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Knowledge and Training Needs of Paediatric Trainees in …

WebFigure 1: How well prepared do you feel dealing with child and adolescent mental health issues? Self-reported responses show that while 97.7% of respondents agreed or strongly agreed that mental health teaching and training for staff members is important, only …

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Health Literacy, Health Service Delivery and Health Outcomes

WebHealth Literacy, Health Service Delivery and Health Outcomes: Current Understanding and Future Directions. Y. F. Finn Discipline of Medicine, School of Medicine, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland

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Impact of Covid-19 on Mental Health in Ireland: Evidence to …

WebCovid-19 infection affects mental health immediately (e.g. depression, anxiety) and will also likely affect mental health in the longer term, especially among those hospitalised (e.g. post-traumatic

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Human Factors in Healthcare – Irish Medical Journal

WebHuman Factors in Healthcare. There is increasing interest in the role of human factors in the delivery of health care. It is the relationship between human beings and the systems with which they interact. Key issues include the medical task being undertaken, the …

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Patient Reported Outcomes: – Irish Medical Journal

WebMeasuring patient reported outcomes (PRO) with standardized questionnaires is an emerging tool for qualitative evaluation of clinical care. A PRO is a report of the status of a patient’s health that comes directly from the patient without being interpreted by the …

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Medical Professionalism: Promoting Patient and Physician Safety

WebEditorial Medical Professionalism: Promoting Patient and Physician Safety D Slattery. RCSI Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Realisation of the importance of medical professionalism has been increasing over …

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Advancing Professional Healthcare by the Use of Mentorship

WebHealthcare Systems Mentorship is a common form of training in regions with high-income health-care countries. Low-income and middle-income health-care countries have also displayed an increased quality of care to

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Planning the Future of Ireland’s Healthcare

WebGiven the benefits for clinical practice, healthcare planning, quality improvement and clinical governance, we need to ensure the EHR is adopted by the majority, both for the sake of our patients’ immediate care and for a relevant, strategic future for Irish health. T Gilbert. …

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Irish Medical Journal – Ireland's Leading Medical Publication

WebMaden et al. surveyed 107 inpatients. Half reported some degree of loneliness and 1 in 7 reported higher degrees of loneliness. A Video Analysis of Helmet Area Injuries and Helmet Type Worn in Hurling and Camogie Over 2 Seasons. Nolan et al. report that there were …

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Exercise Compared to Mindfulness for Physical and Mental

WebTable 1: Eight-week 'MED-WELL' and MBSR programme schedule. Week Intervention (The ‘MED-WELL’ Programme) Control (MBSR Programme) Exercise curriculum Educational curriculum General curriculum 1 Sports Yoga Exercise as medicine: PA for

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Hearing Voices: Lessons from the History of Psychiatry in Ireland

WebThe history of psychiatry is a history of therapeutic enthusiasm, with all of the triumph and tragedy, hubris and humility that such enthusiasm brings. During the 1800s and early 1900s, Ireland’s public asylums were routinely overcrowded, unhygienic and, quite commonly, …

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The Irish Healthcare System as a Complex Adaptive System

WebComplex adaptive systems (CAS) Holland describes CAS as “systems that have a large numbers of components, often called agents, that interact and adapt or learn” (Holland 2006 p 24)4.Plsek and Greenhalgh define a CAS as “a collection of individual agents with …

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Trends in Mental Health Presentations to a Paediatric …

WebAnalysing the breakdown of mental health presentations over a one year period, the most common presenting complaint was suicidal ideation (34.7%, n=103), followed by deliberate self-harm (31%, n=92).

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Management of Bone Fragility in Primary Care in Ireland

WebAbstract. This study evaluated the prevention of bone fragility fractures in a representative sample of four Irish general practices. The clinical records of 243 patients potentially at risk of bone fragility were studied. One hundred and fourteen (47%) had a dual energy x-ray …

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Advocating for Occupational Health

WebIr Med J; October 2023; Vol 116; No. 9; P846 19th October, 2023 maintenance of the highest degree of physical, mental and social well-being of workers in all occupations’3.Occupational Health also extends to the improvement of the working

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Chronic Disease Management

WebThe findings of our study correlate positively with two Irish studies on chronic disease management, one looking at the patient perspective13 and one looking at the GP perspective2. In keeping with our findings the former reported that "patients …

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A Correct Diagnosis is of Increasing Importance

WebA Correct Diagnosis is of Increasing Importance. All clinicians are aware of the importance of reaching the correct diagnosis. It is impressed on every medical student and trainee from the outset. Khuller et al argue that diagnosis is more important than ever before because …

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Growing old in the Emergency Department – Irish Medical Journal

WebAbstract. The research team were concerned that older patients requiring emergency admission seemed to wait longer for a hospital bed, and as such were disproportionately affected by Emergency Department overcrowding. To investigate this theory and explore …

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Addressing Health Literacy for Improved Outcomes: A Focus …

WebHealth literacy in in research Health literacy and communication may also influence effectiveness in research. A study by Kim et al in 2015 compared the comprehension of participants after looking at a standard and a simplified

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