Search Results - "BLANDFORD, A."

Carers’ experiences of home enteral feeding: A survey exploring medicines administration challenges and strategies by Alsaeed, D., Furniss, D., Blandford, A., Smith, F., Orlu, M.

“…Summary What is known and objectives The use of enteral tube feeding at home is becoming more widespread, with patients ranging in age and diseases. Dysphagia…”
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Home-based intervention to test and start (HITS) protocol: a cluster-randomized controlled trial to reduce HIV-related mortality in men and HIV incidence in women through increased coverage of HIV treatment by Mathenjwa, T, Kim, H-Y, Zuma, T, Shahmanesh, M, Seeley, J, Matthews, P, Wyke, S, McGrath, N, Sartorius, B, Yapa, H M, Adeagbo, O, Blandford, A, Dobra, A, Bäernighausen, T, Tanser, F

“…To realize the full benefits of treatment as prevention in many hyperendemic African contexts, there is an urgent need to increase uptake of HIV testing and…”
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Nurses as a source of system-level resilience: Secondary analysis of qualitative data from a study of intravenous infusion safety in English hospitals by Vos, J., Franklin, B.D., Chumbley, G., Galal-Edeen, G.H., Furniss, D., Blandford, A.

“…Deviations from local policy and national recommended best practice are common in the administration of intravenous infusions, but not all result in negative…”
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Hospitalizations at the End of Life Among Long-Term Care Residents by Menec, Verena H., Nowicki, Scott, Blandford, Audrey, Veselyuk, Dawn

“…Background Concerns have been raised over transfers into acute care hospitals at the end of life. The objective of this study was to examine (a) the extent of…”
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Depressive symptoms among older adults in urban and rural areas by St John, Philip D., Blandford, Audrey A., Strain, Laurel A.

“…Objectives To determine if there are differences in depressive symptoms between residents of urban areas, small town zones, and predominantly rural regions and…”
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Towards a living earth simulator by Paolucci, M., Kossman, D., Conte, R., Lukowicz, P., Argyrakis, P., Blandford, A., Bonelli, G., Anderson, S., de Freitas, S., Edmonds, B., Gilbert, N., Gross, M., Kohlhammer, J., Koumoutsakos, P., Krause, A., Linnér, B. -O., Slusallek, P., Sorkine, O., Sumner, R. W., Helbing, D.

“…The Living Earth Simulator (LES) is one of the core components of the FuturICT architecture. It will work as a federation of methods, tools, techniques and…”
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A case study on integrating contextual information with analytical usability evaluation by BLANDFORD, A., RUGG, G.

“…The work reported here integrates an analytical evaluation technique, Programmable User Modelling, with established knowledge elicitation techniques; the…”
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Does a rural residence predict the development of depressive symptoms in older adults? by St John, Philip D, Blandford, Audrey A, Strain, Laurel A

“…We sought to determine whether adults aged 65 years or older living in rural areas who are without depressive symptoms have a lower risk of developing…”
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Community-Based Services for the Taking but Few Takers: Reasons for Nonuse by Strain, Laurel A., Blandford, Audrey A.

“…This study examined reasons for not using nine community-based services and characteristics associated with these reasons among a sample of 293 older…”
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Cognitively impaired older adults: risk profiles for institutionalization by Strain, Laurel A, Blandford, Audrey A, Mitchell, Lori A, Hawranik, Pamela G

“…This study focused on the identification of risk profiles for institutionalization among older adults diagnosed with cognitive impairment-not dementia or…”
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Hospital Nurses' Perceptions of the Geriatric Care Environment in One Canadian Health Care Region by McKenzie, Jo-Ann Lapointe, Blandford, Audrey A., Menec, Verena H., Boltz, Marie, Capezuti, Elizabeth

“…Purpose: To identify and compare perceptions of the geriatric care environment among nurses in three different urban hospital types in one health authority in…”
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Caregiving Networks in Later Life: Does Cognitive Status Make a Difference? by Strain, Laurel A, Blandford, Audrey A

“…This study examines the caregiving networks of older adults, with particular emphasis on differences according to cognitive status (n = 303). Individuals with…”
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Researchers’ attitudes towards the use of social networking sites by Greifeneder, Elke, Pontis, Sheila, Blandford, Ann, Attalla, Hesham, Neal, David, Schlebbe, Kirsten

“…Purpose The purpose of this paper is to better understand why many researchers do not have a profile on social networking sites (SNS), and whether this is the…”
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Task embedded visualisation: the design for an interactive IR results display for journalists by Attfield, S., Blandford, A., Craft, B.

“…There is need for user-centred visualisation research to engage with the activity context, information needs, knowledge and abilities of target user-groups…”
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Impact of Residence on Prevalence and Intensity of Prescription Drug Use Among Older Adults by Carrie, Anita G, Grymonpre, Ruby E, Blandford, Audrey A

“…Background: Higher levels of morbidity among older adults result in greater need for pharmaceutical products and pharmacy services compared with the need in…”
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Digital libraries' support for the user's 'information journey' by Adams, Anne, Blandford, Ann

“…The temporal elements of users' information requirements are a continually confounding aspect of digital library design. No sooner have users' needs been…”
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Using Interaction Framework to guide the design of interactive systems by Blandford, Ann E., Barnard, Philip J., Harrison, Michael D.

“…Understanding the properties of interactions is essential to the design of effective interactive systems involving two or more agents, and to the evaluation of…”
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Situation awareness in emergency medical dispatch by Blandford, Ann, William Wong, B.L.

“…Situation awareness, and how systems can be designed to support it appropriately, have been a focus of study in dynamic, safety critical contexts such as…”
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Bridging the gap between organizational and user perspectives of security in the clinical domain by Adams, Anne, Blandford, Ann

“…An understanding of ‘communities of practice’ can help to make sense of existing security and privacy issues within organizations; the same understanding can…”
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Teaching through Collaborative Problem Solving by Blandford, A. E

“…Discussion of a prototype intelligent education system called WOMBAT (Weighted Objectives Method by Arguing with the Tutor) focuses on dialogue and negotiation…”
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