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Therapeutic foot health education for people with rheumatoid arthritis : a narrative review (2011)
Journal Article
Graham, A., Hammond, A., & Williams, A. (2011). Therapeutic foot health education for people with rheumatoid arthritis : a narrative review. Musculoskeletal Care, 9(3), 141-151. https://doi.org/10.1002/msc.205

Purpose: Foot health interventions such as foot orthoses for people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) reduce pain, improve function and improve overall quality of life. Additionally, patient education (PE) is considered essential in achieving good outco... Read More about Therapeutic foot health education for people with rheumatoid arthritis : a narrative review.

Modeling factors influencing the capacity of motorway merge sections controlled by ramp metering (2011)
Presentation / Conference
sections controlled by ramp metering. Presented at 6th International Symposium on Highway Capacity and Quality of Service, Stockholm, Sweden

This paper focuses on studying factors which are likely to affect motorway merge capacity when ramp metering controls are in use. A newly developed traffic micro-simulation model has been used for this purpose and the well known ALINEA and Demand-Cap... Read More about Modeling factors influencing the capacity of motorway merge sections controlled by ramp metering.

Can the importance of midwives be measured in deaths? (2011)
Journal Article
Mccarthy, R. (2011). Can the importance of midwives be measured in deaths?. Practising Midwife, 14(6), 40-41

The devastating consequences of maternal mortality are nowhere more evident
than in Uganda, where more than 6000 mothers die as a result of childbearing
every year (WHO 2010). Maternal death not only devastates the families
concerned but harms fut... Read More about Can the importance of midwives be measured in deaths?.

Vital signs for nurses : an introduction to clinical observations (2011)
Book
Smith, J., & Roberts, R. (2011). Vital signs for nurses : an introduction to clinical observations. Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119139119

Accurate clinical observations are the key to good patient care and fundamental to nursing practice. Vital Signs for Nurses will support anyone in care delivery to enhance their skills, reflect upon their own practice and assist in their continuing p... Read More about Vital signs for nurses : an introduction to clinical observations.

Evaluation of the organisation and delivery of patient-centred acute nursing care (2011)
Journal Article
Haigh, C., & Ormandy, P. (2011). Evaluation of the organisation and delivery of patient-centred acute nursing care. Contemporary Nurse, 37(2), 253-264

The key driver for this study arose from two serious untoward incidents that occurred in a large district general hospital in the United Kingdom. Following investigation of both these events the Director of Nursing in post at that time believed that... Read More about Evaluation of the organisation and delivery of patient-centred acute nursing care.

Modelling the sustainability of mass tourism in island tourist economies (2011)
Journal Article
Xing, Y., & Dangerfield, B. (2011). Modelling the sustainability of mass tourism in island tourist economies. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 62, 1742-1752. https://doi.org/10.1057/jors.2010.77

Tourism is one of the world’s largest industries and is a source of jobs across national and regional economies. Assessing the economic, environmental and social impacts of tourism development has become a major activity within the tourism and sustai... Read More about Modelling the sustainability of mass tourism in island tourist economies.

Lean and mean in the civil service: the case of processing in HMRC (2011)
Journal Article
Carter, B., Danford, A., Howcroft, D., Richardson, H., Smith, A., & Taylor, P. (2011). Lean and mean in the civil service: the case of processing in HMRC. Public Money and Management, 31(2), 115-122. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540962.2011.560708

The desire to modernise the public sector has led to the import of private sector management methods and practices aimed at generating efficiencies and cost savings; yet, the consequences of these changes on the working lives of civil servants are un... Read More about Lean and mean in the civil service: the case of processing in HMRC.