Epidemiology of emergency ambulance service calls related to mental health problems and self harm: a national record linkage study.
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Duncan, E., Best, C., Dougall, N., Skar, S., Evans, J., Corfield, A., …Wojcik, W. (2019)
Epidemiology of emergency ambulance service calls related to mental health problems and self harm: a national record linkage study. Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 27(34), https://doi.org/10.1186/s13049-019-0611-9
Background: People experiencing a mental health crisis receive variable and poorer quality care than those experiencing a physical health crisis. Little is known about the epi...
How data science can advance mental health research
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Russ, T. C., Woelbert, E., Davis, K. A. S., Hafferty, J. D., Ibrahim, Z., Inkster, B., …Data Science Group, M. (2018)
How data science can advance mental health research. Nature Human Behaviour, doi:10.1038/s41562-018-0470-9
Accessibility of powerful computers and availability of so-called big data from a variety of sources means that data science approaches are becoming pervasive. However, their ...
Pragmatic surgical studies: are they the New Gold Standard
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Simpson, A., Frost, H., & Norrie, J. (2018)
Pragmatic surgical studies: are they the New Gold Standard. Bone and Joint Journal, 100-B(11), 1407-1408. https://doi.org/10.1302/0301-620X.100B11.BJJ-2018-0947
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Hepatitis C in a new therapeutic era: Recontextualising the lived experience
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Whiteley, D., Whittaker, A., Elliott, L., & Cunningham-Burley, S. (2017)
Hepatitis C in a new therapeutic era: Recontextualising the lived experience. Journal of Clinical Nursing, https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.14083
Aims and Objectives
To explore the experience of adults living with hepatitis C in a new era of interferon-free treatment.
Background
Hepatitis C is a leading cause of morbidi...
Cohort profile: the Scottish Research register SHARE. A register of people interested in research participation linked to NHS data sets
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McKinstry, B., Sullivan, F. M., Vasishta, S., Armstrong, R., Hanley, J., Haughney, J., …Palmer, C. N. A. (2017)
Cohort profile: the Scottish Research register SHARE. A register of people interested in research participation linked to NHS data sets. BMJ Open, 7(2), e013351. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-013351
Purpose Recruitment to trials is often difficult. Many trials fail to meet recruitment targets resulting in underpowered studies which waste resources and the time of those wh...
Interventions for sustained healthcare professional behaviour change: a protocol for an overview of reviews
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Dombrowski, S. U., Campbell, P., Frost, H., Pollock, A., McLellan, J., MacGillivray, S., …Williams, B. (2016)
Interventions for sustained healthcare professional behaviour change: a protocol for an overview of reviews. Systematic Reviews, 5(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-016-0355-9
Background
Failure to successfully implement and sustain change over the long term continues to be a major problem in health and social care. Translating evidence into routine...
Balancing student/trainee learning with the delivery of patient care in the healthcare workplace: a protocol for realist synthesis
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Sholl, S., Ajjawi, R., Allbutt, H., Butler, J., Jindal-Snape, D., Morrison, J., & Rees, C. (2016)
Balancing student/trainee learning with the delivery of patient care in the healthcare workplace: a protocol for realist synthesis. BMJ Open, 6(4), https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-011145
Introduction:
A national survey was recently conducted to explore medical education research priorities in Scotland. The identified themes and underlying priority areas can be...
Reflecting on the methodological challenge of recruiting older care home residents to podiatry research
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Wylie, G., Young, Z., Littleford, R., Sullivan, F., Williams, B., Menz, H., …Morris, J. (2015)
Reflecting on the methodological challenge of recruiting older care home residents to podiatry research. Journal of Foot and Ankle Research, 8(supp. 1), https://doi.org/10.1186/1757-1146-8-S1-A10
Introduction
Successful randomisd controlled trials (RCTs) require successful participant recruitment; poor recruitment leads to poor, under-powered studies, and may waste gra...
Images in Health Care: Potential and Problems
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Williams, B., & Cameron, L. (2009)
Images in Health Care: Potential and Problems. Journal of Health Services Research and Policy, 14(4), 251-254. https://doi.org/10.1258/jhsrp.2009.008168
Although communication issues within health care have received greater research and policy attention in recent years, one growing aspect of such communication has been largely...
Reflections on applying for NHS ethical approval and governance in a climate of rapid change: prioritising process over principles
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McDonach, E., Barbour, R. S., & Williams, B. (2009)
Reflections on applying for NHS ethical approval and governance in a climate of rapid change: prioritising process over principles. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 12(3), 227-241. doi:10.1080/13645570701606127
Ethical review and governance of health services research in the UK have undergone significant changes in recent years. Tracing this incremental development helps to understan...