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Richardson J, Bertaso A, Wong D, Nelson A, Tayeb H, Carbone A, Dundon B, Molaee P, Williams K, Brown M, Worthley M, Teo K, Worthley S. Adenosine Stress Perfusion CMR Accurately Identifies the Target Vessel for Revascularisation. Heart Lung Circ 2011. [DOI: 10.1016/j.hlc.2011.05.391] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Weightman M, Wong D, Leung M, Das R, Williams K, Bertaso A, Richardson J, Teo K, Meredith I, Worthley M, Worthley S. Diastolic Dysfunction as Assessed with Grid-Tagged Cardiac MRI Correlates with Microvascular Dysfunction and Markers of Left Ventricular Remodelling Following ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction. Heart Lung Circ 2011. [DOI: 10.1016/j.hlc.2011.05.420] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Koschade B, Young J, Richardson J, Bertaso A, Cox V, Wong D, Cunnington M, Nelson A, Tayeb H, Williams K, Brown M, Worthley M, Teo K, Worthley S. Safety of Adenosine Stress Perfusion Cardiac Magnetic Resonance. Heart Lung Circ 2011. [DOI: 10.1016/j.hlc.2011.05.472] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Young J, Koschade B, Richardson J, Bertaso A, Cox V, Wong D, Cunnington M, Nelson A, Tayeb H, Maia M, Williams K, Worthley M, Teo K, Worthley S. Is Standard Dose Adenosine Infusion Sufficient to Establish Maximal Hyperaemia During Adenosine Stress Perfusion Cardiac Magnetic Resonance? Heart Lung Circ 2011. [DOI: 10.1016/j.hlc.2011.05.443] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Bertaso A, Richardson J, Nelson A, Wong D, Tayeb H, Carbone A, Dundon B, Molaee P, Williams K, Brown M, Worthley M, Teo K, Worthley S. Prognostic Value of Adenosine Stress Perfusion Cardiac Magnetic Resonance with Late Gadolinium Enhancement in Intermediate Cardiovascular Risk Patients. Heart Lung Circ 2011. [DOI: 10.1016/j.hlc.2011.05.463] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Wong D, Leung M, Das R, Bertaso A, Richardson J, Williams K, Puri R, Meredith I, Teo K, Worthley S. Late Microvascular Obstruction is the Best Predictor of Left Ventricular Remodelling Following ST Elevation MI: A Comparison between CMR and Angiography Derived Myocardial Blood Flow. Heart Lung Circ 2011. [DOI: 10.1016/j.hlc.2011.05.444] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Williams K, Richardson J, Bertaso A, Wong D, Young J, Koschade B, Cunnington M, Nelson A, Tayeb H, Cox V, Molaee P, Brown M, Worthley M, Teo K, Worthley S. Cardiac Magnetic Resonance: Clinical Experience in a High Volume Centre. Heart Lung Circ 2011. [DOI: 10.1016/j.hlc.2011.05.403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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McMullen CK, Ash JS, Sittig DF, Bunce A, Guappone K, Dykstra R, Carpenter J, Richardson J, Wright A. Rapid assessment of clinical information systems in the healthcare setting: an efficient method for time-pressed evaluation. Methods Inf Med 2010; 50:299-307. [PMID: 21170469 DOI: 10.3414/me10-01-0042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2010] [Accepted: 10/07/2010] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Recent legislation in the United States provides strong incentives for implementation of electronic health records (EHRs). The ensuing transformation in U.S. health care will increase demand for new methods to evaluate clinical informatics interventions. Timeline constraints and a rapidly changing environment will make traditional evaluation techniques burdensome. This paper describes an anthropological approach that provides a fast and flexible way to evaluate clinical information systems. METHODS Adapting mixed-method evaluation approaches from anthropology, we describe a rapid assessment process (RAP) for assessing clinical informatics interventions in health care that we developed and used during seven site visits to diverse community hospitals and primary care settings in the U.S. SETTING Our multidisciplinary team used RAP to evaluate factors that either encouraged people to use clinical decision support (CDS) systems or interfered with use of these systems in settings ranging from large urban hospitals to single-practitioner, private family practices in small towns. RESULTS Critical elements of the method include: 1) developing a fieldwork guide; 2) carefully selecting observation sites and participants; 3) thoroughly preparing for site visits; 4) partnering with local collaborators; 5) collecting robust data by using multiple researchers and methods; and 6) analyzing and reporting data in a structured manner helpful to the organizations being evaluated. CONCLUSIONS RAP, iteratively developed over the course of visits to seven clinical sites across the U.S., has succeeded in allowing a multidisciplinary team of informatics researchers to plan, gather and analyze data, and report results in a maximally efficient manner.
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Fujita M, Kohanbash G, McDonald HA, Delamarre L, Decker SA, Ohlfest JR, Okada H, Okada H, Kalinski P, Ueda R, Hoji A, Kohanbash G, Donegan TE, Mintz AH, Engh JA, Bartlett DL, Brown CK, Zeh H, Holtzman MP, Reinhart TA, Whiteside TL, Butterfield LH, Hamilton RL, Potter DM, Pollack IF, Salazar AM, Lieberman FS, Olin MR, Andersen BM, Grogan PT, Hunt M, Popescu FE, Xiong ZL, Seiler C, Forster CL, SantaCruz KS, Chen W, Blazar BR, Ohlfest JR, Hu J, Wheeler CJ, Phuphanich S, Rudnick J, Nuno M, Serrano N, Dantis J, Richardson J, Mazer M, Wang HQ, Chu R, Black KL, Yu J, Li YM, Vallera DA, Hall WA, Rudnick JD, Wheeler CJ, Phuphanich S, Chu RM, Mazer M, Wang H, Serrano N, Nuno M, Richardson J, Hu J, Black KL, Yu JS, Yang I, Han S, Tihan T, Wrensch M, Parsa AT, Li YM, Vallera DA, Hall WA, Andersen BM, Hunt MA, Gallardo JL, Seiler C, Pluhar GE, Ohlfest JR, Brown CE, Starr R, Martinez C, Bading J, Ressler JA, Badie B, Jensen MC, Glick RP, Ksendzovsky A, Zengou R, Polak P, Simonini V, Lichtor T, Feinstein D, Chow KK, Ahmed N, Salsman VS, Kew Y, Powell S, Grossman R, Heslop HE, Gottschalk S, Barnett FH, Marchetti V, Wang M, Johnson A, Scheppke L, Jacobson R, Nemerow G, Friedlander M, Ahmed N, Salsman V, Kew Y, Leen AM, Bollard CM, Powell S, Grossman R, Rooney C, Heslop HE, Gottschalk S, New PZ, Bollard CM, Salvoldo B, Heslop H. Immunotherapy. Neuro Oncol 2010. [DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/noq116.s5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Cooke J, Alexander K, Charani E, Hand K, Hills T, Howard P, Jamieson C, Lawson W, Richardson J, Wade P. Antimicrobial stewardship: an evidence-based, antimicrobial self-assessment toolkit (ASAT) for acute hospitals. J Antimicrob Chemother 2010; 65:2669-73. [DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkq367] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Phuphanich S, Rudnick J, Mazer M, Wang HQ, Serrano N, Richardson J, Wheeler C, Singh M, Black K, Yu J. Immune response correlation with progression-free survival in glioblastoma following dendritic cell immunotherapy (ICT-107). J Clin Oncol 2010. [DOI: 10.1200/jco.2010.28.15_suppl.2097] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Richardson J, Shaaban A, Kamal M, Ellis I, Speirs V, Green A, Bell SM. Reduced MCPH1 expression in breast cancer and response to chemotherapy. Breast Cancer Res 2010. [PMCID: PMC2875603 DOI: 10.1186/bcr2538] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
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Choi S, Stiff P, Braun T, Ferrara J, Cooke K, Khaled Y, Kitko C, Lay-Luskin J, Mineishi S, Nickoloff B, Paczesny S, Pawarode A, Peres E, Reddy P, Richardson J, Rodriguez T, Smith S, Yanik G, Whitfield J, Levine J. TNF-Inhibition With Etanercept For GVHD Prevention In Alternative Donor HCT: Lower TNFR1 Levels Correlate With Better Outcomes. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 2010. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2009.12.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Richardson J, Elhai J, Sarreen J. P01-155 - Treatment outcome and predictors of response in Canadian combat and peacekeeping veterans with military-related PTSD. Eur Psychiatry 2010. [DOI: 10.1016/s0924-9338(10)70360-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Richardson J, Kagawa F, Nichols A. Health, energy vulnerability and climate change: A retrospective thematic analysis of primary care trust policies and practices. Public Health 2009; 123:765-70. [DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2009.10.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2009] [Revised: 09/28/2009] [Accepted: 10/05/2009] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Richardson J, Collinghan N, Scally A, Gupta S. Bilateral L1 and L2 dorsal root ganglion blocks for discogenic low-back pain. Br J Anaesth 2009; 103:416-9. [DOI: 10.1093/bja/aep166] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Nichols A, Maynard V, Goodman B, Richardson J. Health, Climate Change and Sustainability: A systematic Review and Thematic Analysis of the Literature. ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH INSIGHTS 2009; 3:63-88. [PMID: 20508757 PMCID: PMC2872568 DOI: 10.4137/ehi.s3003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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BACKGROUND Evidence of climate change and its impact continues to be accumulated, and it is argued that the consequences of climate change are likely to result in an increased demand on health services. It has been claimed that climate change presents new challenges for health services and that strategies should be adopted to address these challenges. AIM The aim of this systematic review was to map published literature on health, climate change and sustainability by categorising papers according to their focus on effects, strategy and actions, and to provide a thematic analysis of their content. METHODS Systematic searches were conducted via a range of healthcare related databases i.e. Pubmed, Medline, CINAHL, AMED, ASSIA, IBSS and ISI Web of Knowledge. Searches focussed upon papers published in English between 1998 and 2008. Retrieved papers were studied by the authors in order to inform the thematic analysis of their content. RESULTS A total of 114 publications were retrieved, of which 36 met the inclusion criteria for the systematic review. These 36 publications were categorised and are discussed according to their focus on: effects/impacts, strategy/policy, action/examples. CONCLUSIONS A number of papers report the potential health effects of climate change while others report policies and strategies to tackle these effects. However there is an urgent need to identify and report on the implementation of strategies to mitigate and adapt to these challenges and to publish real examples of actions. Actions that are taken need to be evidence/policy based, and implementations monitored, evaluated and published.
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Hay N, McCracken F, Richardson J, George E, Barnett D. Endovascular stent-grafts for the treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysms: NICE technology appraisal guidance. Heart 2009; 95:1798-800. [DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2009.176362] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022] Open
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Richardson J, Grose J. The use of descriptive words and metaphor in patient and carer experience of palliative day care: secondary analysis of a qualitative study. Open Nurs J 2009; 3:18-24. [PMID: 19587796 PMCID: PMC2705067 DOI: 10.2174/1874434600903010018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2009] [Revised: 05/01/2009] [Accepted: 05/05/2009] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Background: An independent evaluation of changes to the delivery of Palliative Day Services was carried out during 2006-2007 using interviews with service users. The analysis found that the words and metaphors employed by users of services emphasized their emotional response to the changes, and helped to explain their depth of feeling about their experiences, warranting further investigation. Aim: To conduct a secondary analysis on interview data collected for the Day Services Evaluation Study in order to understand how patients and their carers use descriptive words and metaphor when talking about their experiences of palliative day services. Methods: Interview transcripts from 40 patients and 8 carers were subjected to secondary thematic analysis. These were read individually and coded where metaphor or descriptive words had been used to emphasize the effect of the illness and the experiences of the Day Services. Findings: Examples of the metaphorical expressions and words used described the service as a ‘secure rock in a changing world’; transition was felt as ‘sadness’, a ‘betrayal’, with feelings that the changes were ‘bitter and twisted;’ and left ‘a black hole’. Post transition the mood had changed to acceptance ‘When life throws lemons at you, you make lemonade’. Conclusions: The metaphors and descriptive words used act as what we describe as ‘emotional intensifiers’ which provide a measure of the impact of the effect of illness, the effect of the day services on users and carers and the intensity of feeling during the time of transition.
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This paper is concerned with the arguments and evidence that support the use of alcohol taxation as a primary health care intervention. Taxation is treated as a policy option that may be subject to cost-benefit analysis. While overseas evidence is used, the article draws primarily upon the authors' earlier estimates of the cost of alcohol consumption and the effects of taxation in Australia. In addition, the paper considers the main arguments used against alcohol taxation for health policy. It is concluded that the arguments cannot be substantiated and that there is a strong case for increased alcohol taxes.
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Gonzalez-Ruiz A, Richardson J. Are glycopeptides still appropriate and convenient for empiric use? J Chemother 2009; 20:531-41. [PMID: 19028614 DOI: 10.1179/joc.2008.20.5.531] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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The glycopeptides vancomycin and teicoplanin are widely used, and indeed recommended for, the treatment of severe or resistant Gram-positive infections. Therapeutic drug monitoring is widely used for vancomycin but less commonly for teicoplanin, and remains controversial. We report the cost savings of a formulary decision to replace teicoplanin with daptomycin for the empiric treatment of complicated skin and soft tissue infections (CSSTIs), staphylococcal bacteraemia and hospital-acquired Gram-positive sepsis. In the Intensive Therapy Unit (ITU) we optimised treatment of serious Gram-positive infections by substituting teicoplanin with vancomycin administered by continuous infusion. Costs were calculated using British National Formulary (BNF) prices and costs for therapeutic drug monitoring. Daptomycin (350 mg/d) use was associated with a cost saving per 7 days of treatment of 86 pounds and vancomycin with 51 pounds (4 g/d) to 276 pounds (2 g/d) compared to the 600 mg teicoplanin dose. Our own formulary re-positioning of glyco/lipopeptides, i.e. the preferential use of vancomycin in the ITU and substitution of teicoplanin with daptomycin, is cost-effective and provides better therapeutic alternatives. Continuous vancomycin infusion in the ITU setting guarantees optimal dosing for severely ill patients. Daptomycin use on surgical and medical wards, apart from being marginally cheaper than teicoplanin, guarantees optimal dosing without the need for drug monitoring.
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Assessment is a powerful driver of student learning: it gives a message to learners about what they should be learning, what the learning organisation believes to be important, and how they should go about learning. Assessment tools allow measurement of student achievement and thereby give teachers insight into their students' learning, and enable teachers to make systematic judgements about progress and achievement. It is vital then that assessment tools drive students to learn the right things as well as measure student learning appropriately. Any attempts to reform curricula and teaching methods must consider the role of assessment in the learning process. Libyan doctors and medical students have been calling for changes to teaching and assessment methods at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. A team from the Academic Centre for Medical Education at University College, London have been running workshops in conjunction with the Libyan Board of Medical Specialties since 2006 to discuss strategic aims of assessment in medical education in Libya for the 21st century and to deliver an assessment skills course to Libyan educators. This article outlines the course and the outcomes of preliminary discussions between academics from the UK, participants in the assessment courses and representatives from the Libyan Board of Medical Specialties. As a result of these discussions it was agreed by all that Libyan Medical School assessment methods need updating and, despite significant challenges, changes in assessment must be made as soon as possible. There is a real need for support in both addressing these changes and for practical training for assessors in contemporary assessment methods.
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Carrim ZI, Richardson J, Wykes WN. Incidence and visual outcome of acute endophthalmitis after cataract surgery--the experience of an eye department in Scotland. Br J Ophthalmol 2009; 93:721-5. [PMID: 19211606 DOI: 10.1136/bjo.2008.147520] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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