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Promoting Increased Physical Activity Among Hospitalised Older Adults With Trained Volunteers
Aim(s) of the research To determine whether hospital volunteers can be trained to engage older people in hospital to be more active. We want to know if this intervention will work in different hospitals and explore factors that will support or preven...
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Health Economic Model Development For GRoups For Engaging With Alexander Technique Lessons For Back Pain (HE-GREAT)
BackgroundPain from back, neck, hip or knee, and often at several sites, are the commonest causes of chronic pain. Treatments are limited. Improving self-management of chronic illness is a national priority. Lessons in Alexander Technique (AT) aim to...
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Prescribing teratogenic medicines in women of reproductive age
Background The number of people living with long-term conditions, such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and diabetes, is on the rise. This includes women of reproductive or childbearing age. Increasing numbers of women in this group are pres...
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Fenugreek For Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Systematic Review
Background The NHS spends over £8 billion per year on medicine to treat diabetes. However, less than half of people take their medicines as prescribed. There are over 431,000 people of South Asian descent with type 2 diabetes in the UK. They have hig...
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Improving Understanding Of Indications For And Timing Of Surgery In Infants With Necrotising Enterocolitis
Aims of the research Necrotising enterocolitis (NEC) is a devastating disease of the bowel that causes babies to require intensive care treatment with some needing major surgery. Babies who survive NEC have a high incidence of significant long term h...
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Integrating Health And Social Care For People With Multiple Long-term Conditions (MLTC-M):Development Of A Digital Platform To Support Data-driven, Tailored Communication Among Care Providers.
There are 15 million people in England living with two or more long-term physical, mental or infectious diseases, known as Multiple Long-Term Conditions (MLTC). Current care is mostly focused on medical treatment (e.g. blood pressure, cholesterol). T...