The Impact of Repeated Health Checks for Adults with Intellectual Disabilities

Autor: Katherine Lowe, Frank David John Dunstan, Michael Patrick Kerr, David John Felce, Helen Louise Ann Houston, Helen Baxter, Glyn Jones, Janet Felce

Publikováno v: Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities. 21:585-596

Background An earlier study (Baxter et al. 2006) found that a structured health check conducted in primary care identified clinically significant previously unrecognized morbidity among adults with intellectual disabilities. The aim here was to exami

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https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-3148.2008.00441.x

Assessment of professional attitude and conduct in medical undergraduates

Autor: H.M. Sweetland, Ania Korszun, Lorna Tapper-Jones, Peter J. Winterburn, Helen Louise Ann Houston

Publikováno v: Medical Teacher. 27:704-708

One year after implementation of a new schedule of summative assessment of professional attitude and conduct (AC) for medical undergraduates at the University of Wales College of Medicine (UWCM), we evaluated its effectiveness and obtained feedback o

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https://doi.org/10.1080/01421590500312961

General Practitioners' Use of Magnetic Resonance Imaging: An Open Randomized Trial Comparing Telephone and Written Requests and an Open Randomized Controlled Trial of Different Methods of Local Guideline Dissemination

Autor: David Cohen, Janine Hale, Kerry Hood, Helen Louise Ann Houston, Paul Richard Kinnersley, Margaret Hourihan, Michael Robling

Publikováno v: Clinical Radiology. 57:402-407

AIM: To determine the impact and cost-effectiveness of telephone versus written access to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and of different strategies for disseminating locally produced guidelines, upon requests by general practitioners (GPs) for kn

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https://doi.org/10.1053/crad.2001.0864

An evaluation of the sources and availability of careers advice in UK medical schools

Autor: Hayley Prout, Andrew Grant, Melanie Jones, Lorna Tapper-Jones, Helen Sweetland, Helen Louise Ann Houston

Publikováno v: British journal of hospital medicine (London, England : 2005). 70(10)

This article reports a study evaluating the sources and availability of career advice available to students in UK medical schools in order to ascertain the need for an enhanced role for careers information in undergraduate curricula.

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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19966706

Improving response rates using a monetary incentive for patient completion of questionnaires: an observational study

Autor: Ian Russell, Clare Wilkinson, Stirling Bryan, Jo Orchard, Fiona J. Gilbert, Christine Atwell, Fiona Fylan, Andrew M. Garratt, Simon Coulton, Helen Louise Ann Houston, Helen Cox, Maureen G. C. Gillan, David J. Torgerson, Maggie Hendry, Veronica Morton, David King, Ben Cross, Stephen Brealey, Kerenza Hood, Valerie Wadsworth, Michael Robling

Publikováno v: BMC Medical Research Methodology, Vol 7, Iss 1, p 12 (2007)
BMC Medical Research Methodology
BMC medical research methodology

Background Poor response rates to postal questionnaires can introduce bias and reduce the statistical power of a study. To improve response rates in our trial in primary care we tested the effect of introducing an unconditional direct payment of £5

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