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Interventions to reduce dependency in personal activities of daily living in community-dwelling adults who use homecare services: protocol for a systematic review (2013)
Journal Article
Whitehead, P. J., Drummond, A. E., Walker, M. F., & Parry, R. H. (2013). Interventions to reduce dependency in personal activities of daily living in community-dwelling adults who use homecare services: protocol for a systematic review. Systematic Reviews, 2(1), Article 49. https://doi.org/10.1186/2046-4053-2-49

Background

There is a growing demand for services whereby individuals receive assistance from care workers for personal care within the home. This has led to the development of re-ablement or restorative homecare services that provide time-limited... Read More about Interventions to reduce dependency in personal activities of daily living in community-dwelling adults who use homecare services: protocol for a systematic review.

The role of nicotine replacement therapy for temporary abstinence in the home to protect children from environmental tobacco smoke exposure: a qualitative study with disadvantaged smokers (2013)
Journal Article
Atkinson, O., Coleman, T., McNeill, A., Lewis, S., & Jones, L. L. (2013). The role of nicotine replacement therapy for temporary abstinence in the home to protect children from environmental tobacco smoke exposure: a qualitative study with disadvantaged smokers. BMC Public Health, 13, Article 262. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-13-262

Background
Nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) has recently been licensed to help smokers to abstain from smoking for short time periods and recent studies have shown that 8-14% of smokers are regularly using NRT to cope when they cannot or are not a... Read More about The role of nicotine replacement therapy for temporary abstinence in the home to protect children from environmental tobacco smoke exposure: a qualitative study with disadvantaged smokers.

Beyond the therapeutic: a Habermasian view of self-help groups’ place in the public sphere (2013)
Journal Article
Chaudhary, S., Avis, M., & Munn-Giddings, C. (2013). Beyond the therapeutic: a Habermasian view of self-help groups’ place in the public sphere. Social Theory and Health, 11(1), https://doi.org/10.1057/sth.2012.14

Abstract

Self-help groups in the United Kingdom continue to grow in number and address virtually every conceivable health condition, but they remain the subject of very little theoretical analysis. The literature to date has predominantly focused... Read More about Beyond the therapeutic: a Habermasian view of self-help groups’ place in the public sphere.

Beyond neutrality: professionals’ responses to clients’ indirect complaints in a Therapeutic Community for people with a diagnosis of mental illness (2013)
Journal Article
Pino, M., & Mortari, L. (2013). Beyond neutrality: professionals’ responses to clients’ indirect complaints in a Therapeutic Community for people with a diagnosis of mental illness. Communication and Medicine, 10(3), https://doi.org/10.1558/cam.v10i3.213

Previous research has evidenced that in different
institutional settings professionals are cautious
when responding to clients’ indirect complaints
and tend to avoid siding either with the clients/
complainants or the complained-of absent parties... Read More about Beyond neutrality: professionals’ responses to clients’ indirect complaints in a Therapeutic Community for people with a diagnosis of mental illness.

Can GPs working in secure environments in England re-license using the Royal College of General Practitioners revalidation proposals? (2012)
Journal Article
Coomber, J., Charlton, R., Thistlethwaite, J. E., & England, L. (2012). Can GPs working in secure environments in England re-license using the Royal College of General Practitioners revalidation proposals?. BMC Family Practice, 13(123), https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2296-13-123

Background
Revalidation for UK doctors is expected to be introduced from late 2012. For general practitioners (GPs), this entails collecting supporting information to be submitted and assessed in a revalidation portfolio every five years. The aim of... Read More about Can GPs working in secure environments in England re-license using the Royal College of General Practitioners revalidation proposals?.

Pragmatic randomised controlled trial of an exercise programme to improve wellbeing outcomes in women with depression: findings from the qualitative component (2012)
Journal Article
Khalil, E., Callaghan, P., Carter, T., & Morres, I. (2012). Pragmatic randomised controlled trial of an exercise programme to improve wellbeing outcomes in women with depression: findings from the qualitative component. Psychology, 3(11), https://doi.org/10.4236/psych.2012.311147

This paper reports the qualitative component from a pragmatic randomized controlled trial (PRCT), the quantitative component is reported in Callaghan, Khalil, Morres and Carter (2011). Exercise may be effective in treating depression, but trials test... Read More about Pragmatic randomised controlled trial of an exercise programme to improve wellbeing outcomes in women with depression: findings from the qualitative component.

Physical activity and cancer (2012)
Book Chapter
Blake, H., & Tennyson, R. (2012). Physical activity and cancer. In N. L. Hicks, & R. E. Warren (Eds.), Psychology of cancer. Nova Science

It is widely accepted that physical activity is important for physical functioning and well-being, and as such the promotion of active lifestyles is becoming increasingly significant in public health policy both in the UK and worldwide. Sedentary lif... Read More about Physical activity and cancer.

“Medioglycaemia”: a new concept in glycaemic control in intensive care (ICU) units? (2012)
Journal Article
Tomlinson, V. H., Langley, J., Meal, A. G., & Adams, G. G. (2012). “Medioglycaemia”: a new concept in glycaemic control in intensive care (ICU) units?. Journal of Diabetes Mellitus, 25(4), https://doi.org/10.4236/jdm.2012.24056

Introduction: Critically ill patients can experience stress-induced hyperglycaemia. Glycaemic control therapy (GCT) is administered to control patients’ blood glycaemic levels and reduce the incidence of infection, myocardial infarctions and organ fa... Read More about “Medioglycaemia”: a new concept in glycaemic control in intensive care (ICU) units?.

Smartphone and medical related App use among medical students and junior doctors in the United Kingdom (UK): a regional survey (2012)
Journal Article
Kingdom (UK): a regional survey. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 12(121), https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6947-12-121

Background: Smartphone usage has spread to many settings including that of healthcare with numerous potential
and realised benefits. The ability to download custom-built software applications (apps) has created a new wealth
of clinical resources av... Read More about Smartphone and medical related App use among medical students and junior doctors in the United Kingdom (UK): a regional survey.

Systematic review and meta-analyses of risk factors for childhood overweight identifiable during infancy (2012)
Journal Article
Weng, S. F., Redsell, S. A., Swift, J. A., Yang, M., & Glazebrook, C. P. (2012). Systematic review and meta-analyses of risk factors for childhood overweight identifiable during infancy. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 97(12), https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2012-302263

Objective To determine risk factors for childhood
overweight that can be identified during the first year of
life to facilitate early identification and targeted
intervention.
Design Systematic review and meta-analysis.
Search strategy Electroni... Read More about Systematic review and meta-analyses of risk factors for childhood overweight identifiable during infancy.

Patients’ narratives of surgical site infection: implications for practice (2012)
Journal Article
Tanner, J., Padley, W., Davey, S., Murphy, K., & Brown, B. (2013). Patients’ narratives of surgical site infection: implications for practice. Journal of Hospital Infection, 83(1), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2012.07.025

Background

Exploring patients' experiences has been used widely within healthcare to improve clinical service delivery. To date there has been minimal patient input of this kind into aspects of surgical site infection (SSI), such as surveillance o... Read More about Patients’ narratives of surgical site infection: implications for practice.

Protocol-directed insulin infusion sliding scales improve perioperative hyperglycaemia in critical care (2012)
Journal Article
Hui, M. L., Kumar, A., & Adama, G. G. (2012). Protocol-directed insulin infusion sliding scales improve perioperative hyperglycaemia in critical care. Perioperative Medicine, 1(7), https://doi.org/10.1186/2047-0525-1-7

Perioperative hyperglycaemia is associated with poor outcomes in patients undergoing cardiac surgery. Frequent postoperative hyperglycaemia in cardiac surgery patients has led to the initiation of an insulin infusion sliding scale for quality improve... Read More about Protocol-directed insulin infusion sliding scales improve perioperative hyperglycaemia in critical care.

Classroom assessment techniques: an assessment and student evaluation method (2012)
Journal Article
Walker, D. (2012). Classroom assessment techniques: an assessment and student evaluation method. Creative Education, 3(6A), https://doi.org/10.4236/ce.2012.326136

Some of the challenges that face Higher Education are how to ensure that assessment is meaningful and that feedback is prompt in order to promote learning. Another issue is how to provide lecturers with feedback regarding their efficacy, in a timely... Read More about Classroom assessment techniques: an assessment and student evaluation method.

Why is the Liverpool care pathway used for some dying cancer patients and not others? Healthcare professionals’ perspectives (2012)
Journal Article
Freemantle, A., & Seymour, J. (2012). Why is the Liverpool care pathway used for some dying cancer patients and not others? Healthcare professionals’ perspectives. BMC Research Notes, 5(524), https://doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-5-524

Background:
Despite evidence suggesting that the Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying Patient is a structured and proficient means of supporting care delivery in the last hours or days of life, discrepancies in uptake are widespread. This explorator... Read More about Why is the Liverpool care pathway used for some dying cancer patients and not others? Healthcare professionals’ perspectives.

Coping with and factors impacting upon the experience of lung cancer in patients and primary carers (2012)
Journal Article
Ellis, J., Lloyd-williams, M., Wagland, R., Bailey, C., & Molassiotis, A. (in press). Coping with and factors impacting upon the experience of lung cancer in patients and primary carers. European Journal of Cancer Care, 22(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/ecc.12003

There is a paucity of research exploring patients' and their informal carers' experience of coping with and factors impacting on the lung cancer experience. This study aims to explore how patients and their informal carers cope with a diagnosis of lu... Read More about Coping with and factors impacting upon the experience of lung cancer in patients and primary carers.