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| A WilsonSummaryAffiliation: University of Leicester Country: UK Publications
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CESAR: conventional ventilatory support vs extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for severe adult respiratory failureGiles J Peek
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Glenfield Hospital, Groby Road, Leicester, LE3 9QP, UK
BMC Health Serv Res 6:163. 2006....
Methods of data collection and analysis for the economic evaluation alongside a national, multi-centre trial in the UK: conventional ventilation or ECMO for Severe Adult Respiratory Failure (CESAR)Mariamma M Thalanany
School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK
BMC Health Serv Res 8:94. 2008..Given the high cost of treatment, ECMO is considered an expensive technology for many funding systems. However, conventional treatment for severe respiratory failure is also one of the more costly forms of care in any health system...- Randomised controlled trial of effectiveness of Leicester hospital at home scheme compared with hospital careA Wilson
Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care, University of Leicester, Leicester General Hospital, Leicester LE5 4PW
BMJ 319:1542-6. 1999..To compare effectiveness of patient care in hospital at home scheme with hospital care... - Smoking cessation treatment in primary care: prospective cohort studyA Wilson
Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester LE5 4PW, UK
Tob Control 14:242-6. 2005..To compare the characteristics of smokers who do and do not receive smoking cessation treatment in primary care... 
Coverage in screening for diabetic retinopathy according to screening provision: results from a national survey in England and WalesA Wilson
Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care, University of Leicester, UK
Diabet Med 21:271-8. 2004..To assess the proportion of people with diabetes screened for retinopathy according to provision of screening services...- Drugs to support smoking cessation in UK general practice: are evidence based guidelines being followed?A Wilson
Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester General Hospital, Leicester LE5 4PW, UK
Qual Saf Health Care 15:284-8. 2006..Prescribing drugs to support smoking cessation is one of the most cost effective interventions in primary care, but there is evidence they are underused. Little is known about how far guidelines have been adopted... - Development and testing of a questionnaire to measure patient satisfaction with intermediate careA Wilson
Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
Qual Saf Health Care 15:314-9. 2006..Individual trials have suggested high levels of general patient satisfaction with intermediate care, but this topic has not been examined in detail... - The relationship between consultation length, process and outcomes in general practice: a systematic reviewAndrew Wilson
Department of General Practice and Primary Care, University of Leicester, Leicester General Hospital, Leicester LE5 4PW
Br J Gen Pract 52:1012-20. 2002.... - The effectiveness of a modified version of the Wilkinson questionnaire in screening for TIA and minor stroke in the United KingdomA Wilson
Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester General Hospital, Leicester LE5 4PW, UK
Age Ageing 34:30-5. 2005..Significant under-reporting by patients occurs, but general practitioners tend to over-diagnose the condition, contributing in part to long clinic waiting lists. An accurate screening test could address both these problems... 
Management of smokers motivated to quit: a qualitative study of smokers and GPsAndrew Wilson
Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
Fam Pract 27:404-9. 2010....- A comparison of individual and population smoking data from a postal survey and general practice recordsA Wilson
Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care, University of Leicester
Br J Gen Pract 50:465-8. 2000..Data on smoking held by general practitioners (GPs) may contribute to clinical care and to an assessment of population health. However, these data are prone to several biases and their validity has not been tested... - Patient and carer satisfaction with 'hospital at home': quantitative and qualitative results from a randomised controlled trialAndrew Wilson
Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care, University of Leicester
Br J Gen Pract 52:9-13. 2002..Hospital At Home' schemes are set to increase in the United Kingdom (UK) in response to the NHS Plan. To date, little detailed work has been done on the acceptability of these schemes to patients and their carers... - Characteristics of general practices associated with emergency-department attendance rates: a cross-sectional studyR Baker
Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, 22 28 Princess Road West, Leicester, UK
BMJ Qual Saf 20:953-8. 2011..Strategies are needed to contain emergency-department attendance. Quality of care in general practice might influence the use of emergency departments, including management of patients with chronic conditions and access to consultations... - Using content analysis of video-recorded consultations to identify smokers' "readiness" and "resistance" towards stopping smokingT Coleman
Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care, University of Leicester, Leicester General Hospital, Gwendolen Road, Leicester LE5 4PW, UK
Patient Educ Couns 41:305-11. 2000..We discuss the relevance of our descriptions for clinicians and the possibility of developing this work further to enable systematic research into doctor-patient interactions where smokers are counseled to stop... - A systematic review of delays in seeking medical attention after transient ischaemic attackN Sprigg
Ageing and Stroke Medicine Group, University of Leicester, Leicester General Hospital, Leicester LE5 4PW, UK
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 80:871-5. 2009..Nevertheless, many patients are slow to seek medical advice after TIA. A systematic review was undertaken to examine potential factors associated with delay in seeking medical review after TIA... - A new method for describing smokers' consulting behaviours which indicate their motivation to stop smoking: an exploration of validity and reliabilityTim Coleman
Division of General Practice and Primary Health Care, University of Leicester, Leicester General Hospital, UK
Fam Pract 19:154-60. 2002..Smokers vary in their readiness to try stopping smoking, but there currently are no objective tools for identifying smokers' consulting behaviours which indicate their level of motivation to try stopping smoking... - Characteristics of general practices associated with emergency admission rates to hospital: a cross-sectional studyM J G Bankart
NIHR CLAHRC for LNR, Leicester, UK
Emerg Med J 28:558-63. 2011..To identify characteristics of general practices associated with emergency hospital admission rates, and determine whether levels of performance and patient reports of access are associated with admission rates... - Performance of hospital-at-home after a randomised controlled trialAndrew Wilson
Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
J Health Serv Res Policy 8:160-4. 2003..This is an example of an observational study providing evidence to support the generalisability of trial findings... - The effect of interventions to alter the consultation length of family physicians: a systematic reviewAndrew Wilson
Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester
Br J Gen Pract 56:876-82. 2006..CONCLUSIONS: Our findings do not provide sufficient evidence to support or resist a policy of altering consultation lengths of primary care physicians. Further trials are needed, focussing on health outcomes and cost effectiveness... - Quality of secondary prevention measures in TIA patients: a retrospective cohort studyK E Lager
Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, 22 28 Princess Road West, Leicester LE1 6TP, UK
Postgrad Med J 88:305-11. 2012..This study aimed to investigate the quality of secondary stroke prevention in primary care following diagnosis of TIA in a specialist clinic... - Does increased use of private health care reduce the demand for NHS care? A prospective survey of general practice referralsCaroline Mulvaney
Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester LE5 4PW
J Public Health (Oxf) 27:182-8. 2005..The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between private and NHS outpatient referral rates accounting for their association with deprivation... - Evolving general practice consultation in Britain: issues of length and contextGeorge K Freeman
Centre for Primary Care and Social Medicine, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London W6 8RP
BMJ 324:880-2. 2002 - A comparison of research general practices and their patients with other practices--a cross-sectional survey in TrentVicky Hammersley
Division of General Practice, University of Nottingham
Br J Gen Pract 52:463-8. 2002..When interpreting results of studies undertaken by research networks we need to know how representative volunteer practices and their registered patients are of the total population of practices and patients in their locality... - Research and development at the health and social care interface in primary care: a scoping exercise in one National Health Service regionJo Cooke
Institute of General Practice and Primary Care, University of Sheffield, Community Sciences Centre, Northern General Hospital, Sheffield, UK
Health Soc Care Community 10:435-44. 2002..In turn, experience in promoting user involvement in social services could add value to research expertise at the primary care-social care interface... - Factors associated with the provision of anti-smoking advice in general practice consultationsAlison Wynn
Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care, Leicester Warwick Medical School
Br J Gen Pract 52:997-9. 2002..Encouraging GPs to make greater use of problem-orientated opportunities to discuss smoking may have more effect on rates of advice giving than urging them to advise all smokers... - Distributing questionnaires about smoking to patients: impact on general practitioners' recording of smoking adviceTim Coleman
Division of Primary Care, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
BMC Health Serv Res 7:153. 2007.... - Discussion of NRT and other antismoking interventions in UK general practitioners' routine consultationsTim Coleman
Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care, Leicester Warwick Medical School, Leicester General Hospital Leicester, England
Nicotine Tob Res 5:163-8. 2003..Now that NRT is available by prescription from UK GPs, further research is needed to monitor whether this effective antismoking therapy is being prescribed appropriately... - Comparison of the smoking behaviour and attitudes of smokers who believe they have smoking-related problems with those who do notTim Coleman
Division of General Practice, University of Nottingham, The Medical School, Queen s Medical Centre, Nottingham NG7 2UH, UK
Fam Pract 20:520-3. 2003.... - The inter-observer agreement of examining pre-school children with acute cough: a nested studyAlastair D Hay
Division of Primary Health Care, University of Bristol, Cotham House, Cotham Hill, Bristol, BS6, 6JL, UK
BMC Fam Pract 5:4. 2004..The presence of clinical signs have implications for diagnosis, prognosis and treatment. Therefore, the aim of this study was to examine the inter-observer agreement of clinical signs in pre-school children presenting to primary care... - Ensuring reliability in UK written tests of general practice: the MRCGP examination 1998-2003Neil Munro
Med Teach 27:37-45. 2005..The challenge for examination developers is to carry these important lessons forward into a modernized assessment structure of UK general practice... - Tackling the written paperAndrew Wilson
MRCGP
Practitioner 249:843-5. 2005 - Is real reform of the Medicare Benefits Schedule for psychiatrists in Australia economically, socially or professionally desirable?Ian Hickie
Brain and Mind Research Institute, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Australas Psychiatry 14:8-14. 2006..To propose alternative Medicare Benefits Schedule-based funding models for outpatient psychiatric services in Australia... - Predicting complications from acute cough in pre-school children in primary care: a prospective cohort studyAlastair D Hay
Health Services Research, Division of Primary Health Care, University of Bristol, Cotham Hill, Bristol
Br J Gen Pract 54:9-14. 2004..There is uncertainty about which children with cough are most and least likely to experience complications... - Providing a seamless service for children with life-limiting illness: experiences and recommendations of professional staff at the Diana Princess of Wales Children's Community ServiceLesley Danvers
Mary Seacole Research Centre, DeMontfort University, Leicester, UK
J Clin Nurs 12:351-9. 2003..This service has been judged by the impact it has had on the families who use it and the professionals employed within it... - Glutathionyl haemoglobin is not increased in diabetes nor related to glycaemia, complications, dyslipidaemia, inflammation or other measures of oxidative stressPeter Hoffmann
St Vincent s Institute of Medical Research, Fitzroy, Melbourne, Australia
Diabetes Res Clin Pract 80:e1-3. 2008..Glycated haemoglobin levels were increased in diabetes but glutathionyl haemoglobin (HbSSG) levels did not differ between groups, nor by complications; nor correlate with haemoglobin glycation or vascular risk factors... - Impact of cognitive and physical impairment on carer burden and quality of lifeLeigh Tooth
School of Population Health, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
Qual Life Res 17:267-73. 2008..This study investigated the effect of type of impairment of care recipients on the level of burden and quality of life (QOL) of elderly Australian carers... - Blood pressure and hypertension for Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peopleZaimin Wang
The University of Melbourne, Department of Medicine, St Vincent s Hospital, Victoria, Australia
Eur J Cardiovasc Prev Rehabil 13:438-43. 2006..This present study aims to describe the blood pressure levels and to explore the clinical risk factors for hypertension among Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples... - The duration of acute cough in pre-school children presenting to primary care: a prospective cohort studyAlastair D Hay
Division of Primary Health Care, University of Bristol, Cotham House, Cotham Hill, Bristol BS6 6JL, UK
Fam Pract 20:696-705. 2003..A recent systematic review of the natural history of cough included studies of unrepresentative, selected patients with heterogeneous measures and definitions of cough duration...