What qualifies as a good outcome in healthcare? For health systems and professionals, measuring things like lab values, physical performance, mortality rates, length of stay, or readmissions is key and routine practice. But if you are the patient, facing an acute illness or chronic condition, what matters the most? Am I going to live? Are […]
Category: Research
Money counts….
Dr Caroline Shuldham OBE, Independent Consultant and Non-Executive Director @CMShuldham Establishing a realistic and accurate budget is one of the foundations when planning projects or research as researchers need to identify the costs of their proposal. It is an intrinsic part of developing a grant application to secure funding, which as the NIHR states […]
Using big data to improve the patient journey in cancer care
Dr Amanda Lee; Associate Dean (International), Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Hull (Twitter @amandaleehull) Over recent years, healthcare has been collecting a variety of ‘big data’ – sets of information on a variety of diseases, treatments, and outcomes. These are useful to inform research and clinical interventions, to provide […]
Healthcare and the Arts: An Interdisciplinary collaboration
Mr Ian Walsh, Senior Lecturer, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast Join the EBN Twitter Chat on Wednesday the 5th June 2019, 8-9pm UK time which will be hosted by Mr Ian Walsh, Senior Lecturer, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast. It will focus on arts in […]
Treatment burden: the flip side for stroke survivors in a modern world.
In the first of our series of blogs to highlight Action on Stroke month, Dr Katie Gallacher, a clinical academic GP partner and Stroke Association Senior Clinical Fellow at the University of Glasgow discusses the issue of treatment burden for stroke survivors and their families. The hard work of living with a chronic […]
Promoting global knowledge exchange about domestic abuse prevention in the UK and Uganda
Dr Maria Clark is a Lecturer in Nursing in the School of Nursing (Institute of Clinical Sciences) University of Birmingham, U.K. Paving the way In May 2016, the World Health Assembly Member States pledged a global plan of action on strengthening the role of the health systems in addressing interpersonal violence, particularly against women and […]
Using the Internet for Research. Opportunities and Obstacles
Roberta Heale Associate Editor EBN @robertaheale @EBNursingBMJ The internet has been used both toward positive as well as unsavory objectives. We may not all agree on the outcomes of information on postings, blogs, social media etc, but I’m sure that we can all agree that there is a massive amount of information on the internet. […]
Patient Public Involvement in Research
Dr Joanna Smith, Associate Professor Child Nursing, School of Healthcare, University of Leeds, j.e.smith1@leeds.ac.uk Dr Alison Rodriguez, Lecturer Child and Family Health, Health School of Healthcare, University of Leeds, a.m.rodriguez@leeds.ac.uk Join our EBN Twitter Chat on Wednesday the 4thof July 2018, 8-9pm UK time, which will focus the challenges & rewards of Patient Public Involvement […]
Evidence Based Approach to Prescribing for Pain Management
Roberta Heale, Associate Editor EBN @robertaheale @EBNursingBMJ A recent commentary in EBN (http://ebn.bmj.com/content/ebnurs/21/2/50.full.pdf) highlighted a research study by Chang et al. 1 which demonstrated that non-opioid analgesia is as effective as opioid medication in management of acute pain. This definitely flies in the face against the common perception that opioid medications are superior in acute […]
Is health research an innovation free zone?
Join our EBN Twitter Chat on Wednesday the 1st of November 2017, 8-9pm UK time which will focus the importance of delivering research in a way that reflects contemporary care, and will be hosted by Dr. Susan Hamer, Director of Nursing, Learning and Organisational Development, National Institute for Health Research (@OfficialNIHR, @dollyblue3) Participating in the Twitter chat […]