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Barriers and facilitators to implementing dementia care mapping in care homes: results from the DCM™ EPIC trial process evaluation
(2019-02)Background: Psychosocial person-centred interventions are considered best practice for addressing complex behaviours and care needs such as agitation and anxiety, and for improving the quality of life of people with ... -
Barriers and incentives to recruitment in mental health clinical trials
(2019-05)Research provides valuable information that improves patients’ outcomes and should inform clinical decision-making.1 There are many research methodologies2 and randomised controlled trials (RCTs) are at the top of the ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Burden of cancer trial participation: A qualitative sub-study of the INTERIM feasibility RCT
(2021-11)A qualitative sub-study was carried out within a larger phase II feasibility trial, to identify and describe the burden experienced by advanced melanoma patients participating in a clinical trial and the factors affecting ... -
Can rapid approaches to qualitative analysis deliver timely, valid findings to clinical leaders? A mixed methods study comparing rapid and thematic analysis
(2018-08)Objectives: This study compares rapid and traditional analyses of a UK health service evaluation dataset to explore differences in researcher time and consistency of outputs. Design: Mixed methods study, quantitatively ... -
Care needs of people with dementia in the peri-operative environment: A systematic review
(2018-11)The care of people with dementia within the hospital setting is challenging for healthcare professionals. Hospital design and services are not optimized for people with dementia, owing to the lack of preparation of healthcare ... -
Carers’ experiences of involuntary admission under mental health legislation: systematic review and qualitative meta-synthesis
(2020-02)Carers are key providers of care and support to mental health patients and mental health policies consistently mandate carer involvement. Understanding carers’ experiences of and views about assessment for involuntary ... -
Characteristics of patients expressing an interest in ketamine treatment: results of an online survey
(2018-04)Off-label ketamine treatment has shown acute antidepressant effects that offer hope for patients with therapy-resistant depression. However, its potential for integration into treatment algorithms is controversial, not ... -
Characteristics of people with pressure ulcers using one year's routinely collected data in a defined diverse community
(2019-09)Objective:To determine if meaningful patient characteristics pertaining to pressure ulcers (PU) can be derived from routinely collected community health data. Methods: A retrospective cohort analysis of records was carried ... -
Characteristics of young people accessing recently implemented Community Forensic Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (F:CAMHS) in England: insights from national service activity data
(2021-09)Children and young people in contact with forensic child and adolescent mental health services present with more complex needs than young people in the general population. Recent policy in child and adolescent mental health ... -
Clinician-targeted interventions to improve advance care planning in heart failure: a systematic review and meta-analysis
(2019-05)Objective Advance care planning (ACP) is widely advocated to contribute to better outcomes for patients suffering from heart failure. But clinicians appear hesitant to engage with ACP. Our aim was to identify interventions ... -
Closing the circle: a key collaborative opportunity for general practice and psychiatry
(2021-11)Two of the authors were general practitioners (GPs) in the 1980s, when there was much interest in consultation, stimulated by the psychoanalyst Michael Balint. Around one in five psychiatrists worked in consultation ... -
Co-Producing an Organisation's Quality Improvement Method: No Decision about Me, without Me
(2022-12)This multi-authored book provides expert descriptions of Lean methods and their application in healthcare, written by the people who developed and tested the methods in healthcare settings.Each chapter brings together a ... -
Co-producing Human and Animal Experimental Subjects: Exploring the Views of UK COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Participants on Animal Testing
(2021-11)Preclinical (animal) testing and human testing of drugs and vaccines are rarely considered by social scientists side by side. Where this is done, it is typically for theoretically exploring the ethics of the two situations ... -
Co-Production: An Ethical Model for Mental Health Research?
(2019-07)Commentary arguing for involving people with a diagnosis of mental health disorders and/or their caregivers as co-researchers in mental health research. -
‘Coaching and Peer Assisted Learning’ (C‐PAL) ‐The mental health nursing student experience: A qualitative evaluation
(2018)Introduction: This paper presents findings from a study that evaluated mental health nursing students’ experience of a team mentoring model called Coaching and Peer Assisted Learning (C‐PAL). At present there are no ... -
Collecting self-report research data with people with dementia within care home clinical trials: Benefits, challenges and best practice
(2019-08)One-third of people with dementia live in care home settings and in order to deliver better evidence-based care, robust research including clinical trials is required. Concerns have been raised by researchers about the ... -
Combining Pharmacological and Nonpharmacological Interventions in Network Meta-analysis in Psychiatry
(2019-04)Network meta-analyses (NMAs) assess the comparative associations of 2 or more interventions even if they have not been compared in a randomized clinical trial.1 The validity of NMAs is founded on the assumption of transitivity ...