Dr KATIE ROBINSON's Outputs (4)

Title: Towards a common definition of Hospital-Acquired Deconditioning in Adults: A Scoping Review (2024)
Journal Article
Westlake, M., Cowley, A., Robinson, K., & Gordon, A. L. (in press). Title: Towards a common definition of Hospital-Acquired Deconditioning in Adults: A Scoping Review. BMJ Open,

Background: Hospital-acquired deconditioning is a term utilised in clinical practice, describing a loss of physical and/or cognitive function associated with hospitalisation. Previous reviews have addressed interventions, its prevalence in older adul... Read More about Title: Towards a common definition of Hospital-Acquired Deconditioning in Adults: A Scoping Review.

Quality of Life, Pain and Use of Analgesic, Anxiolytic and Antidepressant medication, in people living in care homes (2024)
Journal Article
Collins, J., Irvine, L., Logan, P., Robinson, K., Sims, E., & Gordon, A. (2024). Quality of Life, Pain and Use of Analgesic, Anxiolytic and Antidepressant medication, in people living in care homes. Age and Ageing, 53(9), Article afae196. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afae196

Background
People living in care homes often have problems with pain, anxiety and depression. Whether being on analgesia, anxiolytics or antidepressants has any bearing on pain severity and quality of life (QoL) in this population, requires further... Read More about Quality of Life, Pain and Use of Analgesic, Anxiolytic and Antidepressant medication, in people living in care homes.

Frailty identification and management among Brazilian healthcare professionals: a survey (2024)
Journal Article
Azevedo, P. S., Caldeira De Melo, R., Thomaz de Souza, J., Frost, R., Gavin, J. P., Robinson, K., Villas Boas, P. J. F., Minicucci, M. F., Aprahamian, I., Wachholz, P. A., Hinslif-Smith, K., & Gordon, A. L. (in press). Frailty identification and management among Brazilian healthcare professionals: a survey. BMC Geriatrics, 24(1), Article 486. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-024-05020-2

Background: National and international guidelines on frailty assessment and management recommend frailty screening in older people. This study aimed to determine how Brazilian healthcare professionals (HCPs) identify and manage frailty in practice.... Read More about Frailty identification and management among Brazilian healthcare professionals: a survey.

Developing the Principles of Falls Management in Care Homes: An expert Consensus Process (2024)
Journal Article
Robinson, K. R., Hallam, F., Horne, J. C., Allen, F., Darby, J., Kilby, A., Timmons, S., Gordon, A., & Logan, P. (2024). Developing the Principles of Falls Management in Care Homes: An expert Consensus Process. Journal of Long-Term Care, 2024, 162–170. https://doi.org/10.31389/jltc.170

Context: Managing falls in care homes requires an individualised approach for each resident with involvement of staff from care homes and the wider health and social care system. A large randomised controlled trial evaluating an individualised falls... Read More about Developing the Principles of Falls Management in Care Homes: An expert Consensus Process.