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Out-of-hours primary care end of life prescribing: a data linkage study
(2019-05)
Objectives: Out-of-hours (OOH) primary care services are contacted in the last 4 weeks of life by nearly 30% of all patients who die, but OOH palliative prescribing remains poorly understood. Our understanding of prescribing ...
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 ...
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 ...
Applying the triple bottom line of sustainability to healthcare research—a feasibility study
(2019-05)
The triple bottom line (TBL) of sustainability is an important emerging conceptual framework which considers the combined economic, environmental and social impacts of an activity. Despite its clear relevance to the ...
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 ...
Paediatric enteral feeding at home: an analysis of patient safety incidents
(2019-06)
Aims To describe the nature and causes of patient
safety incidents relating to care at home for children with
enteral feeding devices.
Methods We analysed incident data relating to
paediatric nasogastric, gastrostomy ...