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Supporting Improvement in Mental Health and Community Care

WEBWe provide a range of training to help healthcare staff and students find, appraise, manage, and share evidence.

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Comfort / Sensory Rooms as Alternatives to Seclusion

WEBMersey Care Evidence Service REF: 20210405 2. Davies, R., Murphy, K., and Sethi, F. ~ î ì í9 Sensory room in a psychiatric intensive care unit.

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Physical Health in the Mental Health Setting

WEBMersey Care Evidence Service REF: 20200503 The Evidence Guidelines & Systematic Reviews 1. Chaplain, R. Standards for Inpatient Mental Health Services, Third

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Safety Huddles: Measuring effectiveness

WEBMersey Care Evidence Service REF: 20211108 2. Croke L. Safety huddles improve patient safety and quality of care. AORN J 2020;112(5):P11-P13.

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Food Security in Psychosis or other Mental Health conditions

WEBMersey Care Evidence Service REF: 20210104 3. Mucheru D, Hanlon MC, Campbell LE, McEvoy M, MacDonald-Wicks L. Social dysfunction and diet outcomes in people with psychosis.

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Cochrane Clinical Answers

WEB8 May. 2024. Vaping now more common than smoking among young people – and the risks go beyond lung and brain damage Vaping is now more common than cigarette smoking among young people, according to a new report coordinated

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Cultural Competency Training

WEBMersey Care Evidence Service REF: 20200904 7. Jongen C, McCalman J, Bainbridge R. Health workforce cultural competency interventions: a systematic scoping review.

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Evidence Reviews

WEBThe service can conduct evidence reviews for anyone with an @merseycare.nhs.uk email address. Our reviews summarise established and emerging evidence to support patient care and for teams wishing to instigate clinical and corporate change across Mersey Care. Unfortunately we cannot carry out reviews to support any academic courses, but we can

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Recent literature regarding Falls in inpatient or community …

WEBMersey Care Evidence Service REF: 20210611 and also in discouraging increased efforts in mobility (8). Generally the use of bedrails is discouraged in favour of other safety factors such as bed alarms and other movement aids.

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Green Care Farms and Dementia

WEBThis study sought to examine the quality of life of a sample of 94 people who attended farm-based day care in Norway across 25 sites. 62% of the sample were men and 54% had mild dementia, the average age of the sample was 76 years. The study found higher levels of social support and reduced levels of depression were associated with …

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Integrated Care Services Effectiveness/Patient Care measures

WEBMersey Care Evidence Service REF: 20210609 data (e.g. attendances, ED visits), patient physical health data (blood pressure, cholesterol) and quality of life reported by surveys and interview methods,

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