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Managing post-stroke fatigue: A qualitative study to explore multifaceted clinical perspectives (2021)
Journal Article
Drummond, A., Nouri, F., Ablewhite, J., Condon, L., Das Nair, R., Jones, A., …Thomas, S. (2022). Managing post-stroke fatigue: A qualitative study to explore multifaceted clinical perspectives. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 85(7), 505-512. https://doi.org/10.1177/03080226211042269

Introduction: Post-stroke fatigue (PSF) is common and debilitating. However, while its effective management is a priority for clinicians and stroke survivors, there remains little evidence to provide guidance or underpin practice. Our aim, therefore,... Read More about Managing post-stroke fatigue: A qualitative study to explore multifaceted clinical perspectives.

Using occupational therapists in vocational clinics in primary care: a feasibility study (2020)
Journal Article
Drummond, A., Coole, C., Nouri, F., Ablewhite, J., & Smyth, G. (2020). Using occupational therapists in vocational clinics in primary care: a feasibility study. BMC Family Practice, 21(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12875-020-01340-5

Background: GPs are under considerable pressure providing routine care. However, they may not be the most appropriate professionals to manage getting patients back to work, and keeping them there. Objective: To test the feasibility of delivering occu... Read More about Using occupational therapists in vocational clinics in primary care: a feasibility study.

Occupational advice to help people return to work following lower limb arthroplasty: the OPAL intervention mapping study (2020)
Journal Article
Baker, P., Coole, C., Drummond, A., Khan, S., McDaid, C., Hewitt, C., …Rangan, A. (2020). Occupational advice to help people return to work following lower limb arthroplasty: the OPAL intervention mapping study. Health Technology Assessment, 24(45), https://doi.org/10.3310/hta24450

Background: Hip and knee replacements are regularly carried out for patients who work. There is little evidence about these patients' needs and the factors influencing their return to work. There is a paucity of guidance to help patients return to wo... Read More about Occupational advice to help people return to work following lower limb arthroplasty: the OPAL intervention mapping study.

Managing employees undergoing total hip and knee replacement: experiences of workplace representatives (2018)
Journal Article
Nouri, F., Coole, C., Narayanasamy, M., Baker, P., Khan, S., & Drummond, A. (2018). Managing employees undergoing total hip and knee replacement: experiences of workplace representatives. Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10926-018-9805-7

Joint replacement is a cost-effective and efficient method of relieving pain, and improving function and health related quality of life, for people with arthritis of the hip and knee [1]. Arthritis-related loss of physical function is associated with... Read More about Managing employees undergoing total hip and knee replacement: experiences of workplace representatives.

Engaging workplace representatives in research: what recruitment strategies work best? (2018)
Journal Article
Coole, C., Nouri, F., Narayanasamy, M., Baker, P., Khan, S., & Drummond, A. E. (2018). Engaging workplace representatives in research: what recruitment strategies work best?. Occupational Medicine, 68(4), 282-285. https://doi.org/10.1093/occmed/kqy047

Background Workplaces are key stakeholders in work and health but little is known about the methods used to recruit workplace representatives (WRs), including managers, occupational health advisers and colleagues, to externally funded healthcare r... Read More about Engaging workplace representatives in research: what recruitment strategies work best?.

Can Healthcare Assistant Training (CHAT) improve the relational care of older people? A developmental and feasibility study of a complex intervention (2017)
Journal Article
Arthur, A., Aldus, C., Sarre, S., Maben, J., Wharrad, H., Schneider, J. M., …Nicholson, C. (2017). Can Healthcare Assistant Training (CHAT) improve the relational care of older people? A developmental and feasibility study of a complex intervention. Health Services and Delivery Research, 5(10), https://doi.org/10.3310/hsdr05100

Background: Older people account for an increasing proportion of those receiving NHS acute care. The quality of healthcare delivered to older people has come under increased scrutiny. Healthcare assistants (HCAs) provide much of the direct care of ol... Read More about Can Healthcare Assistant Training (CHAT) improve the relational care of older people? A developmental and feasibility study of a complex intervention.

Is stroke early supported discharge still effective in practice? A prospective comparative study (2016)
Journal Article
Fisher, R. J., Cobley, C., Potgieter, I., Moody, A., Nouri, F., Gaynor, C., …Walker, M. F. (2016). Is stroke early supported discharge still effective in practice? A prospective comparative study. Clinical Rehabilitation, 30(3), https://doi.org/10.1177/0269215515578697

Objective: Randomised controlled trials have shown the benefits of Early Supported Discharge (ESD) of stroke survivors. Our aim was to evaluate whether ESD is still beneficial when operating in the complex context of frontline healthcare provision.... Read More about Is stroke early supported discharge still effective in practice? A prospective comparative study.

Recommendations to facilitate the ideal fit note: are they achievable in practice? (2015)
Journal Article
Coole, C., Nouri, F., Potgieter, I., Watson, P. J., Thomson, L., Hampton, R., & Drummond, A. (2015). Recommendations to facilitate the ideal fit note: are they achievable in practice?. BMC Family Practice, 16(138), Article 138. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12875-015-0360-4

Background: Although the UK fit note has been broadly welcomed as a tool to facilitate return to work, difficulties and uncertainties have resulted in wide variation in its use. Agreement on what constitutes the ‘ideal’ fit note from the perspective... Read More about Recommendations to facilitate the ideal fit note: are they achievable in practice?.

Completion of fit notes by GPs: a mixed methods study (2015)
Journal Article
Coole, C., Nouri, F., Potgieter, I., & Drummond, A. E. (2015). Completion of fit notes by GPs: a mixed methods study. Perspectives in Public Health, 135(5), https://doi.org/10.1177/1757913915594197

Aims: The aim of this study was to investigate the completion of fit notes by UK general practitioners (GPs). A series of actual fit notes issued to employed patients were examined, and their GPs’ reflections and experiences of fit note completion ex... Read More about Completion of fit notes by GPs: a mixed methods study.

Return-to-work outcomes and usefulness of actual fit notes received by employers (2015)
Journal Article
Coole, C., Potgieter, I., Nouri, F., Worthington, E., & Drummond, A. (in press). Return-to-work outcomes and usefulness of actual fit notes received by employers. Family Practice, 32(5), https://doi.org/10.1093/fampra/cmv050

Background: GPs can use the fit note to advise that a patient ‘may be fit’ or is ‘not fit’ for work. Previous employer-based research on the fit note is largely qualitative and based on general perceptions and past experience. Knowledge of the return... Read More about Return-to-work outcomes and usefulness of actual fit notes received by employers.