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Showing 1 to 20 of 260 for “"R Medicine"”.
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In good heart”: a study of the factors associated with health- related quality of life in adult congenital heart disease.
Aims: The overall aim of the thesis is to study the Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) in Adult Congenital Heart Disease (ACHD). The thesis examines the impact of ACHD on HRQoL, the demographic, clinical, and psychosocial factors associated with HRQoL, and changes in these factors over time. …
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What airway and vascular access skills can be performed whilst wearing the NHS issued chemical, biological, radiation, and nuclear personal protective equipment?
The introduction of chemical, biological, radiation and nuclear personal protective equipment (CBRN-PPE) across the National Health Service (NHS), in 2007, represented an increase in the capacity to treat patients following a CBRN incident. However, little was known on what impact the NHS CBRN-PPE …
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Interventions during the second stage of labour: an exploration of what may affect their use in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
This thesis is an exploratory qualitative study using an ethnographic approach to explore the use of interventions during the second stage of labour among healthcare professionals and what may be influencing their use within two large government hospitals in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Data collection …
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Involving clinicians in commissioning: a case study of policy and process
This thesis examines the issue of clinical involvement in the commissioning process within the NUS internal market. It is based on an applied research project undertaken across the purchaser provider divide in one NHS region, during the 1994- 95 annual commissioning cycle. Six District Health …
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The role of salience on crowding and visual search in the context of synaesthesia
Visual crowding is a phenomenon in which the identification of visual stimuli is impaired by nearby directions. it occurs both for simple stimuli (oriented lines) and for more complex forms. The literature on crowding is reviewed, along with relevant literature on visual search and stimulus …
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Intelligent Decision Support Systems in Ventilation Management
Introduction: Intensive Care Unit (ICU) medical personnel, in an ongoing process termed ventilation management, utilize patient physiology and pathology data to define ventilator apparatus settings. Aims: The aim of the research is to develop and evaluate in comparison hybrid ventilation advisor …
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‘A loose nerve’: Culture(s), Time and Governmentality in the biomedical treatment of Premature Ejaculation in Bangladeshi Muslim men
… were biomedical, psychological and cultural. Medicine, through disciplinary practices, positions patients in certain spaces through the use of surveillance and panopticism. Participants in the trial both occupied and rebelled against this positioning, creating tensions and contradictions …
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Can postoperative length of stay or discharge within five days of first time isolated coronary artery bypass graft surgery be predicted from preoperative patient variables?
In recent years there has been a steady increase in the number of patients being discharged within five days of coronary artery bypass graft surgery. The ability to be able to predict those patients likely to be discharged within five days of surgery is important to improve the individual patient …
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Automated Cardiac Rhythm Diagnosis for Electrophysiological Studies, an Enhanced Classifier Approach
INTRODUCTION Heart function can be impaired by rhythm disturbances (cardiac arrhythmia), illustrated by electrocardiogram (ECG) recordings. Computerised arrhythmia diagnosis is well established for ECG’s but less for intracardiac electrophysiological (EP) testing. Accurate diagnosis is …
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Barebacking and sexual position: An analysis of the personal accounts of HIV-negative and unknown status gay men who have condomless anal sex
Men who have sex with men (MSM) remain disproportionately affected by HIV and sexual infections, which are acquired predominately through condomless anal sex, known as ‘barebacking’. This thesis is concerned with the experiences of HIV-negative or unknown status gay men who have recently engaged in …
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Sex work and health in London
This thesis comprises 12 publications from two decades of research into sex work and health. The papers report on the risks and determinants of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STI) in women selling sex in London. The research combined clinical, epidemiological and anthropological …
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Coping and help seeking behaviour in women with Pelvic Floor Dysfunction : the emic perspective
Pelvic Floor Dysfunction: (PFD) encompasses symptoms that rarely occur in isolation and include urinary and faecal incontinence, rectal evacuatory dysfunction and pelvic organ prolapse. It impacts on the quality of life of at least one third of adult women, with recent reviews suggesting that …
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The role of optometry in the delivery of eye health care in the European Union
… Optometry in Britain works very closely with medicine and is steadily moving forward as a profession complimentary to ophthalmology. However, with the exception of Ireland, the role of optometry in the rest of the European Union is restricted by national laws, decrees or acts like Actus …
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A study of pupil response components in human vision
The overall aim of the research described in this thesis was to investigate the basic mechanisms of the pupil of the eye in relation to human vision and brain function. It also evaluates the potential application of new research techniques to clinical studies that involve assessment of the visual …
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In silico testing of glucose controllers : methodology and sample application
Diabetes mellitus designates a range of metabolic disorders characterised by hyperglycaemia due to deficient or absent insulin secretion, insulin action, or both. In particular, Type 1 diabetes is characterised by a total lack of endogenous insulin secretion which has to be replaced by exogenous …
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Does the type of care matter? : a study of the effect of early substitute care
`Looked after' children have high rates of emotional/behavioural disturbance, but it remains uncertain whether this derives from genetic risk, adverse experiences before reception into care, or from risks associated with substitute care experiences. Methods: The study was a `natural experiment' …
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Assessing British sign language development
Sign bilingualism is one of several approaches to the education of deaf children in the UK Sign bilingualism seeks to introduce British Sign Language (BSL) to deaf children from an early age in order to establish a first language from which English, the majority language, can be acquired. However, …
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What the analysis of empathy in the fifth Cartesian Meditation reveals for psychotherapy
The thesis agrees that there can be interpreted within conscious life, the influence of the past. The past can influence the intersubjective style of an ego, a person in some of their relations with others. But Freud held an unclear position on how to interpret `unconscious intentionality'. He …
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Processing events : investigating event conceptualisation in aphasia
Some people with aphasia may have difficulty in talking about events because of trouble in processing situations in a language-ready fashion. A number of models of language production include a level at which messages are shaped to the demands of a particular language system. However, the relation …
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Knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, behaviour and breast cancer screening practices in Ghana, West Africa
Breast cancer is both the most common cancer and the leading cause of cancer related death among women around the world. The incidence of the disease is generally considered higher among women in the developed countries than the developing countries; however, the mortality rates for women in the …
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