Faculty of Medicine and Health: Recent submissions
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Committed, ambivalent, concealed, or distanced: community organisations’ perceptions of their role in local prevention systems
Published 2020Prevention of chronic diseases happens within systems of action across whole communities. In local communities, organisations play important roles that influence health, but many are in non-health sectors where health or ...Article -
COVID‐19 and Diabetes: Insulin Requirements Parallel Illness Severity in Critically Unwell Patients
Published 2020Objective: In the light of increased adverse outcomes for people with diabetes affected by COVID‐19, we have described the clinical course of a cohort of critically ill patients with COVID‐19 and diabetes. Methods: We ...Article -
The COVID-19 Pandemic: Diverse Contexts; Different Epidemics—How and Why?
Published 2020It is very exceptional that a new disease becomes a true pandemic. Since its emergence in Wuhan, China, in late 2019, SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, has spread to nearly all countries of the world in only a ...Article -
Scaling-up Complex Interventions : Adaptation is not a Threat to Fidelity
Published 2020-08-14Practitioners delivering evidence-based interventions get pulled in different directions. It is intuitive to adapt interventions to context, but usually against ‘standard’ recommendations to do so. The nexus of the problem ...Open AccessPresentation -
Protecting prone positioned patients from facial pressure ulcers using prophylactic dressings: A timely biomechanical analysis in the context of the COVID?19 pandemic
Published 2020Prone positioning is used for surgical access and recently in exponentially growing numbers of coronavirus disease 2019 patients who are ventilated prone. To reduce their facial pressure ulcer risk, prophylactic dressings ...Article