Practice development
The utilisation of research is perhaps the most important part of the R&D process for nurses endeavouring to deliver evidence based practice. Practice development initiatives will be listed here, as well as information about user involvement, an area of growing importance in the research endeavour. Remember we have lots more information in the Practice Development section of our website.
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CRD - abstract of the week - 15 October 2012
Published: 19 Oct 2012
The Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD) is one of the largest groups in the world engaged exclusively in evidence synthesis in the health field. CRD undertakes systematic reviews evaluating the research evidence on health and public health questions of national and international importance. A selection of abstracts added to the CRD database this week includes pregnancy testing; alcohol misuse; sudden infant death syndrome; stroke; chronic diseases; iron replacement therapy; opiate substitution treatment; antibiotic prophylaxis; bariatric surgery; hip fracture.
Research methods web resources from ESRC
Published: 18 Oct 2012
The ReStore project aims to preserve, sustain and actively maintain selected research methods resources beyond their funding periods.
CRD - abstract of the week - 1 October 2012
Published: 05 Oct 2012
The Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD) is one of the largest groups in the world engaged exclusively in evidence synthesis in the health field. CRD undertakes systematic reviews evaluating the research evidence on health and public health questions of national and international importance. A selection of abstracts added to the CRD database this week includesprevention of type 2 diabetes; invasive candida infections; reduce pain in patients with cancer; oral anticoagulant agents; spinal anaesthesia for caesarean delivery; total hip arthroplasty.
Quality through a patient’s eyes: the fifteen steps challenge toolkits
Published: 03 Oct 2012
"I can tell what kind of care my daughter is going to get within 15 steps of walking on to a ward," says a patient’s mum. And what would she think of the care on your ward for her loved one? Download a series of toolkits to help you look at care in a variety of settings through the eyes of patients and service users.
CRD - abstract of the week - 24 September 2012
Published: 27 Sep 2012
The Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD) is one of the largest groups in the world engaged exclusively in evidence synthesis in the health field. CRD undertakes systematic reviews evaluating the research evidence on health and public health questions of national and international importance. A selection of abstracts added to the CRD database this week includes improving patient handovers from hospital to primary care; the risk of bladder cancer in type 2 diabetes; early versus late epidural analgesia.
CRD - abstract of the week - 17 September 2012
Published: 21 Sep 2012
The Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD) is one of the largest groups in the world engaged exclusively in evidence synthesis in the health field. CRD undertakes systematic reviews evaluating the research evidence on health and public health questions of national and international importance. A selection of abstracts added to the CRD database this week includesacupuncture for chronic pain; risk of major cardiovascular disease events; subacromial impingement syndrome; preventing travelers' diarrhea; cardiovascular outcomes; antipsychotics in adults; pancreatitis; cardiac surgery; mechanical heart valve prothesis; Crohn's disease; type 2 diabetes; reducing breast cancer mortality; type 1 diabetes; myeloid leukemia; COPD; diabetes mellitus.
CRD - abstract of the week - 3 September 2012
Published: 06 Sep 2012
The Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD) is one of the largest groups in the world engaged exclusively in evidence synthesis in the health field. CRD undertakes systematic reviews evaluating the research evidence on health and public health questions of national and international importance. A selection of abstracts added to the CRD database this week includes sleep apnea; chronic kidney disease; glycemic control; patients with STEMI; type 1 and/or 2 diabetes; menopausal hormone therapy; macular oedema; common cold; anemia associated with chemotherapy; mild heart failure; advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinoma; percutaneous coronary intervention; depression screening and patient outcomes in cancer; cardiac surgery; solid organ transplant; emotional impact of screening; herpes; myopia; childhood gastroenteritis; weight management schemes for the under fives; myocardial infarction; arterial hypertension in the very elderly; psoriasis; renal cell carcinoma; renal disease; acute coronary syndrome.
Ideas, examples, information and research about therapeutic mental health inpatient care
Published: 24 Aug 2012
Star Wards has launched the world's first ever-comprehensive resource on providing therapeutic care for mental health inpatients entitled Wardipedia.
Free resources on qualitative or mixed research methods
Published: 10 Aug 2012
Use these online resources on the Morgan Centre for the Study of Relationships and Personal Life website as an aid in your own research, if you teach qualitative (and mixed) methods courses in universities and colleges or if you supervise PhD students.
The Past Caring Project: a carer-led narrative research project about carer bereavement
Published: 03 Aug 2012
In the Past Caring Project, carers got together to develop research around carer bereavement from the people who quietly experience it. They collected stories of people who have spent a long time (three to 30 years) caring for a person before they died or for a person lost to dementia. The project was about what comes next, their feelings and experiences.