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Prof Helen Hurst's Outputs (22)

“Three Sides to Every Story”: Living the Patient, Carer and Staff Experience of COVID (2025)
Journal Article
Hurst, H., & Ramsey, S. M. (in press). “Three Sides to Every Story”: Living the Patient, Carer and Staff Experience of COVID. #Journal not on list, 12, 23333936241292737. https://doi.org/10.1177/23333936241292737

In 2020, the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) braced itself for the challenge of the COVID pandemic. Older, frail adults were among those at highest risk for morbidity and mortality. This study aimed to capture the lived experiences of patients, fa... Read More about “Three Sides to Every Story”: Living the Patient, Carer and Staff Experience of COVID.

Rehabilitation for Physical Frailty in Lung Transplant Candidates: A Systematic Review (2024)
Journal Article
McGarrigle, L., Norman, G., Hurst, H., Gillespie, L., & Todd, C. (2024). Rehabilitation for Physical Frailty in Lung Transplant Candidates: A Systematic Review. Cardiopulmonary Physical Therapy Journal, https://doi.org/10.1097/cpt.0000000000000265

Purpose: Physical frailty is prevalent in lung transplant (LTx) candidates and is linked to adverse outcomes preoperatively and postoperatively. Exercise is beneficial in optimizing exercise capacity and quality of life in candidates, but its impact... Read More about Rehabilitation for Physical Frailty in Lung Transplant Candidates: A Systematic Review.

During sudden onset critical and major incidents affecting NHS hospitals, what decisions are made by hospital tactical commanders, and how are they made? A constructivist grounded theory approach (2024)
Thesis

Aim of the Research:
The research used a constructivist grounded theory approach to work with tactical commanders in hospitals to develop a substantive theory that helps to understand how these commanders sought to manage the immediate organisationa... Read More about During sudden onset critical and major incidents affecting NHS hospitals, what decisions are made by hospital tactical commanders, and how are they made? A constructivist grounded theory approach.

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

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..

Rehabilitation interventions to modify physical frailty in adults before lung transplantation: a systematic review protocol. (2024)
Journal Article
McGarrigle, L., Norman, G., Hurst, H., & Todd, C. (2024). Rehabilitation interventions to modify physical frailty in adults before lung transplantation: a systematic review protocol. BMJ Open, 14(4), e078561. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-078561

Lung transplantation is the gold-standard treatment for end-stage lung disease for a small group of patients meeting strict acceptance criteria after optimal medical management has failed. Physical frailty is prevalent in lung transplant candidates a... Read More about Rehabilitation interventions to modify physical frailty in adults before lung transplantation: a systematic review protocol..

The Role of Nephrology Nurses in Symptom Management: Reflections on the KDIGO Controversies Conference on Symptom-Based Complications in Dialysis Care (2023)
Journal Article

People with kidney failure undergoing dialysis frequently report distressful symptoms, such as fatigue, pain, and pruritus. These symptoms have negative impacts on quality of life and other clinical outcomes, including health care utilization and mor... Read More about The Role of Nephrology Nurses in Symptom Management: Reflections on the KDIGO Controversies Conference on Symptom-Based Complications in Dialysis Care.

Delivering Personalized, Goal-Directed Care to Older Patients Receiving Peritoneal Dialysis (2023)
Journal Article
Wu, H. H. L., Poulikakos, D., Hurst, H., Lewis, D., & Chinnadurai, R. (2023). Delivering Personalized, Goal-Directed Care to Older Patients Receiving Peritoneal Dialysis. Kidney Diseases, 9(5), 358-370. https://doi.org/10.1159/000531367

Background: An aging population living with chronic kidney disease and progressing to kidney failure, subsequently receiving peritoneal dialysis (PD) is growing. A significant proportion of these patients are also living with multi-morbidities and so... Read More about Delivering Personalized, Goal-Directed Care to Older Patients Receiving Peritoneal Dialysis.

The importance of falls assessments and prevention in chronic kidney disease (2023)
Journal Article
Hurst, H., Ramsey, S., & Young, H. M. (2023). The importance of falls assessments and prevention in chronic kidney disease. Journal of Kidney Care, 8(3), 121-127. https://doi.org/10.12968/jokc.2023.8.3.121

Falls among older people with chronic kidney disease are of concern. Professor Helen Hurst and colleagues explore assessments of falls and propose the need to consider potentially helpful interventions

Outcomes and care priorities for older people living with frailty and advanced chronic kidney disease: a multi-professional scoping review (2022)
Journal Article
Hurst, H., Young, H., Nixon, A., Brettle, A., & Ormandy, P. (2022). Outcomes and care priorities for older people living with frailty and advanced chronic kidney disease: a multi-professional scoping review. Age and ageing, 51(12), https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afac296

Background
The growing older population with advanced chronic kidney disease (ACKD stages 4-5) poses
a challenge for healthcare worldwide. The high prevalence of frailty and associated adverse
health outcomes highlights concerns for management and... Read More about Outcomes and care priorities for older people living with frailty and advanced chronic kidney disease: a multi-professional scoping review.

PD effluent specimen collection: your questions answered (2022)
Journal Article
Figueiredo, A., Bowes, E., Chow, J., Hurst, H., Neumann, J., Walker, R., & Brunier, G. (2022). PD effluent specimen collection: your questions answered. Peritoneal dialysis international, https://doi.org/10.1177/08968608221136389

When a patient on peritoneal dialysis (PD) presents with suspected PD-related peritonitis (e.g. cloudy PD fluid and abdominal pain), one of the most important initial aspects of management is for the nephrology nurse/home dialysis nurse to collect PD... Read More about PD effluent specimen collection: your questions answered.

Establishing a core outcome measure for life participation in patients receiving peritoneal dialysis: a standardised outcomes in Nephrology–Peritoneal dialysis consensus workshop report (2022)
Journal Article

Background:
Life participation is an outcome of critical importance to patients receiving peritoneal dialysis (PD). However, there is no widely accepted or validated tool for measuring life participation in patients receiving PD.
Methods:
Online c... Read More about Establishing a core outcome measure for life participation in patients receiving peritoneal dialysis: a standardised outcomes in Nephrology–Peritoneal dialysis consensus workshop report.

Establishing a core outcome measure for life participation in patients receiving peritoneal dialysis: a standardised outcomes in nephrology–peritoneal dialysis consensus workshop report (2022)
Journal Article

Background:
Life participation is an outcome of critical importance to patients receiving peritoneal dialysis (PD). However, there is no widely accepted or validated tool for measuring life participation in patients receiving PD.
Methods:
Online c... Read More about Establishing a core outcome measure for life participation in patients receiving peritoneal dialysis: a standardised outcomes in nephrology–peritoneal dialysis consensus workshop report.

Outcomes and care priorities for older people living with frailty and advanced chronic kidney disease : a multiprofessional scoping review protocol (2021)
Journal Article

Reported outcomes for older people with advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD) often focus on survival and mortality and little attention is paid to symptom burden and health-related quality of life. Recognising frailty and providing interventions tha... Read More about Outcomes and care priorities for older people living with frailty and advanced chronic kidney disease : a multiprofessional scoping review protocol.

International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis practice recommendations: prescribing high-quality goal-directed peritoneal dialysis (2020)
Journal Article

The International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis last published a guideline on prescribing peritoneal dialysis (PD) in 2006. This focused on clearance of toxins and used a measure of waste product removal by dialysis using urea as an example. This g... Read More about International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis practice recommendations: prescribing high-quality goal-directed peritoneal dialysis.

Delivering peritoneal dialysis for the multimorbid, frail and palliative patient (2020)
Journal Article
Brown, E., & Hurst, H. (2020). Delivering peritoneal dialysis for the multimorbid, frail and palliative patient. Peritoneal dialysis international, 40(3), https://doi.org/10.1177/0896860819893558

Peritoneal dialysis (PD) is only one component of care for older multimorbid, frail and/or palliative patients. Goals of care should be determined for all patients by shared decision-making at the start of during time on PD. Burden of PD should be mi... Read More about Delivering peritoneal dialysis for the multimorbid, frail and palliative patient.