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The academic radiography workforce: Age profile, succession planning and academic development.
(W.B. Saunders Ltd, 2017-06-22)Introduction: Academia is one area of practice in which radiographers can specialise; they compile approximately 2% of the total radiography profession in the UK, but are highly influential and essential for the education ... -
Adjusted indices of multiple deprivation to enable comparisons within and between constituent countries of the UK including an illustration using mortality rates
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2016-11)Objectives Social determinants can have a major impact on health and as a consequence substantial inequalities are seen between and within countries. The study of inequalities between countries relies on having accurate ... -
Advancing allied health professionals' practice in osteoporosis
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Assessing communication quality of consultations in primary care: initial reliability of the Global Consultation Rating Scale, based on the Calgary-Cambridge Guide to the Medical Interview.
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2014-03-06)OBJECTIVES: To investigate initial reliability of the Global Consultation Rating Scale (GCRS: an instrument to assess the effectiveness of communication across an entire doctor-patient consultation, based on the Calgary-Cambridge ... -
Blood Pressure Trajectories in the 20 Years Before Death.
(American Medical Association, 2017-12-04)Importance: There is mixed evidence that blood pressure (BP) stabilizes or decreases in later life. It is also unclear whether BP trajectories reflect advancing age, proximity to end of life, or selective survival of persons ... -
'Care under pressure': A realist review of interventions to tackle doctors' mental ill-health and its impacts on the clinical workforce and patient care.
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2018-02-02)INTRODUCTION: Mental ill-health is prevalent across all groups of health professionals and this is of great concern in many countries. In the UK, the mental health of the National Health Service (NHS) workforce is a major ... -
CD38 is Required for Dendritic Organization in Visual Cortex and Hippocampus.
(Elsevier, 2018-01-03)Morphological screening of mouse brains with known behavioral deficits can give great insight into the relationship between brain regions and their behavior. Oxytocin- and CD38-deficient mice have previously been shown to ... -
Changing practice as a quality indicator for primary care: analysis of data on voluntary disenrollment from the English GP Patient Survey.
(BioMed Central, 2013-06-25)BACKGROUND: Changing family practice (voluntary disenrollment) without changing address may indicate dissatisfaction with care. We investigate the potential to use voluntary disenrollment as a quality indicator for primary ... -
Circadian Disruptions in the Myshkin Mouse Model of Mania Are Independent of Deficits in Suprachiasmatic Molecular Clock Function.
(Elsevier, 2017-05-20)BACKGROUND: Alterations in environmental light and intrinsic circadian function have strong associations with mood disorders. The neural origins underpinning these changes remain unclear, although genetic deficits in the ... -
Circadian regulation of mouse suprachiasmatic nuclei neuronal states shapes responses to orexin.
(Wiley, 2016-12-17)Our knowledge of how circadian and homeostatic brain circuits interact to temporally organize physiology and behavior is limited. Progress has been made with the determination that lateral hypothalamic orexin (OXA) neurons ... -
Common patterns of morbidity and multi-morbidity and their impact on health-related quality of life: evidence from a national survey.
(Springer Verlag (Germany), 2015-04)BACKGROUND: There is limited evidence about the impact of specific patterns of multi-morbidity on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) from large samples of adult subjects. METHODS: We used data from the English General ... -
Compassionate care in radiography recruitment, education and training: A post-Francis Report review of the current literature and patient perspectives
(WB Saunders, 2016-01-11)Compassion is elemental in the care of a patient during their medical imaging (MI) procedure and is highly topical in the light of the Francis Report. The patient–practitioner interaction is an amalgam of context, communication ... -
Complex nature of SNP genotype effects on gene expression in primary human leucocytes.
(BioMed Central, 2009-01-07)BACKGROUND: Genome wide association studies have been hugely successful in identifying disease risk variants, yet most variants do not lead to coding changes and how variants influence biological function is usually unknown. ... -
Contrast Medium Volume Optimization in Abdominal CT on Basis of Lean Body Weight
(Scientific and Academic Publishing, 2013)Computed tomography (CT) in abdominal imaging has undergone great advances in recent years. The administration of iodinated contrast media (CM) has evolved along with the evolution of the CT equipment. The most common ... -
A current view on contactin-4, -5, and -6: Implications in neurodevelopmental disorders.
(Elsevier, 2017-01-05)Contactins (Cntns) are a six-member subgroup of the immunoglobulin cell adhesion molecule superfamily (IgCAMs) with pronounced brain expression and function. Recent genetic studies of neuropsychiatric disorders have ... -
Delayed Cryptochrome Degradation Asymmetrically Alters the Daily Rhythm in Suprachiasmatic Clock Neuron Excitability.
(Society for Neuroscience, 2017-08-16)Suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN) neurons contain an intracellular molecular circadian clock and the Cryptochromes (CRY1/2), key transcriptional repressors of this molecular apparatus, are subject to post-translational modification ... -
Derivation and validation of a simple, accurate and robust prediction rule for risk of mortality in patients with Clostridium difficile infection.
(BioMed Central, 2013-07-12)BACKGROUND: Clostridium difficile infection poses a significant healthcare burden. However, the derivation of a simple, evidence based prediction rule to assist patient management has not yet been described. METHOD: ... -
The development and evaluation of an audit tool for measuring reporting accuracy of radiographers compared with radiologists for intra-luminal pathology detected at computed tomography colonography (CTC)
(Elsevier, 2015-04-16)Objective: To design and test an audit tool to measure the reporting accuracy of radiographers using radiologist reports as the gold standard. Design: A database was designed to capture radiographer and radiologist report ... -
Distinct genetic architectures for syndromic and nonsyndromic congenital heart defects identified by exome sequencing
(Springer Nature, 2016-08-01)Congenital heart defects (CHDs) have a neonatal incidence of 0.8-1% (refs. 1,2). Despite abundant examples of monogenic CHD in humans and mice, CHD has a low absolute sibling recurrence risk (∼2.7%), suggesting a considerable ... -
DNA methylation profiling in inflammatory bowel disease provides new insights into disease pathogenesis.
(Oxford University Press, 2015-09-28)Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBDs) are heterogeneous disorders with complex aetiology. Quantitative genetic studies suggest that only a small proportion of the disease variance observed in IBD is accounted for by genetic ...