In these challenging times, with reduced staffing due to staff sickness or self-isolation, lack of mealtime volunteers and visitors bringing snacks, we have to be aware that vulnerable patients may...
Based on their assessment of the published literature and personal experience, the advisors determined that MRFs for early Alzheimer's disease and MCI fall broadly into four areas where there is...
There are two types of respiratory failure (O'Driscoll et al, 2017, for the British Thoracic Society):.
The aim of this study was to evaluate the insertion, use, duration and complications of epicardial pacing wires following cardiac surgery in a cohort of patients in Ireland. The overall aim of the...
Before thinking about other resources, do beware of bias in your results. Three areas of possible bias are database bias, time-lag bias and publication bias. Database bias means relying too much on...
On 16 March 2020, the CQC declared that it was going to suspend routine hospital inspections and commence a new and different phase of its regulatory activities in response to the COVID-19 pandemic....
More than a fifth of birthing centres and more than a third of homebirth services have been closed due to midwifery shortages (Summers, 2020), and there are concerns about how quickly ambulances can...
Some fundamental public health lessons have been lost on generations born in the second half of the 20th century and in the early part of this one. These include neglecting to wash hands, washing them...
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