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Facet joint injections for people with persistent non-specific low back pain (Facet injection study) : A feasibility study for a randomised controlled trial
Ellard, David R.; Underwood, Martin; Achana, Felix; Antrobus, James H.L.; Balasubramanian, Shyam; Brown, Sally; Cairns, Melinda; Griffin, James; Griffiths, Frances; Haywood, Kirstie; Hutchinson, Charles; Lall, Ranjit; Petrou, Stavros; Stallard, Nigel; Tysall, Colin; Walsh, David A.; Sandhu, Harbinder (2017-05-31)Background: The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) 2009 guidelines for persistent low back pain (LBP) do not recommend the injection of therapeutic substances into the back as a treatment for LBP ... -
Fall prevention in the community: what older people say they need
Dickinson, Angela; Machen, I.; Horton, K.; Jain, D.; Maddex, T.; Cove, J. (2011)Uptake of and adherence to fall prevention interventions is often poor and we know little about how older people’s perceptions of and beliefs about fall prevention interventions affect uptake. This study aimed to explore ... -
Falling in Acute Mental Health Settings for Older People : Who falls, where, when and why?
Victor, Christina; Dickinson, Angela; Narayanan, Venkataran; Simpson, Charles Melvyn; Griffiths, Caroline; Humphrey, Deborah (2014-09-28)Falls, slips and trips are a major patient safety concern in hospital settings accounting for 26 per cent of all reported patient safety incidents in England. Mental health conditions and their treatments add further to ... -
Falls screening and assessment tools used in acute mental health settings : A review of policies in England and Wales
Narayanan, V.; Dickinson, Angela; Victor, C.; Griffiths, C.; Humphrey, D. (2016-06-01)Objectives: There is an urgent need to improve the care of older people at risk of falls or who experience falls in mental health settings. The aims of this study were to evaluate the individual falls risk assessment tools ... -
Falls screening and assessment tools used in acute mental health settings : An analysis of polices in England and Wales
Dickinson, Angela; Simpson, Charles Melvyn; Victor, Christina; Humphrey, Deborah; Narayanan, Venkat; Griffiths, Caroline (2012-07-12)Background: There is an urgent need to improve the care of older people at risk of or who experience falls in mental health settings. Falls are the most frequently reported patient safety incident. NICE Guidelines recommends ... -
Family Group Conferences as a Shared Decision-Making Strategy in Adults Mental Health Work
Ramon, Shulamit (2021-07-13)Family Group conferences (FGC) provide a system by which a client and their family reach jointly key intervention decisions, from a number of options proposed by professionals. The system originated in child protection ... -
'Family members screaming for help makes it very difficult to don PPE'. A qualitative study on UK ambulance staff experiences of infection prevention and control practices during the COVID-19 pandemic
Eaton-Williams, Peter; Williams, Julia (2024-03-01)BACKGROUND: During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK, ambulance staff continued to deliver direct patient care whilst simultaneously adapting to a considerable escalation in evolving infection prevention ... -
Family perspectives on facilitators and barriers to the set up and conduct of virtual visiting in intensive care during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative interview study
Rose, Louise; Xyrichis, Andreas; Metaxa, Victoria; Pattison, Natalie; Graham, Tanya; Ramsay, Pam; Saha, Sian; Meyer, Joel (2022-10-31)Objective: To gain perspectives from family members about barriers and facilitators to virtual visit set up and conduct across intensive care unit settings in the United Kingdom to inform understanding of best practices. ... -
Feasibility of high-intensity interval training and moderate-intensity continuous training in adults with inactive or mildly active Crohn’s disease: : Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
Tew, Garry; Carpenter, Roger; Seed, Michael; Anderson, Simon; Langmead, Louise; Fairhurst, Caroline; Bottoms, Lindsay (2017-04-03)Background: Structured exercise training has been proposed as a useful adjunctive therapy for Crohn’s disease because it may counteract some disease-specific complications by improving immune function and psychological ... -
Features of central sensitisation in patients with shoulder pain : A feasibility study
van Griensven, Hubert; Lewis, Jeremy; Herbland, Anthony (2019-12-01)Design. A case-control feasibility study, comparing people with unilateral shoulder pain and pain free controls. Background. Previous studies have suggested that central sensitisation (CS) may be present in people with ... -
‘Feta is obviously very dangerous stuff looking at all those reds’: Can nutrition labelling help people living with type 2 diabetes to self‐manage their condition?
McClinchy, Jane; Dickinson, Angela; Wills, Wendy (2023-02-21)Background: The consumption of a healthy balanced diet is the cornerstone of treatment for people living with type 2 diabetes (PLWT2DM). The United Kingdom recommends a standardised voluntary front-of-pack food labelling ... -
“Fighting the invisible system”: A grounded theory study of the experiences of child protection social workers in England
Brazil, Charlie; Nolte, Lizette; Rishworth, Barbara; Littlechild, Brian (2023-11-30)This article reports on an exploration of social workers' perspectives on the social policy and agency processes that shape their experiences of working in child protection services. A qualitative constructivist grounded ... -
Final report on the standardized data collection tool for the audit of acupuncture treatment for low back pain
Cairns, M. C.; Oakes, Helen (2014-04-01)This paper summarizes the process of developing and piloting of a standardized data collection (SDC) tool for the audit of acupuncture treatment for low back pain, and presents the main findings. A total of 37 completed ... -
Florence Nightingale’s legacy for clinical academics: a framework analysis of a clinical professoriate and a model for clinical academia
Pattison, Natalie; Deaton, Christi; McCabe, Candy; Coates, Vivien; Johnston, Bridget; Nolan, Fiona; Whiting, Lisa; Briggs, Michelle (2021-04-02)Background: Clinical academic nursing roles are rare, and clinical academic leadership positions even more scarce. Amongst the United Kingdom (UK) academia, only 3% of nurses who are employed within universities are ... -
Food safety and older people : the Kitchen Life study
Dickinson, Angela; Wills, Wendy; Meah, Angela; Short, Frances (2014-05)Foodborne illness (FBI) is a major public health problem in the UK. Recent increases in cases of listeriosis in older people have focused attention on consumer food-related practices. Previous studies highlight poor ... -
Food security and food practices in later life: A new model of vulnerability
Dickinson, Angela; Wills, Wendy; Kapetanaki, Ariadne Beatrice; Halliday, Sue; Ikioda, Faith; Godfrey-Smythe, Amy (2021-02-24)The older population is particularly susceptible to malnutrition, which currently affects 1.3 million people aged 65+ in the United Kingdom. Malnutrition is an outcome of food insecurity and despite demographic changes ... -
A form of mental simulation with significant enhancements enabling teamwork training
Dogan, Burcu; Pattison, Natalie; Alinier, Guillaume (2021-09-21)Mental simulation is a type of simulation in which the clinician mentally practices a task without physically doing it. With mental simulation, the clinician can individually go through all the steps of technical and ... -
Full gait cycle analysis of lower limb and trunk kinematics and muscle activations during walking in participants with and without ankle instability
Northeast, Lynsey; Gautrey, Charlotte; Bottoms, Lindsay; Hughes, Gerwyn; Mitchell, Andrew C; Greenhalgh, Andrew (2018-07-01)Background Chronic ankle instability (CAI) has previously been linked to altered lower limb kinematics and muscle activation characteristics during walking, though little research has been performed analysing the full ... -
Further studies of the efficacy of military, commercial and novel skin decontaminants against the chemical warfare agents sulphur mustard, soman and VX
Matar, Hazem; Price, Shirley; Chilcott, Robert (2019-02-01)Background/Aims: Following an incident involving toxic chemicals, deployment of countermeasures before the arrival of specialised services at the scene may provide a “therapeutic” window in which to mitigate skin absorption. ... -
Ga(III) complexes-The effect of metal coordination on potential systemic absorption after topical exposure
Staff, Kirsten; Brown, Marc; Chilcott, Robert; Hider, Robert C.; Jones, Stuart A.; Kong, Xiao L. (2011-05-10)The handling of elemental gallium is not thought to be harmful, but this assumption does not consider metal coordination which readily occurs in physiological fluids. The aim of this work was to determine Ga(III) coordination ...