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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 ...
Effects of ketamine treatment on suicidal ideation: a qualitative study of patients’ accounts following treatment for depression in a UK ketamine clinic
(2019-08)
Objective It is recognised that ketamine treatment can
reduce suicidal ideation (SI) in people with depression, at
least in the short term. However, information is lacking on
patients’ perspectives on such effects. ...
Effects of patient suicide on psychiatrists: survey of experiences and support required
(2019-03)
Aims and method Death of patients by suicide can have powerful effects on
psychiatrists. We report the findings of a survey completed by 174 psychiatrists on
the effects of patient suicide on their emotional well-being ...
Characteristics of people with pressure ulcers using one year's routinely collected data in a defined diverse community
(2019-09)
Objective:To determine if meaningful patient characteristics pertaining to pressure ulcers (PU) can be derived from routinely collected community health data.
Methods: A retrospective cohort analysis of records was carried ...
Preparing the workforce for frailty, an education intervention for allied health professionals and community nurses in primary and community healthcare
(2019-01)
The Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) is a multidisciplinary assessment that identifies the medical, psychosocial, and functional needs of older people. This service evaluation considers the impact of training allied ...
An interprofessional practice development group for newly qualified and new-to-role clinicians in community mental health
(2019-11)
There is a wealth of literature focusing on the transition from being a new graduate to being a newly qualified member of staff. However, the needs of the new-to-role practitioner, who may be expected to manage challenging ...
Newly qualified health visitor: Assessment and support for fathers’ mental health
(2019-11)
Explores the evidence around paternal mental health illness, and the
role of the health visitor through assessment, identification and signposting using
a whole-family approach
Development of an app for lung cancer survivors (iEXHALE) to increase exercise activity and improve symptoms of fatigue, breathlessness and depression
(2019-11)
Objective
Exercise‐based self‐management interventions are recommended for lung cancer survivors and can provide physical, psychosocial and emotional relief. Mobile health technologies can encourage self‐management; ...
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 ...