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Organising polypharmacy: unpacking medicines, unpacking meanings-an ethnographic study.
(BMJ, 2021-08-26)OBJECTIVES: We explore how older patients affected by polypharmacy manage the 'hidden work' of organising their medicines, how they make sense of this work and integrate it into their lives. DESIGN AND SETTING: Ethnographic ... -
Patient and Public involvement in research From tokenistic box ticking to valued team members
(BioMed Central, 2020-04-13)Background Patient and public involvement (PPI) in research envisages a relationship built throughout the lifespan of a research project between academics, clinicians and PPI colleagues in order to inform, plan, execute ... -
Patient engagement with research: European population register study.
(2015-12)BACKGROUND: Lay involvement in implementation of research evidence into practice may include using research findings to guide individual care, as well as involvement in research processes and policy development. Little is ... -
Patient-reported side effects of oral corticosteroids
(2018-09-15)ERS International Congress 2018 abstract PA3144 -
Performance of the Hull Salford Cambridge Decision Rule (HSC DR) for early discharge of patients with findings on CT scan of the brain: a CENTER-TBI validation study.
(2021-07-27)BACKGROUND: There is international variation in hospital admission practices for patients with mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) and injuries on CT scan. Only a small proportion of patients require neurosurgical intervention, ... -
Policies on doctors' declaration of interests in medical organisations: a thematic analysis.
(2023-06-08)OBJECTIVES: There has been growing concern about doctors' conflicts of interests (COIs) but it is unclear what processes and tools exist to enable the consistent declaration and management of such interests. This study ... -
Predicting patient-reported stroke outcomes: a validation of the six simple variable prognostic model.
(2013-01)BACKGROUND: Case-mix represents the range of disease severity and baseline characteristics that may be the cause of variation in outcomes between individuals and populations. Adjustment for case-mix is therefore important ... -
Preferences for Group Arts Therapies: A Cross-Sectional Survey of Mental Health Patients and the General Population
Objectives The arts therapies include music therapy, dance-movement therapy, art therapy and dramatherapy. Preferences for art forms may play an important role in engagement with treatment. This survey was an initial ... -
Prehospital transdermal glyceryl trinitrate in patients with ultra-acute presumed stroke (RIGHT-2): an ambulance-based, randomised, sham-controlled, blinded, phase 3 trial.
(2019-03-09)BACKGROUND: High blood pressure is common in acute stroke and is a predictor of poor outcome; however, large trials of lowering blood pressure have given variable results, and the management of high blood pressure in ... -
Prevalence of, and risk factors for, presenting visual impairment: findings from a vision screening programme based on UK NSC guidance in a multi-ethnic population.
(2018-10)PURPOSE: To determine presenting visual acuity levels and explore the factors associated with failing vision screening in a multi-ethnic population of UK children aged 4-5 years. METHODS: Visual acuity (VA) using the logMAR ... -
Private and social time preference for health outcomes: A general population survey in Iran.
(2019)Despite the recent increase in economic evaluations of health care programs in low and middle income countries, there is still a surprising gap in evidence on the appropriate discount rate and the discounting of health ...