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Understanding the healthcare workplace learning culture through safety and dignity narratives: a UK qualitative study of multiple stakeholders’ perspectives (2019)
Journal Article
Sholl, S., Scheffler, G., Monrouxe, L. V., & Rees, C. E. (2019). Understanding the healthcare workplace learning culture through safety and dignity narratives: a UK qualitative study of multiple stakeholders’ perspectives. BMJ Open, 9(5), Article e025615. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-025615

Objectives: While studies at the undergraduate level have begun to explore healthcare students’ safety and dignity dilemmas, none have explored such dilemmas with multiple stakeholders at the postgraduate level. The current study therefore explores t... Read More about Understanding the healthcare workplace learning culture through safety and dignity narratives: a UK qualitative study of multiple stakeholders’ perspectives.

How do Elite Doctors Respond to Tensions in Hybrid Healthcare Organizations? (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Martin, G., Siebert, S., Howieson, B., & Bushfield, S. (2017, August). How do Elite Doctors Respond to Tensions in Hybrid Healthcare Organizations?. Presented at Academy of Management Proceedings 2017, United States

In this paper we explain how and why elite doctors in public service healthcare respond to increasing hybridity through different forms of identity work, accommodation and resistance. We draw on a conceptual framework developed by Besharov and Smith... Read More about How do Elite Doctors Respond to Tensions in Hybrid Healthcare Organizations?.

Balancing health care education and patient care in the UK workplace: a realist synthesis (2017)
Journal Article
Sholl, S., Ajjawi, R., Allbutt, H., Butler, J., Jindal-Snape, D., Morrison, J., & Rees, C. (2017). Balancing health care education and patient care in the UK workplace: a realist synthesis. Medical Education, 51(8), 787-801. https://doi.org/10.1111/medu.13290

Introduction: Patient care activity has recently increased without a proportionate rise in workforce numbers, impacting negatively on healthcare workplace learning. Healthcare professionals are prepared in part by spending time in clinical practice,... Read More about Balancing health care education and patient care in the UK workplace: a realist synthesis.

Balancing student/trainee learning with the delivery of patient care in the healthcare workplace: a protocol for realist synthesis (2016)
Journal Article
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), Article e011145. 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 linked to current medical education drivers in the UK. The top priority a... Read More about Balancing student/trainee learning with the delivery of patient care in the healthcare workplace: a protocol for realist synthesis.

Medical Knowledge, Medical Education, and the Career Choices of Women Doctors C.1860–1920: An Edinburgh Case Study (2015)
Book Chapter
Thomson, E. (2015). Medical Knowledge, Medical Education, and the Career Choices of Women Doctors C.1860–1920: An Edinburgh Case Study. In M. Tsouroufli (Ed.), Gender, Careers and Inequalities in Medicine and Medical Education: International Perspectives (15-41). Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/s2051-233320150000002002

This chapter explores the inequalities and restrictions faced by women as they entered the medical profession in the United Kingdom. A case study in the first hospital in the United Kingdom to be founded and run by women, the Edinburgh Hospital for W... Read More about Medical Knowledge, Medical Education, and the Career Choices of Women Doctors C.1860–1920: An Edinburgh Case Study.

The impact of gender perceptions and professional values on women’s careers in nursing (2015)
Journal Article
McIntosh, B., McQuaid, R., & Munro, A. (2015). The impact of gender perceptions and professional values on women’s careers in nursing. Gender in management an international journal, 30(1), 26-43. https://doi.org/10.1108/gm-12-2013-0135

Purpose
– This purpose of this paper is to engage two enduring sets of assumptions within nursing: firstly, that woman with children should prioritise the care of children; and secondly, that nursing standards require nurses to put their profession... Read More about The impact of gender perceptions and professional values on women’s careers in nursing.

How physicians decide: a regulatory compliance perspective from clinical research (2015)
Thesis
Smith, F. How physicians decide: a regulatory compliance perspective from clinical research. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/8852

The central aim of this thesis is to investigate how physicians, working for Pharmaceutical Product Development (PPD), a clinical research organisation (CRO), make decisions for a new industry standard for good clinical practice in medical device tri... Read More about How physicians decide: a regulatory compliance perspective from clinical research.

Seminar: Education and the Body Donor (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Parkin, I., Sholl, S., & Findlater, G. (2014, March). Seminar: Education and the Body Donor. Presented at In Memoriam

Approaches for dealing with missing data in health care studies (2012)
Journal Article
Penny, K. I., & Atkinson, I. (2012). Approaches for dealing with missing data in health care studies. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 21, 2722-2729. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2702.2011.03854.x

Aim.  The aims of this study were to highlight the problems associated with missing data in healthcare research and to demonstrate the use of several techniques for dealing with missing values, through the use of an illustrative example. Background. ... Read More about Approaches for dealing with missing data in health care studies.

Genetics Healthcare & Public Health Screening in Scotland (2012)
Report
Kerr, G. (2012). Genetics Healthcare & Public Health Screening in Scotland. The Scottish Parliament: The Scottish Parliament

This briefing describes genetic healthcare services and public health screening programmes in Scotland. It includes a brief introduction to genetics in relation to healthcare; information on the four regional genetics services and an overview of rece... Read More about Genetics Healthcare & Public Health Screening in Scotland.

Mining trauma injury data with imputed values (2009)
Journal Article
Penny, K. I., & Chesney, T. (2009). Mining trauma injury data with imputed values. Statistical Analysis and Data Mining, 2, 246-254. https://doi.org/10.1002/sam.10044

Methods for analyzing trauma injury data with missing values, collected at a UK hospital, are reported. One measure of injury severity, the Glasgow coma score, which is known to be associated with patient death, is missing for 12% of patients in the... Read More about Mining trauma injury data with imputed values.

A comparison of missing value imputation methods for classifying patient outcome following trauma injury. (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Penny, K. I., & Chesney, T. (2008, June). A comparison of missing value imputation methods for classifying patient outcome following trauma injury. Presented at Information Technology Interfaces 2008

A study is designed to compare several missing value imputation methods to enable classification of patient outcome following trauma injury. The Glasgow coma score is a measure of head injury severity, and is known to be important in determining pati... Read More about A comparison of missing value imputation methods for classifying patient outcome following trauma injury..

An examination of subgroup classification in irritable bowel syndrome patients over time: A prospective study (2008)
Journal Article
Penny, K. I., Smith, G. D., Ramsay, D., Steinke, D. T., Kinnear, M., & Penman, I. D. (2008). An examination of subgroup classification in irritable bowel syndrome patients over time: A prospective study. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 45(12), 1715-1720. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2008.04.004

Abstract
Background
Irritablebowel syndrome (IBS) is a complex functional gastrointestinal disorder which to date remains poorly understood. Therapies for irritablebowel syndrome (IBS) patients are usually aimed at relieving the predominant symptom... Read More about An examination of subgroup classification in irritable bowel syndrome patients over time: A prospective study.