Book review. Writing to Improve Healthcare, edited and authored by David P. Stevens, is a timely and important book that is designed to help quality improvers publish their quality improvement (QI) work. (Dr Stevens was the previous Editor-in-Chief of this journal, when it was called Quality & Safety in Healthcare.) The book is unique in that it applies a healthcare improvement perspective to the traditional manuscript preparation and publication process. This is useful for the novice writer and for authors accustomed to writing more traditional clinical research studies or writing for other biomedical fields. Indeed, while some prospective authors of QI work may not be first-time writers, this may be the …...To read the full article, log in using your MPFT NHS OpenAthens details. To read a copy of the book in this review, please contact the library
Free access. Doctoral level research can contribute to the evidence base, particularly in under‐researched areas and numerically small fields such as children and young people's palliative care. It is acknowledged that much of what we currently do in children's and young people's palliative care is eminence‐based, rather than evidence‐based (Together for Short Lives, 2018). Whilst sharing experience and wisdom was valuable, particularly when the specialty was in its infancy, it is important now to develop an evidence base to ensure that children, young people and their families receive the highest standard of care.
The findings from a survey to identify local NHS innovation and research needs have been published.
The views of local health stakeholders, including clinical leaders, managers and directors, within each AHSN (Academic Health Science Networks) region were collected through qualitative interviews with 61 people and a questionnaire which received more than 250 responses in total
This is the third of a series of four articles addressing ethical approaches and issues in undertaking clinical research with children and young people (CYP). This paper addresses the major ethical aspects of studies with CYP, where they vary from studies in adults.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
This paper examines the appropriateness of using interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) in research with people who have intellectual disabilities, focussing on quality.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS Athens details. To access full-text: click “Log in/Register” (top right hand side). Click ‘Institutional Login’ then select 'OpenAthens Federation', then ‘NHS England’. Enter your Athens details to view the article.
Free access. The significance of patient perspectives: empathy and better healthcare
Medical literature abounds with the names of doctors who have made significant contributions in their field of study. Their quest for better healthcare has generated enormous amounts of bar graphs, pie charts and scatter plots made of invisible faces and anonymous lives. Any hint of identity carefully erased. But we, the anonymous, have valuable contributions to make as well, with knowledge of our own—personal experience and a different perspective of healthcare. Knowledge and identities not found in textbooks and, until now, not featured in this journal.
This paper seeks to describe best practices for conducting cross‐language research with individuals who have a language barrier.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS Athens details. To access full-text: click “Log in/Register” (top right hand side). Click ‘Institutional Login’ then select 'OpenAthens Federation', then ‘NHS England’. Enter your Athens details to view the article.
The clinical research nurse (CRN) plays a tripartite role in the research society, serving both as an expert nurse, a member of the scientific group that conducts the study and as a supporter of the research participants that guarantees that the informed consent process extends through the study (Hastings et al., 2012). Asking people to take the weight of research and risk exposure for the benefit of others creates a fundamental ethical tension and ethical obligations in clinical research.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS Athens details. To access full-text: click “Log in/Register” (top right hand side). Click ‘Institutional Login’ then select 'OpenAthens Federation', then ‘NHS England’. Enter your Athens details to view the article.
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Dickersin and Min define publication bias as the failure to publish the results of a study ‘on the basis of the direction or strength of the study findings’. This non-publication introduces a bias which impacts the ability to accurately synthesise and describe the evidence in a given area. Publication bias is a type of reporting bias and closely related to dissemination bias, although dissemination bias generally applies to all forms of results dissemination, not simply journal publications. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
Using a combination of quantitative and qualitative research methods in a study can provide more robust answers to the research question. Nurses should be able to confidently and competently appraise research papers to be able to offer evidence-based care. While nurses may be able to appraise quantitative and qualitative research individually, this paper provides guidance on how to appraise a mixed methods (MM) research paper. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
A report from The Health Improvement Studies (THIS) Institute report explores how NHS staff can get involved in research and explores how the full potential of their involvement could be better realised.
Observational research based on Routine Outcome Monitoring (ROM) is prone to missing data, and outcomes can be biased due to selective inclusion at baseline or selective attrition at posttest. As patients with complete data may not be representative of all patients of a provider, missing data may bias results, especially when missingness is not random but systematic.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS Athens details. To access full-text: click “Log in/Register” (top right hand side). Click ‘Institutional Login’ then select 'OpenAthens Federation', then ‘NHS England’. Enter your Athens details to view the article.
Qualitative evidence allows researchers to analyse human experience and provides useful exploratory insights into experiential matters and meaning, often explaining the ‘how’ and ‘why’. As we have argued previously, qualitative research has an important place within evidence-based healthcare, contributing to among other things policy on patient safety, prescribing, and understanding chronic illness. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
Research Made Simple. Often the most difficult part of a research study is preparing the proposal based around a theoretical or philosophical framework. Graduate students ‘…express confusion, a lack of knowledge, and frustration with the challenge of choosing a theoretical framework and understanding how to apply it’.1 However, the importance in understanding and applying a theoretical framework in research cannot be overestimated. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
...qualitative research has an important place within evidence-based healthcare, contributing to among other things policy on patient safety, prescribing, and understanding chronic illness.... However, it is often considered one unified approach and this lack of methodological distinction is problematic, particularly when thinking about how best to assess rigour in studies using qualitative methods. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
Open access. Inclusive research is studied mainly in short‐term collaborations between researchers with and without intellectual disabilities focusing on practicalities. Structural study of long‐term collaborations can provide insight into different roles of inclusive researchers, thereby contributing to a collective approach.
With the expansion and popularity of research on websites such as Facebook and Twitter, there has been increasing concern about investigator conduct and social media ethics. The availability of large data sets has attracted researchers who are not traditionally associated with health data and its associated ethical considerations, such as computer and data scientists