A5002470490- Health Policy Implementation Science
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Traffic and Road Safety
- Delphi Technique in Research
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Digital Marketing and Social Media
- Work-Family Balance Challenges
- Community Development and Social Impact
- Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- Crime Patterns and Interventions
- Smoking Behavior and Cessation
- Neuroscience of respiration and sleep
- Global Health Care Issues
- Insurance and Financial Risk Management
- Respiratory and Cough-Related Research
- Asthma and respiratory diseases
- Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
- Workplace Health and Well-being
- Human-Automation Interaction and Safety
- Public Policy and Administration Research
MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit
2014-2024
University of Glasgow
2015-2024
Glasgow Life
2021
Search
2020
Chief Scientist Office
2019
Medical Research Council
2019
University of Manchester
2013
Lund University
2005
Southbank Centre
2001-2002
James Cook University
2001
In systematic reviews that lack data amenable to meta-analysis, alternative synthesis methods are commonly used, but these rarely reported. This of transparency in the can cast doubt on validity review findings. The Synthesis Without Meta-analysis (SWiM) guideline has been developed guide clear reporting interventions which meta-analysis effect estimates used. article describes development SWiM for quantitative intervention effects and presents nine items with accompanying explanations examples.
Implementing interventions with a previous evidence base in new contexts might be more efficient than developing for each context. Although some transfer well, effectiveness and implementation often depend on the Achieving good fit between intervention context then requires careful systematic adaptation. This paper presents consensus informed guidance adapting transferring to contexts.
We lack guidance on how to describe population health and policy (PHP) interventions in reports of evaluation studies. PHP are legal, fiscal, structural, organisational, environmental, such as the regulation unhealthy commodities, service reorganisation, changes welfare policy, neighbourhood improvement schemes. Many have characteristics that important for their implementation success but not adequately captured original Template Intervention Description Replication (TIDieR) checklist. This...
ObjectiveTo assess the adequacy of reporting and conduct narrative synthesis quantitative data (NS) in reviews evaluating effectiveness public health interventions.Study Design SettingA retrospective comparison a 20% (n = 474/2,372) random sample systematic from McMaster Health Evidence database (January 2010–October 2015) to establish proportion using NS. From those NS, 30% 75/251) were randomly selected extracted for detailed assessment of: NS methods, management investigation...
Introduction Reliable evidence syntheses, based on rigorous systematic reviews, provide essential support for evidence-informed clinical practice and health policy. Systematic reviews should use reproducible transparent methods to draw conclusions from the available body of evidence. Narrative synthesis quantitative data (NS) is a method commonly used in where it may not be appropriate, or possible, meta-analyse estimates intervention effects. A common criticism NS that opaque subject author...
Journal Article The Nutrition of Animal Tissues Cultivated In Vitro. I. A Survey Natural Materials as Supplements to Synthetic Medium 199 Get access Joseph F. Morgan, Morgan Laboratory Hygiene, Department National Health and Welfare, Ottawa, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar M. Elizabeth Campbell, Campbell Helen J. Morton JNCI: the Cancer Institute, Volume 16, Issue 2, October 1955, Pages 557–567, https://doi.org/10.1093/jnci/16.2.557...
The aim of the study was to compare safety and effectiveness as-needed formoterol with salbutamol in a large international real-life asthma study. Children adults (n=18,124) were randomised 6 months treatment open-label 4.5 microg Turbuhaler or 200 pressurised metered dose inhaler equivalent. Primary variables asthma-related nonasthma-related serious adverse events (SAE)s (AE)s resulting discontinuation (DAE)s. primary efficacy variable time first exacerbation. incidences AEs, SAEs DAEs...
School holidays can be stressful periods for children from low-income families. Poor provision of appropriate childcare, limited access to enrichment activities, and food insecurity mean that children's health well-being suffer their learning stagnate or decline. This article examines documents the evidence has emerged on this topic aims raise its profile impact lives. It makes case further academic scrutiny unexamined neglected subject.
Rather than arguing about the suitability of natural experimental methods to inform decisions we need focus on refining their scope and design, say Peter Craig colleagues Key messages• Natural evaluations can provide useful information guide decision making interventions• Most discussion has focussed what quantitative are suitable for definitions concepts remain contested there is a lack consensus circumstances in which trustworthy evidence decision-making• Guidance should help identify that...
Background: Prokinetic agents have shown variable efficacy in the treatment of functional dyspepsia. Mosapride is a new prokinetic 5‐hydroxytryptamine‐4 agonistic agent. Aim: To evaluate three dosage regimens mosapride compared with placebo Methods: Patients were randomly allocated to or (5 mg b.d., 10 b.d. 7.5 t.d.s.) double‐blind, prospective, multicentre, multinational study. The change symptom severity score from an untreated baseline week sixth was used compare efficacy. Results: There...
Natural experiments are widely used to evaluate the impacts on health of changes in policies, infrastructure, and services. The UK Medical Research Council (MRC) National Institute for Health Care (NIHR) have published a new framework conducting using evidence from natural experimental evaluations. defines key concepts describes recent advances designing planning evaluations experiments, including relevance systems perspective, mixed methods, stakeholder involvement. It provides an overview...
There has been a substantial increase in the conduct of natural experimental evaluations last 10 years. This driven by advances methodology, greater availability large routinely collected datasets, and rise demand for evidence about impacts upstream population health interventions. It is important that researchers, practitioners, commissioners, users intervention research are aware recent developments. new framework updates extends existing Medical Research Council guidance using experiments...
A new tool to assess Risk of Bias In Non-randomised Studies Interventions (ROBINS-I) was published in Autumn 2016. ROBINS-I uses the Cochrane-approved risk bias (RoB) approach and focusses on internal validity. As such, represents an important development for those conducting systematic reviews which include non-randomised studies (NRS), including public health researchers. We aimed establish applicability using a group NRS have evaluated non-clinical natural experiments. Five researchers,...
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The assessment of performance in the real world medical practice is now widely accepted as goal at postgraduate level. This largely a validity issue, it recognised that tests knowledge and clinical simulations cannot on their own really measure how practitioners function broader health care system. However, development standards for performance-based not well understood competency assessment, where can more readily reflect narrower issues skills. paper proposes theoretical framework complex...