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| Carl MaySummaryAffiliation: University of Newcastle Country: UK Publications
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Which quality of life score is best for glaucoma patients and why?Philip Severn
Sunderland Eye Infirmary, Queen Alexandra Road, Sunderland, SR2 9HP, UK
BMC Ophthalmol 8:2. 2008..There have been a number of attempts to develop quality of life scales for the disease. This review discusses the pros and cons of these scales and suggests the best of the current ones for use in a clinical setting...- Paying for treatments? Influences on negotiating clinical need and decision-making for dental implant treatmentCatherine E Exley
Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
BMC Health Serv Res 9:7. 2009..We know very little about how dentists make decisions about whether to offer such treatments, or what patients consider when deciding whether or not to pay for them... - Experiences of abortion: a narrative review of qualitative studiesMabel L S Lie
Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University, William Leech Building, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4HH, UK
BMC Health Serv Res 8:150. 2008.... 
Towards a wireless patient: chronic illness, scarce care and technological innovation in the United KingdomCarl May
Centre for Health Services Research, University of Newcastle, UK
Soc Sci Med 61:1485-94. 2005..In particular, we draw attention to the shifting definitions of 'innovation' and to the ways that these shifts define a move away from notions of technological advance towards management control...- Technogovernance: evidence, subjectivity, and the clinical encounter in primary care medicineCarl May
Centre for Health Services Research, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4AA, UK
Soc Sci Med 62:1022-30. 2006.... - Understanding the implementation of complex interventions in health care: the normalization process modelCarl May
Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University, 21 Claremont Place, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4AA, UK
BMC Health Serv Res 7:148. 2007..It offers a framework for process evaluation and also for comparative studies of complex interventions. It focuses on the factors that promote or inhibit the routine embedding of complex interventions in health care practice... - A rational model for assessing and evaluating complex interventions in health careCarl May
Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University, 21 Claremont Place, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4AA, UK
BMC Health Serv Res 6:86. 2006..This paper presents a model of the normalization of complex interventions... - Mobilising modern facts: health technology assessment and the politics of evidenceCarl May
Centre for Health Services Research, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 21 Claremont Place, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4AA
Sociol Health Illn 28:513-32. 2006.... - Chronic illness and intractability: professional-patient interactions in primary careCarl May
Centre for Health Services Research, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 21 Claremont Place, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4AA, UK
Chronic Illn 1:15-20. 2005 - Self-management of chronic conditions: re-engineering patient-hoodCarl May
Centre for Health Services Research, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 21 Claremont Place, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4AA, UK
Chronic Illn 2:15-6. 2006 - Process evaluation for complex interventions in primary care: understanding trials using the normalization process modelCarl R May
Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
BMC Fam Pract 8:42. 2007..It focuses on the ways that the implementation of complex interventions is shaped by problems of workability and integration... - Framing the doctor-patient relationship in chronic illness: a comparative study of general practitioners' accountsCarl May
Centre for Health Services Research, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Sociol Health Illn 26:135-58. 2004.... - Health technology assessment in its local contexts: studies of telehealthcareCarl May
Centre for Health Care Services Research, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 21 Claremont Place, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4AA, UK
Soc Sci Med 57:697-710. 2003.... - Development of a theory of implementation and integration: Normalization Process TheoryCarl R May
Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK
Implement Sci 4:29. 2009..CONCLUSION: Normalization Process Theory has been developed through procedures that were properly sceptical and critical, and which were opened to review at each stage of development. The theory has been shown to merit formal testing... - Why do telemedicine systems fail to normalize as stable models of service delivery?Carl May
Centre for Health Services Research, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
J Telemed Telecare 9:S25-6. 2003..When one or more is absent, failure can be expected. These conditions are often overlooked by local proponents of telemedicine, who seem to rely on demonstrations that the equipment works as the primary criterion of success... - Understanding the normalization of telemedicine services through qualitative evaluationCarl May
Centre for Health Services Research, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, England
J Am Med Inform Assoc 10:596-604. 2003..This report presents the development of a robust conceptual model of normalization processes in the implementation and development of telemedicine services... - Factors influencing the evaluation of telehealth interventions: preliminary results from a qualitative study of evaluation projects in the UKC R May
Centre for Health Services Research, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
J Telemed Telecare 8:65-7. 2002..The findings suggest that the evaluation of telehealth interventions is highly complex, and that this complexity is often underestimated in the design and conduct of evaluation studies... - Medical communication and technology: a video-based process study of the use of decision aids in primary care consultationsEileen Kaner
Institute of Health and Society, The Medical School, Newcastle University, NE2 4HH, UK
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak 7:2. 2007..This study aimed to quantitatively describe the behaviour shown by doctors and patients during primary care consultations when three types of decision aids were used to promote treatment decision-making in a randomised controlled trial... - Patients or research subjects? A qualitative study of participation in a randomised controlled trial of a complex interventionBen Heaven
Health Technologies and Human Relations Research Group, Centre for Health Services Research, School of Population and Health Sciences, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 21 Claremont Place, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4AA, UK
Patient Educ Couns 62:260-70. 2006..To explore participants' understandings regarding treatment decisions, made within an efficacy randomised controlled trial (RCT) of decision-support tools... - Integrating service development with evaluation in telehealthcare: an ethnographic studyTracy Finch
Centre for Health Services Research, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 3DN
BMJ 327:1205-9. 2003..To identify issues that facilitate the successful integration of evaluation and development of telehealthcare services... - Normative models of health technology assessment and the social production of evidence about telehealth careTracy Williams
Centre for Health Services Research, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 21 Claremont Place, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4AA, UK
Health Policy 64:39-54. 2003..Our analysis focuses on the political projects configured within a literature aimed at stabilising evaluative knowledge production about telehealthcare in the face of substantial political and methodological problems... - Doctor-patient interaction in a randomised controlled trial of decision-support toolsTim Rapley
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Soc Sci Med 62:2267-78. 2006..We demonstrate how the RCT coordinates the world of the clinical environment and the world of experimental evidence... 
Types of centredness in health care: themes and conceptsJulian C Hughes
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and the Institute for Ageing and Health, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Med Health Care Philos 11:455-63. 2008..In trying to characterize one type of centredness, we were led to consider, at a conceptual level, the importance of the notion of centredness in general and the reasons for there being different types of centeredness...- Seeing through the glass darkly? A qualitative exploration of GPs' drinking and their alcohol intervention practicesEileen Kaner
Centre for Health Services Research, 21 Claremont Place, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4AA, UK
Fam Pract 23:481-7. 2006..Risk-drinkers from higher social-status groups are less likely to receive brief intervention from GPs than those from lower social-status groups. Thus GPs' perception of social similarity or distance may influence brief intervention... - Telecare: perspectives on the changing role of patients and citizensTracy Finch
Centre for Health Services Research, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
J Telemed Telecare 11:51-3. 2005..The findings of the present study confirm that concepts of the patient's rights and responsibilities are changing with the increasing use of new technologies to deliver health care... - A new method of analysis enabled a better understanding of clinical practice guideline development processesTiago Moreira
Centre for Health Services Research, School of Population and Health Sciences, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 21 Claremont Place, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4AA, UK
J Clin Epidemiol 59:1199-206. 2006..This constitutes an important framework to understand the interplay of participants and knowledge in guideline development... - Still a difficult business? Negotiating alcohol-related problems in general practice consultationsTim Rapley
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Soc Sci Med 63:2418-28. 2006..As the definition of what could constitute abnormal alcohol consumption has expanded, so the range of consultations that they may have to negotiate these difficulties in has also expanded... - Teledermatology in the UK: lessons in service innovationT L Finch
Centre for Health Services Research, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 21 Claremont Place, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Br J Dermatol 156:521-7. 2007..In the U.K. over the previous decade there have been numerous attempts at introducing and using teledermatology; however, the development of teledermatology as routine service provision remains limited... - Pediatric regional examination of the musculoskeletal system: a practice- and consensus-based approachHelen Foster
Newcastle University, UK
Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken) 63:1503-10. 2011..The aim was to develop a regional MSK examination for school-age children that is age appropriate and reflects clinical practice... - Implementing nutrition guidelines for older people in residential care homes: a qualitative study using Normalization Process TheoryClaire Bamford
Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University, UK
Implement Sci 7:106. 2012..This study used the Normalization Process Theory (NPT) to understand the barriers and facilitators to implementing the guidelines and inform future implementation... - The conversion from sensation to symptom: the case of catarrh, a qualitative studyRussell A Cathcart
Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, High Heaton, UK
Chronic Illn 8:3-16. 2012..Participants: 19 adult patients presenting with chronic catarrh, persistent throat clearing or post-nasal drip. Setting: Secondary care institute in North of England... - Disclosing a diagnosis of dementia: a systematic reviewClaire Bamford
Centre for Health Services Research, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 19:151-69. 2004..This state of knowledge seems at variance with current guidance about disclosure... - Systematic review of cost effectiveness studies of telemedicine interventionsPamela S Whitten
Department of Telecommunications, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 1212, USA
BMJ 324:1434-7. 2002..To systematically review cost benefit studies of telemedicine... - Managing depression in primary care: another example of the inverse care law?Carolyn A Chew-Graham
School of Primary Care, University of Manchester M14 5NP
Fam Pract 19:632-7. 2002..There is much evidence that the detection and management of depression by GPs could be improved, but little work has focused on GPs' views of their work with depressed patients... - From compliance to concordance: barriers to accomplishing a re-framed model of health care interactionsPaul Bissell
The Pharmacy School, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK
Soc Sci Med 58:851-62. 2004.... - Qualitative research and the problem of judgement: lessons from interviewing fellow professionalsCarolyn A Chew-Graham
School of Primary Care, University of Manchester, Rusholme Health Centre, Walmer Street, Manchester M14 5NP, UK
Fam Pract 19:285-9. 2002..The professional identity of the researcher plays an important part in constructing the kind of data obtained in such studies, and this must be made apparent in reporting and discussions of such qualitative work... - The harmful consequences of elevating the doctor-patient relationship to be a primary goal of the general practice consultationCarolyn A Chew-Graham
School of Primary Care, University of Manchester, Rusholme Health Centre, Walmer Street, Manchester M14 5NP, UK
Fam Pract 21:229-31. 2004 - Health professionals' responses to the introduction of a home telehealth serviceDerek Hibbert
Department of Primary Care, University of Liverpool, UK
J Telemed Telecare 10:226-30. 2004..The concerns arising from the interplay of new technology with existing professional practices and relationships go beyond simple issues of training... - Future patients? Telehealthcare, roles and responsibilitiesTracy L Finch
Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Health Soc Care Community 16:86-95. 2008..The results of this study have important implications for the ways in which relationships between health professionals and patients are managed in practice, and raise important questions for public participation in service development... - A patient decision aid to support shared decision-making on anti-thrombotic treatment of patients with atrial fibrillation: randomised controlled trialRichard G Thomson
Institute of Health and Society, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Qual Saf Health Care 16:216-23. 2007..To determine the efficacy of a computerised decision aid in patients with atrial fibrillation making decisions on whether to take warfarin or aspirin therapy...