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Magnetoencephalography to investigate central perception of exercise-induced breathlessness in people with chronic lung disease: A feasibility pilot (2015)
Journal Article
Johnson, M. J., Simpson, M. I., Currow, D. C., Millman, R. E., Hart, S. P., & Green, G. (2015). Magnetoencephalography to investigate central perception of exercise-induced breathlessness in people with chronic lung disease: A feasibility pilot. BMJ open, 5(6), Article ARTN e007535. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2014-007535

Objectives: Neuroimaging in chronic breathlessness is challenging. The study objective was to test the feasibility of magnetoencephalography (MEG) for functional neuroimaging of people with chronic breathlessness. Design: Feasibility pilot study. Set... Read More about Magnetoencephalography to investigate central perception of exercise-induced breathlessness in people with chronic lung disease: A feasibility pilot.

Can variability in the effect of opioids on refractory breathlessness be explained by genetic factors? (2015)
Journal Article
Currow, D. C., Quinn, S., Ekström, M., Kaasa, S., Johnson, M. J., Somogyi, A. A., & Klepstad, P. (2015). Can variability in the effect of opioids on refractory breathlessness be explained by genetic factors?. BMJ open, 5(5), e006818-e006818. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2014-006818

© 2015, BMJ Publishing Group. All rights reserved. Objectives: Opioids modulate the perception of breathlessness with a considerable variation in response, with poor correlation between the required opioid dose and symptom severity. The objective of... Read More about Can variability in the effect of opioids on refractory breathlessness be explained by genetic factors?.

Patient and health care professional decision-making to commence and withdraw from renal dialysis: A systematic review of qualitative research (2015)
Journal Article
Hussain, J. A., Flemming, K., Murtagh, F. E., & Johnson, M. J. (2015). Patient and health care professional decision-making to commence and withdraw from renal dialysis: A systematic review of qualitative research. Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology, 10(7), 1201-1215. https://doi.org/10.2215/cjn.11091114

Background and objectives. To ensure decisions to start and stop dialysis in end stage kidney disease are shared, the factors that affect patients and healthcare professionals in making such decisions need to be understood. This systematic review aim... Read More about Patient and health care professional decision-making to commence and withdraw from renal dialysis: A systematic review of qualitative research.

A systematic review of strategies used to increase recruitment of people with cancer or organ failure into clinical trials: Implications for palliative care research (2015)
Journal Article
Boland, J., Currow, D. C., Wilcock, A., Tieman, J., Hussain, J. A., Pitsillides, C., Abernethy, A. P., & Johnson, M. J. (2015). A systematic review of strategies used to increase recruitment of people with cancer or organ failure into clinical trials: Implications for palliative care research. Journal of pain and symptom management, 49(4), 762-772. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2014.09.018

© 2015 American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. Context The challenges of palliative care clinical trial recruitment are well documented. Objectives The aim of the study was to review tested strategies to improve recruitment to trials of... Read More about A systematic review of strategies used to increase recruitment of people with cancer or organ failure into clinical trials: Implications for palliative care research.

What affects authors' and editors' use of reporting guidelines? Findings from an online survey and qualitative interviews (2015)
Journal Article
Fuller, T., Pearson, M., Peters, J., & Anderson, R. (2015). What affects authors' and editors' use of reporting guidelines? Findings from an online survey and qualitative interviews. PLoS ONE, 10(4), e0121585. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0121585

Objectives
To identify and understand, through data from multiple sources, some of the factors that affect authors’ and editors’ decisions to use reporting guidelines in the publication of health research.

Design
Mixed methods study comprising an on... Read More about What affects authors' and editors' use of reporting guidelines? Findings from an online survey and qualitative interviews.

Palliative care needs in patients hospitalized with heart failure (PCHF) study: rationale and design (2015)
Journal Article
Campbell, R. T., Jackson, C. E., Wright, A., Gardner, R. S., Ford, I., Davidson, P. M., Denvir, M. A., Hogg, K. J., Johnson, M. J., Petrie, M. C., & McMurray, J. J. (2015). Palliative care needs in patients hospitalized with heart failure (PCHF) study: rationale and design. ESC Heart Failure, 2(1), 25-36. https://doi.org/10.1002/ehf2.12027

Abstract Aims The primary aim of this study is to provide data to inform the design of a randomized controlled clinical trial (RCT) of a palliative care (PC) intervention in heart failure (HF). We will identify an appropriate study population with a... Read More about Palliative care needs in patients hospitalized with heart failure (PCHF) study: rationale and design.

Providing effective and preferred care closer to home: a realist review of intermediate care (2015)
Journal Article
Pearson, M., Hunt, H., Cooper, C., Shepperd, S., Pawson, R., & Anderson, R. (2015). Providing effective and preferred care closer to home: a realist review of intermediate care. Health and Social Care in the Community, 23(6), 577-593. https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.12183

Intermediate care is one of the number of service delivery models intended to integrate care and provide enhanced health and social care services closer to home, especially to reduce reliance on acute care hospital beds. In order for health and socia... Read More about Providing effective and preferred care closer to home: a realist review of intermediate care.

Palliative care among heart failure patients in primary care: A comparison to cancer patients using english family practice data (2014)
Journal Article
Gadoud, A., Kane, E., Macleod, U., Ansell, P., Oliver, S., & Johnson, M. (2014). Palliative care among heart failure patients in primary care: A comparison to cancer patients using english family practice data. PLoS ONE, 9(11), Article e113188. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0113188

© 2014 Gadoud et al. Introduction: Patients with heart failure have a significant symptom burden and other palliative care needs often over a longer period than patients with cancer. It is acknowledged that this need may be unmet but by how much has... Read More about Palliative care among heart failure patients in primary care: A comparison to cancer patients using english family practice data.

Impact of the transparent reporting of evaluations with nonrandomized designs reporting guideline: Ten years on (2014)
Journal Article
Fuller, T., Peters, J., Pearson, M., & Anderson, R. (2014). Impact of the transparent reporting of evaluations with nonrandomized designs reporting guideline: Ten years on. American journal of public health : JPH / American Public Health Association, 104(11), e110-e117. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2014.302195

Objectives. We assessed how the Transparent Reporting of Evaluations with Nonrandomized Designs (TREND) reporting guideline was used by authors and journal editors in journals’ instructions to authors. We also evaluated its impact on reporting comple... Read More about Impact of the transparent reporting of evaluations with nonrandomized designs reporting guideline: Ten years on.