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Data-Driven Identification of Unusual Prescribing Behavior: Analysis and Use of an Interactive Data Tool Using 6 Months of Primary Care Data From 6500 Practices in England
(2023-04)Background: Approaches to addressing unwarranted variation in health care service delivery have traditionally relied on the prospective identification of activities and outcomes, based on a hypothesis, with subsequent ... -
Dealing with categorical risk data when extracting data for meta-analysis
(2021-01)A common problem in meta-analysis of observational studies arises when the exposure variable is categorical rather than continuous. These data may be referred to as quantile or quintile data (depending on the number of ... -
Debate: If not us, then who?
(2022-02)Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists have stressful jobs and huge caseloads, and are ideally placed to play an influential and meaningful role in responding to 'the biggest global health threat of the 21st Century': the ... -
Defining the relationship between arm and leg blood pressure readings: a systematic review and meta-analysis
(2019-04)Objectives: To define the relationship between arm and leg blood pressure (BP) to inform the interpretation of leg BP readings in routine clinical practice where arm readings are not available. Methods: Systematic review ... -
Delineating between-subject heterogeneity in alpha networks with Spatio-Spectral Eigenmodes
(2021-10)Between subject variability in the spatial and spectral structure of oscillatory networks can be highly informative but poses a considerable analytic challenge. Here, we describe a data-driven modal decomposition of a ... -
Delivering CBT-E In an Online Group Format: A Pilot Study in a Child and Adolescent Eating Disorder Service
(2021-10)Background: The increased prevalence of eating disorders during the COVID-19 pandemic has placed services for children and adolescents under immense pressure. The high number of people at medical risk has led to longer ... -
Delivering cognitive therapy for adolescent social anxiety disorder in NHS CAMHS: a qualitative analysis of the experiences of young people, their parents and clinicians-in-training
(2021-03)Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is common. It usually starts in adolescence, and without treatment can disrupt key developmental milestones. Existing generic treatments are less effective for young people with SAD than with ... -
Delivering remote therapy during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study with service users accessing a community personality disorder service
(2022-10)Purpose The purpose of this study is to qualitatively explore the views and opinions of service users accessing remote therapy through a community forensic personality disorder service during the COVID-19 pandemic. Des ... -
Delivering training during pandemic times and beyond
(2021-03)During the COVID-19 pandemic, many face-to-face training courses are being redesigned to be delivered virtually. In the UK, the Sexually Transmitted Infection Foundation (STIF) Course is traditionally a 2-day training ... -
Delivering wound care during the pandemic
(2021-06)This is a tissue viability nurse's perspective on how we have run our service during the COVID-19 pandemic. Although there have been challenges, this article focuses on how the pandemic has created opportunities for the ... -
Demystifying the pathway of assessment and treatment for bipolar disorder – utilising co-production and algorithms to personalise the approach
(2021-06)Aims: To develop an evidence based, patient centred treatment pathway for people experiencing symptoms of bipolar disorder (BD), modifiable to include local resources. The approach and resources collated here will ... -
Deprescribing antihypertensives in patients with multimorbidity
(2020-10)Deprescribing preventative medications such as antihypertensives may reduce adverse events in some older adults, leading to improved quality of life. The Optimising Treatment for Mild Systolic Hypertension in the ... -
Depression and anxiety disorders during the COVID-19 pandemic: knowns and unknowns
(2021-10)The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a toll on people's mental health. Yet, the global extent of this impact remains largely unknown. By leveraging the best available data from surveys around the world with measurements of ... -
Deriving information from missing data: implications for mood prediction
(2020-06)The availability of mobile technologies has enabled the efficient collection prospective longitudinal, ecologically valid self-reported mood data from psychiatric patients. These data streams have potential for improving ... -
Described practices for assessing fluid resuscitation in acute hospital care
(2019-09)Fluid resuscitation is a widely‐used treatment in acute and emergency medicine, however, the process used to perform a fluid assessment has never been studied. This qualitative study explored how acute physicians describe ... -
A descriptive study of mental health and burnout among Nigerian medical students
(2021-11)Increasing attention is being paid to medical students’ mental wellbeing globally due in part to their exposure to stressors inherent in medical education and the numerous reports of elevated rates of mental health conditions ... -
Determination of energy intake and dietary habits and their relationship with physical activity levels and healthy lifestyle behaviours of primary education and pre-service teachers
(2022-03)Participation in physical activity (PA) from a young age helps to build the foundation for a healthy life in the future. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships between energy intake, dietary habits, ... -
Developing a guided imagery intervention in consultation with service users
(2019-12)Guided imagery interventions have a range of applications to affect emotion, thought and behaviour. They may be effectively used by staff with minimal training and are simple and quick to use. Service user involvement ... -
Developing a virtual reality environment for educational and therapeutic application to investigate psychological reactivity to bullying
(2023-07)Understanding how bullying victimisation influences cognitive and emotional processes may help to direct early intervention to prevent the development of psychopathology. In a convenience sample of 67 female adolescents, ... -
Developing an automated VR cognitive treatment for psychosis: gameChange VR therapy
(2020-04)The automated delivery of psychological treatment using virtual reality (VR) has the potential to revolutionise patient access to evidence-based care. VR creates immersive, interactive computer simulations, which elicit ...