Carol Ball

Summary

Affiliation: Royal Free Hospital
Country: UK

Publications

  1. ncbi Part one: Restoring patients to health outcomes and indicators of advanced nursing practice in adult critical care
    Carol Ball
    Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom
    Int J Nurs Pract 9:356-67. 2003
  2. ncbi Moving on from 'patient dependency' and 'nursing workload' to managing risk in critical care
    Carol Ball
    Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust, London NW3 2QG, UK
    Intensive Crit Care Nurs 20:62-8. 2004
  3. ncbi Diabetic ketoacidosis and hyperglycaemic hyperosmolar syndrome - clinical guidelines
    Karen de Beer
    ICU, Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust, London, UK
    Nurs Crit Care 13:5-11. 2008
  4. ncbi Improving rehabilitation following transfer from ICU
    Carol Ball
    Intensive Crit Care Nurs 24:209-10. 2008
  5. ncbi Achieving tight glycaemic control
    Carol Ball
    Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust, London, UK
    Intensive Crit Care Nurs 23:137-44. 2007
  6. ncbi Effect of the critical care outreach team on patient survival to discharge from hospital and readmission to critical care: non-randomised population based study
    Carol Ball
    Critical Care Unit, Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust, London NW3 2QG
    BMJ 327:1014. 2003
  7. ncbi Part two: The core components of legitimate influence and the conditions that constrain or facilitate advanced nursing practice in adult critical care
    Carol Ball
    Adult Critical Care Nursing, Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom
    Int J Nurs Pract 10:10-20. 2004
  8. ncbi Achieving compliance with the European Working Time Directive in a large teaching hospital: a strategic approach
    Gareth J Jones
    Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust, London
    Clin Med 4:427-30. 2004
  9. ncbi Practice is individual, research is local, knowledge is international
    Carol Ball
    Pond Street, London NW3 2QG, United Kingdom
    Intensive Crit Care Nurs 23:1-3. 2007
  10. ncbi "Realising the potential of critical care nurses": an exploratory study of the factors that affect and comprise the nursing contribution to the recovery of critically ill patients
    Carol Ball
    Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust, Pond Street, London NW3 2QG, UK
    Intensive Crit Care Nurs 19:226-38. 2003

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Publications23

  1. ncbi Part one: Restoring patients to health outcomes and indicators of advanced nursing practice in adult critical care
    Carol Ball
    Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom
    Int J Nurs Pract 9:356-67. 2003
    ..In the second paper of this series, the intervening conditions that affect the expression of legitimate influence will be discussed...
  2. ncbi Moving on from 'patient dependency' and 'nursing workload' to managing risk in critical care
    Carol Ball
    Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust, London NW3 2QG, UK
    Intensive Crit Care Nurs 20:62-8. 2004
    ..Thus the tool requires further refinement and testing. We chose to publish at this time because we feel the paper offers a new way of examining the contribution of nurses working in critical care...
  3. ncbi Diabetic ketoacidosis and hyperglycaemic hyperosmolar syndrome - clinical guidelines
    Karen de Beer
    ICU, Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust, London, UK
    Nurs Crit Care 13:5-11. 2008
    ..The admission of patients to the intensive care unit (ICU) with DKA and HHS is rare, and management of patients' diverse problems is prone to error because of a lack of familiarity...
  4. ncbi Improving rehabilitation following transfer from ICU
    Carol Ball
    Intensive Crit Care Nurs 24:209-10. 2008
  5. ncbi Achieving tight glycaemic control
    Carol Ball
    Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust, London, UK
    Intensive Crit Care Nurs 23:137-44. 2007
    ..The results demonstrate the effectiveness of a staged approach and the achievement of TGC...
  6. ncbi Effect of the critical care outreach team on patient survival to discharge from hospital and readmission to critical care: non-randomised population based study
    Carol Ball
    Critical Care Unit, Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust, London NW3 2QG
    BMJ 327:1014. 2003
    ..To determine the effect of the critical care outreach team on patient survival to discharge from hospital after discharge from critical care and readmission to critical care...
  7. ncbi Part two: The core components of legitimate influence and the conditions that constrain or facilitate advanced nursing practice in adult critical care
    Carol Ball
    Adult Critical Care Nursing, Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom
    Int J Nurs Pract 10:10-20. 2004
    ..This paper portrays how intervening conditions can impinge upon this and the exercise of legitimate influence...
  8. ncbi Achieving compliance with the European Working Time Directive in a large teaching hospital: a strategic approach
    Gareth J Jones
    Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust, London
    Clin Med 4:427-30. 2004
    ....
  9. ncbi Practice is individual, research is local, knowledge is international
    Carol Ball
    Pond Street, London NW3 2QG, United Kingdom
    Intensive Crit Care Nurs 23:1-3. 2007
  10. ncbi "Realising the potential of critical care nurses": an exploratory study of the factors that affect and comprise the nursing contribution to the recovery of critically ill patients
    Carol Ball
    Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust, Pond Street, London NW3 2QG, UK
    Intensive Crit Care Nurs 19:226-38. 2003
    ..Emphasis had been placed on the results and implications of these for nursing practice. For a more in-depth account, the full report can be accessed on www.lscn.co.uk...
  11. ncbi Predictors of adverse events in patients after discharge from the intensive care unit
    Wendy Chaboyer
    Research Centre for Clinical and Community Practice Innovation, Griffith University Gold Coast Campus, Queensland, Australia
    Am J Crit Care 17:255-63; quiz 264. 2008
    ..Patients discharged from the intensive care unit may be at risk of adverse events because of complex care needs...
  12. ncbi Patients at risk: the fundamental problem
    Carol Ball
    Aust Crit Care 19:44-5. 2006
  13. ncbi Whither critical care outreach?
    Carol Ball
    Intensive Crit Care Nurs 22:127-9. 2006
  14. ncbi The devil is in the detail
    Carol Ball
    Intensive Crit Care Nurs 18:71-2. 2002
  15. ncbi Critical care outreach services--do they make a difference?
    Carol Ball
    Intensive Crit Care Nurs 18:257-60. 2002
  16. ncbi Medical devices and their role in the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia--challenging some sacred cows!
    Carol Ball
    Intensive Crit Care Nurs 21:131-4. 2005
  17. ncbi Update on cervical cancer screening. Current diagnostic and evidence-based management protocols
    Carol Ball
    University of Minnesota Twin Cities Integrated Residency in Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women's Health, Regions Hospital, St Paul, MN, USA
    Postgrad Med 113:59-64, 70. 2003
    ..These revisions are designed to facilitate communication between the clinician and the laboratory and to improve the clinician's ability to accurately interpret the cytology report and plan initial management of any abnormalities...
  18. ncbi An international perspective on gender differences in anxiety early after acute myocardial infarction
    Debra K Moser
    College of Nursing, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40536 0232, USA
    Psychosom Med 65:511-6. 2003
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  19. ncbi An international perspective on the time to treatment for acute myocardial infarction
    Kathleen Dracup
    School of Nursing, University of California, 2 Koret Ave, Rm N319, Box 0604, San Francisco, CA 94143 0604, USA
    J Nurs Scholarsh 35:317-23. 2003
    ..To compare delay and circumstances of decisions to seek care in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in the United States (US), England, Australia, South Korea, and Japan...
  20. ncbi Investigating the effectiveness of critical care outreach services: a systematic review
    Lisa Esmonde
    School of Healthcare, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
    Intensive Care Med 32:1713-21. 2006
    ..We explored the impact of critical care outreach activity on patient and service outcomes and aimed to contribute to developing a typology of critical care outreach services...
  21. ncbi Sick hospitals-Is there a cure?
    Carol Ball
    Intensive Crit Care Nurs 22:251-2. 2006
  22. ncbi A five-country comparison of anxiety early after acute myocardial infarction
    Marla J De Jong
    University of Kentucky, College of Nursing /US Air Force, Lexington, KY, USA
    Eur J Cardiovasc Nurs 3:129-34. 2004
    ..Even though various cultures were represented in this study, culture itself did not account for variations in anxiety after AMI. It appears that anxiety after AMI is a universal phenomenon...
  23. ncbi International comparison of factors associated with delay in presentation for AMI treatment
    Sharon McKinley
    Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Health, University of Technology Sydney, and Northern Sydney Area Health Service, Sydney, Australia
    Eur J Cardiovasc Nurs 3:225-30. 2004
    ..Prehospital delay in response to acute myocardial infarction (AMI) symptoms is well documented in the US and Europe, but little is known about it in Asian countries where cardiovascular disease is increasing...