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Showing 1 to 20 of 363 for “"Evidence-base"”.
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Improving the evidence base for oral assessment in stroke patients
… of the nurses, and currently there is little evidence to support oral care provided. Through a series of studies this thesis aims to explore oral care in hospitalised stroke patients with the aim of developing an oral assessment to inform oral care. An integrative literature review examining …
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Development of the radiography evidence base: An examination of advancing practice
… the growth of the profession, although the evidence base is still evolving. Through a number of research projects this thesis will explore the growth in the radiography evidence base with specific reference to the extending role of the radiographer in image interpretation. Parallel clinical …
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Establishing an evidence-base for erect pelvis radiography : positioning, radiation dose and image quality
… the hip joint. This thesis aims to establish an evidence base for erect pelvis radiography, and it will include assessing radiographic positioning, radiation dose and image quality. Methods: The experimental work described in this thesis was conducted in three phases. Each phase has its own …
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Emergence of vocalization in non vocal children with a diagnosis of autism: building an evidence base for interventions
… in four experiments that used delayed multiple baseline design across subjects. Mastery criteria for vocalization for each participant was n=7 first instances of speech. Experiment 1 studied the role of stimulus-stimulus pairing (SSP) during sign-mand training on vocal emergence in 58 …
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Providing an evidence base for antibiotic stewardship for midwives in the Kabarole district of Uganda : a modified action research study
… study sought to bridge these knowledge gaps. An evidence base for antibiotic stewardship was presented to the midwives in the form of a training session. This session was followed up with monthly feedback for the midwives reporting on their responses to the evidence base in terms of their …
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Constructing validated clinical tools to enable the development of a new evidence base for personalised nutrition practice in obesity management
… to enable the development of a case-by-case evidence base for personalised nutrition practice in the management of obesity? Theoretical frameworks that influenced the project include: the functional medicine approach, clinical psychoneuroimmunology (cPNI), the interdisciplinary approach of …
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Establishing an evidence base for medicines use review: the development and evaluation of methodologies to assess the impact of medicines use review in practice
… and represent a significant contribution to the evidence base in support of MUR services.
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Understanding the experiences of service users and staff in the promotion of responsive practices within the context of Health and Social Care
… purpose of this review was to ascertain if an evidence base exists to suggest that elements of PBS reduce the need for RPI for people with ID and ASD, and the extent to which PBS is defined within this evidence base. To the author’s knowledge no other published reviews on PBS and the reduction …
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Exploring Gastro-oesophageal Reflux in Infants and Children
… was often individualised, with a paucity of evidence for treatments in infants and children (or treatment decisions were extrapolated from evidence in adults), and no robust synthesis of the evidence was available to provide evidence-based guidance so clinicians could understand best how to …
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ETHICS AND PUBLIC HEALTH INTERVENTIONS.
… be acknowledged. An epistemic expansion of the evidence-base for public health actions is argued for. ‘Nomothetic’ and ‘idiographic’ are suggested as more neutral concepts instead of ‘quantitative’ and ‘qualitative’ for characterizing the methodological approach. Assumptions about the nature of …
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Impact of psychological therapy on psychological wellbeing and quality-of-life in Functional Neurological Disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis
… wellbeing, and poor quality-of-life. A growing evidence base has been developing on the effectiveness of psychological therapy (PT) for people with FND. The present systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to understand the effectiveness of PT on psychological wellbeing and quality-of-life in …
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Determining the biases and consistencies in the evidence for conservation
… as possible to conserve biodiversity – evidence-based approaches are essential to this mission. Biodiversity conservation is undergoing an evidence-based revolution, emulating techniques to synthesise evidence pioneered in medicine, such as systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and …
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Institutional and Patient Level Predictors of Multi-Drug Resistant Healthcare-Associated Infections
… This dissertation aims to contribute to the evidence base on institutional and patient level factors that predict multi-drug resistant infections in the hospital setting. In the first chapter, I review the evidence base on patient-level risk factors for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus …
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An exploratory study and analysis of secondary data of road traffic collisions in the United Kingdom resulting in human injury with the aim of influencing the design of products
… analyse secondary data, which originates from an evidence base opposed to a perceived need that the industry often relies on. The industry in question is road transport infrastructure. The industry is made up of numerous Government and private sectors all collectively responsible for providing a …
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Grounding interprofessional education in scholarship
… reviews and evaluations to verify its evidence base; and establish IPE as a community of practice.
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An exploration of culture and context for Allied Health Professionals using Care Aims in integrated community teams: A case study approach
… by Allied Health Professions yet the evidence base appears sparse, particularly exploring the use of Care Aims in an integrated team. Aim The overall aim of this study was to explore the effect of culture and context on integrated team working for Allied Health Professions in community …
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“I was not meant to be here, and I’m still here”: a feminist, participatory and assets-based exploration of women’s experiences of ageing with HIV in London
This research adopts a feminist and assets-based approach to explore the experiences of women ageing with HIV in London. Building on the foundation of a systematically approached review of the social science literature on ageing, women and HIV, it identifies key gaps in the evidence base and …
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Predictors of Distress and Coping in Children with Unusual Experiences: the Role of Stigma and Appraisal
… with learning disabilities has a slowly growing evidence base. The use of groups within the population would help reduce referral to treatment time, would fit with stepped care models and would provide equity of treatment access to which this population has a right (Disability Discrimination Act …
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Multimodality monitoring in paediatric severe traumatic brain injury : the contributions of brain oxygen, transcranial doppler and autoregulation monitoring to conventional methods on monitoring
… thresholds with age, and the much smaller evidence base compared to their adult counterparts.
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Best-Practice Evidence Based Medicine for the Effective Management of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
… are international guidelines that collate this evidence in order to steer clinical decision making. Guideline concordant care results in a reduced rate of COPD exacerbations, improving hospital utilisation and patient related outcomes. Despite this, uptake and adherence to guidelines remains …
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