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Kidney E, Berkman L, Macherianakis A, Morton D, Dowswell G, Hamilton W, et al.
Br J Cancer . 2015 Mar; 112 Suppl 1:S70-6. PMID: 25734384
Background: We report the findings of a feasibility study using information technology to search electronic primary care records and to identify patients with possible colorectal cancer. Methods: An algorithm to...
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Naqvi M, Ward S, Dowswell G, Donnelly J
Int J Clin Pract . 2012 Dec; 67(2):181-8. PMID: 23216806
Aims: In 2009 in the United Kingdom the 48-h working week was introduced for junior doctors. To comply with this traditional working practices have changed. This study aims to assess...
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Wilson S, Damery S, Stocken D, Dowswell G, Holder R, Ward S, et al.
Br J Cancer . 2012 Mar; 106(8):1431-8. PMID: 22433968
Background: A blood test may be a more acceptable routine colorectal cancer (CRC) screening test than faecal occult blood test, flexible sigmoidoscopy or colonoscopy, and could be safer and cheaper....
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Damery S, Gratus C, Grieve R, Warmington S, Jones J, Routledge P, et al.
Br J Cancer . 2011 Mar; 104(6):927-33. PMID: 21364591
Background: A large proportion of cancer patients are estimated to use herbal medicines, but data to substantiate this are lacking. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of herbal medicine...
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Dowswell G, Dowswell T, Lawler J, Green J, Young J
J Eval Clin Pract . 2002 Aug; 8(3):361-5. PMID: 12164984
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Dowswell G, Harrison S, Wright J
Int J Health Plann Manage . 2001 Aug; 16(2):107-24. PMID: 11499045
The application to clinical medicine of evidence-based clinical guidelines is an increasingly international policy prescription, yet research on how such guidelines might be implemented has tended to focus on change...
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Dowswell G, Lawler J, Dowswell T, Young J, Forster A, Hearn J
J Clin Nurs . 2001 Mar; 9(4):507-15. PMID: 11261130
A recent randomized controlled trial evaluated the effects of specialist nurses providing information, advice and support to caregivers and patients at home during the first year after a stroke. Reported...
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Dowswell G, Dowswell T, Young J
J Adv Nurs . 2000 Aug; 32(2):286-91. PMID: 10964174
Although nurses' role in rehabilitation has been generally ill-defined and consistently undervalued, of all professional groups, nurses working with stroke patients have potentially the greatest contribution to make. Stroke patients...
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Dowswell G, Forster A, Young J, Sheard J, Wright P, Bagley P
J Clin Nurs . 2000 May; 8(6):743-52. PMID: 10827621
The effectiveness of multidisciplinary stroke rehabilitation may be enhanced by nurses and therapists adopting a single consistent approach to the positioning and mobilizing of patients. As patients can spend as...
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Dowswell G, Lawler J, Young J
Clin Rehabil . 2000 Apr; 14(2):160-71. PMID: 10763793
Objectives: To describe in detail the nature of the specialist nurse interventions; to increase understanding of the principal problems facing stroke patients and their care-givers in the first year following...