All Outputs (9)

Physical and rheological characterization of carbonated bitumen for paving applications (2017)
Journal Article
Apeagyei, A. K., & Airey, G. (2018). Physical and rheological characterization of carbonated bitumen for paving applications. Materials and Design, 140, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2017.11.069

In the paving industry, current attempts aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions have focused on the development of technologies that decrease bitumen viscosity so that asphalt mixtures can be produced at temperatures that are lower than conventio... Read More about Physical and rheological characterization of carbonated bitumen for paving applications.

Indentifying published studies of care home research: an international survey of researchers (2017)
Journal Article
Burton, J. K., Quinn, T. J., Gordon, A. L., MacLullich, A. M., Reynish, E. L., & Shenkin, S. D. (2017). Indentifying published studies of care home research: an international survey of researchers. Journal of Nursing Home Research, 3(2017), https://doi.org/10.14283/jnhrs.2017.15

Collating the published research around institutional, long term care is confounded by the differing terminologies used to describe this health-care setting. We aimed to collate the descriptors used by researchers to inform the future development of... Read More about Indentifying published studies of care home research: an international survey of researchers.

Optimal NHS service delivery to care homes: a realist evaluation of the features and mechanisms that support effective working for the continuing care of older people in residential settings (2017)
Journal Article
Goodman, C., Davies, S. L., Gordon, A. L., Dening, T., Gage, H., Meyer, J., …Zubair, M. (2017). Optimal NHS service delivery to care homes: a realist evaluation of the features and mechanisms that support effective working for the continuing care of older people in residential settings. Health Services and Delivery Research, 5(29), https://doi.org/10.3310/hsdr05290

Background: Care homes are the institutional providers of long-term care for older people. The OPTIMAL study argued that it is probable that there are key activities within different models of health-care provision that are important for residents’ h... Read More about Optimal NHS service delivery to care homes: a realist evaluation of the features and mechanisms that support effective working for the continuing care of older people in residential settings.

New horizons in geriatric medicine education and training: The need for pan-European education and training standards (2017)
Journal Article
Fisher, J. M., Masud, T., Holm, E., Roller-Wirnsberger, R., Stuck, A., Gordon, A. L., …Veninsek, G. (2017). New horizons in geriatric medicine education and training: The need for pan-European education and training standards. European Geriatric Medicine, 8(5-6), 467-473. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eurger.2017.07.022

The ageing population ought to be celebrated as evidence for the efficacy of modern medicine, but the challenge that this demographic shift presents for 21st century healthcare systems, with increasing numbers of people living with multi-morbidity an... Read More about New horizons in geriatric medicine education and training: The need for pan-European education and training standards.

The physician’s role in perioperative management of older patients undergoing surgery (2017)
Journal Article
Gordon, A. L., Evans, B. J., & Dhesi, J. (2017). The physician’s role in perioperative management of older patients undergoing surgery. Clinical Medicine, 17(4), https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.17-4-357

Life-sustaining and life-improving surgical interventions are increasingly available to older, frailer patients, many of whom have multimorbidity. Physicians can help support perioperative multidisciplinary teams with assessment and preoperative opti... Read More about The physician’s role in perioperative management of older patients undergoing surgery.

Factors related to medical students’ and doctors’ attitudes towards older patients: a systematic review (2017)
Journal Article
Samra, R., Cox, T., Gordon, A. L., Conroy, S., Lucassen, M., & Griffiths, A. (2017). Factors related to medical students’ and doctors’ attitudes towards older patients: a systematic review. Age and Ageing, 46(6), https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afx058

Background: Studies have sought to identify the possible determinants of medical students’ and doctors’ attitudes towards older patients by examining relationships with a variety of demographic, educational/training, and job factors. This review coll... Read More about Factors related to medical students’ and doctors’ attitudes towards older patients: a systematic review.

Being the ‘med reg’: an exploration of junior doctors’ perceptions of the medical registrar role (2017)
Journal Article
Fisher, J. M., Garside, M. J., Brock, P., Gibson, V., Hunt, K., Wyrko, Z., & Gordon, A. L. (2017). Being the ‘med reg’: an exploration of junior doctors’ perceptions of the medical registrar role. Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 47(1), https://doi.org/10.4997/JRCPe.2017.116

The role of the medical registrar is a challenging one and is acknowledged as being a disincentive to a career in medicine for some junior doctors. We set out to build a broader understanding of the role through exploration of Foundation Doctors’ and... Read More about Being the ‘med reg’: an exploration of junior doctors’ perceptions of the medical registrar role.

Why geriatric medicine? A survey of UK specialist trainees in geriatric medicine (2017)
Journal Article
Fisher, J. M., Garside, M. J., Brock, P., Gibson, V., Hunt, K. K., Briggs, S., & Gordon, A. L. (2017). Why geriatric medicine? A survey of UK specialist trainees in geriatric medicine. Age and Ageing, 46(4), 672-677. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afx009

Background: There is global concern that there are insufficient numbers of geriatricians to meet the needs of the ageing population. A 2005 survey described factors that influenced why UK geriatricians had chosen to specialise in the field - in the d... Read More about Why geriatric medicine? A survey of UK specialist trainees in geriatric medicine.

Structural design of pavements incorporating foamed bitumen mixtures (2017)
Journal Article
Kuna, K., Airey, G., & Thom, N. (in press). Structural design of pavements incorporating foamed bitumen mixtures. Proceedings of the ICE - Construction Materials, https://doi.org/10.1680/jcoma.16.00039

This paper presents a rational structural design methodology termed the ‘cumulative damage approach’ for road, port and airport pavements incorporating cold bituminous mixtures with foamed bitumen. This has been developed along with a laboratory test... Read More about Structural design of pavements incorporating foamed bitumen mixtures.