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A guide to the implications of the European Working Time Directive for doctors in training
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- Clinical Examination of the Patient by John S. P. Lumley
- A Colour Guide to the Nursing Management of Wounds by Moya Morison
- Wound Care: A Handbook for Community Nurses by Joy Rainey
- ABC of Wound Healing (ABC Series) by Joseph E. Grey
- Handbook of Clinical Skills by Jane Dacre
- Action Learning: A Practitioner's Guide by Beaty Liz (Head Staff Development Unit University of Coventry)
- Action Learning for Managers by Mike Pedler
- Thinking Differently by NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement
- Designing and Conducting Mixed Methods Research by John W. Creswell
- Freud Reader by Sigmund Freud
- An error has occurred; the feed is probably down. Try again later.
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- A new model of care pathways for reorganization of chronic care
- A bronchiolitis integrated care pathway for children
- Can quantification of congestive heart failure care convince medical doctors to use a care pathway? A process analysis
- Development and implementation of the Rapid Discharge Pathway Version 12 to enable imminently dying patients to die in the place of their choice
- Step by step towards a clinical pathway
- Participation in decision-making when designing care programmes and integrated care pathways
- Assessing the relationship between volume and outcome in hospital services: implications for service centralization
- The organizational stress measure: an integrated methodology for assessing job-stress and targeting organizational interventions
- Safety subcultures in health-care organizations and managing medical error
- Public violence, staff harassment and the wellbeing of nursing staff: an analysis of national survey data
- The effects on length of stay of introducing a fast track patient pathway for myocardial infarction: a before and after evaluation
- Changing organizational structure and organizational memory in primary care practices: a qualitative interview study
- Strategies for dealing with future shortages in the nursing workforce: a review
- Workforce issues in European Union health policy
- Stronger incentives for quality improvement needed in NHS in England
- Why listening to health care users really matters
- Which experiences of health care delivery matter to service users and why? A critical interpretive synthesis and conceptual map
- Cancelled surgeries and payment by results in the English National Health Service
- Can general practitioner commissioning deliver equity and excellence? Evidence from two studies of service improvement in the English NHS
- Investigating the governance of autonomous public hospitals in England: multi-site case study of NHS foundation trusts
- Impact of increased patient choice of providers in Sweden: cataract surgery
- Compulsion: the key to US health care reform
- The Andersen Model of Total Patient Delay: a systematic review of its application in cancer diagnosis
- To be a round peg in a square hole
- Microcredit participation and nutrition outcomes among women in Peru
- Men's exposure to human rights violations and relations with perpetration of intimate partner violence in South Africa
- Workplace bullying and common mental disorders: a follow-up study
- Drinking in context: the influence of gender and neighbourhood deprivation on alcohol consumption
- Mitigating effect of immigration on the relation between income inequality and mortality: a prospective study of 2 million Canadians
- Does living in a food insecure household impact on the diets and body composition of young children? Findings from the Southampton Women's Survey
- Ethnic mortality differentials in Lithuania: contradictory evidence from census-linked and unlinked mortality estimates
- Greenspace in urban neighbourhoods and residents' health: adding quality to quantity
- Intergenerational social mobility and the risk of hypertension
- Referral to a new psychological therapy service is associated with reduced utilisation of healthcare and sickness absence by people with common mental health problems: a before and after comparison
- Comparison of screening methods for conductive hearing loss identification in children: low-cost proposal
- Experience with a two-tier reflex gFOBT/FIT strategy in a national bowel screening programme
- Overdiagnosis in the population-based service screening programme with mammography for women aged 40 to 49 years in Sweden
- Mammographic density and urbanization: a population-based screening study
- Mammography screening and breast cancer mortality in Australia: an aggregate cohort study
- Influence of false-positive mammography results on subsequent screening: do physician recommendations buffer negative effects?
- Dry self-sampling versus provider-sampling of cervicovaginal specimens for human papillomavirus detection in the Inuit population of Nunavik, Quebec
- Adding ductus venosus blood flow as a categorical variable to the Combined and Integrated tests in Down's syndrome screening
- The value of early second trimester PAPP-A and ADAM12 in screening for pre-eclampsia
- Multisource feedback questionnaires in appraisal and for revalidation: a qualitative study in UK general practice
- Patients' views of pay for performance in primary care: a qualitative study
- Quality of prescribing in care homes and the community in England and Wales
- Chronic disease detection and access: does access improve detection, or does detection make access more difficult?
- Are UK primary care teams formally identifying patients for palliative care before they die?
- Factors supporting good partnership working between generalist and specialist palliative care services: a systematic review
- Exploration of GPs' views and use of the fit note: a qualitative study in primary care
- Exploring patients' reasons for declining contact in a cognitive behavioural therapy randomised controlled trial in primary care
- You know what boys are like: pre-diagnosis experiences of parents of children with autism spectrum conditions
- Clinical leadership: individual advancement, political authority, and a lack of direction?
- The drug industry is a barrier to diabetes care in poor countries
- Full results on risks of epoetin emerge 14 years after major dialysis study
- Full access to trial data holds many benefits and a few pitfalls, conference hears
- Doctors opposed to NHS reforms set up a new political party
- Health department is to shut down patient records site that was too hard to use
- Catholics sue Obama over provision of contraception in health insurance policies
- Vaccines are essential in campaigns against HIV and TB, say researchers
- England and Wales finally get first chief coroner
- Investigation of acute knee injury
- Playing the odds
- The debate around open-access publishing
- Rethinking medical device regulation
- Who do doctors work for?
- Wikipedia: encyclopaedia cardiologica
- Can an electronic prescribing system detect doctors who are more likely to make a serious prescribing error?
- The NICE guidelines on the assessment of chest pain
- Antisocial behaviour in children with and without callous-unemotional traits
- Funding health and social services for older people - a qualitative study of care recipients in the last year of life
- Randomized controlled trial of high concentration oxygen in suspected community-acquired pneumonia
- Clinically led commissioning - joyous liberation or here we go again?
- Intense exercise and airway hyper-responsiveness/asthma--importance of environmental factors
- Respiratory physiology: adaptations to high-level exercise
- Airway injury during high-level exercise
- Assessment and prevention of exercise-induced bronchoconstriction
- Winter sports athletes: long-term effects of cold air exposure
- Airway dysfunction in swimmers
- Effect of air pollution on athlete health and performance
- An overview of asthma and airway hyper-responsiveness in Olympic athletes
- Cough and upper airway disorders in elite athletes: a critical review
- Economic analysis of physical activity interventions
- Calcium supplements: bad for the heart?
- Significance of systemic to pulmonary artery collaterals in single ventricle physiology: new insights from CMR imaging
- Percutaneous atrial appendage occlusion for stroke prevention in patients with atrial fibrillation: a systematic review
- Effectiveness of the LUCAS device for mechanical chest compression after cardiac arrest: systematic review of experimental, observational and animal studies
- Prevalence and non-invasive predictors of left main or three-vessel coronary disease: evidence from a collaborative international meta-analysis including 22 740 patients
- Associations of dietary calcium intake and calcium supplementation with myocardial infarction and stroke risk and overall cardiovascular mortality in the Heidelberg cohort of the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition study (EPIC-Heidelberg)
- Calcium, phosphate and the risk of cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality in a population with stable coronary heart disease
- Systemic to pulmonary collateral blood flow influences early outcomes following the total cavopulmonary connection
- Cardiovascular risk age: concepts and practicalities
- The athlete's heart
- Highlights from this issue
- Guaiac based faecal occult blood testing for colorectal cancer screening: an obsolete strategy?
- A major advance in ex vivo intestinal organ culture
- The multiple effects of tumour necrosis factor inhibitors on immune cells: new insights on inhibition of activation and cycling
- Role of Helicobacter pylori CagL in modulating gastrin expression
- The window hypothesis: haemodynamic and non-haemodynamic effects of {beta}-blockers improve survival of patients with cirrhosis during a window in the disease
- The incidence of oesophageal adenocarcinoma in non-dysplastic Barrett's oesophagus: a meta-analysis
- Epigenetic inactivation of BCL6B, a novel functional tumour suppressor for gastric cancer, is associated with poor survival
- Helicobacter pylori CagL dependent induction of gastrin expression via a novel {alpha}v{beta}5-integrin-integrin linked kinase signalling complex
- An irritable bowel syndrome subtype defined by species-specific alterations in faecal microbiota
- Highlights from this issue
- 'To CT or not to CT? That is the question': outcome surrogates for surveillance in childhood cystic fibrosis
- Pneumococcal capsular serotypes and lung infection
- Mesenchymal stem cell therapy in acute lung injury: is it time for a clinical trial?
- uPAR regulates bronchial epithelial repair in vitro and is elevated in asthmatic epithelium
- Lebrikizumab may benefit a subset of patients with asthma
- The composition of house dust mite is critical for mucosal barrier dysfunction and allergic sensitisation
- Mesenchymal stem cells enhance recovery and repair following ventilator-induced lung injury in the rat
- Clinical validity of plasma and urinary desmosine as biomarkers for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Progression of early structural lung disease in young children with cystic fibrosis assessed using CT
- The NHS reform agenda and patient safety
- Patient safety teaching in Australian medical schools: a national survey
- What do surgical trainees think about patient safety culture, and is this different from their consultants?
- Statistician expert witnesses in agreement on relative hazards
- Editorial
- Causation: the last refuge in a weak case?
- Third party referral in clinical negligence - some thoughts about approaches after Wright v Cambridge Medical Group
- Case: Delay in performing emergency Caesarean section: Mr N and Mrs L v Barking, Havering and Redbridge Hospitals NHS Trust
- Case: Osteoradionecrosis following dental extraction: RC v Dr Richard Farrant
- Editorial
- Economic analysis in patient safety: a neglected necessity
- Medical emergencies in medical imaging
- Comparative economic analyses of patient safety improvement strategies in acute care: a systematic review
- Economic evaluation in patient safety: a literature review of methods
- How reliable are clinical systems in the UK NHS? A study of seven NHS organisations
- Building information for systematic improvement of the prevention of hospital-acquired pressure ulcers with statistical process control charts and regression
- Combining process indicators to evaluate quality of care for surgical patients with colorectal cancer: are scores consistent with short-term outcome?
- Comparing two safety culture surveys: Safety Attitudes Questionnaire and Hospital Survey on Patient Safety
- Getting doctors to clean their hands: lead the followers
- Nature and timing of incidents intercepted by the SURPASS checklist in surgical patients
- Why quality improvement initiatives succeed or fail: the MUSIQ of quality improvement
- Group counselling improves quality for patients with limited health literacy
- Primary healthcare response to family violence: a Delphi evaluation tool
- Resilience and smoking: the implications for general practitioners and other primary healthcare practitioners
- Referral Writer: preliminary evidence for the value of comprehensive referral letters
- NICE and the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) 20092011
- Increasing the general level of academic capacity in general practice: introducing mandatory research training for general practitioner trainees through a participatory research process
- Evaluation of the methodological quality of the Health Protection Agency's 2009 guidance on neuraminidase inhibitors
- Primary care quality digest
- The end of an era
- Clinical Ethics Committee Case 16: A request from an accident and emergency department - should we give our patient a blood transfusion?
- Mainstreaming genetics: the potential for miscommunication
- Key changes in the regulation of assisted reproduction introduced by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008
- Challenging some myths about the right to life at the end of life. 1: Not an absolute right
- Ireland's restrictive abortion law: a threat to women's health and rights?
- Ongoing processes of managing consent: the empirical ethics of using video-recording in clinical practice and research
- Ethicality and confidentiality: is there an inverse-care issue in general practice ethics?
- Donating bodily material: the Nuffield Council report
- Perspectives on anatomical donation and holding services of thanksgiving
- On-going technical advances, can we use them to deliver more personalised medicine?
- Data-modelling and visualisation in chronic kidney disease (CKD): a step towards personalised medicine
- Leveraging electronic health records to support chronic disease management: the need for temporal data views
- Mismatch between the prevalence of overweight and obese children and adolescents and recording in electronic health records: a cross-sectional study
- Identification of patients with neuropathic pain using electronic primary care records
- Study of electronic prescribing rates and barriers identified among providers using electronic health records in New York City
- Complex adaptive systems: a tool for interpreting responses and behaviours
- Primary care provider perceptions and use of a novel medication reconciliation technology
- Development of a database for cervical cytology reports
- Clinical use of Skype: a review of the evidence base
- Feasibility and accuracy of medication checks via Internet video
- Readiness of health-care institutions in KwaZulu-Natal to implement telepsychiatry
- The potential of telehealth for 'business as usual' in outpatient clinics
- Telehealth for nursing homes: the utilization of specialist services for residential care
- Use of telehealth for patients referred to a retrieval service: timing, destination, mode of transport, escort level and patient care
- Effect of mobile phone-based psychotherapy in suicide prevention: a randomized controlled trial in Sri Lanka
- An electronic medication reminder, supported by a monitoring service, to improve medication compliance for elderly people living independently
- A pilot health information management system for public health midwives serving in a remote area of Sri Lanka
- A review of telemedicine interventions in diabetes care
- Can self-reported height and weight be used among people living with HIV/AIDS?
- Migration/mobility and risk factors for HIV among female sex workers in Andhra Pradesh, India: implications for HIV prevention
- Condom use among female sex workers and their non-commercial partners: effects of a sexual risk intervention in two Mexican cities
- Use of conjoint analysis to assess HIV vaccine acceptability: feasibility of an innovation in the assessment of consumer health-care preferences
- Human papillomavirus prevalence, cervical abnormalities and risk factors among female sex workers in Lima, Peru
- A systematic review and meta-analysis of the prevalence of chlamydia, gonorrhoea and syphilis in incarcerated persons
- Pruritus in HIV-infected patients in the era of combination antiretroviral therapy: a study of its prevalence and causes
- Adeno-associated virus may play a protective role against human papillomavirus-induced cervical lesions independent of HIV serostatus
- The relationship between HIV testing and CD4 counts at HIV diagnosis among newly diagnosed HIV-1 patients in Japan
- Sexual risk behaviours, condom use and sexually transmitted infection treatment-seeking behaviours among female sex workers and truck drivers in Uganda
- Highlights from this issue
- Health inequalities among sexual minority youth: a need for sexual orientation and gender expression sensitive school environment
- Genital malodour in women: an unmet therapeutic challenge
- Why we like clinical guidelines
- Knowing your HIV/AIDS epidemic and tailoring an effective response: how did India do it?
- Methods of assessing tubal patency
- Inguinal syndrome secondary to Prevotella bivia after accidental bite in orogenital sex
- Age at first anal sex and HIV/STI vulnerability among gay men in Australia
- Willingness to use HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis and the likelihood of decreased condom use are both associated with unprotected anal intercourse and the perceived likelihood of becoming HIV positive among Australian gay and bisexual men
- Advertisements promoting human papillomavirus vaccine for adolescent boys: does source matter?
- One small cheer
- A profession of equals
- Sickle cell disease: quality of care needs to improve within the NHS
- Healthcare provision for sickle cell disease in Ghana: challenges for the African context
- 'Give us the weapon to argue': eHealth and the Somali community of Manchester
- Strategies and effectiveness of diabetes self-management education interventions for Bangladeshis
- 'We're not fully aware of their cultural needs': tutors' experiences of delivering the Expert Patients Programme to South Asian attendees
- Understanding migrants' primary healthcare utilisation in New Zealand through an ethnographic approach
- Did you see?
- Knowledgeshare
- Integration of ethics teaching within GP training
- The Emperor's New Clothes revisited: learning styles in medical education
- Training for independent practice, change and professional development
- Mentoring for doctors in difficulty
- Don't forget the learner: an essential aspect for developing effective hypermedia online learning in continuing medical education
- Do general practice selection scores predict success at MRCGP? An exploratory study
- Formative assessment of GP trainees' clinical skills
- Implementing evidence in practice: do action lists work?
- Needs assessment and reflection in a practice education accreditation scheme in the Southampton area: some questions
- Encouraging GPs into the gene pool: designing a CPD course in genetics for primary care
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