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Inclusion health is a service, research, and policy agenda that aims to prevent and redress health and social inequities among the most vulnerable and excluded populations. Addressing social inequalities to ensure the best health outcomes for populat
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‘Sink or Swim’: A Qualitative Study to Understand How and Why Nurses Adapt to Support the Implementation of Integrated Diabetes Care
Authors: Fiona Riordan, School of Public Health, Western Gateway Building, University College Cork,
A gap analysis between the outline document for the integrated care programme and draft models of care for four chronic diseases in Ireland
Claire Mary Buckley, Integrated Care Programme, HSE; School of Public Health, UCC, IE
Deirdre Mulholland, Int
Avoidable emergency admissions for ambulatory care sensitive conditions in the Republic of Ireland: analysis of regional determinants
Brenda Marie Lynch, University College Cork, IE
Tony Fitzgerald, University College Cork, IE
Paul Corcoran, Univers
An algorithm to be used nationally for delirium screening and treatment in acute hospital wards: lessons from the development process
Authors: Suzanne Timmons , Deirdre Lang, David Meagher, Niamh O’Regan, Niamh McMahon, Jackie Sexton, Cathy McHale, G
Introduction of a primary care formulary to a nursing home
Authors: Paul Edward Ryan , Peter Weedle, George O’Mahony, Nick Flynn
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Objectives/aims: Prescribing is the most common intervention General Practitioners do and accounts for the secon
Developing reconfiguration plans for integrated urgent and emergency care systems [EUCSs] – An examination of stakeholder perspectives of change
Authors: Elsa Marie Droog , Conor Foley, Orla Healy, Claire Buckley, Maria Boyce, Sheena McHugh, John Bro
A Realist Evaluation of a National Model of Care for the Diabetic Foot
Authors: Kate Nuala O’Neill , Sheena M McHugh, Fiona Riordan, Marsha L Tracey, Patricia M Kearney
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Introduction: Diabetic foot disease is a common and costly complication
Evaluation of the “On the level” psychoeducational group programme for Bipolar Affective Disorder in a rural context
Authors: Dan Hartnett , Clair O’Connor
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Introduction: The delivery of psychoeducational group programmes is a National Instit
The development and evaluation of an online dementia supports directory for Primary Care
Authors: Aisling Angela Jennings , Tony Foley, Siobhan Boyle
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Introduction: Carers of people with dementia (PwD) frequently have poorer physical and emot
Trends in the Quality of Structured Diabetes Care in Primary Care
Authors: Fiona Riordan , Sheena McHugh, Velma Harkins, Patricia Kearney
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Introduction: In Ireland, a diabetes ‘cycle of care’ funding initiative (2015) will remunerate GPs for
Processes of care performed by specialist nurses to support integrated diabetes management: Feedback to inform service delivery
Authors: Fiona Riordan , Helen Twamley, Niamh Smyth, Sheena McHugh
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Introduction: In Ireland, there has been an in
A novel integrated care pathway for people with dementia presenting to acute hospitals
Authors: Suzanne Timmons , Mary Mannix, Margaret McKiernan, Maria Connolly, Mary J Foley, Siobhan Cahill, Aoife Ni Chorcorain
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Introduction: Almost 30% of
CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS: The Patient Held Active Record of Medication Status (PHARMS) Feasibility Study
The Patient Held Active Record of Medication Status (PHARMS) Feasibility Study
Authors: Elaine K Walsh , Laura J Sahm, Patricia M Kearney, W Henry Smithson, Derina Byrne, David Kerins, Chrys Ngwa, Ciara Fitzgerald, Stephen McCarthy, Eimear Connolly,
Towards developing a programme theory for the uptake of a national retinopathy screening programme in Ireland: a realist evaluation
Authors: Marsha Louise Tracey , Sheena M McHugh, Patricia M Kearney
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Introduction: In 2013, the national diabe
A mixed methods exploration of the housing needs of older people in social housing, comparing standard and “sheltered” housing models
Authors: Suzanne Timmons , Lorna Kenny, Mary Rose Day, Cathal O’Connell, Joe Finnerty, Siobhan Fox
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Introduc
Primary Care Education, Pathways and Research of Dementia (PREPARED): Promoting integrated dementia care through Primary Care Team education
Authors: Tony Foley , Katherine Thackeray, Anne Quinn, Louise Hopper, Kate Irving
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Introduction: Give
Long term outcomes and mortality among patients enrolled in a structured primary care-led diabetes programme
Authors: Fiona Riordan , Sheena McHugh, Velma Harkins, Patricia Kearney
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Introduction: Limited data exists, internationally and in Ir