Search
Now showing items 21-30 of 44
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 ...
Reducing attendance at trauma clinics by providing first-point-of-contact treatment
(2019-09-02)
In 2016, the urgent and ambulatory care service in Oxfordshire formed part of a cross-organisational partnership working group. The group consisted of Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust community minor injury units (MIUs) ...
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 ...
Newly qualified health visitor: Discussing vaccinations with families through health visiting contacts
(2019-10)
Bethany Boddy considers the important role health visitors have in discussing vaccinations with families through mandated contacts and sharing evidence-based research to promote vaccination uptake.
Implementing a digital clinical decision support tool for side effects of antipsychotics: a focus group study
(2019-04-15)
In medicine, algorithms can inform treatment decisions by combining the most up-to-date evidence about side effect profiles of medications, which are comparable in efficacy. Their use provides opportunities for improved ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Legal capacity and the right to decide: WHO QualityRights core training: mental health and social services: course guide
(2019)
Ensuring mental health and well-being has become a worldwide imperative and an important target of the Sustainable Development Goals.
But in all countries around the world, our response has been woefully insufficient, and ...