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M Thomas - NIHR PGfAR (via Oxford) - Development and evaluation of an online FeNO-guided primary care asthma management intervention (replaces ARCP005554)
According to Asthma UK, around 5.4 million people in the UK receive treatment for asthma. Asthma costs the NHS at least £1.1 billion each year, and on average almost 300 people each day are admitted to hospital with an asthma attack. There is no cure...
ICU staffing models
The number of nurses providing care to critically ill patients can result in better or worse outcomes for patients and staff. Over 170,000 people spend time in intensive care units in England and Wales each year, the majority surviving to be discharg...
Prof P. Little: Antibiotics for lower Respiratory Tract Infections in Children presenting in Primary Care (ARCTIC PC)
Acute respiratory infections are among the commonest conditions managed in primary care.The Department of Health recognises that antibiotic resistance is an increasingly serious public health problem in England, Europe and the world with rising resis...
Peter Griffiths, NIHR HS&DR - Identifying nurse-staffing requirements using the Safer Nursing Care Tool. Modelling the costs and condequences of real world application to address variation in patient need on hospital wards
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) issued guidance on setting safe nurse staffing levels for hospitals in response to reports into failures in the NHS (including the Mid Staffordshire inquiries) and research showing the impo...
Peter Griffiths, NIHR HS&DR - Nurse staffing levels, missed vital signs observations and mortality in hospital wards: modelling the consequences and costs of variations in nurse staffing and skill mix.
The NHS in England, like many other healthcare systems, is facing intense pressure to maintain the quality and safety of care provided in hospitals at the same or less cost than in previous years. The quality of nursing care - and the potential for i...