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A service improvement ‘tool kit’ for effective heart failure management in primary care (2016)
Journal Article
Astin, F., Burey, L., Cook, P., O'Donnell, C., Deaton, C., Lewthwaite, L., …Humphreys, J. (2016). A service improvement ‘tool kit’ for effective heart failure management in primary care. British Journal of Cardiac Nursing, 11(12), 588-596. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjca.2016.11.12.588

Background: Heart failure (HF) is a complex and highly debilitating clinical syndrome. International guidelines identify the optimum clinical management of patients living with HF in primary care but translation of these into practice remains inad... Read More about A service improvement ‘tool kit’ for effective heart failure management in primary care.

Health workers’ knowledge, attitude and practice towards Hepatitis B infection in Northern Nigeria (2016)
Journal Article
Fufore, M., Cook, P., & Kirfi, A. (2016). Health workers’ knowledge, attitude and practice towards Hepatitis B infection in Northern Nigeria. International Journal of Caring Sciences, 9(3), 955-965

Background: Infection by hepatitis B virus is one of the many challenges in public health today and the tenth leading cause of mortality worldwide. Research has shown that health-care personnel are at higher risk of acquiring the disease than the gen... Read More about Health workers’ knowledge, attitude and practice towards Hepatitis B infection in Northern Nigeria.

What can be done to lessen morbidity associated with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders? (2016)
Journal Article
Mukherjee, R., Cook, P., Fleming, K., & Norgate, S. (2017). What can be done to lessen morbidity associated with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders?. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 102, 463-467. https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2016-310822

Fetal alcohol syndrome and its wider spectrum of presentation fetal alcohol spectrum disorders represent a range of disorders that are sometimes difficult to recognise as they may present in a way that overlaps with other conditions. This makes i... Read More about What can be done to lessen morbidity associated with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders?.

Empirically derived cut-points for sedentary behaviour: are we sitting differently? (2016)
Journal Article
Clarke-Cornwell, A., Farragher, T., Cook, P., & Granat, M. (2016). Empirically derived cut-points for sedentary behaviour: are we sitting differently?. Physiological Measurement, 37(10), 1669-1685. https://doi.org/10.1088/0967-3334/37/10/1669

Sedentary behaviour (SB) is associated with a number of adverse health outcomes. Studies that have used ActiGraph monitors to define sedentary time tend to use a threshold of