Bright spots, physical activity investments that work: Workplace Challenge
(2017)
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Transition of care from children’s to adult services (2017)
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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.
What Works to Improve and Manage Fecal Incontinence in Care Home Residents Living With Dementia? A Realist Synthesis of the Evidence (2017)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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.