Public Health & Primary Care: Recent submissions
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Chronic disease management in general practice: results from a national study.
(2012)The aim of this study was to provide baseline data on chronic disease management (CDM) provision in Irish general practice (GP). The survey instrument was previously used in a study of primary care physicians in 11 countries, ... -
Non-attendance at counselling therapy in cocaine-using methadone-maintained patients: lessons learnt from an abandoned randomised controlled trial
(2012)BACKGROUND: Recently, the authors commenced a randomised controlled trial to study the effectiveness of cognitive behavioural coping skills (CBCS) to reduce cocaine usage in methadone-maintained patients' in a clinical ... -
Brief interventions are effective in reducing alcohol consumption in opiate dependent methadone maintained patients: results from an implementation study.
(2012)NTRODUCTION AND AIMS: An implementation study to test the feasibility and effectiveness of brief interventions (BIs) to reduce hazardous and harmful alcohol consumption in opiate-dependent methadone-maintained ... -
'I am kind of in Stalemate'. The Experiences of Non-EU Migrant doctors in Ireland
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Plasma Vitamin D Concentration Influences Survival Outcome After a Diagnosis of Colorectal Cancer
(2014)PURPOSE: We investigated whether the plasma level of 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25-OHD) after a diagnosis of colorectal cancer (CRC) influences survival outcome. PATIENTS AND METHODS: We prospectively studied 1,598 patients ... -
Economic impact of hospital inpatient palliative care consultation: review of current evidence and directions for future research.
(2014)BACKGROUND: Maintaining the recent expansion of palliative care access in the United States is a recognized public health concern. Economic evaluation is essential to validate current provision and assess the case for ... -
Association of vitamin D status with arterial blood pressure and hypertension risk: a mendelian randomisation study.
(2014)BACKGROUND: Low plasma 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25[OH]D) concentration is associated with high arterial blood pressure and hypertension risk, but whether this association is causal is unknown. We used a mendelian randomisation ... -
Genome-wide association analysis identifies six new loci associated with forced vital capacity.
(2014)Forced vital capacity (FVC), a spirometric measure of pulmonary function, reflects lung volume and is used to diagnose and monitor lung diseases. We performed genome-wide association study meta-analysis of FVC in 52,253 ... -
Harmonization of Neuroticism and Extraversion phenotypes across inventories and cohorts in the Genetics of Personality Consortium: an application of Item Response Theory.
(2014)Mega- or meta-analytic studies (e.g. genome-wide association studies) are increasingly used in behavior genetics. An issue in such studies is that phenotypes are often measured by different instruments across study cohorts, ... -
Identification of susceptibility loci for colorectal cancer in a genome-wide meta-analysis.
(2014)To identify common variants influencing colorectal cancer (CRC) risk, we performed a meta-analysis of five genome-wide association studies, comprising 5626 cases and 7817 controls of European descent. We conducted replication ... -
Vitamin D and multiple health outcomes: umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses of observational studies and randomised trials.
(2014)OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the breadth, validity, and presence of biases of the associations of vitamin D with diverse outcomes. DESIGN: Umbrella review of the evidence across systematic reviews and meta-analyses of ... -
DNA mismatch repair gene MSH6 implicated in determining age at natural menopause.
(2014)The length of female reproductive lifespan is associated with multiple adverse outcomes, including breast cancer, cardiovascular disease and infertility. The biological processes that govern the timing of the beginning and ... -
"Managed competition" for Ireland? The single versus multiple payer debate.
(2014)Background A persistent feature of international health policy debate is whether a single-payer or multiple-payer system can offer superior performance. In Ireland, a major reform proposal is the introduction of ‘managed ... -
Comparing the job satisfaction and intention to leave of different categories of health workers in Tanzania, Malawi, and South Africa.
(2013)Background: Job satisfaction is an important determinant of health worker motivation, retention, and performance, all of which are critical to improving the functioning of health systems in low-and middle-income countries. ...
