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Missed opportunities to keep children safe? National survey of injury prevention activities of children’s centres (2016)
Journal Article
Watson, M. C., Mulvaney, C. A., Timblin, C., Stewart, J., Coupland, C., Deave, T., Hayes, M., & Kendrick, D. (in press). Missed opportunities to keep children safe? National survey of injury prevention activities of children’s centres. Health Education Journal, 75(7), https://doi.org/10.1177/0017896916629816

Objective: To ascertain the activities undertaken by children’s centres to prevent unintentional injuries in the under-fives and, in particular, the prevention of falls, poisoning and scalds.
Design: A questionnaire was posted to managers of 851 chi... Read More about Missed opportunities to keep children safe? National survey of injury prevention activities of children’s centres.

Sensitivity to scale of willingness-to-pay within the context of menorrhagia (2016)
Journal Article
Sanghera, S., Frew, E., Gupta, J. K., Kai, J., & Roberts, T. E. (2017). Sensitivity to scale of willingness-to-pay within the context of menorrhagia. Health Expectations, 20(2), https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.12452

Objectives: Willingness-to-pay (WTP) provides a broad assessment of well-being, capturing benefits beyond health. However, the validity of the approach has been questioned and the evidence relating to the sensitivity of WTP to changes in health statu... Read More about Sensitivity to scale of willingness-to-pay within the context of menorrhagia.

Comparing the cost-effectiveness and clinical effectiveness of a new community in-reach rehabilitation service with the cost-effectiveness and clinical effectiveness of an established hospital-based rehabilitation service for older people: a pragmatic randomised controlled trial with microcost and qualitative analysis – the Community In-reach Rehabilitation And Care Transition (CIRACT) study (2016)
Journal Article
Sahota, O., Pulikottil-Jacob, R., Marshall, F., Montgomery, A., Tan, W., Sach, T., Logan, P., Kendrick, D., Watson, A., Walker, M., & Waring, J. (2016). Comparing the cost-effectiveness and clinical effectiveness of a new community in-reach rehabilitation service with the cost-effectiveness and clinical effectiveness of an established hospital-based rehabilitation service for older people: a pragmatic randomised controlled trial with microcost and qualitative analysis – the Community In-reach Rehabilitation And Care Transition (CIRACT) study. Health Services and Delivery Research, 4(7), https://doi.org/10.3310/hsdr04070

Background:
Older people represent a significant proportion of patients admitted to hospital as a medical emergency. Compared with the care of younger patients, their care is more challenging, their stay in hospital is much longer, their risk of ho... Read More about Comparing the cost-effectiveness and clinical effectiveness of a new community in-reach rehabilitation service with the cost-effectiveness and clinical effectiveness of an established hospital-based rehabilitation service for older people: a pragmatic randomised controlled trial with microcost and qualitative analysis – the Community In-reach Rehabilitation And Care Transition (CIRACT) study.

The NHS Health Check in England: an evaluation of the first 4 years (2016)
Journal Article
Robson, J., Dostal, I., Sheikh, A., Eldridge, S., Madurasinghe, V., Griffiths, C., Coupland, C., & Hippisley-Cox, J. (2016). The NHS Health Check in England: an evaluation of the first 4 years. BMJ Open, 6(1), Article e008840. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2015-008840

Objectives: To describe implementation of a new national preventive programme to reduce cardiovascular morbidity.

Design: Observational study over 4 years (April 2009—March 2013).

Setting: 655 general practices across England from the QResear... Read More about The NHS Health Check in England: an evaluation of the first 4 years.

Frailty predicts trajectories of quality of life over time among British community-dwelling older people (2016)
Journal Article
Kojima, G., Iliffe, S., Morris, R., Taniguchi, Y., Kendrick, D., Skelton, D. A., Masud, T., & Bowling, A. (in press). Frailty predicts trajectories of quality of life over time among British community-dwelling older people. Quality of Life Research, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-015-1213-2

Purpose:
To investigate associations between baseline frailty status and subsequent changes in QOL over time among community-dwelling older people.

Methods:
Among 363 community-dwelling older people ≥65 years, frailty was measured using Frailt... Read More about Frailty predicts trajectories of quality of life over time among British community-dwelling older people.

Pregnant women’s experiences and views on an “opt-out” referral pathway to specialist smoking cessation support: a qualitative evaluation (2016)
Journal Article
Sloan, M., Campbell, K., Bowker, K., Coleman, T., Cooper, S., Brafman-Price, B., & Naughton, F. (in press). Pregnant women’s experiences and views on an “opt-out” referral pathway to specialist smoking cessation support: a qualitative evaluation. Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 18(5), https://doi.org/10.1093/ntr/ntv273

Introduction: Smoking in pregnancy remains an important and costly public health concern with policy makers worldwide researching methods to aid cessation. UK government guidelines recommend implementation of an “opt-out” (ie, whether requested or no... Read More about Pregnant women’s experiences and views on an “opt-out” referral pathway to specialist smoking cessation support: a qualitative evaluation.