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Ailish Harrison – Child Care in Practice, 2025
Background: Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) describes an eating disturbance associated with weight loss or faltering growth in children, significant nutritional deficiency, reliance on oral supplements, reliance on enteral feeding and/or a clear interference with psychosocial functioning, in the absence of body image concerns.…
Descriptors: Allied Health Personnel, Clinical Diagnosis, Medical Services, Children
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Abraham, Julie; Purandare, Kiran; McCabe, Joanne; Wijeratne, Anusha; Eggleston, Evelina; Oak, Katy; Laugharne, Richard; Roy, Ashok; Shankar, Rohit – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2022
Background: In the United Kingdom, policy change has led to specialist intellectual disability inpatient bed reduction. Little evidence exists assessing the results for patients admitted to such units. This study evaluates the outcomes of a specialist intellectual disability inpatient unit. Method: Gender/age/ethnicity/intellectual disability…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Patients, Foreign Countries, Specialists
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Alexander Häge; Kenneth K. C. Man; Sarah K. Inglis; Jan Buitelaar; Sara Carucci; Marina Danckaerts; Ralf W. Dittmann; Bruno Falissard; Peter Garas; Chris Hollis; Kerstin Konrad; Hanna Kovshoff; Elizabeth Liddle; Suzanne McCarthy; Antje Neubert; Peter Nagy; Eric Rosenthal; Edmund J. S. Sonuga-Barke; Alessandro Zuddas; Ian C. K. Wong; David Coghill; Tobias Banaschewski; ADDUCE Consortium – Journal of Attention Disorders, 2024
Objective: Short-term RCTs have demonstrated that MPH-treatment significantly reduces ADHD-symptoms, but is also associated with adverse events, including sleep problems. However, data on long-term effects of MPH on sleep remain limited. Methods: We performed a 2-year naturalistic prospective pharmacovigilance multicentre study. Participants were…
Descriptors: Sleep, Barriers, Children, Adolescents
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Valerie J. Pereira; Debbie Sell – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2024
Background: Speech in individuals with cleft lip and/or palate (CLP) is a complex myriad of presenting symptoms. It is uniquely associated with the structural difference of velopharyngeal insufficiency (VPI), together with a wide and heterogeneous range of other aetiologies which often co-occur. The nature of the speech sound disorder (SSD)…
Descriptors: Anatomy, Physiology, Labeling (of Persons), Congenital Impairments
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Nicola Gregson; Cathy Randle-Phillips; Sal Hillman – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2024
Primary care health checks, screenings and GP consultations are often the gateway for people with intellectual disabilities to access their physical and mental healthcare. For a population who experience greater levels of health difficulties alongside significant health inequality, improving care quality and access is of major importance. This…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Medical Services, Family Practice (Medicine), Primary Health Care
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Trimble, Julie; Patterson, Joanne – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2020
Background: Silent aspiration (SA)--airway entry of food, drink or other material without a cough response--is common post-stroke. Clinical swallowing examination misses up to 40% of dysphagic patients with SA. This may put these patients at risk of aspiration pneumonia, prolonged length of hospital stay and increased healthcare costs. After…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Neurological Impairments, Speech Language Pathology, Allied Health Personnel
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Reeves, Alison L.; Nyatanga, Brian; Neilson, Sue J. – Research in Drama Education, 2021
Nurses and actors both require the ability to demonstrate empathy in their practice. Mastering communication skills and techniques can inform an empathetic response. This skill is particularly important for nurses working in paediatric palliative and end of life care but there is lack of consensus whether empathy can be taught. The process an…
Descriptors: Empathy, Drama, Communication Skills, Pediatrics
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Rogge, Nicky; Janssen, Juliette – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2019
Autism is associated with a range of costs. This paper reviews the literature on estimating the economic costs of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). More or less 50 papers covering multiple countries (US, UK, Australia, Canada, Sweden, the Netherlands, etc.) were analysed. Six types of costs are discussed in depth: (i) medical and healthcare service…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Costs, Health Care Costs
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Slater, Alan – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2017
In recent years, NHS Ambulance Trusts throughout the UK have consistently failed to achieve their response time targets for both actual and potential life-threatening calls. To avoid a media and public outcry, the NHS response has been to change the basic parameters upon which the response time targets are calculated. An action learning study,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Experiential Learning, Emergency Medical Technicians, Reaction Time
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Foster, Sophie Vivien; Degeneffe, Charles Edmund – Rehabilitation Research, Policy, and Education, 2019
Background and Objective: This article compares the policy, care systems, and legislation surrounding acquired brain injury (ABI) in the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (US). Consistent with their shared histories, many similarities in terms of culture, language, and politics, and their history of cooperative relations in military and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adventitious Impairments, Head Injuries, Neurological Impairments
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Snelson, Edward; Hoskin, Julie – Health Education Journal, 2019
Objectives: Despite a long-standing declaration of educational need in the area of paediatrics in primary care, there is little in the way of strategy for delivering high-quality learning relevant to the specific needs of the primary care team. This article seeks to explore various models for delivering primary care centred paediatric education to…
Descriptors: Pediatrics, Primary Health Care, Educational Needs, Referral
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Sandhu, Daljit; Tomlins, Rose – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2017
The role and future of assessment and treatment units for people with intellectual disabilities is once again the focus of debate and government policy. Reviewing the admissions to inpatient services can provide useful information about the characteristics, needs and clinical outcomes of clients. Data were collected retrospectively for all 36…
Descriptors: Adults, Community Services, Clinical Diagnosis, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Burch, Vanessa C. – Journal of Applied Testing Technology, 2019
Health professions education has undergone radical changes over the past 100 years. This has necessitated a shift away from education programmes largely focused on testing knowledge and skills using predominantly written examinations. There has been a shift towards programmes which are intentionally designed with the end product in mind, a…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Clinical Experience, Situated Learning, Health Personnel
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Taylor, Michael J.; Taylor, Dave; Vlaev, Ivo; Elkin, Sarah – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2017
Recent advances in communication technologies enable potential provision of remote education for patients using computer-generated environments known as virtual worlds. Previous research has revealed highly variable levels of patient receptiveness to using information technologies for healthcare-related purposes. This preliminary study involved…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Telecommunications, Medical Services, Patient Education
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McGowan, Susan L.; Ward, Elizabeth C.; Wall, Laurelie R.; Shellshear, Leanne R.; Spurgin, Ann-Louise – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2014
Background: Many speech and language therapists (SLTs) work with patients who have a tracheostomy. There is limited information about their working practices and the extent to which recent publications and research have influenced the speech and language therapy management of the tracheostomized patient. Aims: This study reviews the current…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Patients, Allied Health Personnel, Speech Language Pathology
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