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A Q-methodology study of parental understandings of infant immunisation: Implications for health-care advice (2013)
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This study used Q-methodology to explore systematically parental judgements about infant immunisation. A total of 45 parents completed a 31-statement Q-sort. Data were collected after vaccination in general practitioner practices or a private day nur... Read More about A Q-methodology study of parental understandings of infant immunisation: Implications for health-care advice.

Compassionate containment? Balancing technical safety and therapy in the design of psychiatric wards (2013)
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This paper contributes to the international literature examining design of inpatient settings for mental health care. Theoretically, it elaborates the connections between conceptual frameworks from different strands of literature relating to therapeu... Read More about Compassionate containment? Balancing technical safety and therapy in the design of psychiatric wards.

Spaces for smoking in a psychiatric hospital: social capital, resistance to control, and significance for 'therapeutic landscapes' (2013)
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This paper reports on research framed by theories of therapeutic landscapes and the ways that the social, physical and symbolic dimensions of landscapes relate to wellbeing and healing. We focus especially on the question of how attributes of therape... Read More about Spaces for smoking in a psychiatric hospital: social capital, resistance to control, and significance for 'therapeutic landscapes'.

Topical treatments for chronic plaque psoriasis: an abridged Cochrane Systematic Review (2013)
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Background: Chronic plaque psoriasis is the most common type of psoriasis and is characterized by redness, thickness, and scaling. First-line management is with topical treatments. Objective: We sought to undertake a Cochrane review of topical treatm... Read More about Topical treatments for chronic plaque psoriasis: an abridged Cochrane Systematic Review.

Topical Treatments for Chronic Plaque Psoriasis of the Scalp: a Systematic Review (2013)
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Background: Chronic plaque psoriasis is the most common type of psoriasis and is characterised by redness, thickness and scaling. First line management is with topical treatments. Objective: Our objective was to establish the effectiveness, tolerabil... Read More about Topical Treatments for Chronic Plaque Psoriasis of the Scalp: a Systematic Review.

Factors Influencing Revision Risk Following 15 740 Single-Brand Hybrid Hip Arthroplasties : A Cohort Study From a National Joint Registry (2013)
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This retrospective cohort study of a National Joint Registry data examines survival time to revision following the commonest brand of primary hybrid THA, exploring risk factors independently associated with failure. Overall 5-year revision was 1.56%.... Read More about Factors Influencing Revision Risk Following 15 740 Single-Brand Hybrid Hip Arthroplasties : A Cohort Study From a National Joint Registry.

Creating 'therapeutic landscapes' for mental health carers in inpatient settings : a dynamic perspective on permeability and inclusivity (2013)
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Although there has been a shift toward treatment in the home and the community, in the UK, inpatient facilities are still important in modern mental health care. ‘Informal carers’, including family members, often play an essential role, not only in p... Read More about Creating 'therapeutic landscapes' for mental health carers in inpatient settings : a dynamic perspective on permeability and inclusivity.

Surgeons-Don't Forget to Calibrate! Findings from a Sacral Nerve Test Stimulator (2013)
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Introduction: Sacral nerve stimulation testing (TSNS) for chronic constipation is not accurately predictive of a long-term response1. The decision to implant a permanent device relies on these results. Aims/Background: We recognised that the testing... Read More about Surgeons-Don't Forget to Calibrate! Findings from a Sacral Nerve Test Stimulator.

“It’s Somebody else’s responsibility” - perceptions of general practitioners, heart failure nurses, care home staff, and residents towards heart failure diagnosis and management for older people in long-term care: a qualitative interview study (2013)
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Background: Older people in care-facilities may be less likely to access gold standard diagnosis and treatment for heart failure (HF) than non residents; little is understood about the factors that influence this variability. This study aimed to exam... Read More about “It’s Somebody else’s responsibility” - perceptions of general practitioners, heart failure nurses, care home staff, and residents towards heart failure diagnosis and management for older people in long-term care: a qualitative interview study.

Can Healthy Fetuses Show Facial Expressions of “Pain” or “Distress”? (2013)
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Background: With advances of research on fetal behavioural development, the question of whether we can identify fetal facial expressions and determine their developmental progression, takes on greater importance. In this study we investigate longitud... Read More about Can Healthy Fetuses Show Facial Expressions of “Pain” or “Distress”?.

Independent predictors of failure up to 7.5 years after 35 386 single-brand cementless total hip replacements: a retrospective cohort study using National Joint Registry data (2013)
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The popularity of cementless total hip replacement (THR) has surpassed cemented THR in England and Wales. This retrospective cohort study records survival time to revision following primary cementless THR with the most common combination (accounting... Read More about Independent predictors of failure up to 7.5 years after 35 386 single-brand cementless total hip replacements: a retrospective cohort study using National Joint Registry data.

Penicillin to prevent recurrent leg cellulitis (2013)
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Background: Cellulitis of the leg is a common bacterial infection of the skin and underlying tissue. We compared prophylactic low-dose penicillin with placebo for the prevention of recurrent cellulitis. Methods: We conducted a double-blind, randomize... Read More about Penicillin to prevent recurrent leg cellulitis.

Improved emollient use reduces atopic eczema symptoms and is cost neutral in infants: before-and-after evaluation of a multifaceted educational support programme (2013)
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Background: Parents and carers of children with eczema often underuse emollient therapy, essential to repairing and protecting the defective skin barrier in atopic eczema. Educational interventions delivered by specialist dermatology nurses in hospit... Read More about Improved emollient use reduces atopic eczema symptoms and is cost neutral in infants: before-and-after evaluation of a multifaceted educational support programme.

Topical treatments for chronic plaque psoriasis (2013)
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Background: Chronic plaque psoriasis is the most common type of psoriasis, and it is characterised by redness, thickness, and scaling. First-line management of chronic plaque psoriasis is with topical treatments, including vitamin D analogues, topica... Read More about Topical treatments for chronic plaque psoriasis.

Interventions for treating slipped upper femoral epiphysis (SUFE) (2013)
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Although a rare condition, slipped upper femoral epiphysis (SUFE) is one of the most common types of paediatric and adolescent hip disorder. SUFE involves instability of the growth plate (often called the physis) at the junction between the head and... Read More about Interventions for treating slipped upper femoral epiphysis (SUFE).

Utility of Biomarkers in the Differential Diagnosis of Heart Failure in Older People: Findings from the Heart Failure In Care Homes (HFinCH) Diagnostic Accuracy Study (2013)
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The Liver-First Approach to the Management of Colorectal Cancer With Synchronous Hepatic Metastases - A Systematic Review (2013)
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Importance To our knowledge, this is the first systematic review of the liver-first approach to the management of patients with colorectal cancer with synchronous liver metastases. Objective: To review current evidence for the liver-first approach to... Read More about The Liver-First Approach to the Management of Colorectal Cancer With Synchronous Hepatic Metastases - A Systematic Review.

Risk of revision following cemented, cementless, hybrid and resurfacing hip implants in 46 867 patients - a retrospective comparison study using data from the National Joint Registry (2013)
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Introduction: Following in-depth analysis of the market leading brand combinations in which we identified implant influences on risk of revision, we compared revision in patients implanted with different categories of hip replacement in order to find... Read More about Risk of revision following cemented, cementless, hybrid and resurfacing hip implants in 46 867 patients - a retrospective comparison study using data from the National Joint Registry.