UH Research Archive: Recent submissions
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Egg on their faces : The story of human albumin solution
(2002)In 1998, the Cochrane Injuries Group published the results of a systematic review of human albumin administration in critically ill patients. The results showed that the risk of death in patients receiving albumin was 14%, ... -
The development of a register of randomized controlled trials in prehospital trauma care
(2002)Objectives. To establish a register of randomized controlled trials of interventions in the prehospital care of trauma patients. Methods. A systematic search was conducted for all randomized controlled trials of interventions ... -
Information recalled by women taking anti-epileptic drugs for epilepsy : a questionnaire study
(2002)Women with epilepsy have different needs from men, particularly associated with childbearing. Despite clinical guidelines, the care of women with epilepsy remains suboptimal. The aim of this study was to establish whether ... -
Ordering the Mob: London's Public Punishments, c. 1783-1868
(2010-02-10)This thesis explores the crowds that attended London‟s executions, pillories and public whippings during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It aims to reappraise a literature describing the carnivalesque and voyeuristic ... -
A relationship support service for people with learning disabilities
(2006)This paper describes the background to, and process of, setting up a Relationship Support Service for individuals with learning disabilities. The service was funded as a pilot project in response to the unmet needs of ... -
Risk assessment for people with mental health problems: a pilot study of reliability in working practice
(2002)INTRODUCTION : This paper describes a pilot study of reliability in the risk assessment of people with mental health problems. Specifically, we explore the evidence for professional and gender bias in ratings, in addition ... -
Group cognitive behaviour therapy in obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD): a controlled study
(2005)Objective. This study compared cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) with relaxation therapy (RT) as group-based treatments for obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). Hitherto, most studies of group CBT in OCD have used ... -
A review of antipsychotics in the treatment of obsessive compulsive disorder
(2006)Although many individuals with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) show significant improvement after treatment with serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SRIs), the treatment effect is usually partial and residual symptoms remain ... -
Basic-level visual similarity and category specificity
(2003)The role of visual crowding in category deficits has been widely discussed (e.g., [Humphreys et al., 1988]; [Laws and Gale, 2002]; [Tranel et al., 1997]). Most studies have measured overlap at the superordinate level ... -
Defining remission by cut off score on the MADRS : selecting the optimal value
(2002)Background: Remission from major depression may be conceptualised in terms of a cut-off score on an appropriate rating scale. Candidate values proposed hitherto have not been directly validated. Method: The relationship ... -
What is the usual length of stay in a psychiatric ward?
(2004)Admission statistics can provide valuable data for planning and policy in the NHS. However, there has been little agreement about meaningful ways of summarising and expressing such data. We set out to (i) explore the ... -
Are placebo-controlled trials still important for obsessive compulsive disorder?
(2006)The use of placebos as reference agents in randomised controlled trials for psychiatric disorders has come under question for ethical reasons. Alternative methods for validating the efficacy of new treatments exist, but ... -
How does the threshold score to enter a major depression trial influence the size of the available patient population for study?
(2002)Background: This paper describes the relationship between entry criteria and eligible population for inclusion in Major Depression (MD) clinical trials. Inclusion criteria for a MD study typically require patients to pass ... -
Reported sleep patterns in obsessive compulsive disorder
(2002)Previous studies of sleep disturbance in OCD have produced contradictory findings. This may be due to different methodological approaches but may also reflect the fact that many studies have not screened OCD patients for ... -
Comorbid depression in obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) : Symptomatic differences to major depressive disorder
(2005)In this study, we compared the depressive symptom profile of a group of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) patients, with comorbid depression, to a group of patients with major depressive disorder (MDD). The two groups ... -
Adding quetiapine to SRI in treatment-resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder: a randomized controlled treatment study
(2005)This study aimed to determine the efficacy and tolerability of adding quetiapine to a serotonin reuptake inhibitor in treatment-resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Twenty-one adult treatment-resistant OCD patients ... -
The effectiveness and utility of a simple protocol for the management of depression in primary care
(2005)Objective: In the UK, the use of protocols for the management of depression is set to increase in response to the National Service Framework for Mental Health. To date, there has been little evaluation of the utility of ... -
A model for handling missing items on two depression rating scales
(2001)A problem in clinical trials for antidepressants is that patient rating scales are not always completed properly. If one or more items are missing, a patient evaluation may be prevented from contributing towards an efficacy ... -
Mass Beyond the Main Sequence
(World Scientific Publishing, 2001)Brown dwarfs are now being discovered in significant numbers which means that at last it is possible to be quantitative about their number density and thus their contribution to the stellar neighbourhood. Overall the ...