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Internet of Things in Health Trends Through Bibliometrics and Text Mining (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Konstantinidis, S., Billis, A., Wharrad, H., & Bamidis, P. D. (2017). Internet of Things in Health Trends Through Bibliometrics and Text Mining. In Informatics for Health: Connected Citizen-Led Wellness and Population Health (73-77). https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-753-5-73

Recently a new buzzword has slowly but surely emerged, namely the Internet of Things (IoT). The importance of IoT is identified worldwide both by organisations and governments and the scientific community with an incremental number of publications du... Read More about Internet of Things in Health Trends Through Bibliometrics and Text Mining.

Transition of care from children’s to adult services (2017)
Journal Article
Wells, F., & Manning, J. (2017). Transition of care from children’s to adult services. Nursing Children and Young People, 29(8), 30-34. https://doi.org/10.7748/ncyp.2017.e897

Transition service development is high on the agenda in contemporary healthcare improvement and there is a wealth of literature focusing on the shortcomings of many existing transition services. This literature review aims at identify and summarise r... Read More about Transition of care from children’s to adult services.

Validation of a shortened 11-item version of the Problem Areas in Diabetes scale to measure distress in adults with type 1 diabetes (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Mansell, P., Stanulewicz, N., Hopkins, D., Cooke, D., & Blake, H. (2017, September). Validation of a shortened 11-item version of the Problem Areas in Diabetes scale to measure distress in adults with type 1 diabetes. Presented at 53rd Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD 2017), Lisbon, Portugal

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.

Evaluation of the implementation of an intervention to improve the street environment and promote walking for transport in deprived neighbourhoods (2017)
Journal Article
Adams, E. J., Cavill, N., & Sherar, L. B. (2017). Evaluation of the implementation of an intervention to improve the street environment and promote walking for transport in deprived neighbourhoods. BMC Public Health, 17, Article 655. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-017-4637-5

Background: Levels of physical activity remain low, particularly in deprived areas. Improving the street environment to promote walking for transport using a community engagement approach is a potential strategy to increase physical activity. An und... Read More about Evaluation of the implementation of an intervention to improve the street environment and promote walking for transport in deprived neighbourhoods.

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. doi: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.

Stories of survival: children’s narratives of psychosocial well-being following paediatric critical illness or injury (2017)
Journal Article
Manning, J. C., Hemingway, P., & Redsell, S. A. (2017). Stories of survival: children’s narratives of psychosocial well-being following paediatric critical illness or injury. Journal of Child Health Care, 21(3), 236-252. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367493517717078

Survival from critical illness can expose children to an array of negative physical and psychological problems. While the perspective of parents and professionals have been well documented, there is limited understanding of how childhood critical car... Read More about Stories of survival: children’s narratives of psychosocial well-being following paediatric critical illness or injury.

A qualitative, exploratory study of nurses’ decision-making when interrupted during medication administration within the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (2017)
Journal Article
Bower, R. A., Coad, J. E., Manning, J. C., & Pengelly, T. A. (2018). A qualitative, exploratory study of nurses’ decision-making when interrupted during medication administration within the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit. Intensive and Critical Care Nursing, 44, 11-17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iccn.2017.04.012

Objective In the paediatric intensive care unit (PICU), medication administration is challenging. Empirical studies demonstrate that interruptions occur frequently and that nurses are fundamental in the delivery of medication. However, little is k... Read More about A qualitative, exploratory study of nurses’ decision-making when interrupted during medication administration within the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit.

Evaluation of the implementation of a whole-workplace walking programme using the RE-AIM framework (2017)
Journal Article
Adams, E. J., Chalkley, A. E., Esliger, D. W., & Sherar, L. B. (2017). Evaluation of the implementation of a whole-workplace walking programme using the RE-AIM framework. BMC Public Health, 17(1), Article 466. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-017-4376-7

Background Promoting walking for the journey to/from work and during the working day is one potential approach to increase physical activity in adults. Walking Works was a practice-led, whole-workplace walking programme delivered by employees (wal... Read More about Evaluation of the implementation of a whole-workplace walking programme using the RE-AIM framework.

Survived so what?: identifying priorities for research with children and families post-paediatric intensive care unit (2017)
Journal Article
Manning, J. C., Hemingway, P., & Redsell, S. A. (2018). Survived so what?: identifying priorities for research with children and families post-paediatric intensive care unit. Nursing in Critical Care, 23(2), (68-74). doi:10.1111/nicc.12298. ISSN 1362-1017

The involvement of patients and the public in the development, implementation and evaluation of health care services and research is recognized to have tangible benefits in relation to effectiveness and credibility. However, despite >96% of children... Read More about Survived so what?: identifying priorities for research with children and families post-paediatric intensive care unit.

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. doi: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?.

Individual, employment and psychosocial factors influencing walking to work: Implications for intervention design (2017)
Journal Article
Adams, E. J., Esliger, D. W., Taylor, I. M., & Sherar, L. B. (2017). Individual, employment and psychosocial factors influencing walking to work: Implications for intervention design. PLoS ONE, 12(2), Article e0171374. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0171374

Background Promoting walking for the journey to and from work (commuter walking) is a potential strategy for increasing physical activity. Understanding the factors influencing commuter walking is important for identifying target groups and design... Read More about Individual, employment and psychosocial factors influencing walking to work: Implications for intervention design.