Conducting Research: Recent submissions
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Reducing waste in the NHS: an overview of the literature and challenges for the nursing profession
(2016-04-20)Waste in the NHS is estimated to account for 20% of health expenditure. This article examines the literature on reducing waste, analyses some approaches to waste reduction, and identifies the role that nurses and other ... -
Managing resources and reducing waste in healthcare settings
(2015-12)The NHS is under pressure to increase its effectiveness and productivity. Nurses are tasked with delivering effective and efficient care, as well as improving patient safety, experiences and results. The reduction of ... -
Adding value, reducing research waste, the role of the NHS research and development management community
(2018-02-23)Purpose – Research suggests that 85 per cent of health research is avoidably wasted. The research and development management community has an important role in the research process and can contribute to improving the ... -
Network meta-analysis of antidepressants – Authors' reply
(2018-09-22)Comments on issues raised with Cipriani et al, 'Comparative efficacy and acceptability of 21 antidepressant drugs for the acute treatment of adults with major depressive disorder: a systematic review and network meta-analysis' ... -
Living network meta-analysis compared with pairwise meta-analysis in comparative effectiveness research: empirical study
(2018-02-28)Objective:To examine whether the continuous updating of networks of prospectively planned randomised controlled trials (RCTs) (“living” network meta-analysis) provides strong evidence against the null hypothesis in comparative ... -
Patient and public involvement in reducing health and care research waste
(2018-01-08)Background: Eighty five per cent of health research expenditure is potentially wasted due to failure to publish research, unclear reporting of research that is published, and the failure of new research studies to ... -
Successful recruitment to trials: findings from the SCIMITAR+ Trial
(2018-01-19)Background: Randomised controlled trials (RCT) can struggle to recruit to target on time. This is especially the case with hard to reach populations such as those with severe mental ill health. The SCIMITAR+ trial, a trial ... -
Sham sleep feedback delivered via actigraphy biases daytime symptom reports in people with insomnia: Implications for insomnia disorder and wearable devices
(2018-07)This study investigated whether providing sham feedback about sleep to individuals with insomnia influenced daytime symptom reports, sleep‐related attentional bias and psychomotor vigilance. Sixty‐three participants meeting ... -
Impact of placebo arms on outcomes in antidepressant trials: systematic review and meta-regression analysis
(2018-06)There is debate in the literature as to whether inclusion of a placebo arm may alter characteristics of antidepressant trials. However, previous research has focused on response rates of various antidepressants on average ...
