Getting ready for interview Interview skills are an essential part of your professional development. Whilst you might be the most capable nurse or midwife, you have a short period to get this across. Interviews can be a little scary, but …
Examples Cochrane (systematic) reviews regularly reject lots of studies they consider on the grounds of poor methods. For instance, here’s a quote from a paper in the October 2000 issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology: “From the 80 retrieved articles, …
Meta-analysis is a method which can be used to combine the results of two or more studies. But why should we want to do this? In research, studies are conducted to try to answer questions about the clinical effectiveness of …
Domestic violence and abuse has a significant impact on the lives and health of all women who experience it. It also impacts on the wellbeing of the wider family including children. Globally, domestic violence and abuse is a significant public …
What is self-harm? Self-harm is an intentional act of harming oneself in order to release inner turmoil and is defined as self-poisoning or self-injury, irrespective of the apparent purpose of the act.1 Self-harm includes: Self-injury which is when somebody purposefully …
Metabolism Metabolism is the enzymatic conversion of one chemical compound into another. Most drug metabolism occurs in the liver, although some processes do occur in the gut wall, lungs and blood plasma. Overall, metabolic processes will convert the drug into …
Types of outcomes One simple way of initially filtering information is by looking at the outcomes that were measured in the study. These can be broadly split into two types: patient oriented outcomes (POEMs) disease oriented outcomes (DOEs), also called …
What is Stress? Stress is defined as the physical, mental and emotional human response to a particular stimulus, otherwise known as a ‘stressor’. Stress can be experienced as either negative or positive, depending on our response to a particular stressor …
What is shared decision making? As the name suggests, shared decision making is the process by which service users are partners in the decisions that are made about their care. Shared decision making is promoted in research and policy as …
Diagnosis is an essential step in medical care. Usually this involves ‘diagnostic tests’ of some description. A health check is also a group of diagnostic tests. Decisions about medical treatment are made on the basis of test results. If disease …