Effectiveness of vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 and the need for alternative preventative approaches in immunocompromise...
10.1080/14760584.2023.2191716 / Expert Review of Vaccines / 22 / 1 / 341-365
Fundamental nursing care focusing on older people’s needs and continuity of long-term care : A scoping review protocol
Knowledge about long-term care services ability, regardless of if the service is home-based or facility-based, to provide an optimal and comprehensive fundamental nursing care (understood as focusing on physical, relational and psychosocial needs) consistently over time is sparse. Research into nursing indicates the presence of a discontinuous and ...
Comparative efficacy, cognitive effects and acceptability of electroconvulsive therapies for the treatment of depression...
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INTRODUCTION: There have been important advances in the use of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) to treat major depressive episodes. These include variations to the type of stimulus the brain regions stimulated, and the stimulus parameters (eg, stimulus duration/pulse width). Our aim is to investigate ECT types using a network meta-analysis (NMA) app...
Can process mapping and a multisite Delphi of perioperative professionals inform our understanding of system-wide factor...
OBJECTIVES: To examine whether the use of process mapping and a multidisciplinary Delphi can identify potential contributors to perioperative risk. We hypothesised that this approach may identify factors not represented in common perioperative risk tools and give insights of use to future research in this area. DESIGN: Multidisciplinary, modified D...
Scoping review protocol to map studies on self-healing practices for suicide loss survivors
INTRODUCTION: Suicide loss survivors often find it challenging to access professional help due to social stigma despite being at a higher risk of developing suicidal behaviour and mental health problems. Most available grief interventions are professional-led and heavily rely on help-seeking behaviour. Self-healing is a growing alternative interven...
Impact of long-term air pollution exposure on incidence of neurodegenerative diseases: A protocol for a systematic revie...
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BACKGROUND: Ambient air pollution is a pervasive and ubiquitous hazard, which has been linked to premature morbidity and a growing number of morbidity endpoints. Air pollution may be linked to neurodegeneration, and via this or other pathways, to neurodegenerative diseases. Emerging evidence suggests that air pollution may contribute to neurodegene...
Do doctors and other healthcare professionals know overdiagnosis in screening and how are they dealing with it? A protoc...
INTRODUCTION: Overdiagnosis is the diagnosis of a disease that would never have caused any symptom or problem. It is a harmful side effect of screening and may lead to unnecessary treatment, costs and emotional drawbacks. Doctors and other healthcare professionals (HCPs) have the opportunity to mitigate these consequences, not only by informing the...
Operative management of acute abdomen after bariatric surgery in the emergency setting: the OBA guidelines.
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BACKGROUND: Patients presenting with acute abdominal pain that occurs after months or years following bariatric surgery may present for assessment and management in the local emergency units. Due to the large variety of surgical bariatric techniques, emergency surgeons have to be aware of the main functional outcomes and long-term surgical complica...
Meta-review of the barriers and facilitators to women accessing perinatal mental healthcare.
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Peer reviewed: True / UNLABELLED: Perinatal mental health (PMH) problems are common and can have an adverse impact on women and their families. However, research suggests that a substantial proportion of women with PMH problems do not access care. OBJECTIVES: To synthesise the results from previous systematic reviews of barriers and facilitators to...
Assessing health governance across countries: a scoping review protocol on indices and assessment tools applied globally...
INTRODUCTION: Most global health indices or assessment tools focus on health outcomes rather than governance, and they have been developed primarily from the perspective of high-income countries. To benchmark global health governance for equity and solidarity, it becomes necessary to reflect on the current state of indices or assessment tools evalu...
