The MRC Spine Stabilization Trial: Surgical Methods, Outcomes, Costs, and Complications of Surgical Stabilization (2008)
Journal Article
Wilson-MacDonald, J., Fairbank, J., Frost, H., Yu, L.-M., Barker, K., Collins, R., & Campbell, H. (2008). The MRC Spine Stabilization Trial: Surgical Methods, Outcomes, Costs, and Complications of Surgical Stabilization. Spine, 33(21), 2334-2340. https://doi.org/10.1097/brs.0b013e318186a8b2

STUDY DESIGN:
A review of the surgical costs and results in a group of patients randomly allocated to surgery as part of a large prospective randomized trial of patients with chronic back pain.
OBJECTIVE:
To report the observational data from the... Read More about The MRC Spine Stabilization Trial: Surgical Methods, Outcomes, Costs, and Complications of Surgical Stabilization.

Responsiveness of a Patient Specific Outcome Measure Compared With the Oswestry Disability Index v2.1 and Roland and Morris Disability Questionnaire for Patients With Subacute and Chronic Low Back Pain (2008)
Journal Article
Frost, H., Lamb, S. E., & Stewart-Brown, S. (2008). Responsiveness of a Patient Specific Outcome Measure Compared With the Oswestry Disability Index v2.1 and Roland and Morris Disability Questionnaire for Patients With Subacute and Chronic Low Back Pain. Spine, 33(22), 2450-2457. https://doi.org/10.1097/brs.0b013e31818916fd

STUDY DESIGN:
A prospective cohort.
OBJECTIVE:
The aim of this study was to compare the responsiveness of a patient specific outcome measure with the Oswestry Disability Index v2.1 (ODI) and the Roland and Morris Disability Questionnaire (RMDQ) fo... Read More about Responsiveness of a Patient Specific Outcome Measure Compared With the Oswestry Disability Index v2.1 and Roland and Morris Disability Questionnaire for Patients With Subacute and Chronic Low Back Pain.

Exploring the experiences and perspectives of families using a children’s hospice and professionals providing hospice care to identify future research priorities for children’s hospice care (2008)
Journal Article
Malcolm, C., Forbat, L., Knighting, K., & Kearney, N. (2008). Exploring the experiences and perspectives of families using a children’s hospice and professionals providing hospice care to identify future research priorities for children’s hospice care. Palliative Medicine, 22(8), 921-928. https://doi.org/10.1177/0269216308098214

The main objective of this study is to generate a list of priority topics for children’s hospice care research in Scotland from the perspective of its key stakeholders. The method consists of qualitative semi-structured interviews with families using... Read More about Exploring the experiences and perspectives of families using a children’s hospice and professionals providing hospice care to identify future research priorities for children’s hospice care.

The history of prescribing (2008)
Journal Article
Snowden, A. (2008). The history of prescribing. Nurse Prescribing, 6(12), 530-537. https://doi.org/10.12968/npre.2008.6.12.31974

100 years ago responsibility for medication management lay with the individual. Patent medicines had been the norm for the previous 300 years. It was as a direct consequence of the laws designed to restrict the use of opiates that prescription only m... Read More about The history of prescribing.

Intrauterine growth and survival in cerebral palsy (2008)
Journal Article
Hemming, K., Hutton, J., Bonellie, S., & Kurinczuk, J. J. (2008). Intrauterine growth and survival in cerebral palsy. Archives of disease in childhood. Fetal and neonatal edition, 93, F121-F126. https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.2007.121129

Background and objectives: Deviations in birth weight from an optimum, thought to be just above average for gestational age, are known to increase both the risk of developing cerebral palsy and the risk of developing cerebral palsy of a more severe f... Read More about Intrauterine growth and survival in cerebral palsy.