Browsing OHFT Improvement by Author "Garland, Sophie"
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Out-of-hours primary care end of life prescribing: a data linkage study
Hunt, Helen; Garland, Sophie (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 ... -
Point-of- care blood tests during home visits by out-of- hours primary care clinicians; a mixed methods evaluation of a service improvement
Garland, Sophie; Hunt, Helen (2020-01)Objectives We aimed to evaluate test usage and patient and clinician experience following the introduction of point-of- care (POC) blood tests into a primary care out-of- hours service. Design A mixed methods service ... -
What proportion of patients at the end of life contact out-of-hours primary care? A data linkage study in Oxfordshire
Hunt, Helen; Garland, Sophie (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 ...