Health Knowledge
This theme focuses on health knowledge. Participants in health services have differential access to, and needs for, knowledge and information, which along with a range of situated constraints, impact on decision-making. Activity is focused on evidence generation, translation and utilisation and lay and expert frameworks of understanding.
Evidence Generation, Translation and Utilisation
- Evaluation of appropriateness methods to define and improve access across primary, secondary and tertiary care among people with angina.
- Practitioner Appraisal of Local Service Evaluations (PALSE)
- Qualitative research: the quality of abstracts and the difficulties in information retrieval
- The social organisation of Integrated Care Pathway development
Decision Making
- Improving the predictive capability of risk assessment systems
- Using conjoint analysis to establish community nurses' preferences regarding interventions towards pressure ulcer prevention
- Applying a discrete choice experiment to ascertain the views of community nurses when designing care-plans for individuals who are vulnerable or at elevated risk of pressure ulcer
- Consent to newborn screening: a study of midwives and mothers
- The meaning for mothers of a decision about antenatal screening for Down's syndrome
- Home Births: Decision making and experiences
- A qualitative study to explore the informal practice theories of nurses working in the care of older adults
- Midwife and mother in partnership: increasing parental choice about newborn screening
- Audit of families who have an abnormal newborn screening test result
- A UK wide survey of insulin initiation in children with type 1 diabetes and associated decision making
- Antenatal Screening Decision Pathways for women at risk of Duchenne muscular dystrophy: A study of the perceived reproductive impact of newborn screening
- Clinical, molecular and social aspects of genetic testing for Rett syndrome
- Banking on miracles: Cord blood stem cell collection and the implications for midwifery practice
Lay and Expert Frameworks of Understanding
- The perception of peer support of teenagers aged 12-16 years with type 1 diabetes
- Clinical, molecular and social aspects of genetic testing for Rett syndrome
- Investigation of the practical and ethical problems of a surgical RCT: the MRC spine stabilisation trial
- Health, medicines and self-care choices made by children, young people and their families: Information to support decision making
- Banking on miracles: Cord blood stem cell collection and the implications for midwifery practice
- Evidence into practice: evaluating a child-centred intervention for diabetes medicine management