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Screening for sedentary behaviour in cardiac rehab. (2016)
Journal Article
Rogerson, M. C., Le Grande, M. R., Murphy, B. M., Neubeck, L., & Jackson, A. C. (2016). Screening for sedentary behaviour in cardiac rehab. British Journal of Cardiac Nursing, 11(4), 198-199. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjca.2016.11.4.198

Sedentary behaviour is on the rise, particularly among people with cardiovascular disease. Here, Michelle Rogerson and colleagues examine the risks of this behaviour, the presence and absence of guidelines, and incorporation of screening during cardi... Read More about Screening for sedentary behaviour in cardiac rehab..

Development of process control methodology for tracking the quality and safety of pain, agitation and sedation management in critical care units (2016)
Journal Article
Walsh, T. S., Kydonaki, K., Lee, R. J., Everingham, K., Antonelli, J., Harkness, R. T., Cole, S., Quasim, T., Ruddy, J., McDougall, M., Davidson, A., Rutherford, J., Richards, J., & Weir, C. J. (2016). Development of process control methodology for tracking the quality and safety of pain, agitation and sedation management in critical care units. Critical Care Medicine, 44(3), 564-574. https://doi.org/10.1097/CCM.0000000000001463

Objective: To develop sedation, pain, and agitation quality measures using process control methodology and evaluate their properties in clinical practice. Design: A Sedation Quality Assessment Tool was developed and validated to capture data for 1... Read More about Development of process control methodology for tracking the quality and safety of pain, agitation and sedation management in critical care units.

Improving the management of behaviour that challenges associated with dementia in care homes: protocol for pharmacy–health psychology intervention feasibility study (2016)
Journal Article
Maidment, I. D., Shaw, R. L., Killick, K., Damery, S., Hilton, A., Wilcock, J., Barnes, N., Brown, G., Gillespie, S., Fox, C., Barton, G., Iliffe, S., & Seare, N. (2016). Improving the management of behaviour that challenges associated with dementia in care homes: protocol for pharmacy–health psychology intervention feasibility study. BMJ Open, 6(3), Article e010279. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2015-010279

Introduction The inappropriate use of antipsychotics in people with dementia for behaviour that challenges is associated with an estimated 1800 deaths annually. However, solely focusing on antipsychotics may transfer prescribing to other equally dang... Read More about Improving the management of behaviour that challenges associated with dementia in care homes: protocol for pharmacy–health psychology intervention feasibility study.

Service users’ experiences of the treatment decision-making process in psychosis: A phenomenological analysis (2016)
Journal Article
Stovell, D., Wearden, A., Morrison, A. P., & Hutton, P. (2016). Service users’ experiences of the treatment decision-making process in psychosis: A phenomenological analysis. Psychosis, 8(4), 311-323. https://doi.org/10.1080/17522439.2016.1145730

Objectives: We aimed to explore the treatment decision-making experiences of individuals with psychosis, and their implications for increasing service users autonomy through clinical practice and research. Design: A qualitative design was used... Read More about Service users’ experiences of the treatment decision-making process in psychosis: A phenomenological analysis.

Predicting Out-of-Office Blood Pressure in the Clinic (PROOF-BP)Novelty and Significance: Derivation and Validation of a Tool to Improve the Accuracy of Blood Pressure Measurement in Clinical Practice (2016)
Journal Article
Sheppard, J. P., Stevens, R., Gill, P., Martin, U., Godwin, M., Hanley, J., Heneghan, C., Hobbs, F. R., Mant, J., McKinstry, B., Myers, M., Nunan, D., Ward, A., Williams, B., & McManus, R. J. (2016). Predicting Out-of-Office Blood Pressure in the Clinic (PROOF-BP)Novelty and Significance: Derivation and Validation of a Tool to Improve the Accuracy of Blood Pressure Measurement in Clinical Practice. Hypertension, 67(5), 941-950. https://doi.org/10.1161/hypertensionaha.115.07108

Patients often have lower (white coat effect) or higher (masked effect) ambulatory/home blood pressure readings compared with clinic measurements, resulting in misdiagnosis of hypertension. The present study assessed whether blood pressure and patien... Read More about Predicting Out-of-Office Blood Pressure in the Clinic (PROOF-BP)Novelty and Significance: Derivation and Validation of a Tool to Improve the Accuracy of Blood Pressure Measurement in Clinical Practice.

Are Staffing Shortages Changing the Culture of Midwifery? (2016)
Journal Article
Edwards, N., Gilbert, A., Mander, R., McHugh, N., Murphy-Lawless, J., & Patterson, J. (2016). Are Staffing Shortages Changing the Culture of Midwifery?. Practising Midwife, 19(3), 12-16

The effects of budgetary changes on midwives' practice environment have raised concerns in many settings. A survey of midwives and student midwives in the UK and Republic of Ireland in 2014 produced 280 responses. Staffing shortages were regarded as... Read More about Are Staffing Shortages Changing the Culture of Midwifery?.

Falling cholesterol trend at acute coronary syndrome presentation is strongly related to statin use for secondary prevention. (2016)
Journal Article
Chan, T., Dabin, B., Hyun, K., Ranasinghe, I., Neubeck, L., Aliprandi-Costa, B., …Freedman, S. B. (2016). Falling cholesterol trend at acute coronary syndrome presentation is strongly related to statin use for secondary prevention. International Journal of Cardiology, 212(1), 192-197. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcard.2016.03.038

Background: Lifestyle changes are believed responsible for temporal trends of reduced population total cholesterol (TC), but it is uncertain whether this applies to patients with known coronary heart disease (CHD) often prescribed lipid lowering ther... Read More about Falling cholesterol trend at acute coronary syndrome presentation is strongly related to statin use for secondary prevention..

Why, when and how to update a meta-ethnography qualitative synthesis (2016)
Journal Article
France, E. F., Wells, M., Lang, H., & Williams, B. (2016). Why, when and how to update a meta-ethnography qualitative synthesis. Systematic Reviews, 5, Article 44. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-016-0218-4

Background: Meta-ethnography is a unique, systematic, qualitative synthesis approach widely used to provide robust evidence on patient and clinician beliefs and experiences and understandings of complex social phenomena. It can make important theore... Read More about Why, when and how to update a meta-ethnography qualitative synthesis.

Optimisation of complex health interventions prior to a randomised controlled trial: a scoping review of strategies used. (2016)
Journal Article
Levati, S., Campbell, P., Frost, R., Dougall, N., Wells, M., Donaldson, C., & Hagen, S. (2016). Optimisation of complex health interventions prior to a randomised controlled trial: a scoping review of strategies used. Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 2(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-016-0058-y

Background Many complex intervention trials fail to show an intervention effect. Although this may be due to genuine ineffectiveness, it may also be the result of sub-optimal intervention design, implementation failure or a combination of these. Giv... Read More about Optimisation of complex health interventions prior to a randomised controlled trial: a scoping review of strategies used..

The effect of Wazzup Mama?! An antenatal intervention to prevent or reduce maternal distress in pregnancy (2016)
Journal Article
Fontein-Kuipers, Y. J., Ausems, M., de Vries, R., & Nieuwenhuijze, M. J. (2016). The effect of Wazzup Mama?! An antenatal intervention to prevent or reduce maternal distress in pregnancy. Archives of Women's Mental Health, 19(5), 779-788. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00737-016-0614-8

We evaluated the effect of the intervention WazzUp Mama?! on antenatal maternal distress in a non-randomized pre-post study including healthy women in 17 Dutch midwifery practices. The control group (n = 215) received antenatal care-as-usual. The exp... Read More about The effect of Wazzup Mama?! An antenatal intervention to prevent or reduce maternal distress in pregnancy.

Responsiveness and ceiling effects of the Forgotten Joint Score-12 following total hip arthroplasty (2016)
Journal Article
Hamilton, D. F., Giesinger, J. M., MacDonald, D. J., Simpson, A. H. R. W., Howie, C. R., & Giesinger, K. (2016). Responsiveness and ceiling effects of the Forgotten Joint Score-12 following total hip arthroplasty. Bone & Joint Research, 5(3), 87-91. https://doi.org/10.1302/2046-3758.53.2000480

Objectives To assess the responsiveness and ceiling/floor effects of the Forgotten Joint Score -12 and to compare these with that of the more widely used Oxford Hip Score (OHS) in patients six and 12 months after primary total hip arthroplasty. M... Read More about Responsiveness and ceiling effects of the Forgotten Joint Score-12 following total hip arthroplasty.

Rationale, design and methodology of a trial evaluating three strategies designed to improve sedation quality in intensive care units (DESIST study) (2016)
Journal Article
Weir, C. J., Kydonaki, K., Walsh, T. S., Kydonaki, C. (., Antonelli, J., Stephen, J., Lee, R. J., Everingham, K., Hanley, J., Uutelo, K., Peltola, P., & Weir, C. (2016). Rationale, design and methodology of a trial evaluating three strategies designed to improve sedation quality in intensive care units (DESIST study). BMJ Open, 6(3), Article e010148. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2015-010148

Objectives To describe the rationale, design and methodology for a trial of three novel interventions developed to improve sedation-analgesia quality in adult intensive care units (ICUs). Participants and Setting 8 clusters, each a Scottish ICU. A... Read More about Rationale, design and methodology of a trial evaluating three strategies designed to improve sedation quality in intensive care units (DESIST study).

WazzUp Mama?! The development of an intervention to prevent and reduce maternal distress during pregnancy (2016)
Thesis
Kuipers, Y. (2016). WazzUp Mama?! The development of an intervention to prevent and reduce maternal distress during pregnancy. (Thesis). Maastricht University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2871410

Intervention Mapping was used as a framework to develop a midwife-led intervention to prevent or reduce maternal distress during pregnancy. An extensive needs assessment showed that both pregnant women and midwives needed to be taught to recognise th... Read More about WazzUp Mama?! The development of an intervention to prevent and reduce maternal distress during pregnancy.

Asymmetries in the representation of space in the human auditory cortex depend on the global stimulus context (2016)
Journal Article
Briley, P. M., Goman, A. M., & Summerfield, A. Q. (2016). Asymmetries in the representation of space in the human auditory cortex depend on the global stimulus context. NeuroReport, 27(4), 242-246. https://doi.org/10.1097/wnr.0000000000000527

Studies on humans and other mammals have provided evidence for a two-channel or three-channel representation of horizontal space in the auditory system, with one channel maximally responsive to each of the left hemispace, the right hemispace and, pos... Read More about Asymmetries in the representation of space in the human auditory cortex depend on the global stimulus context.

The role of the nurse prescriber in optimising medicine adherence in the treatment of hepatitis C: A case study (2016)
Journal Article
Chalmers, L., & Paterson, R. (2016). The role of the nurse prescriber in optimising medicine adherence in the treatment of hepatitis C: A case study. Nurse Prescribing, 14(3), 148-153. https://doi.org/10.12968/npre.2016.14.3.148

In 2006, the Hepatitis C Action Plan for Scotland highlighted the need to improve successful treatment outcomes for people with the condition (Scottish Government, 2006). The publication of the plan coincided with legislative changes extending nurse... Read More about The role of the nurse prescriber in optimising medicine adherence in the treatment of hepatitis C: A case study.

An evaluation of the Jacksonville developmental center closure (2016)
Report
Vasudevan, V., Lulinski, A., Heller, T., Owen, R., Rizzolo, M. K., Spassiani, N., Schmidt, A. J., & Friedman, C. (in press). An evaluation of the Jacksonville developmental center closure. The Illinois Department of Public Health

In January 2012, Illinois Governor Pat Quinn announced his rebalancing initiative in an effort to move away from institutionally-based services toward community-based supports for people with IDD. The goal was to close four State Operated Developmen... Read More about An evaluation of the Jacksonville developmental center closure.

Do Cochrane summaries help student midwives understand the findings of Cochrane systematic reviews: the BRIEF randomised trial. (2016)
Journal Article
Alderdice, F., McNeill, J., Lasserson, T., Beller, E., Carroll, M., Hundley, V., Sunderland, J., Devane, D., Noyes, J., Key, S., Norris, S., Wyn-Davies, J., & Clarke, M. (2016). Do Cochrane summaries help student midwives understand the findings of Cochrane systematic reviews: the BRIEF randomised trial. Systematic Reviews, 5, https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-016-0214-8

Background Abstracts and plain language summaries (PLS) are often the first, and sometimes the only, point of contact between readers and systematic reviews. It is important to identify how these summaries are used and to know the impact of differ... Read More about Do Cochrane summaries help student midwives understand the findings of Cochrane systematic reviews: the BRIEF randomised trial..

Validation of Fitbit-Flex as a measure of free-living physical activity in a community-based phase III cardiac rehabilitation population (2016)
Journal Article
Alharbi, M., Bauman, A., Neubeck, L., & Gallagher, R. (2016). Validation of Fitbit-Flex as a measure of free-living physical activity in a community-based phase III cardiac rehabilitation population. European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, 23(14), 1476-1485. https://doi.org/10.1177/2047487316634883

Background: Accurate physical activity monitoring is important for cardiac patients. Novel activity monitoring devices may enable precise measurement of physical activity. This study aimed to validate Fitbit-Flex against Actigraph accelerometer for m... Read More about Validation of Fitbit-Flex as a measure of free-living physical activity in a community-based phase III cardiac rehabilitation population.

An exploration of the value of the role of the mentor and mentoring in midwifery (2016)
Journal Article
Moran, M., & Banks, D. (2016). An exploration of the value of the role of the mentor and mentoring in midwifery. Nurse Education Today, 40, 52-56. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2016.02.010

This research project aimed to examine the perceived value sign-off mentors (SOMs) in midwifery have for their role. Using a phenomenological approach, the results were drawn from in-depth interviews. The project included a literature review, methodo... Read More about An exploration of the value of the role of the mentor and mentoring in midwifery.