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Definition, assessment and management of frailty for people with intellectual disabilities: A scoping review.
(2024-05)
Background: People with intellectual disabilities may experience frailty earlier than the general population. This scoping review aimed to investigate how frailty is defined, assessed, and managed in adults with an ...
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Services for Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease: Findings of a National Survey of UK Kidney Centres
(2023-12-04)
Background Services for patients with kidney disease underwent radical adaptations in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. We undertook an online national survey of UK kidney centres to understand the nature, range, and ...
The use of culturally adapted and translated depression screening questionnaires with South Asian haemodialysis patients in England
(2023-04-07)
Background: Depression is common amongst patients receiving haemodialysis (HD). Assessment and intervention when faced with language and cultural barriers is challenging. To support clinician decisions, we conducted a ...
Measuring patients' experience with renal services in the UK: development and validation of the Kidney PREM
(2022-08-01)
Background: Patient experience is a recognized aspect of quality of care for people with chronic kidney disease (CKD), but current patient-reported experience measures (PREMs) only focus on dialysis care. We developed and ...
Facing the “new normal”: How adjusting to the easing of COVID-19 lockdown restrictions exposes mental health inequalities
(2021-09-01)
BACKGROUND: Re-establishing societal norms in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic will be important for restoring public mental health and psychosocial wellbeing as well as economic recovery. We investigated the impact on ...