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Siobhan O'Connor: A Career in Health Technology (2015)
Digital Artefact
O'Connor, S. (2015). Siobhan O'Connor: A Career in Health Technology. [https://www.wisecampaign.org.uk/inspiration/2015/12/siobhan-oconnor]. University of Manchester, UK

WISE – A Campaign to Promote Women in Science, Technology, and Engineering (STEM). Role Model Career Blog Series 2015.

"I never thought when I entered the nursing profession I would be able to use my previous career in information systems and tec... Read More about Siobhan O'Connor: A Career in Health Technology.

Issues of Rights and Capacity: child and adolescent medical decisions (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Macfarlane, L. (2015, November). Issues of Rights and Capacity: child and adolescent medical decisions. Paper presented at Royal College of Psychiatrists in Scotland, Child and Adolescent Faculty Conference

No abstract available.

Enabling patient-centred care through information and technology (2015)
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O'Connor, S. (2015). Enabling patient-centred care through information and technology. [http://ihawkes.academicblogs.co.uk/2015/06/17/enabling-patient-centred-care-through-information-and-technology/]. University of Glasgow, UK

Blog: A snapshot of this year’s Kings Fund Digital Health and Care Congress in London highlighted the focus on enabling patient-centred care through information and technology. Beverley Bryant, Director of Digital Technology for NHS England outlined... Read More about Enabling patient-centred care through information and technology.

What Twitter can tell you about our health: Some insights from the 17th International Symposium for Health Information Management Research 2015 (#ISHIMR2015) (2015)
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O'Connor, S. (2015). What Twitter can tell you about our health: Some insights from the 17th International Symposium for Health Information Management Research 2015 (#ISHIMR2015). [http://ihawkes.academicblogs.co.uk/2015/07/01/what-twitter-can-tell-you-about-our-health-some-insights-from-the-17th-international-symposium-for-health-information-management-research-2015-ishimr2015/]. University of Glasgow, UK

Blog: The 17th International Symposium for Health Information Management Research 2015 (http://www.ishimr2015.com/) was a real eye opener for me as I got an insight into the power of Twitter analytics and how it can be applied in public health resear... Read More about What Twitter can tell you about our health: Some insights from the 17th International Symposium for Health Information Management Research 2015 (#ISHIMR2015).

Patient-derived measures of GI endoscopy: a meta-narrative review of the literature (2015)
Journal Article
Brown, S., Bevan, R., Rubin, G., Nixon, C., Dunn, S., Rees, C., Panter, S., & Rees, C. J. (2015). Patient-derived measures of GI endoscopy: a meta-narrative review of the literature. Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, 81(5), 1130-1140. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gie.2014.11.047

Background and Aims
GI endoscopy (GIE) is widely performed, with 1 in 3 people requiring an endoscopic procedure at some point. Patient experience of medical procedures is important, but, to date, experience measures of GIE are derived from clinicia... Read More about Patient-derived measures of GI endoscopy: a meta-narrative review of the literature.

Evidence Based Health Policy for Accountable Care: The Role of Health Technology Assessment (2014)
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O'Connor, S. (2014). Evidence Based Health Policy for Accountable Care: The Role of Health Technology Assessment. [http://www.ehfg.org/blog/2014/12/02/evidence-based-health-policy-for-accountable-care-the-role-of-health-technology-assessment/]. 2014 Global Health Forum Taiwan

Blog: Dr Tsung-Mei Cheng opened the afternoon session on Health Technology Assessment (HTA) at the 2014 Global Health Forum in Taiwan. Her presentation on “Evidence Based Health Policy for Accountable Care: the Role of Health Technology Assessment” g... Read More about Evidence Based Health Policy for Accountable Care: The Role of Health Technology Assessment.

The political economy of health (2014)
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O'Connor, S. (2014). The political economy of health. [http://www.ehfg.org/blog/2014/12/01/the-political-economy-of-health/]. 2014 Global Health Forum Taiwan

Blog: Professor Martin McKee, President of the European Public Health Association and Professor of European Public Health at the London School of Tropical Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, opened the plenary session at the first day of the 2014 Global Hea... Read More about The political economy of health.

Getting over that scholarship hump. You’re too busy? Please apply, here’s why! (2014)
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O'Connor, S. (2014). Getting over that scholarship hump. You’re too busy? Please apply, here’s why!. [http://ihawkes.academicblogs.co.uk/2014/10/08/getting-over-that-scholarship-hump-youre-too-busy-please-apply-heres-why/]. University of Glasgow, UK

Blog: You may wonder as a busy PhD student why you should spend your precious time applying for postgraduate scholarships. You no doubt have a million and one deadlines, a growing stack of articles to read, and a very rough draft of a paper you swore... Read More about Getting over that scholarship hump. You’re too busy? Please apply, here’s why!.

Career Stories: Siobhán O’Connor, Researcher in health informatics. (2014)
Digital Artefact
O'Connor, S. (2014). Career Stories: Siobhán O’Connor, Researcher in health informatics. [http://www.smartfutures.ie/who-works-stem/siobh%C3%A1n-o%E2%80%99connor-researcher-health-informatics-university-nof-glasgow]. University of Glasgow, UK

Smart Futures. STEM Blog: "As a PhD student you are given a lot of flexibility in how you approach your job as a researcher. It is very self-driven so the more work you put in the more you get out of it, which is really rewarding. That means you get... Read More about Career Stories: Siobhán O’Connor, Researcher in health informatics..

Delivering healthcare information via the internet: cardiac patients' access, usage, perceptions of usefulness, and web site content preferences. (2014)
Journal Article
Jones, J., Cassie, S., Thompson, M., Atherton, I., & Leslie, S. J. (2014). Delivering healthcare information via the internet: cardiac patients' access, usage, perceptions of usefulness, and web site content preferences. Telemedicine and e-Health, 20(3), 223-227. https://doi.org/10.1089/tmj.2013.0182

OBJECTIVES:

To assess patients' usage of the Internet as a source of personal healthcare information and patients' perceptions of usefulness and content preferences of more locally focused online health-related material.

MATERIALS AND METHODS:... Read More about Delivering healthcare information via the internet: cardiac patients' access, usage, perceptions of usefulness, and web site content preferences..

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

Consensus on items and quantities of clinical equipment required to deal with a mass casualties big bang incident: a national Delphi study (2014)
Journal Article
Duncan, E. A. S., Colver, K., Dougall, N., Swingler, K., Stephenson, J., & Abhyankar, P. (2014). Consensus on items and quantities of clinical equipment required to deal with a mass casualties big bang incident: a national Delphi study. BMC Emergency Medicine, 14(5), Article 5. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-227X-14-5

Background: Major short-notice or sudden impact incidents, which result in a large number of casualties, are rare events. However health services must be prepared to respond to such events appropriately. In the United Kingdom (UK), a mass casualties... Read More about Consensus on items and quantities of clinical equipment required to deal with a mass casualties big bang incident: a national Delphi study.

Instruments to measure patient experience of health care quality in hospitals: a systematic review protocol (2014)
Journal Article
Beattie, M., Lauder, W., Atherton, I., & Murphy, D. J. (2014). Instruments to measure patient experience of health care quality in hospitals: a systematic review protocol. Systematic Reviews, 3, Article 4. https://doi.org/10.1186/2046-4053-3-4

Improving and sustaining the quality of care in hospitals is an intractable and persistent challenge. The patients’ experience of the quality of hospital care can provide insightful feedback to enable clinical teams to direct quality improvement effo... Read More about Instruments to measure patient experience of health care quality in hospitals: a systematic review protocol.

"I'm not insane, my mother had me tested." The risks and benefits of being labelled 'at-risk' for psychosis. (2013)
Journal Article
Welsh, P., & Brown, S. (2013). "I'm not insane, my mother had me tested." The risks and benefits of being labelled 'at-risk' for psychosis. Health, Risk and Society, 15, 648-662. https://doi.org/10.1080/13698575.2013.848846

In this article we examine the identification of young people deemed to be at an elevated risk of developing psychosis (often referred to as an At-Risk Mental State for psychosis). Although this is not a new concept within psychiatry, there has been... Read More about "I'm not insane, my mother had me tested." The risks and benefits of being labelled 'at-risk' for psychosis..

Acceptability and perceived barriers and facilitators to creating a national research register to enable ’direct to patient’ enrolment into research: the Scottish Health Research Register (SHARE) (2013)
Journal Article
Grant, A., Ure, J., Nicolson, D. J., Hanley, J., Sheikh, A., McKinstry, B., & Sullivan, F. (2013). Acceptability and perceived barriers and facilitators to creating a national research register to enable ’direct to patient’ enrolment into research: the Scottish Health Research Register (SHARE). BMC Health Services Research, 13(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-13-422

Background
Difficulties with recruitment pose a major, increasingly recognised challenge to the viability of research. We sought to explore whether a register of volunteers interested in research participation, with data linkage to electronic health... Read More about Acceptability and perceived barriers and facilitators to creating a national research register to enable ’direct to patient’ enrolment into research: the Scottish Health Research Register (SHARE).

Appraisal and illness delay with symptoms of ACS: A questionnaire study of illness representations (2012)
Journal Article
Farquharson, B., Johnston, M., & Bugge, C. (2012). Appraisal and illness delay with symptoms of ACS: A questionnaire study of illness representations. British Journal of Cardiac Nursing, 7(10), 493-499. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjca.2012.7.10.493

Background: Reducing patient delay is key to reducing mortality in acute coronary syndrome (ACS). Interventions to date have had little success.

Aim: To explore whether illness representations (Leventhal's Commonsense Model of Self-Regulation (CS-... Read More about Appraisal and illness delay with symptoms of ACS: A questionnaire study of illness representations.

Tacit and transitionary: An exploration of patients’ and primary care health professionals’ goals in relation to asthma (2011)
Journal Article
Williams, B., Steven, K., & Sullivan, F. M. (2011). Tacit and transitionary: An exploration of patients’ and primary care health professionals’ goals in relation to asthma. Social Science and Medicine, 72(8), 1359-1366. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.02.038

Goal setting is recommended in UK health policy to make health care more patient-centred, to enhance the likelihood of behaviour change and to improve health outcomes. Patient-centred care is thought to be particularly important in the management of... Read More about Tacit and transitionary: An exploration of patients’ and primary care health professionals’ goals in relation to asthma.