Search Results - "Murchie, Peter"
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Resilience of primary healthcare professionals: a systematic review
Published in British journal of general practice (01-06-2016)“…Modern demands and challenges among healthcare professionals can be particularly stressful and resilience is increasingly necessary to maintain an effective,…”
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Development and piloting of an online course to improve knowledge, confidence and attitudes towards triaging images of skin lesions submitted online in primary care
Published in BMC medical education (05-08-2024)“…Melanoma is the 5th commonest cancer in the UK and survivors require frequent and thorough skin checks. During the Achieving Self-directed Integrated Cancer…”
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Determining cancer survivors' preferences to inform new models of follow-up care
Published in British journal of cancer (06-12-2016)“…Background: Specialist-led cancer follow-up is becoming increasingly expensive and is failing to meet many survivors’ needs. Alternative models informed by…”
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Reconceptualising Rural Cancer Inequalities: Time for a New Research Agenda
Published in International journal of environmental research and public health (24-02-2020)“…Evidence has shown for over 20 years that patients residing in rural areas face poorer outcomes for cancer. The inequalities in survival that rural cancer…”
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Rural and Urban patients’ Requirements and Experiences of Out-of-hours medical care after cancer (RUREO): a questionnaire study
Published in BMJ open (30-07-2023)“…ObjectiveTo investigate how individuals diagnosed with cancer use out-of-hours (OOH) medical services, describe the behavioural determinants of OOH service use…”
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Patterns of symptoms possibly indicative of cancer and associated help-seeking behaviour in a large sample of United Kingdom residents-The USEFUL study
Published in PloS one (24-01-2020)“…Cancer awareness campaigns aim to increase awareness of the potential seriousness of signs and symptoms of cancer, and encourage their timely presentation to…”
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Describing, predicting and explaining adherence to total skin self-examination (TSSE) in people with melanoma: a 12-month longitudinal study
Published in BMJ open (30-08-2022)“…ObjectivesTo describe trajectories in melanoma survivors’ adherence to monthly total skin self-examination (TSSE) over 12 months, and to investigate whether…”
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Laparoscopic cholecystectomy versus conservative management for adults with uncomplicated symptomatic gallstones: the C-GALL RCT
Published in Health technology assessment (Winchester, England) (01-06-2024)“…Gallstone disease is a common gastrointestinal disorder in industrialised societies. The prevalence of gallstones in the adult population is estimated to be…”
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Hormone replacement therapy in women with cancer and risk of cancer-specific mortality and cardiovascular disease: a protocol for a cohort study from Scotland and Wales
Published in BMC cancer (24-03-2021)“…Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is widely used and has proven benefits for women with menopausal symptoms. An increasing number of women with cancer…”
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Achieving integrated self-directed Cancer aftercare (ASICA) for melanoma: how a digital intervention to support total skin self-examination was used by people treated for cutaneous melanoma
Published in BMC cancer (13-11-2021)“…Melanoma incidence has quadrupled since 1970 and melanoma is now the second most common cancer in individuals under 50. Targeted immunotherapies for melanoma…”
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Do patients' faces influence General Practitioners' cancer suspicions? A test of automatic processing of sociodemographic information
Published in PloS one (22-11-2017)“…Delayed cancer diagnosis leads to poorer patient outcomes. During short consultations, General Practitioners (GPs) make quick decisions about likelihood of…”
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Understanding recruitment and retention of doctors in rural Scotland: Stakeholder perspectives
Published in The Geographical journal (01-06-2022)“…Recruitment and retention of medical practitioners is a challenging contemporary policy issue for rural areas. In this paper we explore this issue in the…”
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Using a discrete choice experiment to develop a decision aid tool to inform the management of persistent pain in pharmacy: a protocol for a randomised feasibility study
Published in BMJ open (22-09-2022)“…IntroductionIn an era of personalised healthcare, it has become increasingly important to elicit individual-level preferences. While discrete choice…”
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Protocol for a randomised controlled trial comparing laparoscopic cholecystectomy with observation/conservative management for preventing recurrent symptoms and complications in adults with uncomplicated symptomatic gallstones (C-Gall trial)
Published in BMJ open (25-03-2021)“…BackgroundGallstone disease (cholelithiasis) is common. In most people it is asymptomatic and does not require treatment, but in about 20% it can become…”
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Is place or person more important in determining higher rural cancer mortality? A data-linkage study to compare individual versus area-based measures of deprivation
Published in International journal of population data science (01-04-2021)“…Data from Northeast Scotland for 11,803 cancer patients (diagnosed 2007-13) were linked to UK Censuses to explore relationships between hospital travel-time,…”
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Can we understand and improve poorer cancer survival in rural-dwellers?
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Randomised controlled trial comparing the clinical and cost-effectiveness of various washout policies versus no washout policy in preventing catheter associated complications in adults living with long-term catheters: study protocol for the CATHETER II study
Published in Current controlled trials in cardiovascular medicine (04-08-2022)“…Various washout policies are widely used in adults living with long-term catheters (LTC). There is currently insufficient evidence on the benefits and…”
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User Experiences in a Digital Intervention to Support Total Skin Self-examination by Melanoma Survivors: Nested Qualitative Evaluation Embedded in a Randomized Controlled Trial
Published in JMIR dermatology (13-02-2023)“…Melanoma is a relatively common cancer type with a high survival rate, but survivors risk recurrences or second primaries. Consequently, patients receive…”
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Primary care practitioners' diagnostic action when the patient may have cancer: an exploratory vignette study in 20 European countries
Published in BMJ open (31-10-2020)“…Cancer survival rates vary widely between European countries, with differences in timeliness of diagnosis thought to be one key reason. There is little…”
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Protocol of the COVID-19 Health and Adherence Research in Scotland (CHARIS) study: understanding changes in adherence to transmission-reducing behaviours, mental and general health, in repeated cross-sectional representative survey of the Scottish population
Published in BMJ open (18-02-2021)“…IntroductionCOVID-19 has unprecedented consequences on population health, with governments worldwide issuing stringent public health directives. In the absence…”
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