Publications

Establishing rigour in qualitative research: the decision trail

The aim of this paper is to show the way in which the decision trail of a qualitative research process can be maintained. It is argued that the trustworthiness (rigour) of a stu...

Rape Trauma Syndrome

The authors interviewed and followed 146 patients admitted during a one-year period to the emergency ward of a city hospital with a presenting complaint of having been raped. Ba...

Integrating Variable Risk Preferences, Trust, and Transaction Cost Economics

Transaction cost economics (TCE) relies on three behavioral assumptions in predicting how firms choose governance structures—bounded rationality, opportunism, and risk neutralit...

The Surviving Sepsis Campaign: Results of an international guideline-based performance improvement program targeting severe sepsis*

The Campaign was associated with sustained, continuous quality improvement in sepsis care. Although not necessarily cause and effect, a reduction in reported hospital mortality ...

Grounded theory, ethnography and phenomenology

Purpose The paper aims to look at some of the problems commonly associated with qualitative methodologies, suggesting that there is a need for a more rigorous application in ord...

Early Lactate-Guided Therapy in Intensive Care Unit Patients

In patients with hyperlactatemia on ICU admission, lactate-guided therapy significantly reduced hospital mortality when adjusting for predefined risk factors. As this was consis...

The Effect of Motivational Orientation upon Trust and Suspicion

The Influence of Hospital Volume on Survival after Resection for Lung Cancer

Patients who undergo resection for lung cancer at hospitals that perform large numbers of such procedures are likely to survive longer than patients who have such surgery at hos...

Prediction of Mortality and Morbidity With a 6-Minute Walk Test in Patients With Left Ventricular Dysfunction

<h3>Objective.</h3> —To study the potential usefulness of the 6-minute walk test, a self-paced submaximal exercise test, as a prognostic indicator in patients with left ventricu...

Simplified Therapeutic Intervention Scoring System

Objectives To validate a simplified version of the Therapeutic Intervention Scoring System, the TISS-28, and to determine the association of TISS-28 with the time spent on score...

Maternal Attachment

Abstract To determine whether present hospital practices may affect later maternal behavior, we placed 28 primiparous women in two study groups shortly after delivery of normal ...

Wheezing, asthma, and pulmonary dysfunction 10 years after infection with respiratory syncytial virus in infancy.

Of the 180 children admitted to hospitals in Tyneside in the first year of life with proved respiratory syncytial virus lower respiratory tract infection, 130 were seen for revi...