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Improving the rehabilitation of older people after emergency hospital admission
(2018-05)
Purpose: Older adults are at risk of functional decline during emergency hospital admissions. This review aims to understand which exercise-based interventions are effective in improving function for older adults who ...
Impact of person-centred care training and person-centred activities on quality of life, agitation, and antipsychotic use in people with dementia living in nursing homes: A cluster-randomised controlled trial
(2018-02-06)
Agitation is a common, challenging symptom affecting large numbers of people with dementia and impacting on quality of life (QoL). There is an urgent need for evidence-based, cost-effective psychosocial interventions to ...
The Costs of Healthcare in Prison and Custody: Systematic Review of Current Estimates and Proposed Guidelines for Future Reporting
(2018-12)
We aimed to review prison healthcare expenditure internationally by systematically reviewing healthcare spending on prisoners worldwide, examine comparability between countries, and develop guidelines to improve reporting.
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A qualitative analysis of trainer/coach experiences of changing care home practice in the Well-being and Health in Dementia randomised control trial
(2018-04-26)
Objectives This study explored the experiences of a range of health and social care professionals employed in the role of trainer/coaches to support care home staff to implement a psychosocial intervention for residents ...
Mechanisms of implementing public health interventions: a pooled causal mediation analysis of randomised trials.
(2018-03)
The World Health Organization recommends that nations implement evidence-based nutritional guidelines and policies in settings such as schools and childcare services to improve public health nutrition. Understanding the ...
“We should see her like part of the team”: an investigation into care home staff’s experiences of being part of an RCT of a complex psychosocial intervention
(2018-12)
To contribute to improvements in the design and delivery of intervention research in care homes by adopting a collaborative approach that listens to the experiences of care home staff who had participated in a clinical ...
Sepsis recognition tools in acute ambulatory care: associations with process of care and clinical outcomes in a service evaluation of an Emergency Multidisciplinary Unit in Oxfordshire
(2018-04)
Objective: To assess the performance of currently available sepsis recognition tools in patients referred to a community-based acute ambulatory care unit.
Design: Service evaluation of consecutive patients over a 4-month ...
Newly qualified health visitor: Mitigating the effects of loneliness
(2018-06-20)
Mental health problems are prevalent in many of the families on a health visitor's caseload and a common factor linking these is loneliness.
In-patient treatment in functional and sectorised care: patient satisfaction and length of stay
(2018-02)
Background: Debate exists as to whether functional care, in which different psychiatrists are responsible for in- and out-patient care, leads to better in-patient treatment as compared with sectorised care, in which the ...