All Outputs (7)

Comprehensive geriatric assessment for older adults admitted to hospital (2017)
Journal Article
Ellis, G., Gardner, M., Tsiachristas, A., Langhorne, P., Burke, O., Harwood, R. H., …Shepperd, S. (2017). Comprehensive geriatric assessment for older adults admitted to hospital. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2017(9), Article CD006211. https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD006211.pub3

© 2017 The Cochrane Collaboration. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Background: Comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) is a multi-dimensional, multi-disciplinary diagnostic and therapeutic process conducted to determine the medical, mental, a... Read More about Comprehensive geriatric assessment for older adults admitted to hospital.

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.

Managing Faecal INcontinence in people with advanced dementia resident in Care Homes (FINCH) study: a realist synthesis of the evidence (2017)
Journal Article

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.

Management of Fecal Incontinence in Older People With Dementia Resident in Care Homes: A Realist Synthesis—The FINCH Study (2017)
Journal Article
Roe, B., Goodman, C., Russell, B., Buswell, M., Norton, C., Harari, D., …Bunn, F. (2017). Management of Fecal Incontinence in Older People With Dementia Resident in Care Homes: A Realist Synthesis—The FINCH Study. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 18(9), 750-751. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2017.06.001

How to deal with violent and aggressive patients in acute medical settings (2017)
Journal Article
Harwood, R. (2017). How to deal with violent and aggressive patients in acute medical settings. Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 47(2), 176-182. https://doi.org/10.4997/jrcpe.2017.218

Dealing with violence and aggression is an area where health professionals often feel uncertain. Standing at the interface between medicine, psychiatry and law, the best actions may not be clear, and guidelines neither consistently applicable nor exp... Read More about How to deal with violent and aggressive patients in acute medical settings.

Where next for delirium research? (2017)
Journal Article
Harwood, R. H., & Teale, E. (2018). Where next for delirium research?. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 33(11), 1512-1520. https://doi.org/10.1002/gps.4696

Clinicians who manage delirium must do so without key information required for evidence‐based practice, not least lack of any clearly effective treatment for established delirium. Both the nature of delirium and the methods used to research it contri... Read More about Where next for delirium research?.