Projects (7)

Who benefits from cardiovascular risk reduction programmes? Building a Scottish observatory to measure the impact of blood pressure (BP) telemonitoring and future cardiovascular risk reduction interventions Sep 1, 2020 - Sep 30, 2024
The British Heart Foundation is partnering the Scottish Government in supporting the roll out of an evidence based BP telemonitoring initiative (scale up BP) in order to facilitate increased detection and improved management of hypertension and subse... Read More about Who benefits from cardiovascular risk reduction programmes? Building a Scottish observatory to measure the impact of blood pressure (BP) telemonitoring and future cardiovascular risk reduction interventions.

Care Home Innovation Partnership - Ensuring a Whole Systems Analysis Sep 1, 2019 - Dec 31, 2023
• Conduct an ‘Audit’ of data items currently collected through electronic care planning in the 6 partner care homes to establish what data are routinely collected as part of resident care
• Create a usable data inventory from which data platform can... Read More about Care Home Innovation Partnership - Ensuring a Whole Systems Analysis.

Evaluation of the N50k programme Dec 14, 2022 - Sep 30, 2024
This study will evaluate the success of the UK government's policy to increase numbers of registered nurses in England by 50 thousand. The Napier element will build on work we are currently doing to enable a more effective use of registrant data held... Read More about Evaluation of the N50k programme.

Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Research 2022 Apr 1, 2022 - Mar 31, 2026
During the pilot phase of ADR UK the Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Research (SCADR) has, together with
partners in the Scottish Government, delivered a series of policy-relevant projects based on the linking of novel sets of
administrativ... Read More about Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Research 2022.

Care Homes Appreciative Inquiry into Retention Jun 1, 2022 - Feb 28, 2025
This proposal is for a programme of work that will involve both research and collaborative appreciative inquiry led quality improvement in Lothian care homes, targeted at improving the retention of high-quality frontline care home workers and enhanci... Read More about Care Homes Appreciative Inquiry into Retention.

ExtraCECI: A cluster randomised controlled trial of community-based person-centred enhanced care for people with HIV/AIDS in Ghana May 1, 2024 - Apr 30, 2028
This study focuses on people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) who continue to experience distressing symptoms and concerns, so that even while taking their HIV medications, they still have physical pain and psychological, social and spiritual concerns th... Read More about ExtraCECI: A cluster randomised controlled trial of community-based person-centred enhanced care for people with HIV/AIDS in Ghana.

A randomised controlled trial of SHORT duration antibiotic thERapy for critically ill patients with sepsis: shorter trial Feb 1, 2023 - Aug 31, 2026
Background
Sepsis is a life-threatening condition due to a severe infection. It is a common reason for patients to require life-support . Sepsis is a leading cause of death worldwide. Antibiotics are a major part of the treatment of sepsis, but ant... Read More about A randomised controlled trial of SHORT duration antibiotic thERapy for critically ill patients with sepsis: shorter trial.