. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.injury.2014.11.035

© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Objective To explore information needs of unintentional injury patients and their carers over time, across services, and how such needs are met from the perspectives of patients, carers and service providers.... Read More about Understanding and meeting information needs following unintentional injury: Comparing the accounts of patients, carers and service providers.

Parental perceptions of barriers and facilitators to preventing child unintentional injuries within the home: A qualitative study (2015)
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Ablewhite, J., Peel, I., McDaid, L., Hawkins, A., Goodenough, T., Deave, T., …Kendrick, D. (2015). Parental perceptions of barriers and facilitators to preventing child unintentional injuries within the home: A qualitative study. BMC Public Health, 15(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-015-1547-2

© 2015 Ablewhite et al.; licensee BioMed Central. Background: Childhood unintentional injury represents an important global health problem. Most of these injuries occur at home, and many are preventable. The main aim of this study was to identify key... Read More about Parental perceptions of barriers and facilitators to preventing child unintentional injuries within the home: A qualitative study.

Recruitment and retention strategies and the examination of attrition bias in a randomised controlled trial in children's centres serving families in disadvantaged areas of England (2015)
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Hindmarch, P., Hawkins, A., McColl, E., Hayes, M., Majsak-Newman, G., Ablewhite, J., …Kendrick, D. (2015). Recruitment and retention strategies and the examination of attrition bias in a randomised controlled trial in children's centres serving families in disadvantaged areas of England. Trials, 16(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-015-0578-4

© 2015 Hindmarch et al. Background: Failure to retain participants in randomised controlled trials and longitudinal studies can cause significant methodological problems. We report the recruitment and retention strategies of a randomised controlled t... Read More about Recruitment and retention strategies and the examination of attrition bias in a randomised controlled trial in children's centres serving families in disadvantaged areas of England.

EULAR recommendations for patient education for people with inflammatory arthritis (2015)
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Zangi, H. A., Ndosi, M., Adams, J., Andersen, L., Bode, C., Boström, C., …Van Tubergen, A. (2015). EULAR recommendations for patient education for people with inflammatory arthritis. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 74(6), 954-962. https://doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2014-206807

© 2015, BMJ Publishing Group. All rights reserved. Objectives: The task force aimed to: (1) develop evidence-based recommendations for patient education (PE) for people with inflammatory arthritis, (2) identify the need for further research on PE and... Read More about EULAR recommendations for patient education for people with inflammatory arthritis.

Central Trends in Nursing Informatics: Students' Reflections from International Congress on Nursing Informatics 2014 (Taipei, Taiwan) (2015)
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Badger, M. K., Ronquillo, C., Topaz, M., Ronquillo, C. E., Pruinelli, L., Ramos, R., …Badger, M. K. (2015). Central Trends in Nursing Informatics: Students' Reflections from International Congress on Nursing Informatics 2014 (Taipei, Taiwan). Computers, Informatics, Nursing, 33(3), 85-89. https://doi.org/10.1097/CIN.0000000000000139

In July 2014, Taipei, Taiwan, hosted the biennial International Congress on Nursing Informatics (NI2014), titled East Meets West: eSMART+. This inaugural event for the Asia Pacific geographic region was organized by Taiwan’s Nursing Informatics Assoc... Read More about Central Trends in Nursing Informatics: Students' Reflections from International Congress on Nursing Informatics 2014 (Taipei, Taiwan).

Reliability and validity of the range of motion scale (roms) in patients with abnormal postures (2015)
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van Hilten, J. J., van de Warrenburg, B. P., Tijssen, M. A., van der Plas, A. A., Munts, A. G., Mccabe, C. S., …van Hilten, J. (2015). Reliability and validity of the range of motion scale (roms) in patients with abnormal postures. Pain Medicine, 16(3), 488-493. https://doi.org/10.1111/pme.12541

© 2015 American Academy of Pain Medicine. Objective: Sustained abnormal postures (i.e., fixed dystonia) are the most frequently reported motor abnormalities in complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS), but these symptoms may also develop after periphera... Read More about Reliability and validity of the range of motion scale (roms) in patients with abnormal postures.

A preceptorship pack for non-medical prescribers in mental health (2015)
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Morgan-Henshaw, P., & Ishmael, A. (2015). A preceptorship pack for non-medical prescribers in mental health. Nurse Prescribing, 13(3), 146-151. https://doi.org/10.12968/npre.2015.13.3.146

Non-medical prescribing (NMP) is a key aspect of a rapidly changing NHS. There is now a wide variation in the utilisation of NMP to modernise services. NMP needs to be considered within all service specifications, where medicines are prescribed or su... Read More about A preceptorship pack for non-medical prescribers in mental health.

Development and psychometric evaluation of The ICIQ-LTCqol: A self-report quality of life questionnaire for long-term indwelling catheter users (2015)
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Cotterill, N., Fowler, S., Avery, M., Cottenden, A., Wilde, M., Long, A., & Fader, M. (2015). Development and psychometric evaluation of The ICIQ-LTCqol: A self-report quality of life questionnaire for long-term indwelling catheter users. Neurourology and Urodynamics, 35(3), 423-428. https://doi.org/10.1002/nau.2272

Aims Long-term indwelling catheterisation may affect health related quality of life, but clinical assessment and monitoring of people with indwelling catheters is poorly recorded because there are no validated measures to capture these criteria. In... Read More about Development and psychometric evaluation of The ICIQ-LTCqol: A self-report quality of life questionnaire for long-term indwelling catheter users.

Can breastfeeding support be taught online? An evaluation of a training package for student health visitors (2015)
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Condon, L., Murray, J., & Messer, S. (2015). Can breastfeeding support be taught online? An evaluation of a training package for student health visitors. Journal of Health Visiting, 3(2), 100-106. https://doi.org/10.12968/johv.2015.3.2.100

This study evaluated an online learning package developed to support student health visitors' education about health promotion in infant feeding and how best to support parents in the community. Online learning is increasingly being used in nursing e... Read More about Can breastfeeding support be taught online? An evaluation of a training package for student health visitors.

Variation in treatment of acute childhood wheeze in emergency departments of the United Kingdom and Ireland: An international survey of clinician practice (2015)
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Lyttle, M. D., Lyttle, M., O'Sullivan, R., Doull, I., Hartshorn, S., Morris, I., …Bolger, T. (2015). Variation in treatment of acute childhood wheeze in emergency departments of the United Kingdom and Ireland: An international survey of clinician practice. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 100(2), 121-125. https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2014-306591

© 2015, BMJ Publishing Group. All rights reserved. Objective: National clinical guidelines for childhood wheeze exist, yet despite being one of the most common reasons for childhood emergency department (ED) attendance, signi ficant variation in prac... Read More about Variation in treatment of acute childhood wheeze in emergency departments of the United Kingdom and Ireland: An international survey of clinician practice.

Primary care-led dementia diagnosis services in South Gloucestershire: Themes from people and families living with dementia and health care professionals (2015)
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Dodd, E., Cheston, R., Cullum, S., Jefferies, R., Ismail, S., Gatting, L., …Gray, R. (2016). Primary care-led dementia diagnosis services in South Gloucestershire: Themes from people and families living with dementia and health care professionals. Dementia, 15(6), 1586-1604. https://doi.org/10.1177/1471301214566476

© 2015, © The Author(s) 2015. Background: Primary care-led dementia services are an increasingly common form of service delivery; however, little is known about how these services are understood by their main stakeholders: the patients, family member... Read More about Primary care-led dementia diagnosis services in South Gloucestershire: Themes from people and families living with dementia and health care professionals.

Phase II pragmatic randomized controlled trial of patient-led therapies mMirror therapy and lower-limb exercises) during inpatient stroke rehabilitation (2015)
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Tyson, S., Wilkinson, J., Thomas, N., Selles, R., McCabe, C., Tyrrell, P., & Vail, A. (2015). Phase II pragmatic randomized controlled trial of patient-led therapies mMirror therapy and lower-limb exercises) during inpatient stroke rehabilitation. Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair, 29(9), 818-826. https://doi.org/10.1177/1545968314565513

© American Society of Neurorehabilitation. Background and objective. Patient-led therapy has the potential to increase the amount of therapy patients undertake during stroke rehabilitation and to enhance recovery. Our objective was to assess the feas... Read More about Phase II pragmatic randomized controlled trial of patient-led therapies mMirror therapy and lower-limb exercises) during inpatient stroke rehabilitation.

AB1213-HPR Nurse Sensitive Outcomes in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) – a Systematic Literature Review (2015)
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Kelly, A., McKee, G., van Eijk-Hustings, Y., Ndosi, M., O'Sullivan, D., Menzies, V., …Minnock, P. (2015). AB1213-HPR Nurse Sensitive Outcomes in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) – a Systematic Literature Review. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 74(Suppl), 1340.2-1340. https://doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2015-eular.4837

Background Rheumatology nursing is a practice specialty and contributes significantly to the management of patients with rheumatic musculoskeletal diseases (1, 2). Rheumatology nursing role development follows a worldwide tendency among healthcare pr... Read More about AB1213-HPR Nurse Sensitive Outcomes in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) – a Systematic Literature Review.

Donating breastmilk: Regulated and unregulated practices: A review of the ethical issues (2015)
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Dowling, S. (2015). Donating breastmilk: Regulated and unregulated practices: A review of the ethical issues. Maternal and Child Nutrition, 11(S2), 48-49. https://doi.org/10.1111/mcn.12238

Breastmilk is the optimal source of nutrition for babies although there are a range of situations in which breastfeeding is difficult, including prematurity. Human milk is donated in the UK in both regulated and unregulated ways. A network of human m... Read More about Donating breastmilk: Regulated and unregulated practices: A review of the ethical issues.

The impact of a pre-hospital critical care team on survival from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (2015)
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von Vopelius-Feldt, J., Coulter, A., & Benger, J. (2015). The impact of a pre-hospital critical care team on survival from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Resuscitation, 96, 290-295. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resuscitation.2015.08.020

© 2015 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. Aim: To assess the impact of a pre-hospital critical care team (CCT) on survival from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). Methods: We undertook a retrospective observational study, comparing OHCA patients attended by a... Read More about The impact of a pre-hospital critical care team on survival from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.

Which intravenous bronchodilators are being administered to children presenting with acute severe wheeze in the UK and Ireland? (2015)
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Powell, C. V., Lyttle, M. D., Morris, I., Lyttle, M., O'Sullivan, R., Sargant, N., …Powell, C. (2015). Which intravenous bronchodilators are being administered to children presenting with acute severe wheeze in the UK and Ireland?. Thorax, 70(1), 88-91. https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2014-206041

During a prospective 10-week assessment period, 3238 children aged 1-16 years presented with acute wheeze to Paediatric Emergency Research in the UK and Ireland centres. 110 (3.3%) received intravenous bronchodilators. Intravenous magnesium sulfate (... Read More about Which intravenous bronchodilators are being administered to children presenting with acute severe wheeze in the UK and Ireland?.

Developing and evaluating guidelines for patient and public involvement (PPI) in research (2015)
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Pollard, K., Donskoy, A. L., Moule, P., Donald, C., Lima, M., & Rice, C. (2015). Developing and evaluating guidelines for patient and public involvement (PPI) in research. International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, 28(2), 141-155. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJHCQA-01-2014-0001

© Emerald Group Publishing Limited Purpose – A growing literature reports the benefits and challenges of patient and public involvement (PPI) in research; nevertheless, understanding PPI in research design remains under-developed. The purpose of this... Read More about Developing and evaluating guidelines for patient and public involvement (PPI) in research.

Epidemiology, management and outcome of paracetamol poisoning in an inner city emergency department (2015)
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Benger, J., Caroll, R., Carroll, R., Benger, J., Bramley, K., Williams, S., …Gunnell, D. (2015). Epidemiology, management and outcome of paracetamol poisoning in an inner city emergency department. Emergency Medicine Journal, 32(2), 155-160. https://doi.org/10.1136/emermed-2013-202518

Background: Paracetamol poisoning accounts for just under half of all self-poisoning cases that present to hospitals in England. Treatment with acetylcysteine is routine, yet recommendations regarding its use vary internationally and have recently be... Read More about Epidemiology, management and outcome of paracetamol poisoning in an inner city emergency department.