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Exploring end of life care provision during medical imaging in hospitals: Analysis of survey data from the UK radiography workforce (2024)
Journal Article
Spacey, A., Heaslip, V., & Szczepura, K. (2024). Exploring end of life care provision during medical imaging in hospitals: Analysis of survey data from the UK radiography workforce. Radiography, 30(5), 1308-1316. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radi.2024.07.003

Introduction: Patients receiving end-of-life care often undergo medical imaging examinations in hospitals to inform symptom management and care. Yet little is known about the experiences of the radiography workforce who deliver it. This study aims to... Read More about Exploring end of life care provision during medical imaging in hospitals: Analysis of survey data from the UK radiography workforce.

Navigating the integration of knowledge and research evidence in clinical practice for children's foot health: A multi‐professional survey (2024)
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Hodgson, L., Price, C., Reay, J., Nester, C., & Morrison, S. C. (2024). Navigating the integration of knowledge and research evidence in clinical practice for children's foot health: A multi‐professional survey. Journal of Foot and Ankle Research, 17(3), Article e12034. https://doi.org/10.1002/jfa2.12034

Background: Access to clinical services for children with foot and ankle problems are important, but unravelling the complexity of practice and service delivery can be challenging. The pursuit and implementation of research evidence is critical for d... Read More about Navigating the integration of knowledge and research evidence in clinical practice for children's foot health: A multi‐professional survey.

The efficacy of custom-made offloading devices for diabetic foot ulcer prevention: a systematic review (2024)
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Jones, A. W., Makanjuola, A., Bray, N., Prior, Y., Parker, D., Nester, C., …Jiang, L. (2024). The efficacy of custom-made offloading devices for diabetic foot ulcer prevention: a systematic review. Diabetology and Metabolic Syndrome, 16, Article 172. https://doi.org/10.1186/S13098-024-01392-Y

Introduction: Therapeutic offloading devices, including insoles, shoes, and other orthoses, are some of the most commonly used interventions to treat or prevent diabetic foot ulceration. Custom-made offloading devices are increasingly used to offset... Read More about The efficacy of custom-made offloading devices for diabetic foot ulcer prevention: a systematic review.

The Experience of Pelvic Floor Muscle Training in People with Urinary Incontinence: A Qualitative Study (2024)
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Giardulli, B., Coppola, I., Testa, M., Buccarella, O., & Battista, S. (2024). The Experience of Pelvic Floor Muscle Training in People with Urinary Incontinence: A Qualitative Study. Sexuality and Disability, 42(3), 681-699. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11195-024-09863-w

Pelvic Floor Muscle Training (PFMT) is the first primary solution to improve urinary incontinence (UI) symptoms, but many challenges stems from certain PFMT-related practices. Exploring PFMT experience will help to increase treatment satisfaction, en... Read More about The Experience of Pelvic Floor Muscle Training in People with Urinary Incontinence: A Qualitative Study.

Social theory and the digital: The institutionalisation of digital sociology (2024)
Journal Article
Frade, C. (2024). Social theory and the digital: The institutionalisation of digital sociology. Acta sociologica, https://doi.org/10.1177/00016993241264153

This article is a critique of digital sociology and a proposal for a very different social theory of the digital. As the article aims at fundamental aspects of the discipline, it may be perceived as a polemic, even if it is meant to be a serious inte... Read More about Social theory and the digital: The institutionalisation of digital sociology.

Development of a Resource for Health Professionals to Raise Advance Care Planning Topics During Kidney Care Consultations: A Multiple User-Centered Design. (2024)
Journal Article
Winterbottom, A., Hurst, H., Murtagh, F. E., Bekker, H. L., Ormandy, P., Hole, B., …Mooney, A. (2024). Development of a Resource for Health Professionals to Raise Advance Care Planning Topics During Kidney Care Consultations: A Multiple User-Centered Design. #Journal not on list, 6(9), 100874. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xkme.2024.100874

Planning and delivering treatment pathways that integrate end-of-life care, frailty assessment, and enhanced supportive care is a service priority. Despite this, people with kidney failure are less likely to have an advance care plan and receive hosp... Read More about Development of a Resource for Health Professionals to Raise Advance Care Planning Topics During Kidney Care Consultations: A Multiple User-Centered Design..

Clinicians' perspectives of activity monitoring applications and facilitators for lower-limb prosthetic service provision (2024)
Journal Article
Patricks, V., Granat, M., Twiste, M., Curtin, S., & Worsley, P. (2024). Clinicians' perspectives of activity monitoring applications and facilitators for lower-limb prosthetic service provision. Journal of Prosthetics and Orthotics, https://doi.org/10.1097/JPO.0000000000000518

Introduction Clinicians involved in lower-limb prosthetic provision and care do not have an objective method for measuring patients' real-world prosthesis usage. This results in a poor understanding of the full picture of the patient's everyday life... Read More about Clinicians' perspectives of activity monitoring applications and facilitators for lower-limb prosthetic service provision.

Improving pressure injury risk assessment using real‐world data from skilled nursing facilities: A cohort study (2024)
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Wynn, M. O., Goldstone, L., Gupta, R., Allport, J., & Fraser, R. D. J. (2024). Improving pressure injury risk assessment using real‐world data from skilled nursing facilities: A cohort study. International Wound Journal, 21(7), Article e70000. https://doi.org/10.1111/iwj.70000

This study aimed to improve the predictive accuracy of the Braden assessment for pressure injury risk in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) by incorporating real‐world data and training a survival model. A comprehensive analysis of 126 384 SNF stays a... Read More about Improving pressure injury risk assessment using real‐world data from skilled nursing facilities: A cohort study.

Effect of Menstrual Cycle and Hormonal Contraception on Musculoskeletal Health and Performance: Protocol for a Prospective Cohort Design and Cross-Sectional Comparison. (2024)
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Myers, S. J., Knight, R. L., Wardle, S. L., AM Waldock, K., O'Leary, T. J., Jones, R. K., …Greeves, J. P. (2024). Effect of Menstrual Cycle and Hormonal Contraception on Musculoskeletal Health and Performance: Protocol for a Prospective Cohort Design and Cross-Sectional Comparison. JMIR Research Protocols, 13, e50542. https://doi.org/10.2196/50542

Women of reproductive age experience cyclical variation in the female sex steroid hormones 17β-estradiol and progesterone during the menstrual cycle that is attenuated by some hormonal contraceptives. Estrogens perform a primary function in sexual de... Read More about Effect of Menstrual Cycle and Hormonal Contraception on Musculoskeletal Health and Performance: Protocol for a Prospective Cohort Design and Cross-Sectional Comparison..

Understanding the Intergenerational Impact of Migration: An Adult Mortality Advantage for the Children of Forced Migrants? (2024)
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Wilson, B., Wallace, M., & Saarela, J. (2024). Understanding the Intergenerational Impact of Migration: An Adult Mortality Advantage for the Children of Forced Migrants?. Epidemiology, 35(5), 589-596. https://doi.org/10.1097/ede.0000000000001763

Background: Children of immigrants often have excess mortality rates, in contrast to the low mortality typically exhibited by their parents’ generation. However, prior research has studied children of immigrants who were selected for migration, ther... Read More about Understanding the Intergenerational Impact of Migration: An Adult Mortality Advantage for the Children of Forced Migrants?.

THE INFLUENCE OF CIRCULATING COLD WATER CRYOTHERAPY WITH OR WITHOUT INTERMITTENT PNEUMATIC COMPRESSION ON SHOULDER JOINT POSITION SENSE (JPS) IN RECREATIONALLY ACTIVE ADULTS: A RANDOMIZED CROSSOVER TRIAL (2024)
Journal Article
Stanhope, E., Warnett, R., Burt, D., Cutler, S., Kell, J., & Naemi, R. (2024). THE INFLUENCE OF CIRCULATING COLD WATER CRYOTHERAPY WITH OR WITHOUT INTERMITTENT PNEUMATIC COMPRESSION ON SHOULDER JOINT POSITION SENSE (JPS) IN RECREATIONALLY ACTIVE ADULTS: A RANDOMIZED CROSSOVER TRIAL. Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies, 40, 1008-1013. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbmt.2024.07.022

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Cryotherapy is a widely used intervention in sports settings to facilitate the return of injured athletes to competition, despite a lack of high-quality evidence. Given the possibility cryotherapy may increase the risk of injury, by reduc... Read More about THE INFLUENCE OF CIRCULATING COLD WATER CRYOTHERAPY WITH OR WITHOUT INTERMITTENT PNEUMATIC COMPRESSION ON SHOULDER JOINT POSITION SENSE (JPS) IN RECREATIONALLY ACTIVE ADULTS: A RANDOMIZED CROSSOVER TRIAL.

Sex education against the algorithm: the algorithmically enforced deplatforming of YouTube sex edutainment (2024)
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Garwood-Cross, L., Light, B., Cooper-Ryan, A., & Vasilica, C. (2024). Sex education against the algorithm: the algorithmically enforced deplatforming of YouTube sex edutainment. Journal of Gender Studies, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2024.2374752

Deplatforming of sexual content has increased across social media, usually operationalized by commercially charged, and algorithmically enforced, platform policies. This paper extends work on the algorithmic deplatforming of sex through the case stud... Read More about Sex education against the algorithm: the algorithmically enforced deplatforming of YouTube sex edutainment.

Dental topography of prosimian premolars predicts diet: A comparison in premolar and molar dietary classification accuracies (2024)
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de Vries, D., Winchester, J. M., Fulwood, E. L., St. Clair, E. M., & Boyer, D. M. (in press). Dental topography of prosimian premolars predicts diet: A comparison in premolar and molar dietary classification accuracies. American Journal of Biological Anthropology, e24995. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24995

Objectives: This study tests whether (1) premolar topography of extant “prosimians” (strepsirrhines and tarsiers) successfully predicts diet and (2) whether the combination of molar and premolar topography yields higher classification accuracy than u... Read More about Dental topography of prosimian premolars predicts diet: A comparison in premolar and molar dietary classification accuracies.

Understanding and preventing violent extremism in school settings. (2024)
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Horgan, J., Lorig, C., Borum, R., Allely, C. S., & Herrenkohl, T. I. (in press). Understanding and preventing violent extremism in school settings. Journal of School Psychology, 106, Article 101346. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsp.2024.101346

Violent extremism (VE; i.e., terrorism) is an issue of increasing relevance in school settings. Worldwide, terrorist actors have increasingly targeted youth in schools both for victimization via attacks as well for radicalization and recruitment to t... Read More about Understanding and preventing violent extremism in school settings..

Organisational neurotypicalness: fighting unintentional ableism in working spaces (2024)
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Sullivan, J. (2024). Organisational neurotypicalness: fighting unintentional ableism in working spaces. Disability and Society, 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2024.2373769

Places of work and educational settings are dominated by neurotypical leadership and policy, yet within those settings we are working with, and teaching, significant numbers of autistic individuals. Powerful organisational misunderstandings exist reg... Read More about Organisational neurotypicalness: fighting unintentional ableism in working spaces.

The role of pets in the lives of people with dementia: a scoping review. (2024)
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Monks, S., & Clark, A. (2024). The role of pets in the lives of people with dementia: a scoping review. Aging & mental health, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2024.2372709

This scoping review is designed to understand the role of pet ownership in the lives of people living in the community with dementia. A five-stage framework for conducting a scoping review guided the review. Two research questions framed the study. N... Read More about The role of pets in the lives of people with dementia: a scoping review..

Negotiating Hegemonic Masculinities and Mutual Exoticization within Grindr Tourism Interactions: “Everyone in Tel Aviv is a Muscle God” (2024)
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Katz, R. A. (in press). Negotiating Hegemonic Masculinities and Mutual Exoticization within Grindr Tourism Interactions: “Everyone in Tel Aviv is a Muscle God”. Journal of Homosexuality, 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2024.2373804

Dating apps are spaces where masculinities are communicated digitally, affecting inequalities around gender expressions. This study aims to identify the masculinities communicated within Grindr tourism interactions in Tel Aviv and analyze how masculi... Read More about Negotiating Hegemonic Masculinities and Mutual Exoticization within Grindr Tourism Interactions: “Everyone in Tel Aviv is a Muscle God”.

Medicines adherence (2024)
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Robertson, D. (2024). Medicines adherence. Journal of Prescribing Practice, 6(7), 278-279. https://doi.org/10.12968/jprp.2024.6.7.278

Deborah Robertson provides an overview of recently published articles that may be of interest to non-medical prescribers. Should you wish to look at any of the papers in more detail, a full reference is provided

Current nursing and midwifery contribution to leading digital health policy and practice: An integrative review (2024)
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Janes, G., Chesterton, L., Heaslip, V., Reid, J., Lüdemann, B., Gentil, J., …Shannon, M. (in press). Current nursing and midwifery contribution to leading digital health policy and practice: An integrative review. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.16265

Aim: To review the current nursing and midwifery contribution to leading digital health (DH) policy and practice and what facilitates and/or challenges this. Design: Integrative literature review. Methods: Pre-defined inclusion criteria were used. St... Read More about Current nursing and midwifery contribution to leading digital health policy and practice: An integrative review.

Use of the Therapy Outcome Measure in community intermediate care: results of a service evaluation (2024)
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Cross, A., Chetter, C., Rajai, A., & Krishnamoorthy, B. (2024). Use of the Therapy Outcome Measure in community intermediate care: results of a service evaluation. International Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation, 31(9), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.12968/ijtr.2023.0034

Background/Aims
Outcome measures are essential in clinical practice to demonstrate patient improvement and secure funding for services. The purpose of this service evaluation was to explore levels of patient improvement as measured by the Therapy Ou... Read More about Use of the Therapy Outcome Measure in community intermediate care: results of a service evaluation.