Allison F Williams

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Affiliation: University of Melbourne
Country: Australia

Publications

  1. ncbi A structured literature review of pain assessment and management of patients with chronic kidney disease
    Allison Williams
    School of Nursing, The University of Melbourne, Carlton, Australia
    J Clin Nurs 17:69-81. 2008
  2. ncbi Continuity of care and general wellbeing of patients with comorbidities requiring joint replacement
    Allison Williams
    School of Nursing, The University of Melbourne, Carlton, Victoria, Australia
    J Adv Nurs 57:244-56. 2007
  3. ncbi Determining caseloads in the community care of frail older people with chronic illnesses
    Allison Williams
    The University of Melbourne, Carlton, Vic, Australia
    J Clin Nurs 17:60-6. 2008
  4. ncbi Interventions to improve medication adherence in people with multiple chronic conditions: a systematic review
    Allison Williams
    School of Nursing, The University of Melbourne, Carlton, Australia
    J Adv Nurs 63:132-43. 2008
  5. ncbi Adherence to multiple, prescribed medications in diabetic kidney disease: A qualitative study of consumers' and health professionals' perspectives
    Allison F Williams
    School of Nursing and Social Work, The University of Melbourne, Carlton, Australia
    Int J Nurs Stud 45:1742-56. 2008
  6. ncbi The role of irrational thought in medicine adherence: people with diabetic kidney disease
    Allison F Williams
    School of Nursing and Social Work, The University of Melbourne, Carlton, Australia
    J Adv Nurs 65:2108-17. 2009
  7. ncbi Patients with comorbidities: perceptions of acute care services
    Allison Williams
    School of Postgraduate Nursing, University of Melbourne, Carlton, Victoria, Australia
    J Adv Nurs 46:13-22. 2004
  8. ncbi Issues concerning the on-going care of patients with comorbidities in acute care and post-discharge in Australia: a literature review
    Allison Williams
    School of Postgraduate Nursing, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
    J Adv Nurs 40:131-40. 2002
  9. ncbi The devil is in the detail - a multifactorial intervention to reduce blood pressure in co-existing diabetes and chronic kidney disease: a single blind, randomized controlled trial
    Allison F Williams
    Melbourne School of Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Level 5, 234 Queensberry Street, Carlton, Australia 3053
    BMC Fam Pract 11:3. 2010
  10. ncbi Managing pain in chronic kidney disease: patient participation in decision-making
    Elizabeth Manias
    School of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
    J Adv Nurs 61:201-10. 2008

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  1. ncbi A structured literature review of pain assessment and management of patients with chronic kidney disease
    Allison Williams
    School of Nursing, The University of Melbourne, Carlton, Australia
    J Clin Nurs 17:69-81. 2008
    ..This paper reviews the literature concerning nurses' assessment and management of pain in adult patients with chronic kidney disease, and proposes implications for clinical practice to support the control of pain in these patients...
  2. ncbi Continuity of care and general wellbeing of patients with comorbidities requiring joint replacement
    Allison Williams
    School of Nursing, The University of Melbourne, Carlton, Victoria, Australia
    J Adv Nurs 57:244-56. 2007
    ..The aim of this paper is to examine the continuity of care and general wellbeing of patients with comorbidities undergoing elective total hip or knee joint replacement...
  3. ncbi Determining caseloads in the community care of frail older people with chronic illnesses
    Allison Williams
    The University of Melbourne, Carlton, Vic, Australia
    J Clin Nurs 17:60-6. 2008
    ..The purpose of this paper is to discuss and critique the literature related to the measurement of caseloads by sociomedical case managers in the context of community care for frail older people...
  4. ncbi Interventions to improve medication adherence in people with multiple chronic conditions: a systematic review
    Allison Williams
    School of Nursing, The University of Melbourne, Carlton, Australia
    J Adv Nurs 63:132-43. 2008
    ..Background. The importance of managing co-existing, chronic conditions in people of all ages is critical to prevent adverse health outcomes...
  5. ncbi Adherence to multiple, prescribed medications in diabetic kidney disease: A qualitative study of consumers' and health professionals' perspectives
    Allison F Williams
    School of Nursing and Social Work, The University of Melbourne, Carlton, Australia
    Int J Nurs Stud 45:1742-56. 2008
    ..Individuals are adherent to approximately 50% of their prescribed medications, which decreases when multiple, chronic conditions are involved...
  6. ncbi The role of irrational thought in medicine adherence: people with diabetic kidney disease
    Allison F Williams
    School of Nursing and Social Work, The University of Melbourne, Carlton, Australia
    J Adv Nurs 65:2108-17. 2009
    ..This paper is a report of a study conducted to examine how irrational thinking affects people's adherence to multiple medicines prescribed to manage their diabetic kidney disease...
  7. ncbi Patients with comorbidities: perceptions of acute care services
    Allison Williams
    School of Postgraduate Nursing, University of Melbourne, Carlton, Victoria, Australia
    J Adv Nurs 46:13-22. 2004
    ..Indeed, a significant number of people will experience multiple chronic illnesses (comorbidities) and may require admission to hospital for acute care that is superimposed on their chronic illnesses...
  8. ncbi Issues concerning the on-going care of patients with comorbidities in acute care and post-discharge in Australia: a literature review
    Allison Williams
    School of Postgraduate Nursing, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
    J Adv Nurs 40:131-40. 2002
    ..Large numbers of these may require repeated admissions to hospital for acute or episodic care that is superimposed upon the needs of their chronic conditions...
  9. ncbi The devil is in the detail - a multifactorial intervention to reduce blood pressure in co-existing diabetes and chronic kidney disease: a single blind, randomized controlled trial
    Allison F Williams
    Melbourne School of Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Level 5, 234 Queensberry Street, Carlton, Australia 3053
    BMC Fam Pract 11:3. 2010
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  10. ncbi Managing pain in chronic kidney disease: patient participation in decision-making
    Elizabeth Manias
    School of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
    J Adv Nurs 61:201-10. 2008
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  11. ncbi Communication between patients with chronic kidney disease and nurses about managing pain in the acute hospital setting
    Elizabeth Manias
    School of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Carlton, Vic, Australia
    J Clin Nurs 16:358-67. 2007
    ..The aim of this paper is to examine communication between patients with chronic kidney disease and nurses about managing pain in the acute hospital setting...
  12. ncbi Managing medications and chronic illness
    Allison Williams
    Aust Nurs J 15:35. 2007
  13. ncbi Medication adherence in people of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds: a meta-analysis
    Elizabeth Manias
    Melbourne School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine Dentistry and Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
    Ann Pharmacother 44:964-82. 2010
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  14. ncbi Staff experiences of an early warning indicator for unstable patients in Australia
    Anna Green
    ICU Liaison Nurse Practitioner, Western Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
    Nurs Crit Care 11:118-27. 2006
    ..Further research investigating the less-favourable responses of the ward medical staff and ICU medical staff is warranted...
  15. ncbi Accurate dry weight assessment: reducing the incidence of hypertension and cardiac disease in patients on hemodialysis
    Wendy Purcell
    Royal Melbourne Hospital and the North West Dialysis Service, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
    Nephrol Nurs J 31:631-6; quiz 637-8. 2004
    ..This article reviews the literature concerning hypertension in patients on HD and proposes that increased attention by dialysis staff to assessing dry weight may reduce the incidence of hypertension and cardiac disease in these patients...
  16. ncbi Eczema workshops reduce severity of childhood atopic eczema
    Elizabeth J Moore
    Department of Dermatology, The Royal Children s Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
    Australas J Dermatol 50:100-6. 2009
    ..In this study, patients attending the eczema workshop had a greater improvement in eczema severity thanpatients attending a dermatologist-led clinic, supporting collaborative models of service provision...
  17. ncbi An evaluation of an early warning clinical marker referral tool
    Anna Louise Green
    Western Hospital, Gordon Street, Footscray, 3011, Vic, Australia
    Intensive Crit Care Nurs 22:274-82. 2006
    ..The clinical marker tool was designed to assist in the early identification of unstable patients in the general surgical and medical ward environment based on abnormal vital signs...
  18. ncbi Balancing safety with effective pain control in patients with chronic kidney disease
    Allison Williams
    J Eval Clin Pract 13:820-2. 2007
  19. ncbi Canada's Compassionate Care Benefit: views of family caregivers in chronic illness
    Allison Williams
    School of Geography and Earth Sciences, McMaster University, Burke Science Building, Room 343, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4K1
    Int J Palliat Nurs 12:438-45. 2006
    ..Based on a pilot evaluation of Canada's recently introduced Compassionate Care Benefit (CCB), the purpose of this paper is to highlight the experiences of family caregivers caring for people with non-malignant advanced chronic illness...
  20. ncbi Studies on sporozoite-induced and chronic infections with Plasmodium fragile in Macaca mulatta and New World monkeys
    William E Collins
    Division of Parasitic Diseases and Animal Resources Branch, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30341, USA
    J Parasitol 92:1019-26. 2006
    ..The mean corpuscular hemoglobin value decreased to its lowest level at day 87 and then returned to preinfection level...
  21. ncbi Developing a living with hope program for caregivers of family members with advanced cancer
    Wendy Duggleby
    College of Nursing, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
    J Palliat Care 23:24-31. 2007
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  22. ncbi An emancipatory praxis study of nursing students on clinical practicum in New Zealand: pushed to the peripheries
    Ann McLeland
    Faculty of Health and Sports Science, Eastern Institute of Technology, Taradale, New Zealand
    Contemp Nurse 12:185-93. 2002
    ..Recommendations from this study included the need for further research into nursing students clinical supervision models, and the identication of the special learning needs of indigenous nursing students...
  23. ncbi Changing geographies of care: employing the concept of therapeutic landscapes as a framework in examining home space
    Allison Williams
    Department of Geography, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
    Soc Sci Med 55:141-54. 2002
    ..Such research can inform the changes and trends in health care service policy...