• Year 2020, truly the ‘international year of the nurse and the midwife’ 

  Borglin, PG; Richards, PDA (SAGE Publications, 11 June 2020)

• Singing for people with aphasia (SPA): Results of a pilot feasibility randomised controlled trial of a group singing intervention investigating acceptability and feasibility 

  Tarrant, M; Carter, M; Dean, SG; et al. (BMJ Publishing Group, 2020)

  Objectives: Pilot feasibility randomised controlled trial (RCT) for the ‘Singing groups for People with Aphasia’ (SPA) intervention to assess: (1) the acceptability and feasibility of participant recruitment, randomisation ...

• Telomere length and risk of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a mendelian randomisation study. 

  Duckworth, A; Gibbons, MA; Allen, RJ; et al. (Elsevier, 13 November 2020)

  BACKGROUND: Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a fatal lung disease accounting for 1% of UK deaths. In the familial form of pulmonary fibrosis, causal genes have been identified in about 30% of cases, and a majority ...

• More than sweat equity: Young people as volunteers in conservation work 

  Leyshon, M; Leyshon, C; Walker, T; et al. (Elsevier BV, 1 December 2020)

  This paper examines how young people come to be enrolled and engaged in programmes of unpaid environmental conservation in rural areas. Set within a theoretical debate regarding the nature of unpaid work and its relationship ...

• Cancer diagnostic tools to aid decision-making in primary care: mixed-methods systematic reviews and cost-effectiveness analysis 

  Medina-Lara, A; Grigore, B; Lewis, R; et al. (NIHR Journals Library, 30 November 2020)

  Background: Tools based on diagnostic prediction models are available to help general practitioners diagnose cancer. It is unclear whether or not tools expedite diagnosis or affect patient quality of life and/or ...

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