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Surveillance, suspicion and stigma: Brown bodies in a terror-panic climate (2012)
Journal Article
Patel, T. (2012). Surveillance, suspicion and stigma: Brown bodies in a terror-panic climate. Surveillance & Society, 10(3/4), 215-234

This paper considers hard and soft surveillance measures, processes of racialised labelling and the allocation of stigma within a post-9/11 terror-panic climate. Using qualitative data from the first stage of a wider study, the paper reports on the p... Read More about Surveillance, suspicion and stigma: Brown bodies in a terror-panic climate.

An email survey of midwives knowledge about CytoMegaloVirus (CMV) in Hannover and a skeletal framework for a proposed teaching program (2012)
Journal Article
von Gartzen, A., & Hollins-Martin, C. (2012). An email survey of midwives knowledge about CytoMegaloVirus (CMV) in Hannover and a skeletal framework for a proposed teaching program. Nurse Education in Practice, 13(5), 481-486. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nepr.2012.11.003

At present there is lack of information about CMV transmission given to midwives, general practitioners,
neonatal pediatricians and nurses, with intrauterine transmission having profound consequences in terms of outcomes for the infected neonate. To... Read More about An email survey of midwives knowledge about CytoMegaloVirus (CMV) in Hannover and a skeletal framework for a proposed teaching program.

Enhanced midwifery in the Salford 'new deal' community (2012)
Journal Article
Waterhouse, C., Lythgoe, J., & Wray, J. (2012). Enhanced midwifery in the Salford 'new deal' community. British Journal of Midwifery, 20(12), 878-882. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjom.2012.20.12.878

The ‘Enhanced Midwifery Service’ was a project to improve the health and wellbeing of pregnant women and new mothers beyond the ‘routine’ service within the ‘New Deal’ area of Salford. It started in 2008 and was funded for 2 years. It included the in... Read More about Enhanced midwifery in the Salford 'new deal' community.

Beneath and beyond the fragments: The charms of simmel’s philosophical path for contemporary subjectivities (2012)
Journal Article
Darmon, I., & Frade, C. (2012). Beneath and beyond the fragments: The charms of simmel’s philosophical path for contemporary subjectivities. Theory, Culture and Society, 29(7/8), 197-217. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276411435572

Our purpose in this article is to explore the reasons for the continued attractiveness of Simmel's thought today and to probe the contemporary affinities to his philosophical stance towards the world. Simmel anchored the ‘philosophical attitude' in t... Read More about Beneath and beyond the fragments: The charms of simmel’s philosophical path for contemporary subjectivities.

Bigger is not always better! (2012)
Journal Article
Davies, S., & Rawlinson, H. (2012). Bigger is not always better!. AIMS journal, 24(4), 5-7

Sarah Davies and Heather Rawlinson discuss the experience of centralisation of maternity services in Greater Manchester

Accessibility of urban spaces for visually impaired pedestrians (2012)
Journal Article
Norgate, S. (2012). Accessibility of urban spaces for visually impaired pedestrians. Proceedings of the ICE - Municipal Engineer, 165(4), 231-237. https://doi.org/10.1680/muen.12.00019

An ageing demographic together with the predicted increase in visual impairment of older people calls for a renewed
consideration of the accessibility and social inclusivity of urban spaces. This paper synthesises the evidence on this
topic and hig... Read More about Accessibility of urban spaces for visually impaired pedestrians.

Midwives and human rights (2012)
Journal Article
Kirkham, M., Davies, S., Edwards, N., & Murphy-Lawless, J. (2012). Midwives and human rights. MIDIRS midwifery digest, 22(4), 441-445

The woman has the right to make decisions about her care, in particular about where, how and with whom she
has her baby. Therefore the options she chooses must be available to her. As the midwife is the person who has
the professional duty to facil... Read More about Midwives and human rights.

“Let’s stick together” - a grounded theory exploration of interprofessional working used to provide person centered chronic back pain services (2012)
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chronic back pain services. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 26(6), 491-496. https://doi.org/10.3109/13561820.2012.711385

Chronic back pain is a global phenomenon and a common reason why patients seek help from health professionals. Person-centered interprofessional working is acknowledged as the main strategy for chronic back pain management; however, the complexity of... Read More about “Let’s stick together” - a grounded theory exploration of interprofessional working used to provide person centered chronic back pain services.

Lower limb mechanical properties : determining factors and implications for performance (2012)
Journal Article
Pearson, S., & McMahon, J. (2012). Lower limb mechanical properties : determining factors and implications for performance. Sports Medicine, 42(11), 929-940. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03262304

Limb stiffness or musculotendinous stiffness (MTS) has previously been examined in relation to performance and characterized using a number of different methods. However, the fact that MTS shows only low to moderate correlations to performances may i... Read More about Lower limb mechanical properties : determining factors and implications for performance.

‘Why is this not social work?’ The contribution of ‘non-traditional’ placements in preparing social work students for practice (2012)
Journal Article
Scholar, H., McCaughan, S., McLaughlin, H., & Coleman, A. (2012). ‘Why is this not social work?’ The contribution of ‘non-traditional’ placements in preparing social work students for practice. Social Work Education, 31(7), 932-950. https://doi.org/10.1080/02615479.2011.608123

This article reports on the findings of two evaluations of a major charity's learning from providing ‘non-traditional’ social work placements with young people at risk of social exclusion. The article challenges the terminology of ‘non-traditional’ a... Read More about ‘Why is this not social work?’ The contribution of ‘non-traditional’ placements in preparing social work students for practice.

1479 Referral of children from a UK district general hospital emergency department to primary care general practitioners (2012)
Journal Article
Rowland, A., & Isba, R. (2012). 1479 Referral of children from a UK district general hospital emergency department to primary care general practitioners. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 97(Suppl), A419-A420. https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2012-302724.1479

Background: This preliminary audit aimed to assess the feasibility
of referring children presenting to a UK District General Hospital
Emergency Department (ED), seeing 27500 children per year, to
their own Primary Care General Practitioner (GP) fo... Read More about 1479 Referral of children from a UK district general hospital emergency department to primary care general practitioners.

1478 Attendances at the children's emergency department : an audit of two years of activity at a new, dedicated paediatric emergency department (2012)
Journal Article
Isba, R., Gibb, M., & Rowland, A. (2012). 1478 Attendances at the children's emergency department : an audit of two years of activity at a new, dedicated paediatric emergency department. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 97(Suppl), A419-A419. https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2012-302724.1478

Aim: The aim of this audit was to explore patterns of attendance at
a new, dedicated, audio-visually separate paediatric emergency
department (PED) within the ED of a hospital in the North West of
England. The PED was opened in June 2009 following... Read More about 1478 Attendances at the children's emergency department : an audit of two years of activity at a new, dedicated paediatric emergency department.

1554 An educational programme focusing on paediatric fracture identification maintains a low false-negative radiograph initial report rate in emergency medicine (2012)
Journal Article
Fox, T., & Rowland, A. (2012). 1554 An educational programme focusing on paediatric fracture identification maintains a low false-negative radiograph initial report rate in emergency medicine. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 97(Suppl), A440-A440. https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2012-302724.1554

Introduction: False negative radiograph reports constitute greater
than 80% of all diagnostic errors in Emergency Departments (EDs)
with reported levels of false negative initial reports around 1%.
Method: The records of all patients recalled to t... Read More about 1554 An educational programme focusing on paediatric fracture identification maintains a low false-negative radiograph initial report rate in emergency medicine.

A midwives guide to Turner syndrome (2012)
Journal Article
Hollins-Martin, C., & Smythe, A. (2012). A midwives guide to Turner syndrome. British Journal of Midwifery, 20(9), 540-543

Turner syndrome (TS) is a cross-cultural genetic disorder that affects around 1 in 2500 women and is predominately associated with short stature and infertility. Classic TS occurs when one sex chromosome is missing (written as 45,X). In mosaic TS the... Read More about A midwives guide to Turner syndrome.

A transatlantic comparative study of acute dysphagia services (2012)
Journal Article
Newman, R., & Long, T. (2012). A transatlantic comparative study of acute dysphagia services. American journal of medicine and medical sciences (Print), 2(5), 96-102. https://doi.org/10.5923/j.ajmms.20120205.02

This was the first study to compare acute dysphagia service provision directly between the UK and the US. It examined variations in acute dysphagia services between the UK and the US, determined clinicians’ perceptions of their own service and that o... Read More about A transatlantic comparative study of acute dysphagia services.

Perceptions of psychotherapy trainees of psychotherapy research (2012)
Journal Article
Widdowson, M. (2012). Perceptions of psychotherapy trainees of psychotherapy research. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 12(3), 178-186. https://doi.org/10.1080/14733145.2012.697473

The research-practice gap and lack of engagement with research by trainees and qualified therapists is a widely discussed issue amongst psychotherapy researchers. The present study investigates the perceptions of psychotherapy trainees of psychothera... Read More about Perceptions of psychotherapy trainees of psychotherapy research.

Tourism and the smartphone app : capabilities, emerging practice, and scope in the travel domain (2012)
Journal Article
Dickinson, J., Ghali, K., Cherrett, T., Speed, C., Davies, N., & Norgate, S. (2014). Tourism and the smartphone app : capabilities, emerging practice, and scope in the travel domain. Current Issues in Tourism, 17(1), 84-101. https://doi.org/10.1080/13683500.2012.718323

Based on its advanced computing capabilities and ubiquity, the smartphone has rapidly been adopted as a tourism travel tool. With a growing number of users and a wide variety of applications emerging, the smartphone is fundamentally altering our curr... Read More about Tourism and the smartphone app : capabilities, emerging practice, and scope in the travel domain.

The experience of recovery from the perspective of people with common mental health problems : findings from a telephone survey (2012)
Journal Article
McEvoy, P., Schauman, O., Mansell, W., & Morris, L. (2012). The experience of recovery from the perspective of people with common mental health problems : findings from a telephone survey. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 49(11), 1375-1382. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2012.06.010

Background: For people with common mental health problems such as depression and anxiety related disorders the understanding of what recovery means and what it may entail is less fully developed than for people with less common mental health problems... Read More about The experience of recovery from the perspective of people with common mental health problems : findings from a telephone survey.

TA treatment of depression: A hermeneutic single-case efficacy design study - case two: 'Denise' (2012)
Journal Article
Widdowson, M. (2012). TA treatment of depression: A hermeneutic single-case efficacy design study - case two: 'Denise'. International Journal of Transactional Analysis Research, 3(2), 3-14

Hermeneutic Single-Case Efficacy Design (HSCED) is a systematic case study research method involving the cross-examination of mixed method data to generate both plausible arguments that the client changed due to therapy and alternative explanations.... Read More about TA treatment of depression: A hermeneutic single-case efficacy design study - case two: 'Denise'.