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Recent Submissions
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Ethical Issues in Consent for the Re-use of Data in Health Data Platforms
(2020-12)Data platforms represent a new paradigm for carrying out health research. In the platform model, datasets are pooled for remote access and analysis, so novel insights for developing better stratified and / or personalised ... -
Bitesized Teaching: educational futures for mental health training
(2020-12)Background/Aims Bitesized Teaching is an initiative that has worked successfully in Yorkshire and Derbyshire Mental Health Services for the last 5 years. It traditionally involves the delivery of high-impact, 10-minute ... -
Sustain and reinforce transition from child to adult mental health care in Switzerland: study protocol
(2020-11)A suboptimal transition in mental health care affects a young person’s wellbeing and health in the long run. We aim to identify a large cohort of young people approaching the transition boundary between child and adolescent ... -
A nationwide initiative to increase nursing and midwifery research leadership: overview of year one programme development, implementation and evaluation
(2020-11)Aims and objectives To report on the development, implementation and evaluation of the first year of the National Institute for Health Research 70@70 Senior Nurse Research Leader Programme. Background Internationally, ... -
Building improvement capacity in mental health services
(2020-10)Improving the delivery of existing treatment may often bring much greater benefits than developing new treatments and technologies. To achieve this, clinical teams and organisations need to build capacity for sustained and ... -
Newly qualified health visitor: Working with families to support breastfeeding
(2020-11)Bethany Boddy explores the barriers to breastfeeding in the UK and how practitioners can promote breastfeeding within health visitor practice -
An efficient representation of chronological events in medical texts
(2020-10)In this work we addressed the problem of capturing sequential information contained in longitudinal electronic health records (EHRs). Clinical notes, which is a particular type of EHR data, are a rich source of information ... -
Informing National Health Service patients about participation in clinical research: A comparison of opt-in and opt-out approaches across the United Kingdom
(2020-11)Objective: Recruitment to clinical research in the National Health Service remains challenging. One barrier is accessing patients to discuss research participation. Two general approaches are used in the United Kingdom ... -
Aiding staff wellbeing and resilience during the coronavirus pandemic
(2020-09)Wellbeing, knowledge and effective management are vital for healthcare staff, particularly at times of extreme stress, as with the coronavirus pandemic. This article reports on a wellbeing and resilience session, delivered ... -
Producing and using timely comparative evidence on drugs: lessons from clinical trials for covid-19
(2020-10)Since the early days of the novel coronavirus outbreak, a record number of studies have been launched to test several repurposed and new medicines as potential treatments for covid-19 An analysis by the news organisation ... -
Information Extraction from Swedish Medical Prescriptions with Sig-Transformer Encoder
(2020-10)Relying on large pretrained language models such as Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) for encoding and adding a simple prediction layer has led to impressive performance in many clinical natural ... -
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 ...
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