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"A band of brothers" - an exploration of the range of medical ethical issues faced by British senior military clinicians on deployment to Afghanistan: a qualitative study (2016)
Journal Article
Bernthal, E. M., Draper, H. J., Henning, J., & Kelly, J. C. (2017). "A band of brothers" - an exploration of the range of medical ethical issues faced by British senior military clinicians on deployment to Afghanistan: a qualitative study. Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, 163(3), 199-205. https://doi.org/10.1136/jramc-2016-000701

Aims To identify and explore features of ethical issues that senior clinicians faced as Deployed Medical Directors (DMDs) to the British Field Hospital in Afghanistan (BFHA) as well as to determine the ethical training requirements for future deploym... Read More about "A band of brothers" - an exploration of the range of medical ethical issues faced by British senior military clinicians on deployment to Afghanistan: a qualitative study.

Peri-conceptual and mid-pregnancy drinking: a cross-sectional assessment in two Scottish health board areas using a 7-day Retrospective Diary (2016)
Journal Article
Symon, A., Rankin, J., Sinclair, H., Butcher, G., Barclay, K., Gordon, R., MacDonald, M., & Smith, L. (2017). Peri-conceptual and mid-pregnancy drinking: a cross-sectional assessment in two Scottish health board areas using a 7-day Retrospective Diary. Journal of advanced nursing, 73(2), 375-385. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.13112

Aims: The aim of this study was to evaluate the use of a 7-day Retrospective Diary to assess peri-conceptual and mid-pregnancy alcohol consumption. Background: Alcohol consumption among women has increased significantly and is of international concer... Read More about Peri-conceptual and mid-pregnancy drinking: a cross-sectional assessment in two Scottish health board areas using a 7-day Retrospective Diary.

Desperately seeking consistency: student nurses' experiences and expectations of academic supervision (2016)
Journal Article
Gratrix, L., & Barrett, D. (2017). Desperately seeking consistency: student nurses' experiences and expectations of academic supervision. Nurse education today, 48, 7-12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2016.09.005

© 2016 Elsevier Ltd Background Academic supervision - the support available to students when writing assignments - is a fundamental element in the provision of support within nurse education. Not only can it underpin high levels of academic achieveme... Read More about Desperately seeking consistency: student nurses' experiences and expectations of academic supervision.

Peri-Conceptual and Mid-Pregnancy Alcohol Consumption: A Comparison between Areas of High and Low Deprivation in Scotland (2016)
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Symon, A., Rankin, J., Sinclair, H., Butcher, G., Smith, L., Gordon, R., & Cochrane, L. (2016). Peri-Conceptual and Mid-Pregnancy Alcohol Consumption: A Comparison between Areas of High and Low Deprivation in Scotland. Birth, 43(4), 320-327. https://doi.org/10.1111/birt.12252

© 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Background: Alcohol-related mortality and morbidity among women has increased over recent decades, especially in areas of higher deprivation. Pre-pregnancy alcohol use is associated with continued consumption in pregnan... Read More about Peri-Conceptual and Mid-Pregnancy Alcohol Consumption: A Comparison between Areas of High and Low Deprivation in Scotland.

Percutaneous device closure of paravalvular leak (2016)
Journal Article
Calvert, P. A., Northridge, D. B., Malik, I. S., Shapiro, L., Ludman, P., Qureshi, S. A., Mullen, M., Henderson, R., Turner, M., Been, M., Walsh, K. P., Casserly, I., Morrison, L., Walker, N. L., Thomson, J., Spence, M. S., Mahadevan, V. S., Hoye, A., Maccarthy, P. A., Daniels, M. J., …Hildick-Smith, D. (2016). Percutaneous device closure of paravalvular leak. Circulation, 134(13), 934-944. https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.116.022684

Background: Paravalvular leak (PVL) occurs in 5% to 17% of patients following surgical valve replacement. Percutaneous device closure represents an alternative to repeat surgery. Methods: All UK and Ireland centers undertaking percutaneous PVL closur... Read More about Percutaneous device closure of paravalvular leak.

Midwives’ views, experiences and feelings of confidence surrounding vaginal breech birth: A qualitative study (2016)
Journal Article
Sloman, R., Wanat, M., Burns, E., & Smith, L. (2016). Midwives’ views, experiences and feelings of confidence surrounding vaginal breech birth: A qualitative study. Midwifery, 41, 61-67. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.midw.2016.07.015

© 2016 Objective to explore midwives’ views, experiences and feelings of confidence surrounding vaginal breech birth (VBB). Design a qualitative study was conducted with 12 participants using three focus group discussions. Data were transcribed verba... Read More about Midwives’ views, experiences and feelings of confidence surrounding vaginal breech birth: A qualitative study.

The effect of Nurse GraduaTeness on patient mortality: a cross-sectional survey (the NuGaT study) (2016)
Journal Article
Gkantaras, I., Mahfoud, Z. R., Foreman, B., Thompson, D. R., Cannaby, A. M., Deshpande, D. H., Watson, R., Topping, A., & Gray, R. (2016). The effect of Nurse GraduaTeness on patient mortality: a cross-sectional survey (the NuGaT study). Journal of advanced nursing, 72(12), 3034-3044. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.13059

© 2016 John Wiley & Sons Ltd Aim: To investigate the relationship between patient mortality and the educational preparation (graduateness) of the nurses who cared for them. Background: There have been 18 studies over the last two decades examining... Read More about The effect of Nurse GraduaTeness on patient mortality: a cross-sectional survey (the NuGaT study).