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Understanding and working with suicide risk
(2015-07)Key learning points: Understanding risk factors associated with suicide; Considering a framework for understanding suicide; How to assess and manage suicide risk -
A usability study to test the effectiveness, efficiency and simplicity of a newly developed Internet-based Exercise-focused Health App for Lung cancer survivors (iEXHALE): Protocol paper
(2019-10)The Internet-based Exercise-focused Health App for Lung cancer survivors (iEXHALE) is a mobile web app being developed to provide lung cancer survivors with an algorithm-based, tailor-made, self-management programme to ... -
Using a modified Delphi methodology to gain consensus on the use of dressings in chronic wounds management
(2018-03-06)Objective:Managing chronic wounds is associated with a burden to patients, caregivers, health services and society and there is a lack of clarity regarding the role of dressings in improving outcomes. This study aimed to ... -
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) ... -
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 ... -
Validation of UK Biobank data for mental health outcomes: A pilot study using secondary care electronic health records
(2022-02)UK Biobank (UKB) is widely employed to investigate mental health disorders and related exposures; however, its applicability and relevance in a clinical setting and the assumptions required have not been sufficiently and ... -
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 ... -
Variation in spend on young mental health across Clinical Commissioning Groups in England: a cross-sectional observational study
(2019-08)Objectives To investigate whether the rate of spend on child and adolescent mental health is influenced by demand for other competing services in local commissioning decisions. Design Analysis of spend data by Clinical ... -
Vitruvian plot: a visualisation tool for multiple outcomes in network meta-analysis
(2022-05)Objective A network meta-analysis (NMA) usually assesses multiple outcomes across several treatment comparisons. The Vitruvian plot aims to facilitate communication of multiple outcomes from NMAs to patients and ... -
Waiting list eradication in secondary care psychology: Addressing a National Health Service blind spot
(2021)Objectives: Waiting times for secondary care psychological therapy remain a 'blind spot' in serious mental illness (SMI) provision, and their reduction is a priority within the National Health Service (NHS) Five Year Forward ... -
A web-based clinical decision tool to support treatment decision-making in psychiatry: a pilot focus group study with clinicians, patients and carers
(2017)Background Treatment decision tools have been developed in many fields of medicine, including psychiatry, however benefits for patients have not been sustained once the support is withdrawn. We have developed a web-based ... -
Wellbeing and burnout amongst medical students in England
(2019-11)The wellbeing of doctors in training is currently under the spotlight. The British Medical Association (BMA) has committed to understanding issues of wellbeing amongst medical students. Medical students from England were ... -
Wellbeing Wednesdays: nurse-led clinic for improving physical health care in a general adolescent inpatient unit
(2020-02)Background: Young people with mental illness are at high risk of physical health complications. Physical healthcare on a general adolescent inpatient unit is complex. Aim: To establish a wellbeing clinic to improve ... -
Wellbeing, psychiatric morbidity and psychological distress amongst medical students in Denmark
(2022-02)Medical students in Denmark undertake a demanding 6-year course which is generally during a critical age for the development of psychiatric disorder and harmful substance or alcohol use behaviours. Previous literature has ... -
The wh-questions of network meta-analyses
(2019-10)Currently, network meta-analyses (NMAs) are the only technique that allow us to compare and rank numerous treatments across trials. Evidence produced by NMAs relies on pooled data from both direct and indirect comparisons ... -
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, ... -
What proportion of patients at the end of life contact out-of-hours primary care? A data linkage study in Oxfordshire
(2018-04)Objectives: Out-of-hours (OOH) primary care services are a key element of community care at the end of life, yet there have been no previous attempts to describe the scope of this activity. We aimed to establish the ... -
When Deploying Predictive Algorithms, Are Summary Performance Measures Sufficient?
(2020-01)The last decade’s growth in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and statistical methods for high-dimensional data has driven a zeitgeist of prediction (or forecasting) in medicine and psychiatry. Algorithms for ... -
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 ... -
Why Health Care Professionals Belong to an Intensive Care Virtual Community: Qualitative Study
(2019-11)Background: Clinical practice variation that results in poor patient outcomes remains a pressing problem for health care organizations. Some evidence suggests that a key factor may be ineffective internal and professional ...