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Impact of physician assistants on quality of care: rapid review (2025)
Journal Article
Cooper, N., Agius, S., Freeman, K., Church, H., Yoosoof, F., Frain, A., Frain, J., McConnell, R., Wilson, E., & Leonardi-Bee, J. (2025). Impact of physician assistants on quality of care: rapid review. BMJ, 390, Article e086358. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2025-086358

Objective To determine the impact of physician assistants, compared with physicians, on quality of care in the context of an ongoing UK policy review.

Design Rapid systematic review.

Search strategy Keyword search of three databases; search and... Read More about Impact of physician assistants on quality of care: rapid review.

Well-being interventions for emergency department staff: ‘necessary’ but ‘inadequate’ – a phenomenographic study (2024)
Journal Article
Beckham, A., & Cooper, N. (2024). Well-being interventions for emergency department staff: ‘necessary’ but ‘inadequate’ – a phenomenographic study. Emergency Medicine Journal, 42(1), 9-13. https://doi.org/10.1136/emermed-2023-213852

Introduction: Stress and burnout are prevalent among emergency department (ED) staff in the UK. The concept of well-being interventions for ED staff is a growing area of interest and research worldwide. Various interventions are described in the lite... Read More about Well-being interventions for emergency department staff: ‘necessary’ but ‘inadequate’ – a phenomenographic study.

Paradigmatic perspectives of research on the self-regulated learning of non-western learners in health professions education: a scoping review protocol (2024)
Journal Article
Yoosoof, F., Ihsan, F. R., Agius, S., Coulson, N., Freeman, K., & Cooper, N. (2024). Paradigmatic perspectives of research on the self-regulated learning of non-western learners in health professions education: a scoping review protocol. JBI Evidence Synthesis, 23(1), 197-205. https://doi.org/10.11124/jbies-24-00144

Objective:
The objective of this review will be to explore the paradigmatic perspectives of research on self-regulated learning in non-western learners in health professions education.

Introduction:
Studies show that there are significant cult... Read More about Paradigmatic perspectives of research on the self-regulated learning of non-western learners in health professions education: a scoping review protocol.

The role of the supervisor in self-regulated learning in the clinical environment: BEME Guide No. 89 (2024)
Journal Article
Cooper, N., Rahman, L. R., Church, H., & Agius, S. (2025). The role of the supervisor in self-regulated learning in the clinical environment: BEME Guide No. 89. Medical Teacher, 47(4), 589-596. https://doi.org/10.1080/0142159x.2024.2401462

Introduction
Self-regulated learning (SRL) in medical education is important for successful learning and safe patient care. However, supervisors may be unaware of behaviours that explicitly facilitate or inhibit their students’ or residents’ SRL, th... Read More about The role of the supervisor in self-regulated learning in the clinical environment: BEME Guide No. 89.

ABC of Clinical Reasoning (2022)
Book
Cooper, N., & Frain, J. (Eds.). (2022). ABC of Clinical Reasoning. Wiley-Blackwell

Being a good clinician is not only about knowledge ― how doctors and other healthcare professionals think, reason, and make decisions is arguably their most critical skill. The second edition of the ABC of Clinical Reasoning breaks down clinical reas... Read More about ABC of Clinical Reasoning.

Clinical decision making (2022)
Book Chapter
Cooper, N., & Cracknell, A. (2022). Clinical decision making. In I. D. Penman, S. H. Ralston, M. W. J. Strachan, & R. Hobson (Eds.), Davidson's Principles and Practice of Medicine. (24th edition). Elsevier

Organisation kindness (2021)
Book Chapter
Cooper, N., & Evans, B. (2021). Organisation kindness. In A. Frain, S. Murphy, & J. Frain (Eds.), ABC of Clinical Resilience. Wiley-Blackwell

Book abstract:

For the healthcare professional, clinical resilience is about reconnecting with those stirrings which first motivated us to spend a career in the service of others. It is about recovering and maintaining the 'joy of practice' which... Read More about Organisation kindness.

Consensus statement on the content of clinical reasoning curricula in undergraduate medical education (2020)
Journal Article
Cooper, N., Bartlett, M., Gay, S., Hammond, A., Lillicrap, M., Matthan, J., & Singh, M. (2021). Consensus statement on the content of clinical reasoning curricula in undergraduate medical education. Medical Teacher, 43(2), 152-159. https://doi.org/10.1080/0142159X.2020.1842343

Introduction
Effective clinical reasoning is required for safe patient care. Students and postgraduate trainees largely learn the knowledge, skills and behaviours required for effective clinical reasoning implicitly, through experience and apprentic... Read More about Consensus statement on the content of clinical reasoning curricula in undergraduate medical education.

Essential guide to acute care (2020)
Book
Cooper, N., Cramp, P., Forrest, K., & Patel, R. (2020). Essential guide to acute care. (3rd edition). Wiley

The best-selling Essential Guide to Acute Care contains everything you need to know about acute care that you can’t find in a standard textbook. The third edition has been extensively revised and updated, presenting new oxygen guidelines, updated evi... Read More about Essential guide to acute care.

The student is key: a realist review of educational interventions to develop analytical and non-analytical clinical reasoning ability (2020)
Journal Article
Richmond, A., Cooper, N., Gay, S., Atiomo, W., & Patel, R. (2020). The student is key: a realist review of educational interventions to develop analytical and non-analytical clinical reasoning ability. Medical Education, 54(8), 709-719. https://doi.org/10.1111/medu.14137

Background
Clinical reasoning refers to the cognitive processes used by individuals as they formulate a diagnosis or treatment plan. Clinical reasoning is dependent on formal and experiential knowledge. Developing the ability to acquire and recall k... Read More about The student is key: a realist review of educational interventions to develop analytical and non-analytical clinical reasoning ability.

Acute Care Toolkit 15: Managing Acute Medical Problems in Pregnancy (2019)
Other
Banerjee, A., Neuberger, F., Paarul, P., & Cooper, N. (2019). Acute Care Toolkit 15: Managing Acute Medical Problems in Pregnancy. London

The toolkit contains:

Practical guidance on managing women with acute medical problems in pregnancy
Red flags to watch out for in pregnant patients
Advice to healthcare staff to ask about a woman’s mental wellbeing when she comes to hospital for... Read More about Acute Care Toolkit 15: Managing Acute Medical Problems in Pregnancy.

ABC of Clinical Professionalism (2017)
Book
Cooper, N., Frain, A., & Frain, J. (Eds.). (2017). ABC of Clinical Professionalism. Wiley-Blackwell

Clinical professionalism is a set of values, behaviours and relationships which underpins the public’s trust in healthcare providers both as individuals and organisations. ‘First, do no harm’ is expressed most clearly today in the patient safety mov... Read More about ABC of Clinical Professionalism.

ABC of Clinical Communication (2017)
Book
Cooper, N., & Frain, J. (Eds.). (2017). ABC of Clinical Communication. Wiley-Blackwell

Clinical communication underpins safe patient care. The effective health professional sees illness through the patient’s eyes and understands what matters most to him or her. Effectiveness means gathering hard clinical data about the physical chang... Read More about ABC of Clinical Communication.

Blackout and collapse in the acute setting (2017)
Journal Article
Cooper, N. (2017). Blackout and collapse in the acute setting. Medicine, 45(3), 144-149. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mpmed.2016.12.011

Blackout and collapse is a common acute medical presentation. Many patients are admitted to hospital unnecessarily and are not evaluated by following evidence-based guidelines. Unnecessary investigations or the wrong investigations are commonly reque... Read More about Blackout and collapse in the acute setting.

Blackout and collapse in older adults (2016)
Journal Article
Cooper, N. (2017). Blackout and collapse in older adults. Medicine, 45(1), 34-40. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mpmed.2016.10.012

‘Collapse query cause’ is a common acute medical presentation with many different causes. This article focuses on syncope, which is caused by transient global cerebral hypoperfusion. There are four main subtypes of syncope, with neurally mediated syn... Read More about Blackout and collapse in older adults.

ABC of Clinical Reasoning (2016)
Book
Cooper, N., & Frain, J. (Eds.). (2016). ABC of Clinical Reasoning. Wiley

Being a good clinician is not just about knowledge – how doctors and other healthcare professionals think, reason and make decisions is arguably their most critical skill. While medical schools and postgraduate training programmes teach and assess th... Read More about ABC of Clinical Reasoning.

Problem based review: The patient with dizziness on the AMU (2016)
Journal Article
Kennedy, A., & Cooper, N. (2016). Problem based review: The patient with dizziness on the AMU. Acute Medicine, 11(4), 240-245. https://doi.org/10.52964/AMJA.0585

Unsteadiness, balance disturbance, and ‘dizziness’ are common presenting complaints on the Acute Medical Unit. This article outlines key components in the evaluation of these problems and describes the most common clinical patterns of dizziness. A ca... Read More about Problem based review: The patient with dizziness on the AMU.