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Exploration, development, and validation of patient-reported outcomes in antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis using the OMERACT process (2015)
Journal Article
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.

Postural modification to the standard Valsalva manoeuvre for emergency treatment of supraventricular tachycardias (REVERT): A randomised controlled trial (2015)
Journal Article
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.

Evaluating a methodology for providing individualised feedback on quality of life and its importance in community and primary care, using the WHOQOL-BREF (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Llewellyn, A., & Skevington, S. (2015, October). Evaluating a methodology for providing individualised feedback on quality of life and its importance in community and primary care, using the WHOQOL-BREF. Poster presented at International Society for Quality of Life Research 22nd Annual Conference, Vancouver, Canada

AIMS Research suggests that wellbeing is at its lowest when individuals’ quality of life (QoL) dimensions are rated poor and also very important. We aimed to find out how people evaluated guided individualised feedback when a graphical profile of su... Read More about Evaluating a methodology for providing individualised feedback on quality of life and its importance in community and primary care, using the WHOQOL-BREF.

The association between the iciq-luts & the iciq-bladder diary in assessing luts (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Abdelmoteleb, H., Kamel, M., Cotterill, N., & Hashim, H. (2015, October). The association between the iciq-luts & the iciq-bladder diary in assessing luts. Presented at International Continence Society Annual Meeting 2015, Montreal, Canada

The bladder diary (BD) provides an objective non-invasive method of investigating lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) while symptom questionnaires, such as the ICIQ-MLUTS (1) and ICIQ-FLUTS (2) for males and females respectively, provide a subjective... Read More about The association between the iciq-luts & the iciq-bladder diary in assessing luts.

Effective interprofessional simulation training for medical and midwifery students (2015)
Journal Article
Edwards, S. E., Platt, S., Lenguerrand, E., Winter, C., Mears, J., Davis, S., …Siassakos, D. (2015). Effective interprofessional simulation training for medical and midwifery students. BMJ Simulation & Technology Enhanced Learning, 1(3), 87-93. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjstel-2015-000022

© Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. Introduction Good interprofessional teamworking is essential for high quality, efficient and safe clinical care. Undergraduate interprofessional training has been advocated for many years to improve in... Read More about Effective interprofessional simulation training for medical and midwifery students.

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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

Lessons learned from the AFLY5 RCT process evaluation: Implications for the design of physical activity and nutrition interventions in schools Health behavior, health promotion and society (2015)
Journal Article
Jago, R., Rawlins, E., Kipping, R. R., Wells, S., Chittleborough, C., Peters, T. J., …Campbell, R. (2015). Lessons learned from the AFLY5 RCT process evaluation: Implications for the design of physical activity and nutrition interventions in schools Health behavior, health promotion and society. BMC Public Health, 15(1), 946. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-015-2293-1

© 2015 Jago et al. Background: Systematic reviews have highlighted that school-based diet and physical activity (PA) interventions have had limited effects. This study used qualitative methods to examine how the effectiveness of future primary (eleme... Read More about Lessons learned from the AFLY5 RCT process evaluation: Implications for the design of physical activity and nutrition interventions in schools Health behavior, health promotion and society.

Patient education in rheumatoid arthritis: is the needs-based approach the way forward? (2015)
Journal Article
Ndosi, M., & Adebajo, A. (2015). Patient education in rheumatoid arthritis: is the needs-based approach the way forward?. Clinical Rheumatology, 34(11), 1827-1829. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10067-015-3063-2

In recent years, the assessment of patients’ needs has become an important area of research for several reasons; expenditure on healthcare has risen faster than the cost increases reported in other sectors of the economy, and medical advances and dem... Read More about Patient education in rheumatoid arthritis: is the needs-based approach the way forward?.

Evaluating a new methodology for providing individualized feedback in healthcare on quality of life and its importance, using the WHOQOL-BREF in a community population (2015)
Journal Article
Skevington, S. M., Llewellyn, A. M., Llewellyn, A., & Skevington, S. (2016). Evaluating a new methodology for providing individualized feedback in healthcare on quality of life and its importance, using the WHOQOL-BREF in a community population. Quality of Life Research, 25(3), 605-614. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-015-1132-2

© 2015, Springer International Publishing Switzerland. Purpose: We conducted an evaluation to find out how a novel quality of life (QoL) intervention containing guided individualized feedback was appraised. The importance of QoL was matched with QoL... Read More about Evaluating a new methodology for providing individualized feedback in healthcare on quality of life and its importance, using the WHOQOL-BREF in a community population.

Can a PRO be adequate without assessing quality of life? (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Cotterill, N., & Tubaro, A. (2015, September). Can a PRO be adequate without assessing quality of life?. Presented at International Consultation on Incontinence - Research Society Annual Meeting 2015, Bristol, UK

A think tank discussion regarding the adequacy of patient reported outcomes when quality of life is excluded.

Using simulation pedagogy in nursing to enhance learning through assessment (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Berragan, E., Short, H., & Grindrod, E. (2015, September). Using simulation pedagogy in nursing to enhance learning through assessment. Paper presented at NET2015, Cambridge

Engagement with professional practice learning introduced through simulation, which includes peer and formative assessment and builds towards summative assessment in clinical practice, is central to the undergraduate nursing curriculum at UWE and at... Read More about Using simulation pedagogy in nursing to enhance learning through assessment.

Clinical grading: A pilot study to evaluate the implementation and effectiveness of mentor and student preparation for clinical grading (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Lockyer, L., James, J., Holman, A., Horrocks, S., & Crabtree, T. (2015, September). Clinical grading: A pilot study to evaluate the implementation and effectiveness of mentor and student preparation for clinical grading. Paper presented at NET2015, Cambridge, UK

Background Clinical grading is one approach to assuring newly registered nurses have the knowledge and skills to provide safe and competent nursing care; that offers employers the chance to differentiate between newly qualified nurses’ clinical abil... Read More about Clinical grading: A pilot study to evaluate the implementation and effectiveness of mentor and student preparation for clinical grading.

Medication decision making and patient outcomes in GP, nurse and pharmacist prescriber consultations (2015)
Journal Article
Weiss, M. C., Platt, J., Riley, R., Chewning, B., Taylor, G., Horrocks, S., & Taylor, A. (2015). Medication decision making and patient outcomes in GP, nurse and pharmacist prescriber consultations. Primary Health Care Research and Development, 16(5), 513-527. https://doi.org/10.1017/S146342361400053X

UNLABELLED: Aim The aims of this study were twofold: (a) to explore whether specific components of shared decision making were present in consultations involving nurse prescribers (NPs), pharmacist prescribers (PPs) and general practitioners (GPs) an... Read More about Medication decision making and patient outcomes in GP, nurse and pharmacist prescriber consultations.

The educational needs of people with systemic sclerosis: a cross-sectional study using the Dutch version of the Educational Needs Assessment Tool (D-ENAT) (2015)
Journal Article
Meesters, J. J., Vliet Vlieland, T. P., Schouffoer, A., Ndosi, M. E., Vliet Vlieland, T. P. M., & Meesters, J. J. L. (2016). The educational needs of people with systemic sclerosis: a cross-sectional study using the Dutch version of the Educational Needs Assessment Tool (D-ENAT). Rheumatology International, 36(2), 289-294. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00296-015-3352-8

© 2015, The Author(s). The Dutch Educational Needs Assessment Tool (D-ENAT) systematically assesses educational needs of patients with rheumatic diseases. The present study aims to describe the educational needs of Dutch patients with systemic sclero... Read More about The educational needs of people with systemic sclerosis: a cross-sectional study using the Dutch version of the Educational Needs Assessment Tool (D-ENAT).

The views of patients, mentors and adult field nursing students on patients' participation in student nurse assessment in practice (2015)
Journal Article
McMahon-Parkes, K., Chapman, L., & James, J. (2016). The views of patients, mentors and adult field nursing students on patients' participation in student nurse assessment in practice. Nurse Education in Practice, 16(1), 202-208. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nepr.2015.08.007

© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. In recent years, changes to undergraduate nursing curricula in the United Kingdom have been coupled with increasing expectations that service users be involved in assessment of student nurses. These factors lead to the developmen... Read More about The views of patients, mentors and adult field nursing students on patients' participation in student nurse assessment in practice.

Using systematic reviews to inform nursing practice (2015)
Journal Article
Pryce-Miller, M. (2015). Using systematic reviews to inform nursing practice. Nursing Standard, 29(52), 52-60. https://doi.org/10.7748/ns.29.52.52.e9296

Health care is constantly being reformed to improve the safety and quality of services, and nurses are integral to the provision of this safety and quality. As a result of concerns raised by recent high-profile care failings, there is an expectation... Read More about Using systematic reviews to inform nursing practice.

Importance of public health in low- and middle- income countries (2015)
Book Chapter
Pant, P. R., van Teijlingen, E., & Simkhada, P. (2015). Importance of public health in low- and middle- income countries. In K. Vaidya (Ed.), Public Health for the Curious: Why Study Public Health?. Canberra: The Curious Academic Publishing

One might ask you questions on why should we care about health of other people, especially that of other countries? Why should global health matter in courses run in developed countries? Why should global health matter those live in developed countri... Read More about Importance of public health in low- and middle- income countries.

Evaluation of an intervention to reduce tidal volumes in ventilated ICU patients (2015)
Journal Article
Bourdeaux, C. P., Birnie, K., Trickey, A., Thomas, M. J., Sterne, J., Donovan, J. L., …Gould, T. H. (2015). Evaluation of an intervention to reduce tidal volumes in ventilated ICU patients. British Journal of Anaesthesia, 115(2), 244-251. https://doi.org/10.1093/bja/aev110

Background There is considerable evidence that the use of tidal volumes < 6 ml kg−1 predicted body weight (PBW) reduces mortality in mechanically ventilated patients. We evaluated the effectiveness of using a large screen displaying delivered tidal... Read More about Evaluation of an intervention to reduce tidal volumes in ventilated ICU patients.

Investigating reports of complex regional pain syndrome: An analysis of HPV-16/18-adjuvanted vaccine post-licensure data (2015)
Journal Article
Huygen, F., Verschueren, K., McCabe, C., Stegmann, J. U., Zima, J., Mahaux, O., …Angelo, M. (2015). Investigating reports of complex regional pain syndrome: An analysis of HPV-16/18-adjuvanted vaccine post-licensure data. EBioMedicine, 2(9), 1114-1121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ebiom.2015.07.003

© 2015. Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) is a chronic pain disorder that typically follows trauma or surgery. Suspected CRPS reported after vaccination with human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines led to temporary suspension of proactive recommendat... Read More about Investigating reports of complex regional pain syndrome: An analysis of HPV-16/18-adjuvanted vaccine post-licensure data.