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Perceptions and experiences of employee mental health support: a cross-sectional survey of UK ambulance service staff
(2020-09)Background Mental ill health among ambulance staff is widespread. Evidence suggests that, with the right support, staff experiencing mental ill health can continue to work, symptom severity can be reduced and suicide ... -
Extraction of CPRD additional clinical data using R [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]
(2020-09)The Clinical Practice Research Datalink is a nation-wide database of primary healthcare data records in England (UK) linked to several health services. A visit to a health practitioner can result in the digital storing of ... -
The Role of Laboratory Medicine in Value-Based Healthcare
(2020-09)Background The innovation pathway by which a newly discovered biomarker is developed into a medical test and used in routine clinical practice comprises a number of different processes split between 2 phases. The first ... -
Where Is the Value of Laboratory Medicine and How Do You Unlock It?
(2020-09)The innovation pathway by which a newly discovered biomarker is developed into a medical test and used in routine clinical practice comprises a number of different processes split between 2 phases. The first follows on ... -
Pharmaceutical industry, academia and people with experience of mental illness as partners in research: a need for ethical guidance [version 1; peer review: 1 not approved]
(2020-08)Background: Several social and policy developments have led to research partnerships in mental health research, which depart from traditional research models. One form of such partnerships is among research institutions, ... -
Ethical challenges in Research, Industry and People Partnerships in mental health
(2020-08)Advancements in mental health research, social changes and policy developments have led to the emergence of new forms of research partnerships, which bring together research institutions, public companies and lay people ... -
The influence of perceived accessibility and expertise of healthcare professionals, and service austerity, on mothers' decision-making
(2020-07)Mothers often make key decisions regarding their children's health. They hold core beliefs and attitudes towards healthcare providers, relying on healthcare services to provide sup-port, advice and reassurance. It is crucial ... -
Gamifying Bioethics: A Case Study of Co-Designing Empirical Tools with Adolescents
(2020-07)Research in bioethics largely relies on interviews and surveys, which engage participants with scenarios that are distal in time and place to an actual situation. However, context and embodiment are relevant to moral ... -
Using local communities to establish geographical boundaries for case studies
(2019-02)Background Case studies are widely used in the social sciences to explore complex phenomena in natural settings. Applying boundaries is vital to ensure cases are easily identifiable and similar enough to be treated as ... -
Paediatric contacts with the UK out-of-hours primary care service and contact outcomes: a regional service evaluation
(2020-07)Background Demand on hospital emergency departments for paediatric problems is increasing. However, the volume and nature of paediatric health demands placed on other parts of the urgent care system have not been explored. ... -
10 minutes with Kelly Garside, Team Manager, Community Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service, Oxford Health Foundation Trust
(2020-07)Kelly Garside is a registered mental health nurse who graduated with Distinction in a Higher Diploma in Mental Health Nursing in 1997 and obtained her BSc (Hons) in 1998, both at Buckinghamshire University (Brunel). She ... -
Using an implementation science approach to implement and evaluate patient-reported outcome measures (PROM) initiatives in routine care settings
(2020-07)Purpose Patient-reported outcome and experience measures (PROMs/PREMs) are well established in research for many health conditions, but barriers persist for implementing them in routine care. Implementation science (IS) ... -
Building improvement capability in frontline staff: a UK perspective
(2020-06)This paper gives a narrative account of how the Oxford Healthcare Improvement Centre has embedded continuous quality improvement (CQI) across both mental health and community services in Oxford, UK. The aim of the centre ... -
An invasive group A streptococcal infection outbreak: a community nursing experience
(2020-07)Invasive group A streptococcus (iGAS) can cause serious infections. Between January and July 2018, seven patients, living in the same geographical area and receiving district nursing care for wound management, were identified ... -
The Kilim plot: A tool for visualizing network meta‐analysis results for multiple outcomes
(2020-06)Network meta‐analysis (NMA) can be used to compare multiple competing treatments for the same disease. In practice, usually a range of outcomes is of interest. As the number of outcomes increases, summarizing results from ... -
What is the return on investment for laboratory medicine? The antidote to silo budgeting in diagnostics
(2020-06)Procuring and managing diagnostic services, such as laboratory medicine, is generally based on cost and activity. Improving productivity of laboratory services therefore tends to focus on reducing the cost per test. However, ... -
Measuring the benefits of the integration of health and social care: qualitative interviews with professional stakeholders and patient representatives
(2020-06)Integrated care has the potential to ease the increasing pressures faced by health and social care systems, however, challenges around measuring the benefits for providers, patients, and service users remain. This paper ... -
Making Mesothelioma Patient Research Happen: The United Kingdom Experience
(2020-06)In just a few years, the collaboration between an expert team of nurses, a charity committed to patients, the NHS, and successful health academics has resulted in an excellent, clinically relevant portfolio of research. ... -
The prognostic value of national early warning scores (NEWS) during transfer of care from community settings to hospital: a retrospective service evaluation
(2020-06)Background The National Early Warning Score (NEWS) calculated from physiological observations provides a simple away to identify and respond to the deteriorating patient. There is increasing interest in the application of ... -
The value of nurse mentoring relationships: Lessons learnt from a work‐based resilience enhancement programme for nurses working in the forensic setting
(2020-06)This study aimed to evaluate a mento ring programme embedded in a work-based personal resilience enhancement intervention for forensic nurses. This qualitative study formed part of a wider mixed-methods study that aimed ...
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