The PICO tool can help you to analyse your question into a clinical question.
Our new etutorial Using PICO will:
Explain what PICO is
Show you an example
Help you to use PICO to create clinical questions
If you’re elderly or disabled and need your home adapting to help you carry on living there, it should soon become easier and quicker to apply for grants and assistance from Telford & Wrekin Council.
The Council’s Cabinet, which meets on 16 June, is due to approve an amended Housing Assistance Policy which will provide additional support to those most in need.
The Public Accounts Committee reports warns that stronger measures are needed to safeguard the interests of adults receiving personal budgets for social care.
This workshop is available to all nurses who are due to be revalidated
The aim of this training module is to support the nurse revalidation programme by providing an overview of NICE and Cochrane Library health databases and enabling delegates to obtain practical experience of conducting an effective literature search using a clinical database. Nurses are encouraged to bring a clinical question with them to the session which they can then investigate during the workshop.
A new report from the terminal illness charity, Marie Curie. ‘Hiding who I am: Exposing the reality of end of life care for LGBT people ,’ looks at the barriers that prevent LGBT people from accessing end of life care and highlights their real-life experiences.
Our interactive map brings together case studies from across England and the rest of world, highlighting some of the places that are experimenting with and implementing new technologies to achieve better health outcomes or more efficient care.
This map is not a comprehensive listing of all such projects – it is limited to a selection of case studies featured in our publications and at our events, plus the NHS test bed sites set up to evaluate the real-world impact of new technologies. We will add new case studies as we publish them.
This study examines the palliative care knowledge and attitudes towards caring for the dying patient of nurses working in care of older people settings in one rural region in Ireland. Design: A cross-sectional survey design was used combining two questionnaires: the palliative care quiz for nurses (PCQN) and the thanatophobia scale (TS). To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details
The current open trial evaluated an inference-based approach (IBA) to the treatment of obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) across symptom subtypes and treatment-resistant cases. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
The combination search is back (for Pro users)!
It went missing when we moved to the new design and it’s taken a while to put it back and integrate it.
Recently, a critical commentary was published in the British Journal of Social Work in which the use of Randomised Controlled Trials (RCTs) to examine the effects of Family Group Conferencing (FGC) was questioned and alternatives were proposed to better examine the effects of FGC.
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Medical images on Trip has just got even more useful! A Twitter user suggested a great feature would be to restrict the images to those that are freely available to use. In other words, those with liberal (or no) copyright restrictions. As you’ll see in the image below we have a new tick box, “Only show images that are free to modify, share and use”
This briefing considers how the increase in national funding for home adaptations offers opportunities to improve integration between NHS, social care and housing, and meet performance targets, particularly reducing delayed transfers of care.
This paper reports initial findings from a large 5-year randomised clinical trial funded by the National Institute of Mental Health and conducted in Burlington, Vermont. In 2006, over a 6-week period during the winter solstice, 177 adults with a current episode of depression that was recurrent with a seasonal pattern were treated with .... CBT-SAD therapy. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details
We're looking at how NHS acute, community healthcare and mental health trusts investigate deaths and learn from their investigations. We also want to assess whether opportunities to prevent deaths have been missed.
All patients under 16 registered in the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) with a minimum of 1 year of observation time and who received at least one prescription of any ADHD drug between 1 January 1992 and 31 December 2013.Trends in prevalence and incidence of use of ADHD drugs in children were calculated between 1995 and 2013 and persistence in new users was estimated. Open Access Article