Health Sciences news roundup
A study led by Professor Peter Griffiths will investigate how the provision of nurses in hospitals affects the care and safety of patients.
A study led by Professor Peter Griffiths will investigate how the provision of nurses in hospitals affects the care and safety of patients. Funded by the NIHR: Health Services and Delivery Research (HS&DR) Programme, and working with Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust and the universities of Portsmouth and York, the research will examine the relationship between nurse staffing levels, failure to observe patients’ vital signs and possible consequences – such as cardiac arrest calls, unanticipated admission to intensive care and death.
News of the study has been covered by the Nursing Times, pharmiweb.com, itv’s Meridian news.com and News Medical.
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Carol Rivas was recently filmed by Sage Publishers. She is making four, 10 minute, tutorials on aspects of social sciences methodology for the publisher’s Methodologies web resource. The tutorials will be available within the next couple of months. Logging on to the Sage Methodologies Space may be necessary to view them.
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Dr Danielle Lambrick has had a good start to the month with four publications going online in August. These are:
- A randomised controlled trial to assess the psychosocial effects of early exercise engagement in patients diagnosed with transient ischaemic attack and mild, non-disabling stroke. Clinical Rehabilitation, 28, 783-794. Published online on Sage Journals and PubMed.gov.
- The influence of a six week, high-intensity games intervention on the pulmonary oxygen uptake kinetics in pre-pubertal obese and normal weight children. Applied Physiology, Nutrition and Metabolism. Published online on NRC Research Press.
- Reliability of oscillometric central hemodynamic responses to an orthostatic challenge. Atherosclerosis, 241, (2), 761-765. Published online on ScienceDirect and PubMed.gov.
- Reliability of oscillometric central blood pressure and arterial wave reflection readings: effects of posture and fasting. Journal of Hypertension. 33(8), 1588-1593. Published online on the Journal of Hypertension and PubMed.gov.
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Finally…Emeritus Professor Alan Glasper, who is a specialist advisor for the Care Quality Commission (CQC) discusses what is involved in a CQC hospital inspection in the latest issue of the British Journal of Nursing.
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