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Do surgical care bundles reduce the risk of surgical site infections in patients undergoing colorectal surgery? A systematic review and cohort meta-analysis of 8,515 patients (2015)
Journal Article
Tanner, J., Padley, W., Assadian, O., Leaper, D., Kiernan, M., & Edmiston, C. E. (2015). Do surgical care bundles reduce the risk of surgical site infections in patients undergoing colorectal surgery? A systematic review and cohort meta-analysis of 8,515 patients. Surgery, 158(1), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surg.2015.03.009

Background. Care bundles are a strategy that can be used to reduce the risk of surgical site infection (SSI), but individual studies of care bundles report conflicting outcomes. This study assesses the effectiveness of care bundles to reduce SSI amon... Read More about Do surgical care bundles reduce the risk of surgical site infections in patients undergoing colorectal surgery? A systematic review and cohort meta-analysis of 8,515 patients.

Cognitive and social functioning correlates of employment among people with severe mental illness (2015)
Journal Article
Saavedra, J., López, M., González, S., Arias, S., & Crawford, P. (2015). Cognitive and social functioning correlates of employment among people with severe mental illness. Community Mental Health Journal, 52(7), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10597-015-9874-4

We assess how social and cognitive functioning is associated to gaining employment for 213 people diagnosed with severe mental illness taking part in employment programs in Andalusia (Spain). We used the Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuro... Read More about Cognitive and social functioning correlates of employment among people with severe mental illness.

A case study exploring the experience of graduate entry nursing students when learning in practice (2015)
Journal Article
Stacey, G., Pollock, K., & Crawford, P. (2015). A case study exploring the experience of graduate entry nursing students when learning in practice. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 71(9), https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.12673

Aim. To explore how Graduate Entry Nursing students present and position themselves in practice in response to anti-intellectualist stereotypes and assessment structures.
Background. A complex background turbulence exists in nurse education which in... Read More about A case study exploring the experience of graduate entry nursing students when learning in practice.

Text messaging to encourage uptake of HIV testing amongst African communities: findings from a theory based feasibility study (2015)
Journal Article
Evans, C., Turner, K., Blake, H., Juma, A., Suggs, S., & Occa, A. (in press). Text messaging to encourage uptake of HIV testing amongst African communities: findings from a theory based feasibility study. HIV Medicine, 16(S2), https://doi.org/10.1111/hiv.12265

Background: There is a public health need to tackle high levels of undiagnosed (or late diagnosed) HIV amongst the UK's African communities. This research aimed to assess the feasibility and acceptability of using a text messaging intervention to enc... Read More about Text messaging to encourage uptake of HIV testing amongst African communities: findings from a theory based feasibility study.

A feasibility study for a randomised controlled trial of the Positive Reappraisal Coping Intervention, a novel supportive technique for recurrent miscarriage (2015)
Journal Article
Bailey, S. J., Bailey, C., Boivin, J., Cheong, Y., Reading, I., & Macklon, N. (2015). A feasibility study for a randomised controlled trial of the Positive Reappraisal Coping Intervention, a novel supportive technique for recurrent miscarriage. BMJ Open Respiratory Research, 5, Article e007322. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2014-007322

Introduction: Recurrent miscarriage (RM) is diagnosed when a woman has had three or more miscarriages. Increased levels of distress and anxiety are common during the waiting period of any subsequent pregnancies, posing a significant threat to psychol... Read More about A feasibility study for a randomised controlled trial of the Positive Reappraisal Coping Intervention, a novel supportive technique for recurrent miscarriage.

Empowerment and satisfaction in a multinational study of routine clinical practice (2015)
Journal Article
Clarke, E., Pusch, B., Jordan, H., Williams, P., Konrad, J., Kawohl, W., Bär, A., Rössler, W., Del Vecchio, V., Sampogna, G., Nagy, M., Süveges, A., Krogsgaard Bording, M., & Slade, M. (in press). Empowerment and satisfaction in a multinational study of routine clinical practice. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 131(5), https://doi.org/10.1111/acps.12365

Objective: Decision-making between mental health clinicians and patients is under-researched. We tested whether mental health patients are more satisfied with a decision made (i) using their preferred decision-making style and (ii) with a clinician w... Read More about Empowerment and satisfaction in a multinational study of routine clinical practice.

Pain and physical functioning in neuropathic pain: a systematic review of psychometric properties of various outcome measures (2015)
Journal Article
Meeta, P., Claydon, L. S., Hendrick, P., Cook, C., & Baxter, D. G. (2016). Pain and physical functioning in neuropathic pain: a systematic review of psychometric properties of various outcome measures. Pain Practice, 16(4), 495-508. https://doi.org/10.1111/papr.12293

INTRODUCTION:

A range of outcome measures across various domains are used to evaluate change following an intervention in clinical trials on chronic neuropathic pain (NeP). However, to capture a real change in the variable of interest, the psychom... Read More about Pain and physical functioning in neuropathic pain: a systematic review of psychometric properties of various outcome measures.

Palliative care patients' perceptions of the work involved in understanding and managing the network of care provision surrounding them (2015)
Journal Article
Jarrett, N., Porter, K., Davis, C., Lathlean, J., Duke, S., Corner, J., & Addington-Hall, J. (2015). Palliative care patients' perceptions of the work involved in understanding and managing the network of care provision surrounding them. BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care, https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjspcare-2014-000781

Objective: To explore the work carried out for cancer palliative care patients in understanding and dealing with the often large network of care provision surrounding them.

Method: Qualitative thematic analysis of interviews with 24 patients (age... Read More about Palliative care patients' perceptions of the work involved in understanding and managing the network of care provision surrounding them.

Prescribing opioid analgesics for chronic non-malignant pain in general practice - a survey of attitudes and practice (2015)
Journal Article
Blake, H., Leighton, P., van der Walt, G., & Ravenscroft, A. (2015). Prescribing opioid analgesics for chronic non-malignant pain in general practice - a survey of attitudes and practice. British Journal of Pain, 9(4), https://doi.org/10.1177/2049463715579284

Background: This study replicates a previous postal survey of general practitioners (GPs) to explore whether attitudes to opioid prescribing have changed at a time when the number of opioid prescriptions issued in primary care has increased.

Metho... Read More about Prescribing opioid analgesics for chronic non-malignant pain in general practice - a survey of attitudes and practice.

The networks of care surrounding cancer palliative care patients (2015)
Journal Article
Jarrett, N., Porter, K., Davis, C., Addington-Hall, J., Duke, S., Corner, J., & Lathlean, J. (2015). The networks of care surrounding cancer palliative care patients. BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care, 5(4), https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjspcare-2014-000782

Objectives: This paper explicates the nature and extent of the networks of care surrounding patients with cancer palliative care needs.

Method: Twenty-four patients with 15 different types/sites of cancer were recruited in one city in England, UK... Read More about The networks of care surrounding cancer palliative care patients.