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Anticipatory prescribing in end-of-life care (2014)
Journal Article
Wilson, E., Seymour, J. E., Morbey, H., Payne, S., Brown, J., & Seale, C. (2014). Anticipatory prescribing in end-of-life care. Nursing Times, 110(44),

Anticipatory prescriptions are often issued by GPs for patients nearing the end of life, ahead of symptoms they may experience. These prescriptions are often activated by nurses. This article summarises a study investigating nurses’ experiences of us... Read More about Anticipatory prescribing in end-of-life care.

Applying a healthcare model to Huntington's disease: the key worker approach (2014)
Journal Article
Wilson, E., Aubeeluck, A., & Pollock, K. (2014). Applying a healthcare model to Huntington's disease: the key worker approach. British Journal of Neuroscience Nursing, 10(5), https://doi.org/10.12968/bjnn.2014.10.5.214

This paper follows on from an overview of the literature and current policy for Huntington’s disease (HD) published by the BJNN (Wilson et al. 2014). The previous paper highlighted a paucity of knowledge in terms of best practice available for those... Read More about Applying a healthcare model to Huntington's disease: the key worker approach.

How to communicate with patients about future illness progression and end of life: a systematic review (2014)
Journal Article
Parry, R., Land, V., & Seymour, J. (2014). How to communicate with patients about future illness progression and end of life: a systematic review. BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care, 4, https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjspcare-2014-000649

Background: Conversation and discourse analytic research has yielded important evidence about skills needed for effective, sensitive communication with patients about illness progression and end of life.
Objectives To:
Locate and synthesise observ... Read More about How to communicate with patients about future illness progression and end of life: a systematic review.

Narratives of family transition during the first year post-head injury: perspectives of the non-injured members (2014)
Journal Article
Whiffin, C. J., Bailey, C., Ellis-Hill, C., Jarratt, N., & Hutchinson, P. (2015). Narratives of family transition during the first year post-head injury: perspectives of the non-injured members. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 71(4), https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.12551

Aim

To explore the narratives created by non‐injured family members in relation to themselves and their family in the first year after head injury.
Background

A head injury is a potentially devastating injury. The family responds to this injur... Read More about Narratives of family transition during the first year post-head injury: perspectives of the non-injured members.

Synovial pathology detected on ultrasound correlates with the severity of radiographic knee osteoarthritis more than with symptoms (2014)
Journal Article
Hall, M. C., Doherty, S., Courtney, P., Latief, K., Zhang, W., & Doherty, M. (2014). Synovial pathology detected on ultrasound correlates with the severity of radiographic knee osteoarthritis more than with symptoms. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, 22(10), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joca.2014.05.025

OBJECTIVE: To [1] compare the frequency and severity of ultrasound (US) features in people with normal knees (controls), knee pain (KP), asymptomatic radiographic OA (ROA), and symptomatic OA (SROA), [2] examine relationships between US features, pai... Read More about Synovial pathology detected on ultrasound correlates with the severity of radiographic knee osteoarthritis more than with symptoms.

P242: Prediction of falls risk with six different biomarkers in mild cognitive impairment using principal component analysis (2014)
Journal Article
de Spiegeleer, A., Masud, T., Greenhaff, P. L., Van den Noortgate, N., Petrovic, M., Hood, V. L., Gladman, J. R., van der Wardt, V., Harwood, R. H., & Booth, V. (2014). P242: Prediction of falls risk with six different biomarkers in mild cognitive impairment using principal component analysis. European Geriatric Medicine, 5(S1), Article S161. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1878-7649%2814%2970414-0

Physical activity interventions in children and young people with Type 1 diabetes mellitus: a systematic review with meta-analysis (2014)
Journal Article
Quirk, H., Blake, H., Tennyson, R., Randell, T., & Glazebrook, C. (2014). Physical activity interventions in children and young people with Type 1 diabetes mellitus: a systematic review with meta-analysis. Diabetic Medicine, 31(10), 1163-1173. https://doi.org/10.1111/dme.12531

© 2014 The Authors. Aim: To synthesize evidence from randomized and non-randomized studies of physical activity interventions in children and young people with Type 1 diabetes so as to explore clinically relevant health outcomes and inform the promot... Read More about Physical activity interventions in children and young people with Type 1 diabetes mellitus: a systematic review with meta-analysis.

A randomised trial to compare the performance of Oxyzyme® and Iodozyme® with standard care in the treatment of patients with venous and mixed venous/arterial ulceration (2014)
Journal Article
Moffatt, C. J., Stanton, J., Murray, S., Doody, V., Davis, P. J., & Franks, P. J. (in press). A randomised trial to compare the performance of Oxyzyme® and Iodozyme® with standard care in the treatment of patients with venous and mixed venous/arterial ulceration. Wound Medicine, 6, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wndm.2014.08.002

This study was to evaluate the potential benefits of two products (Oxyzyme® & Iodozyme®) into a leg ulcer service in South Staffordshire, UK.
A randomised controlled Trial (RCT) was used to evaluate time to ulcer healing, quality of life, pain and... Read More about A randomised trial to compare the performance of Oxyzyme® and Iodozyme® with standard care in the treatment of patients with venous and mixed venous/arterial ulceration.

Multiple groups of endogenous epsilon-like retroviruses conserved across primates (2014)
Journal Article
Brown, K., Emes, R. D., & Tarlinton, R. E. (2014). Multiple groups of endogenous epsilon-like retroviruses conserved across primates. Journal of Virology, 88(21), https://doi.org/10.1128/JVI.00966-14

Several types of cancer in fish are caused by retroviruses, including those responsible for major outbreaks of disease, such as walleye dermal sarcoma virus and salmon swim bladder sarcoma virus. These viruses form a phylogenetic group often describe... Read More about Multiple groups of endogenous epsilon-like retroviruses conserved across primates.