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The lay health worker-patient relationship in promoting pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) in COPD: What makes it work?
(Sage Publications, 2019-08-22)Lay health workers (LHWs) can improve access to services and adherence to treatment, as well as promoting self-care and prevention. Their effect in promoting uptake and adherence in pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) for chronic ... -
Long term probability of detection of HIV-1 drug resistance after starting antiretroviral therapy in routine clinical practice.
(2005-03-25)BACKGROUND: Little is known about the long term risk of development of HIV-1 drug resistance for patients starting antiretroviral therapy (ART) with three or four drug regimens in routine clinical practice. METHODS: We ... -
Measuring fidelity to behavioural support delivery for smoking cessation and its association with outcomes.
(2020-02)BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Behavioural support increases smoking cessation in clinical settings, but effect sizes differ among providers, due possibly to variations in delivery. This study evaluates a measure ('fidelity index') ... -
Measuring quality of life in people living with and beyond cancer in the UK
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Meeting report: national workshops for the communication of air pollution and health information: summary of four workshops in different regions of Europe.
(2006-07)AIRNET was a thematic network project (2002-2004) initiated to stimulate the interaction between researchers in air pollution and health in Europe. As part of AIRNET's communication strategy, a standardized workshop model ... -
MENTAL HEALTH IN YOUNG PEOPLE WITH HEARING LOSS: LONGITUDINAL ANALYSIS OF THE MILLENNIUM COHORT STUDY
(BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, 2019-09-03)Background Children and young people with hearing loss (HL) may be at high risk of peer victimisation and negative mental health, which have lasting consequences for health, relationships, and employment. We estimated the ... -
Methods for Meta-Analysis in Medical Research
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2000-12-19)Major text including chapters on the following: defining outcome measures; assessing heterogeneity; using fixed effects methods and random effects models for combining study estimates; publication bias. -
Modelling with non-stratified chain event graphs
(2019-01-01)© 2019, Springer Nature Switzerland AG. Chain Event Graphs (CEGs) are recent probabilistic graphical modelling tools that have proved successful in modelling scenarios with context-specific independencies. Although the theory ... -
A multi-centre investigation of delivering national guidelines on exercise training for men with advanced prostate cancer undergoing androgen deprivation therapy in the UK NHS
(Public Library of Science, 2018-07-05)Background: National guidelines (NICE-CG175) recommended 12 weeks of supervised exercise training for men treated with androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) for prostate cancer to counter debilitating adverse effects of ... -
Multimorbidity as chronic crisis: 'Living on' with multiple long-term health conditions in a socially disadvantaged London borough.
(2023-11-13)Contemporary health services are primarily designed around single diseases. People with multimorbidity (multiple long-term health conditions) often become burdened by accumulated treatments. Through multimodal fieldwork ... -
Newborn screening for primary congenital hypothyroidism: estimating test performance at different TSH thresholds
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The NHS visitor and migrant cost recovery programme - a threat to health?
(BioMed Central, 2020-04-20)BACKGROUND: In April 2014 the UK government launched the 'NHS Visitor and Migrant Cost Recovery Programme Implementation Plan' which set out a series of policy changes to recoup costs from 'chargeable' (largely non-UK born) ... -
Norman Sartorius: psychiatry's living legend.
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A nurse-led, preventive, psychological intervention to reduce PTSD symptom severity in critically ill patients: the POPPI feasibility study and cluster RCT
Background: High numbers of patients experience severe acute stress in critical care units. Acute stress has been linked to post-critical care psychological morbidity, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). ...