The number of quit attempts it takes a smoker to quit successfully is a commonly reported figure among smoking cessation programmes, but previous estimates have been based on lifetime recall in cross-sectional samples of successful quitters only. The purpose of this study is to improve the estimate of number of quit attempts prior to quitting successfully. Open Access Article
The King’s Fund have published an interactive map of how technology and data are being used in health and care across England and the rest of the world.
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.
A guideline produced by Great Ormond Street Hospital [1] on Aseptic non touch technique (ANTT) lists the wearing of well-fitted non-sterile gloves among its fundamental rules to avoid contamination.
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”