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Evaluating the impact and use of Transparent Reporting of Evaluations with Non-randomised Designs (TREND) reporting guidelines (2012)
Journal Article
Fuller, T., Pearson, M., Peters, J., & Anderson, R. (2012). Evaluating the impact and use of Transparent Reporting of Evaluations with Non-randomised Designs (TREND) reporting guidelines. BMJ open, 2(6), Article e002073. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2012-002073

Introduction. Accurate and full reporting of evaluation of interventions in health research is needed for evidence synthesis and informed decision-making. Evidence suggests that biases and incomplete reporting affect the assessment of study validity... Read More about Evaluating the impact and use of Transparent Reporting of Evaluations with Non-randomised Designs (TREND) reporting guidelines.

Implementing health promotion in schools: Protocol for a realist systematic review of research and experience in the United Kingdom (UK) (2012)
Journal Article
Pearson, M., Chilton, R., Woods, H. B., Wyatt, K., Ford, T., Abraham, C., & Anderson, R. (2012). Implementing health promotion in schools: Protocol for a realist systematic review of research and experience in the United Kingdom (UK). Systematic reviews, 1(1), Article 48. https://doi.org/10.1186/2046-4053-1-48

Background: School-based interventions and campaigns are used to promote health and address a wide variety of public health problems. Schools are considered to be key sites for the implementation of health promotion programmes for their potential to... Read More about Implementing health promotion in schools: Protocol for a realist systematic review of research and experience in the United Kingdom (UK).

The ethical decisions UK doctors make regarding advanced cancer patients at the end of life - the perceived (in) appropriateness of anticoagulation for venous thromboembolism: A qualitative study (2012)
Journal Article
Sheard, L., Prout, H., Dowding, D., Noble, S., Watt, I., Maraveyas, A., & Johnson, M. (2012). The ethical decisions UK doctors make regarding advanced cancer patients at the end of life - the perceived (in) appropriateness of anticoagulation for venous thromboembolism: A qualitative study. BMC medical ethics, 13(22), Article ARTN 22. https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6939-13-22

Background: Cancer patients are at risk of developing blood clots in their veins - venous thromboembolism (VTE) - which often takes the form of a pulmonary embolism or deep vein thrombosis. The risk increases with advanced disease. Evidence based tre... Read More about The ethical decisions UK doctors make regarding advanced cancer patients at the end of life - the perceived (in) appropriateness of anticoagulation for venous thromboembolism: A qualitative study.

Minimally clinically important difference in chronic breathlessness: every little helps (2012)
Journal Article
Oxberry, S. G., Bland, J. M., Clark, A. L., Cleland, J. G., & Johnson, M. (2012). Minimally clinically important difference in chronic breathlessness: every little helps. American Heart Journal, 164(2), 229-235. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ahj.2012.05.003

ObjectivesThe aim of the study was to determine the minimally clinically important difference (MCID) for breathlessness due to chronic heart failure (CHF). BackgroundThe measurement of breathlessness is difficult because it is subjective and multifac... Read More about Minimally clinically important difference in chronic breathlessness: every little helps.

Diagnosis and management of people with venous thromboembolism and advanced cancer: how do doctors decide? a qualitative study (2012)
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Johnson, M. J., Sheard, L., Maraveyas, A., Noble, S., Prout, H., Watt, I., & Dowding, D. (2012). Diagnosis and management of people with venous thromboembolism and advanced cancer: how do doctors decide? a qualitative study. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 12(75), https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6947-12-75

Background: The treatment of cancer associated thrombosis (CAT) is well established, with level 1A evidence to support the recommendation of a low molecular weight heparin (LMWH) by daily injection for 3-6 months. However, registry data suggest compl... Read More about Diagnosis and management of people with venous thromboembolism and advanced cancer: how do doctors decide? a qualitative study.

Social Capital and Community Group Participation: Examining 'Bridging' and 'Bonding' in the Context of a Healthy Living Centre in the UK (2012)
Journal Article
Kirkby-Geddes, E., King, N., & Bravington, A. (2013). Social Capital and Community Group Participation: Examining 'Bridging' and 'Bonding' in the Context of a Healthy Living Centre in the UK. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 23(4), 271-285. https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.2118

Social capital has been widely advocated as a way of understanding and building community participation in the interest of health improvement. However, the concept as proposed by Putnam, has been criticised for presenting an overly romanticised accou... Read More about Social Capital and Community Group Participation: Examining 'Bridging' and 'Bonding' in the Context of a Healthy Living Centre in the UK.

A randomized trial of aerobic exercise and sleep quality in lymphoma patients receiving chemotherapy or no treatments (2012)
Journal Article
Courneya, K. S., Sellar, C. M., Trinh, L., Forbes, C. C., Stevinson, C., McNeely, M. L., …Reiman, T. (2012). A randomized trial of aerobic exercise and sleep quality in lymphoma patients receiving chemotherapy or no treatments. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention, 21(6), 887-894. https://doi.org/10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-12-0075

Background: Patients with lymphoma experience sleep problems that may be managed with aerobic exercise but no previous study has examined this issue. Methods: We randomized 122 patients with lymphoma to usual care (n = 62) or 12 weeks of supervised... Read More about A randomized trial of aerobic exercise and sleep quality in lymphoma patients receiving chemotherapy or no treatments.

The role of systematic reviews of qualitative evidence in evaluating interventions: a case study (2012)
Journal Article
Lorenc, T., Pearson, M., Jamal, F., Cooper, C., & Garside, R. (2012). The role of systematic reviews of qualitative evidence in evaluating interventions: a case study. Research Synthesis Methods, 3(1), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1002/jrsm.1036

Systematic reviews of qualitative evidence have been widely used to provide information on the context and implementation of interventions, and their potential barriers and facilitators. However, such reviews face a number of methodological challenge... Read More about The role of systematic reviews of qualitative evidence in evaluating interventions: a case study.

Are emotions perceptual experiences of value? (2012)
Journal Article
Whiting, D. (2012). Are emotions perceptual experiences of value?. Ratio, 25(1), 93-107. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9329.2011.00518.x

A number of emotion theorists hold that emotions are perceptions of value. In this paper I say why they are wrong. I claim that in the case of emotion there is nothing that can provide the perceptual modality that is needed if the perceptual theory i... Read More about Are emotions perceptual experiences of value?.