A5043976674- Organ Donation and Transplantation
- Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Herpesvirus Infections and Treatments
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Autoimmune Neurological Disorders and Treatments
- Infectious Encephalopathies and Encephalitis
- Library Science and Administration
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Pharmaceutical Practices and Patient Outcomes
- Healthcare cost, quality, practices
- Chronic Disease Management Strategies
- Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies
- Anatomy and Medical Technology
- Race, Genetics, and Society
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Empathy and Medical Education
- Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
- Diabetes Management and Education
- QR Code Applications and Technologies
- Renal Transplantation Outcomes and Treatments
- Library Science and Information Literacy
- Delphi Technique in Research
City, University of London
1969-2024
St George's, University of London
2024
City St George's, University of London
2024
University of London
2020-2023
University of Liverpool
2009-2018
University of Ulster
2018
City University
1968
In 2016, the government of Cameroon, a central African country heavily reliant on wood fuel for cooking, published Masterplan increasing primary use LPG from 20% to 58% households by 2035. Developed via multi-sectoral committee with support Global Partnership, plan envisages 400 million Euro investment program 2030, focused cylinder numbers, key infrastructure, and enhanced regulation. This case study describes process proposals draws community studies stakeholder interviews identify factors...
Background. Donor interventions, including medications, protocols, and medical devices administered to donors, can enhance transplantable organ quality quantity maximize transplantation success. However, there is paucity of high-quality evidence about their effectiveness, in part because ethical, practical, regulatory challenges, lack guidance conduct donor intervention randomized controlled trials (RCTs). Methods. With the vision develop authoritative for RCTs, we convened a workshop...
Within transplant medicine in the UK, relationship between organ donation and ethnicity has been characterized as problematic, with a specific focus on apparent reluctance of black Asian people Britain to act blood donors. In this article, we show that medicine, trying work out solution ‘problem’, culturalized issue by treating it something falls outside its own domain practice, racialized responsibility being entrenched through mapping donor pools cultural difference. We urge rethink what...
Herpes simplex virus (HSV) encephalitis is a life-threatening infection of the brain, which has significant physical, cognitive and social consequences for survivors. Despite increasing recognition long-term effects encephalitis, research policy remains largely focused on its acute management, meaning there little understanding difficulties people face after discharge from care. This paper aims to chart problems challenges encounter when they return home treatment HSV encephalitis. The...
The introduction of end-of-life care criteria in the UK aims at standardising processes end life, including how medical decisions on death are communicated to families dying and (brain) dead patients. In setting intensive unit, these activities routinely complicated by imperative secure donor organs for transplantation: where recent changes donation services have seen accommodation organ procedures into routines. This has ramifications understanding around brokered with potential donors....
Abstract Deemed consent legislation for deceased organ donation was introduced in England 2020, and is considered a vital part of the new UK NHS Blood Transplant’s 10-year strategy to increase donation. Despite containing safeguards protect public, introduction deemed creates ethical, psychological social un/certainties healthcare professionals their practice. In this paper, we offer insights into professionals’ perspectives on consent, drawn from interview data with 24 an Trust England,...
Organ donation is constructed in the UK as a public responsibility, but more particularly an obligation for members of minority ethnic communities. This paper draws attention to ways which ‘ethnicity’ has been made problematic by allocation practices transplant medicine, health promotion discourses and policy developments. Taken together, they have served culturalise racialise procurement organs. As problem organ much inside medicine outside it, this argues greater ought be paid these...
Herpes simplex virus (HSV) encephalitis is a potentially devastating disease, with significant rates of mortality and co-morbidities. Although the prognosis for people HSV can be improved by prompt treatment aciclovir, there are often delays involved in diagnosis disease. In response, National Clinical Guidelines have been produced UK which make recommendations improving management suspected viral encephalitis. However, little currently known about everyday experiences processes care The...
Patient and public involvement (PPI) is a cornerstone in enhancing healthcare research delivery, including clinical guideline development. Health outcomes concern changes the health status of an individual or population that are attributable to intervention. Discussion relevant impacts resulting guidelines for practice. This study explores how input PPI contributors at National Institute Care Excellence (NICE) integrated into development, particularly relation outcome selection.
This commentary addresses the ethics of controlled organ donation after circulatory death (DCD) in UK, a practice which has recently been revived as part attempts to increase rates donation. Despite being linked growth donor rates, bioethics and clinical scholars have drawn attention ethical issues DCD poses for health professionals, particularly around requirement alter end-of-life care potential donors. In this commentary, UK policy response is examined by drawing on Foucault's...
Background Encephalitis, characterised as inflammation of the brain tissue, is an important cause acquired injury in children. Objective clinical outcomes vary significantly between affected patients, however they do not always correlate with quality life reported by parents. The aim this study was to explore how parents experience and interpret relation their child who has been encephalitis. Methods Data were derived from in-depth, semi-structured interviews, 15 12 children young people...
Gastrointestinal infections are an important global public health issue. In the UK, one in four people experience a gastrointestinal infection each year and epidemiological research highlights inequalities burden of disease. Specifically, poorer children at greater risk consequences illness, such as symptom severity time off work/school, for less privileged groups all ages. are, however, largely 'hidden' within home little is known about lived practices surrounding these illnesses, how they...
Controlled Organ Donation after Circulatory Death (DCD) was re-introduced in the UK 2008, efforts to increase rates of organs for transplant. Following reintroduction there were debates about ethics DCD, leading production legal and ethical guidelines. Today, DCD makes up 40% deceased organ donors, claims that has 'overcome' its challenges. However, is little understanding how works practice implications making routine context NHS. This paper draws on data from an ethnographic study...
This paper explores whether directed deceased organ donation should be permitted, and if so under which conditions. While allocation systems must fair transparent, might it “one thought too many” to prevent within families? We proceed by providing a description of the medical legal context, followed identification main ethical issues involved in donation, then explore these through series hypothetical cases similar those encountered practice. Ultimately, we set certain conditions may...
Abstract Controlled organ donation after circulatory death (DCD) was re‐introduced in the UK 2008, efforts to increase rates of organs for transplant. Following reintroduction, there were debates about ethics DCD, including whether potential DCD donors receive end‐of‐life care which is their best interests. Since this time, has become a routine donor pathway NHS. In article, we present findings from an ethnographic study examining everyday practices two English Trusts. Drawing on concept...
This ethnographic study in two socio-economically contrasting areas employed geo-ethnography, underpinned by a relational approach, to understand inequalities gastrointestinal infections families with young children. In our 'relatively disadvantaged' area, spread multiple households within small radius, whereas advantaged' illness was confined one household or dispersed long distances. These differences were shaped historical, social and economic contrasts in: housing; networks childcare...
For the past two years The City University Library has kept a detailed manual record of its internal accounts. records included details order estimates and invoice totals for books, journals, binding miscellaneous items, latter group was subdivided further into photocopying, inter‐library loans, etc. In addition, expenditure on items recommended by each eleven teaching departments were maintained against notional allocations in total library book grant. Records actual departmental requests...
Dr. Herbert Coblans recently remarked in a paper on the mechanisation of documentation that ‘today we can see achievements are not so much automation information retrieval as at level housekeeping operations …. libraries’. A description an operational method handling The City University library accounts using computer appeared Program and since publication it has been developed to remove major limitations, notably upper financial limit.
In England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, people can choose to donate their bodies post-mortem Medical School Anatomy Units. The body donation (BD) process is facilitated by anatomy unit staff (AUS). However, little known about the extent nature of AUS work with families, including when a cannot be accepted. To address this gap, paper draws on data from an ethnographic study, survey 15 units (AUs) in England case study one AU, 20 semi-structured interviews 31 document analysis. We reveal...