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Patient-centred care in general dental practice--a systematic review of the literature.
(England, 2014-06-05)BACKGROUND: Delivering improvements in quality is a key objective within most healthcare systems, and a view which has been widely embraced within the NHS in the United Kingdom. Within the NHS, quality is evaluated across ... -
Perceived barriers and facilitators to accessing and utilising sexual and reproductive healthcare for people who experience homelessness: a systematic review
(BMJ, 2020-10-29)<jats:sec><jats:title>Introduction</jats:title><jats:p>People who experience homelessness face disproportionately poor reproductive health and adverse pregnancy outcomes, including but not limited to unintended pregnancy, ... -
Person-centred care in dentistry--the patients' perspective.
(England, 2015-04-10)OBJECTIVES: To develop an understanding of the key features of person-centred care (PCC) in relation to general dental practice from a patient's perspective. BACKGROUND: PCC is acknowledged as an important dimension of ... -
Physical activity and the prevention, reduction, and treatment of alcohol and other drug use across the lifespan (The PHASE review): A systematic review
(2020-10)The aim of this review is to systematically describe and quantify the effects of PA interventions on alcohol and other drug use outcomes, and to identify any apparent effect of PA dose and type, possible mechanisms of ... -
Physical activity and the prevention, reduction, and treatment of alcohol and/or substance use across the lifespan (The PHASE review): protocol for a systematic review
(2018-01-22)Alcohol and substance use results in significant human and economic cost globally and is associated with economic costs of £21 billion and £15billion within the UK, respectively, and trends for use are not improving. ... -
Poly(propylene glycol) and urethane dimethacrylates improve conversion of dental composites and reveal complexity of cytocompatibility testing.
(England, 2016-02)OBJECTIVES: To determine the effects of various monomers on conversion and cytocompatibility of dental composites and to improve these properties without detrimentally affecting mechanical properties, depth of cure and ... -
Preoperative analgesics for additional pain relief in children and adolescents having dental treatment.
(England, 2016-08-08)BACKGROUND: Fear of dental pain is a major barrier to treatment for children who need dental care. The use of preoperative analgesics has the potential to reduce postoperative discomfort and intraoperative pain. We reviewed ... -
Prepared for practice and equipped for employment: what do dental foundation trainers think of their trainees?
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Progress testing in undergraduate dental education: the Peninsula experience and future opportunities
(2016-07-11)Background Progress testing is well established as a longitudinal form of assessment in undergraduate medical programmes to measure growth in knowledge. Peninsula Dental School is the first school to use progress testing ... -
Prominin-1 controls stem cell activation by orchestrating ciliary dynamics
(EMBO Press, 2018-12-06)Proper temporal and spatial activation of stem cells relies on highly coordinated cell signaling. The primary cilium is the sensory organelle that is responsible for transmitting extracellular signals into a cell. Primary ... -
Qualitative systematic review of the acceptability, feasibility, barriers, facilitators and perceived utility of using physical activity in the reduction of and abstinence from alcohol and other drug use
(2020-10)Given the growing global increase in harm from alcohol and substance use, and the inadequacy of standard treatment to tackle the challenge, the use of physical activity (PA) interventions has received increased attention. ... -
A quantitative and qualitative evaluation of reports of clinical trials published in six Brazilian dental journals indexed in the Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO).
(Brazil, 2010-03)INTRODUCTION: Open access publishing is becoming increasingly popular within the biomedical sciences. SciELO, the Scientific Electronic Library Online, is a digital library covering a selected collection of Brazilian ... -
Reducing Harm in Healthcare Systems
(SAGE Publications, 2015-09)<jats:p> An understanding of the importance of causation of medical errors is important for determining strategies to reduce the harm that they can cause to patients. This paper discusses how dentistry can learn from ...
