Browsing Conducting Research by Issue Date
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Managing resources and reducing waste in healthcare settings
(2015-12)The NHS is under pressure to increase its effectiveness and productivity. Nurses are tasked with delivering effective and efficient care, as well as improving patient safety, experiences and results. The reduction of ... -
Difficult conversations? Engaging patients in reducing waste in health care
(2016)Purpose – Reducing waste in health care can result in savings that could be used to meet the projected shortfall in NHS funding or to meet the care needs of vulnerable groups. Patients and their families can contribute ... -
Reducing waste in the NHS: an overview of the literature and challenges for the nursing profession
(2016-04-20)Waste in the NHS is estimated to account for 20% of health expenditure. This article examines the literature on reducing waste, analyses some approaches to waste reduction, and identifies the role that nurses and other ... -
Patient and public involvement in reducing health and care research waste
(2018-01-08)Background: Eighty five per cent of health research expenditure is potentially wasted due to failure to publish research, unclear reporting of research that is published, and the failure of new research studies to ... -
Successful recruitment to trials: findings from the SCIMITAR+ Trial
(2018-01-19)Background: Randomised controlled trials (RCT) can struggle to recruit to target on time. This is especially the case with hard to reach populations such as those with severe mental ill health. The SCIMITAR+ trial, a trial ... -
Adding value, reducing research waste, the role of the NHS research and development management community
(2018-02-23)Purpose – Research suggests that 85 per cent of health research is avoidably wasted. The research and development management community has an important role in the research process and can contribute to improving the ... -
Living network meta-analysis compared with pairwise meta-analysis in comparative effectiveness research: empirical study
(2018-02-28)Objective:To examine whether the continuous updating of networks of prospectively planned randomised controlled trials (RCTs) (“living” network meta-analysis) provides strong evidence against the null hypothesis in comparative ... -
Impact of placebo arms on outcomes in antidepressant trials: systematic review and meta-regression analysis
(2018-06)There is debate in the literature as to whether inclusion of a placebo arm may alter characteristics of antidepressant trials. However, previous research has focused on response rates of various antidepressants on average ... -
Sham sleep feedback delivered via actigraphy biases daytime symptom reports in people with insomnia: Implications for insomnia disorder and wearable devices
(2018-07)This study investigated whether providing sham feedback about sleep to individuals with insomnia influenced daytime symptom reports, sleep‐related attentional bias and psychomotor vigilance. Sixty‐three participants meeting ... -
Qualitative study of barriers to clinical trial retention in adults with recently diagnosed type 1 diabetes
(2018-07)Objectives: Regular physical exercise may preserve β cell function in newly diagnosed adults with type 1 diabetes (T1D). However, clinical trials to test this theory require the recruitment and retention of adults with ... -
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 ... -
Network meta-analysis of antidepressants – Authors' reply
(2018-09-22)Comments on issues raised with Cipriani et al, 'Comparative efficacy and acceptability of 21 antidepressant drugs for the acute treatment of adults with major depressive disorder: a systematic review and network meta-analysis' ... -
Mixed effects approach to the analysis of the stepped wedge cluster randomised trial—Investigating the confounding effect of time through simulation
(2018-12)A stepped wedge cluster randomised trial (SWCRT) is a multicentred study which allows an intervention to be rolled out at sites in a random order. Once the intervention is initiated at a site, all participants within that ... -
R package to identify sudden gains
(PsyArXiv, 2019)Sudden gains are large and stable changes on an outcome variable between consecutive measurements, for example during a psychological intervention with multiple assessments. Researching these occurrences could help understand ... -
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 ... -
Co‐producing research with youth: The NeurOx young people’s advisory group model
(2019-03)Context: The 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child states that children have the right to be heard in all matters affecting them. The Convention inspired a surge in research that investigates young people's ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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.
