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Relationships, expertise, incentives, and governance: supporting care home residents' access to health care: an interview study from England (2015)
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Objectives To explore what commissioners of care, regulators, providers, and care home residents in England identify as the key mechanisms or components of different service delivery models that support the provision of National Health Service (NHS)... Read More about Relationships, expertise, incentives, and governance: supporting care home residents' access to health care: an interview study from England.

Moisture damage assessment using surface energy, bitumen stripping and the SATS moisture conditioning procedure (2015)
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Durability is one of the most important properties of an asphalt mixture. A key factor affecting the durability of asphalt pavements is moisture damage. Moisture damage generally results in the loss of strength of the mixture due to two main mechanis... Read More about Moisture damage assessment using surface energy, bitumen stripping and the SATS moisture conditioning procedure.

Influence of waxes on adhesion properties of bituminous binders (2014)
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The benefits at the base of WMA technologies are well established in the literature. They include the reduction in the energy consumption during the production of mixtures, the reduction in the emissions to the atmosphere in the production plant and... Read More about Influence of waxes on adhesion properties of bituminous binders.

Where are we in perioperative medicine for older surgical patients? A UK survey of geriatric medicine delivered services in surgery. (2014)
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The Optimal Study: describing the key components of optimal health care delivery to UK care home residents: a research protocol (2014)
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Long term institutional care in the UK is provided by care homes. Residents have prevalent cognitive impairment and disability, have multiple diagnoses and are subject to polypharmacy. Prevailing models of healthcare provision - ad hoc, reactive and... Read More about The Optimal Study: describing the key components of optimal health care delivery to UK care home residents: a research protocol.

Moisture-induced strength degradation of aggregate-asphalt mastic bonds (2014)
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A common manifestation of moisture-induced damage in asphalt mixtures is the loss of adhesion at the aggregate–asphalt mastic interface and/or cohesion within the bulk mastic. This paper investigates the effects of moisture on the aggregate–mastic in... Read More about Moisture-induced strength degradation of aggregate-asphalt mastic bonds.

Effective health care for older people resident in care homes: the optimal study protocol for realist review (2014)
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Background Care homes in the UK rely on general practice for access to specialist medical and nursing care as well as referral to therapists and secondary care. Service delivery to care homes is highly variable in both quantity and quality. This var... Read More about Effective health care for older people resident in care homes: the optimal study protocol for realist review.

Developing the principles of chair based exercise for older people: a modified Delphi study (2014)
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Observation of reversible moisture damage in asphalt mixtures (2014)
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Undergraduate teaching in geriatric medicine: mapping the British Geriatrics Society undergraduate curriculum to Tomorrow's Doctors 2009 (2014)
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Introduction: in 2008, the British Geriatrics Society (BGS) developed the Recommended Undergraduate Curriculum in Geriatric Medicine. This was subsequently mapped to the second edition of Tomorrows' Doctors (TD2, 2003). Following the publication of t... Read More about Undergraduate teaching in geriatric medicine: mapping the British Geriatrics Society undergraduate curriculum to Tomorrow's Doctors 2009.

European undergraduate curriculum in geriatric medicine developed using an international modified Delphi technique (2014)
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Introduction: the rise in the number of older, frail adults necessitates that future doctors are adequately trained in the skills of geriatric medicine. Few countries have dedicated curricula in geriatric medicine at the undergraduate level. The aim... Read More about European undergraduate curriculum in geriatric medicine developed using an international modified Delphi technique.

Comprehensive geriatric assessment – a guide for the non-specialist (2014)
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The treatment of hypertension in people with dementia: a systematic review of observational studies (2014)
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Background Hypertension is very common in older people and a number of trials of antihypertensives have demonstrated benefit from treatment in even the oldest old. However, people with dementia were significantly under-represented in these studies a... Read More about The treatment of hypertension in people with dementia: a systematic review of observational studies.

Application of Fickian and non-Fickian diffusion models to study moisture diffusion in asphalt mastics (2014)
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The objective of this study was to investigate certain aspects of asphalt mastic moisture diffusion characteristics in order to better understand the moisture damage phenomenon in asphalt mixtures. Moisture sorption experiments were conducted on four... Read More about Application of Fickian and non-Fickian diffusion models to study moisture diffusion in asphalt mastics.

Health status of UK care home residents: a cohort study (2014)
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Background: UK care home residents are often poorly served by existing healthcare arrangements. Published descriptions of residents’ health status have been limited by lack of detail and use of data derived from surveys drawn from social, rather than... Read More about Health status of UK care home residents: a cohort study.

The treatment of hypertension in care home residents: a systematic review of observational studies (2014)
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Aim: To describe the prevalence of hypertension in care home residents, its treatment, change in treatment over time, and the achievement of blood pressure (BP) control. Method: The PubMed, Cochrane, Embase, and PsychINFO databases were searched fo... Read More about The treatment of hypertension in care home residents: a systematic review of observational studies.

Chair-Based Exercises for Frail Older People: A Systematic Review (2013)
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UK medical teaching about ageing is improving but there is still work to be done: the Second National Survey of Undergraduate Teaching in Ageing and Geriatric Medicine (2013)
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Introduction: in 2008, a UK national survey of undergraduate teaching about ageing and geriatric medicine identified deficiencies, including failure to adequately teach about elder abuse, pressure ulcers and bio- and social gerontology. We repeated t... Read More about UK medical teaching about ageing is improving but there is still work to be done: the Second National Survey of Undergraduate Teaching in Ageing and Geriatric Medicine.

The role of ettringite in the deterioration of artificial lime stabilised soils: a microstructural study (2013)
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The formation of ettringite has been defined as a major failure mechanism of lime stabilised cohesive soils. It can result in both disruptive volumetric changes and loss of mechanical strength. The mechanisms of its formation and the role it plays in... Read More about The role of ettringite in the deterioration of artificial lime stabilised soils: a microstructural study.

Evaluation of moisture sorption and diffusion characteristics of asphalt mastics using manual and automated gravimetric sorption techniques (2013)
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One of the most important factors influencing the durability of asphalt mixtures is moisture-induced damage resulting from the presence and the transport of moisture in pavements. Moisture-induced damage is an extremely complicated phenomenon that is... Read More about Evaluation of moisture sorption and diffusion characteristics of asphalt mastics using manual and automated gravimetric sorption techniques.