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Capturing the Real Impact of Clinical Academics in Practice (2019)
Journal Article

The Clinical Academic Careers Framework proposes an over-arching structure to develop the clinical academic workforce whose activities have patient benefit within a clear UK programme. Traditionally this has centred on professionals from medicine and... Read More about Capturing the Real Impact of Clinical Academics in Practice.

Promoting activity, Independence and stability in early dementia (PrAISED): a, multisite, randomised controlled, feasibility trial (2019)
Journal Article

BACKGROUND: We tested the feasibility of delivering and evaluating a complex therapy intervention which aimed to promote activity and independence for people with early dementia (PrAISED). Feasibility questions were on: recruitment, randomisation, in... Read More about Promoting activity, Independence and stability in early dementia (PrAISED): a, multisite, randomised controlled, feasibility trial.

Interventions to Improve Discharge from Acute Adult Mental Health Inpatient Care to the Community: Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis (2019)
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Background: The transition from acute mental health inpatient to community care is often a vulnerable period in the pathway, where people can experience additional risks and anxiety. Researchers globally have developed and tested a number of interven... Read More about Interventions to Improve Discharge from Acute Adult Mental Health Inpatient Care to the Community: Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis.

'The calm before the storm': A qualitative study of fathers' experiences of early labour (2019)
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Background Early labour care presents a challenge for maternity services and is a cause of dissatisfaction for women planning birth in an obstetric or midwifery unit who may feel unsupported or unwelcome at their planned place of birth. Little is kn... Read More about 'The calm before the storm': A qualitative study of fathers' experiences of early labour.

‘New Medicine Service’: supporting adherence in people starting a new medication for a long-term condition: 26-week follow-up of a pragmatic randomised controlled trial (2019)
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End-of-life care for frail older people (2019)
Journal Article

Most people die when they are old, but predicting exactly when this will occur is unavoidably uncertain. The health of older people is challenged by multimorbidity, disability and frailty. Frailty is the tendency to crises or episodes of rapid deteri... Read More about End-of-life care for frail older people.

The SIPHER Consortium: Introducing the new UK hub for systems science in public health and health economic research [version 1; peer review: 2 approved] (2019)
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The conditions in which we are born, grow, live, work and age are key drivers of health and inequalities in life chances. To maximise health and wellbeing across the whole population, we need well-coordinated action across government sectors, in area... Read More about The SIPHER Consortium: Introducing the new UK hub for systems science in public health and health economic research [version 1; peer review: 2 approved].

Guest Editorial Small Things and Big Data: Controversies and Challenges in Digital Healthcare (2019)
Journal Article

The papers in this special section focus on the challenges faced in the digital healthcare market. Recent advances in information and communication technologies (ICT), as well as biomedical engineering, sensor technology and data science, have acted... Read More about Guest Editorial Small Things and Big Data: Controversies and Challenges in Digital Healthcare.

Trained facilitators’ experiences with structured advance care planning conversations in oncology: an international focus group study within the ACTION trial (2019)
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Abstract Background: In oncology, Health Care Professionals often experience conducting Advance Care Planning (ACP) conversations as difficult and are hesitant to start them. A structured approach could help to overcome this. In the ACTION trial,... Read More about Trained facilitators’ experiences with structured advance care planning conversations in oncology: an international focus group study within the ACTION trial.

Not the story you want? Assessing the fit of a conceptual framework characterising mental health recovery narratives (2019)
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Narratives of recovery have been central to the development of the recovery approach in mental health. However, there has been a lack of clarity around definitions. A recent conceptual framework characterised recovery narratives based on a systematic... Read More about Not the story you want? Assessing the fit of a conceptual framework characterising mental health recovery narratives.

Relationship between Lipohypertrophy, Injection Techniques and Education in adults with Type 2 Diabetes: A Systematic Review (2019)
Journal Article

Introduction: This systematic review examines Lipohypertrophy (LH) in patients presenting with Type 1/2 Diabetes (T1/2DM) in relation to education and injection techniques. LH is a condition, which occurs in diabetes individuals at injection sights.... Read More about Relationship between Lipohypertrophy, Injection Techniques and Education in adults with Type 2 Diabetes: A Systematic Review.

Towards equity: a qualitative exploration of the implementation and impact of a digital educational intervention for pharmacy professionals in England (2019)
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Background Patients belonging to marginalised (medically under-served) groups experience problems with medicines (i.e. non-adherence, side effects) and poorer health outcomes largely due to inequitable access to healthcare (arising from poor governa... Read More about Towards equity: a qualitative exploration of the implementation and impact of a digital educational intervention for pharmacy professionals in England.

Curation of Mental Health Recovery Narrative Collections: Systematic Review and Qualitative Synthesis (2019)
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Background Mental health recovery narratives are first-person lived experience accounts of recovery from mental health problems, which refer to events or actions over a period of time. They are readily available, either individually, or in collect... Read More about Curation of Mental Health Recovery Narrative Collections: Systematic Review and Qualitative Synthesis.

Behavioural activation therapy for post-stroke depression: the BEADS feasibility RCT (2019)
Journal Article

Background: There is currently insufficient evidence for the clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of psychological therapies for post-stroke depression. Objective: To evaluate the feasibility of undertaking a definitive trial to evaluate the... Read More about Behavioural activation therapy for post-stroke depression: the BEADS feasibility RCT.

Move-It: A Cluster-Randomised Digital Worksite Exercise Intervention in China: Outcome and Process Evaluation (2019)
Journal Article

We evaluate the outcomes and processes of a video and web-based worksite exercise intervention for sedentary office workers in China, in a 2-arm cluster-randomised wait-list control trial (n = 282: intervention (INT) n = 196 and wait-list control (WL... Read More about Move-It: A Cluster-Randomised Digital Worksite Exercise Intervention in China: Outcome and Process Evaluation.

Supporting the provision of pharmacy medication reviews to marginalised (medically underserved) groups: a before/after questionnaire study investigating the impact of a patient–professional co-produced digital educational intervention (2019)
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Objectives People who are marginalised (medically underserved) experience significant health disparities and their voices are often ‘seldom heard’. Interventions to improve professional awareness and engagement with these groups are urgently needed.... Read More about Supporting the provision of pharmacy medication reviews to marginalised (medically underserved) groups: a before/after questionnaire study investigating the impact of a patient–professional co-produced digital educational intervention.

Effectiveness of exercise interventions for adults over 65 with moderate-to-severe dementia in community settings: a systematic review (2019)
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Purpose To conduct a systematic review of the literature to evaluate the effectiveness of exercise interventions for people with moderate-to-severe dementia in community settings. Methods Eight electronic databases (MEDLINE, Embase, CINAHL, AMED... Read More about Effectiveness of exercise interventions for adults over 65 with moderate-to-severe dementia in community settings: a systematic review.

Analysis of Glulisine Crystallisation Utilising Phase Diagrams and Nucleants (2019)
Journal Article

Glulisine is a US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved insulin analogue, used for controlling hyperglycaemia in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM). It is fast acting which better approximates physiological insulin secretion, improving patien... Read More about Analysis of Glulisine Crystallisation Utilising Phase Diagrams and Nucleants.

Moral ambiguity in media reports of dying alone (2019)
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More older people are living alone in the UK, thereby increasing the prospect of dying alone at home. Lone deaths tend to be regarded as bad deaths, in that they contravene notions of accompaniment and open awareness espoused in UK end of life care p... Read More about Moral ambiguity in media reports of dying alone.

Conceptual framework for personal recovery in mental health among children and adolescents: a systematic review and narrative synthesis protocol (2019)
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Introduction: Personal recovery has been defined as ‘a profound personal and unique process for the individual to change their attitudes, values, feelings, goals, abilities and roles in order to achieve a satisfactory, hopeful and productive way of l... Read More about Conceptual framework for personal recovery in mental health among children and adolescents: a systematic review and narrative synthesis protocol.