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Internet of Things in Health Trends Through Bibliometrics and Text Mining (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Konstantinidis, S., Billis, A., Wharrad, H., & Bamidis, P. D. (2017). Internet of Things in Health Trends Through Bibliometrics and Text Mining. In Informatics for Health: Connected Citizen-Led Wellness and Population Health (73-77). https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-753-5-73

Recently a new buzzword has slowly but surely emerged, namely the Internet of Things (IoT). The importance of IoT is identified worldwide both by organisations and governments and the scientific community with an incremental number of publications du... Read More about Internet of Things in Health Trends Through Bibliometrics and Text Mining.

Transition of care from children’s to adult services (2017)
Journal Article
Wells, F., & Manning, J. (2017). Transition of care from children’s to adult services. Nursing Children and Young People, 29(8), 30-34. https://doi.org/10.7748/ncyp.2017.e897

Transition service development is high on the agenda in contemporary healthcare improvement and there is a wealth of literature focusing on the shortcomings of many existing transition services. This literature review aims at identify and summarise r... Read More about Transition of care from children’s to adult services.

Validation of a shortened 11-item version of the Problem Areas in Diabetes scale to measure distress in adults with type 1 diabetes (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mansell, P., Stanulewicz, N., Hopkins, D., Cooke, D., & Blake, H. (2017, September). Validation of a shortened 11-item version of the Problem Areas in Diabetes scale to measure distress in adults with type 1 diabetes. Presented at 53rd Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD 2017), Lisbon, Portugal

What Works to Improve and Manage Fecal Incontinence in Care Home Residents Living With Dementia? A Realist Synthesis of the Evidence (2017)
Journal Article
Buswell, M., Goodman, C., Roe, B., Russell, B., Norton, C., Harwood, R., …Bunn, F. (2017). What Works to Improve and Manage Fecal Incontinence in Care Home Residents Living With Dementia? A Realist Synthesis of the Evidence. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 18(9), 752-760.e1. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2017.05.025

The prevalence of fecal incontinence (FI) in care homes is estimated to range from 30% to 50%. There is limited evidence of what is effective in the reduction and management of FI in care homes. Using realist synthesis, 6 potential program theories o... Read More about What Works to Improve and Manage Fecal Incontinence in Care Home Residents Living With Dementia? A Realist Synthesis of the Evidence.

Evaluation of the implementation of an intervention to improve the street environment and promote walking for transport in deprived neighbourhoods (2017)
Journal Article
Adams, E. J., Cavill, N., & Sherar, L. B. (2017). Evaluation of the implementation of an intervention to improve the street environment and promote walking for transport in deprived neighbourhoods. BMC Public Health, 17, Article 655. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-017-4637-5

Background: Levels of physical activity remain low, particularly in deprived areas. Improving the street environment to promote walking for transport using a community engagement approach is a potential strategy to increase physical activity. An und... Read More about Evaluation of the implementation of an intervention to improve the street environment and promote walking for transport in deprived neighbourhoods.

Making difficult decisions with older patients on medical wards (2017)
Journal Article
Khizar, B., & Harwood, R. H. (2017). Making difficult decisions with older patients on medical wards. Clinical Medicine, 17(4), 353-356. https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.17-4-353

Decision making with older people can be difficult because of medical complexity, uncertainty (about prognosis, treatment effectiveness and priorities), difficulties brought by cognitive and communication impairment and the multiple family and other... Read More about Making difficult decisions with older patients on medical wards.