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Anonymous Medication Reporting in a District General Hospital, (2000)
Journal Article
Ring, N. (2000). Anonymous Medication Reporting in a District General Hospital,. Journal of Clinical Excellence, 2(2), 87-91

Anonymous reporting of medication errors was introduced into a district general hospital as a short-term pilot project. For the duration of the project this system ran in parallel with the existing official system, where staff reporting medication er... Read More about Anonymous Medication Reporting in a District General Hospital,.

Does feeding alter arterial oxygen saturation in patients with acute stroke? (2000)
Journal Article
Rowat, A. M., Wardlaw, J. M., Dennis, M. S., & Warlow, C. P. (2000). Does feeding alter arterial oxygen saturation in patients with acute stroke?. Stroke, 31, 2134-2140. https://doi.org/10.1161/01.STR.31.9.2134

Background and Purpose—We measured arterial oxygen saturation (SaO2) during eating in acute stroke patients to establish the frequency of any meal-related hypoxemia, which could further damage already vulnerable brain tissue. Methods—Stroke patient... Read More about Does feeding alter arterial oxygen saturation in patients with acute stroke?.

The effects of moderate alcohol consumption on female hormone levels and reproductive function. (2000)
Journal Article
Gill, J. S. (2000). The effects of moderate alcohol consumption on female hormone levels and reproductive function. Alcohol and alcoholism : international journal of the Medical Council on Alcoholism, 35, 417-423. https://doi.org/10.1093/alcalc/35.5.417

Studies that have investigated the effect of moderate alcohol consumption on the level of oestrogens and progesterone in both pre- and post-menopausal women are reviewed. It is concluded that several lines of evidence point to an alcohol-induced rise... Read More about The effects of moderate alcohol consumption on female hormone levels and reproductive function..

Nurse networks in learning disability. (2000)
Journal Article
Brown, M. & Moore, G. (1999). Nurse networks in learning disability. Nursing Times. 96. . 40. . ISSN 0954-7762.

In 1997, three senior community nurses from Lothian Primary Care NHS Trust, Greater Glasgow Primary Care NHS Trust and Ayrshire and Arran Primary Care NHS Trust established the Scottish Community Learning Disability Nursing Network. The aim was to en... Read More about Nurse networks in learning disability..

Training specialist registrars in general surgery: A qualitative study in Tayside (2000)
Journal Article
Reid, M., Ker, J., Dunkley, M., Williams, B., & Steele, R. (2000). Training specialist registrars in general surgery: A qualitative study in Tayside. Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 45(5), 304-310

BACKGROUND: Owing to decreased hours of work and duration of training, there is a need to refashion the training of surgical specialist registrars (SpRs) in the United Kingdom. This requires more guidance for trainers, but consensus regarding good t... Read More about Training specialist registrars in general surgery: A qualitative study in Tayside.

Occupational Therapy for Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder: A Study of the Effectiveness of a Combined Sensory Integration and Perceptual-Motor Intervention (2000)
Journal Article
Davidson, T., & Williams, B. (2000). Occupational Therapy for Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder: A Study of the Effectiveness of a Combined Sensory Integration and Perceptual-Motor Intervention. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 63(

Developmental coordination disorder (DCD) is a problem for a significant proportion of children during school years and may result in more enduring social and emotional problems. Both occupational therapists and physiotherapists provide services for... Read More about Occupational Therapy for Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder: A Study of the Effectiveness of a Combined Sensory Integration and Perceptual-Motor Intervention.

What are the criteria that mentors use to make judgements on the clinical performance of student mental health nurses? An exploratory study of the formal written communication at the end of clinical nursing practice modules (2000)
Journal Article
Brown, N. (2000). What are the criteria that mentors use to make judgements on the clinical performance of student mental health nurses? An exploratory study of the formal written communication at the end of clinical nursing practice modules. Journal of P

Issues concerning the assessment of student nurse performance in clinical practice have preoccupied nurse educationalists for some time and continue to pose problems. The debate in the nursing literature tends to revolve around two seemingly mutually... Read More about What are the criteria that mentors use to make judgements on the clinical performance of student mental health nurses? An exploratory study of the formal written communication at the end of clinical nursing practice modules.

How Much Function Do Functional Restoration Programmes Restore? (2000)
Journal Article
Frost, H., & Lamb, S. (2000). How Much Function Do Functional Restoration Programmes Restore?. Physiotherapy, 86(9), 496. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0031-9406%2805%2960824-3

No abstract available.

The SIGN guideline on the care of chronic leg ulcers: an aid to improving practice (2000)
Journal Article
Finnie, A. (2000). The SIGN guideline on the care of chronic leg ulcers: an aid to improving practice. Journal of Wound Care, 9(8), 365-367. https://doi.org/10.12968/jowc.2000.9.8.26276

Implementation of national guidelines and local protocols can help practitioners to ensure their practice is evidence-based. This article describes how the implementation of the SIGN guideline on the care of chronic leg ulcers will help to address an... Read More about The SIGN guideline on the care of chronic leg ulcers: an aid to improving practice.

Van Generatie op Generatie: De invloed van verhalen op de gebioortecultuur (Birth kowledge through the generations). (2000)
Journal Article
McHugh, N. (2000). Van Generatie op Generatie: De invloed van verhalen op de gebioortecultuur (Birth kowledge through the generations). The Dutch Journal of Midwifery. . . 562-567. . .

Reactions of nurses and therapists in mainstream health services to contact with people who have learning disabilities (2000)
Journal Article
McConkey, R., & Truesdale, M. (2000). Reactions of nurses and therapists in mainstream health services to contact with people who have learning disabilities. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 32(1), 158-163. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2648.2000.01413.x

Government policy in the United Kingdom is to make the National Health Service accessible to all citizens including those who hitherto may have relied on specialist services. It is recognised that the attitudes of health professionals can be a major... Read More about Reactions of nurses and therapists in mainstream health services to contact with people who have learning disabilities.

Back to Fitness Programme (2000)
Journal Article
Moffett, J. K., & Frost, H. (2000). Back to Fitness Programme. Physiotherapy, 86(6), 295-305. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0031-9406%2805%2961003-6

This paper provides physiotherapists with a manual to set up and run the Back to Fitness programme that was recently evaluated in a trial published in the British Medical Journal ( Klaber Moffett et al, 1999 ). The promising findings have attracted i... Read More about Back to Fitness Programme.

A Functional Restoration Programme for Chronic Low Back Pain (2000)
Journal Article
Frost, H., Lamb, S., & Shackleton, C. (2000). A Functional Restoration Programme for Chronic Low Back Pain. Physiotherapy, 86(6), 285-293. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0031-9406%2805%2961002-4

The purpose of this longitudinal prospective study was to assess the clinical benefits of a newly established functional restoration programme for patients with chronic low back pain. The overall aim of the programme was to improve function and encou... Read More about A Functional Restoration Programme for Chronic Low Back Pain.

Evaluation of a community-based intervention to increase breastfeeding prevalence (2000)
Journal Article
McInnes, R. J., Love, J. G. & Stone, D. H. (2000). Evaluation of a community-based intervention to increase breastfeeding prevalence. Journal of public health medicine. 22. (2). 138-145. . ISSN 0957-4832.

BACKGROUND: The aim of the study was to determine whether peer counselling in the antenatal and post-natal period would increase the prevalence and duration of breastfeeding among low-income women in Glasgow. METHODS: The study was designe... Read More about Evaluation of a community-based intervention to increase breastfeeding prevalence.

An exploration of the epistemological intricacies of using qualitative data to develop a quantitative measure of user views of health care (2000)
Journal Article
Coyle, J., & Williams, B. (2000). An exploration of the epistemological intricacies of using qualitative data to develop a quantitative measure of user views of health care. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 31(5), 1235-1243. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-264

An exploration of the epistemological intricacies of using qualitative data to develop a quantitative measure of user views of health care Nurse researchers are increasingly combining qualitative and quantitative methods in order to understand mo... Read More about An exploration of the epistemological intricacies of using qualitative data to develop a quantitative measure of user views of health care.

Occupation: reaffirming its place in our practice. (2000)
Journal Article
McKay, E., & Molineux, M. (2000). Occupation: reaffirming its place in our practice. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 63(5), 241-242. https://doi.org/10.1177/030802260006300510

The original impetus for the development of this workshop was the strong belief held by the facilitators that while occupation is central to occupational therapy philosophy, much practice is not occupationally focused. As a result this workshop was d... Read More about Occupation: reaffirming its place in our practice..

Interface pressure measurements in leg ulcer management (2000)
Journal Article
Finnie, A. (2000). Interface pressure measurements in leg ulcer management. British Journal of Nursing, 9(Sup1), S8-S18. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjon.2000.9.Sup1.6353

Interface pressure measurements are undertaken in health care as a useful tool to assist in understanding the pressures that exist between the skin surface and another surface. Pressure monitors are utilized to measure pressures under compression ban... Read More about Interface pressure measurements in leg ulcer management.

Mental health service user involvement in nurse education: exploring the issues (2000)
Journal Article
Forrest, S., Risk, I., Masters, H., & Brown, N. (2000). Mental health service user involvement in nurse education: exploring the issues. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 7(1), 51-57. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2850.2000.00262.x

This paper reports on findings and issues arising from a study designed to promote mental health service users’ involvement in a preregistration nursing curriculum. Users’ views about the knowledge, skills and attributes required by mental health nur... Read More about Mental health service user involvement in nurse education: exploring the issues.