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Nursing workforce a global priority area for health policy and health services research: A special issue
25 May 2012
Koen Van den Heede, Linda H. Aiken
For more than 2 decades, researchers, many from North America, have reported that the nursing workforce is under pressure, that quality of patient care is jeopardized and that problems will only accel...
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Liminality and transfer to adult services: A qualitative investigation involving young people with cystic fibrosis
24 May 2012
Stephanie Tierney, Christi Deaton, Andrew Jones, Helen Oxley, Judith Biesty, Sue Kirk
Abstract: Background: Moving to adult care can be challenging for adolescents with a long-term condition; if not managed well it may result in non-adherence, failure to attend appointments and a decli...
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Explanatory models of depression and treatment adherence to antidepressant medication: A qualitative interview study
23 May 2012
Niels Buus, Helle Johannessen, Kurt Bjerregaard Stage
Abstract: Background: Adherence to antidepressant medication is a challenging clinical issue, which reduces treatment efficacy: 30–60% of all patients commencing treatment with antidepressants are est...
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Self harm in adult inpatient psychiatric care: A national study of incident reports in the UK
21 May 2012
Karen James, Duncan Stewart, Steve Wright, Len Bowers
Abstract: Background: We know little about the nature of self harming behaviour within inpatient psychiatric services. The few studies in this area have mainly investigated the correlates self harm, o...
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To be, or to be two, the question of dichotomizing variables:
16 May 2012
Jason W. Beckstead
Many important phenomena in clinical research are complicated and require challenging statistical models to best represent their complexity for scientific study. As clinical researchers we may be pert...
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