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84 publications from 2014
, Computer-based clinical decision support for general practitioners, Family Practice, 2014
, Using Postal questionnaires to evaluate physical activity and diet behaviour change: Case Study exploring implications of valid responder characteristics in interpreting intervention outcomes, BMC Research Notes, 2014
, Translating policy into practice: A case study in the secondary prevention of coronary heart disease, Health Expectations, 2014
, Risk Prediction models to predict emergency hospital admission in community-dwelling adults: A systematic review, Medical Care, 2014
, Retraction of statins article is not in the public interest: Better characterisation of benefits and risks is crucial, BMJ (Online), 2014
, Family based interventions for type 2 diabetes mellitus, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2014
, Developing an international register of clinical prediction rules for use in primary care: A descriptive analysis, Annals of Family Medicine, 2014
Understanding Global Health Policy in, editor(s)Garrett W. Brown; Gavin Yamey; Sarah Wamala , The Handbook of Global Health Policy, New York, John Wiley & Sons, 2014, pp19 - 45, [Ruairí Brugha, Carlos Bruen, Viroj Tangcharoensathien]
Ruairí Brugha, Carlos Bruen, Politics matters: a response to recent commentaries, Int J Health Policy Manag, 3, (3), 2014, p157--158
Bruen, C., Brugha, R., Kageni, A., Wafula, F., A concept in flux: Questioning accountability in the context of global health cooperation, Globalization and Health, 10, (1), 2014
Carlos Bruen, Ruairí Brugha, A Ghost in the Machine? Politics in Global Health Policy, Int J Health Policy Manag, 3, (1), 2014, p1--4
McLaughlin, J., Surah, S., Synnott, C., Adams, R., Walsh, C., O'Dea, S., Noone, S., Keenan, E., Keating, S., Barry, M., Bergin, C., Mulcahy, F., Lyons, F., Health-related quality of life of patients on opiate replacement therapy, Heroin Addiction and Related Clinical Problems, 16, (4), 2014, p25-32
E Truszkowska, E Keenan, Alcohol Use Disorder: an overview, Modern Medicine, (1), 2014, p19 - 24
Keane, L., Ducray, K., Smyth, B.P., Psychological Characteristics of Heroin-Dependent and Non-Opioid-Substance-Dependent Adolescents in Community Drug Treatment Services, Journal of Child & Adolescent Substance Abuse, 23, (4), 2014, p205-209
Apantaku-Olajide, T., James, P.D., Smyth, B.P., Association of Educational Attainment and Adolescent Substance Use Disorder in a Clinical Sample, Journal of Child & Adolescent Substance Abuse, 23, (3), 2014, p169-176
, Immunisation errors reported to a vaccine advice service: intelligence to improve practice, Qual Prim Care, 2014
, Descriptive epidemiology of school outbreaks of seasonal influenza B during 2012/2013 in the Thames Valley, United Kingdom, Public Health, 2014
, Assessment of Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission in Oxfordshire, UK, 2007-12, with whole pathogen genome sequences: an observational study, Lancet Respir Med, 2014
, Approaches to the detection of very small, common, and easily missed outbreaks that together contribute substantially to human Cryptosporidium infection, Epidemiol Infect, 2014
Hannon N, Daly L, Murphy S, Smith S, Hayden D, Ní Chróinín D, Callaly E, Horgan G, Sheehan O, Honari B, Duggan J, Kyne L, Dolan E, Williams D, Wiley M, Kelly PJ., Acute hospital, community, and indirect costs of stroke associated with atrial fibrillation: population-based study., Stroke, 45, (12), 2014, p3670-3674
Moore PV, Bennett K, Normand C., The importance of proximity to death in modelling community medication expenditures for older people: evidence from New Zealand., Applied health economics and health policy, 12, (6), 2014, p623-633
Gorecki PK, Johnston BM, Layte R, Nolan A, Ruane F, Thomas S, Whelan A, Setting GP Fees for Under Six Year Olds in Ireland: Towards a Methodology, Dublin, Economic and Social Research Institute and Trinity College Dublin, May, 2014
Darker, C.D., KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Health reforms - putting the patient (and the citizen?) at the centre of our care, The Mater Misericordiae University Hospital Annual Conference, Dublin, 2014
Darker, C.D., Universal healthcare for Ireland , Irish Medical Organisation meeting , Dublin, 2014
Darker, C.D., Contemporary Health Policy & Service Reforms - impact on Irish hospitals , The Mater Misericordiae University Hospital Annual Conference , Dublin, 2014
Darker, C.D., Integrated healthcare in Ireland - a critical analysis and a way forward. , Integrated Care , Dublin, 2014
Darker CD, Sweeney B, Keenan E, Whiston L, Rolande A, & Barry J., Development of a culturally and contextually appropriate brief intervention for illicit drug use and alcohol use in Irish methadone maintained opiate dependent patients: a qualitative approach. , Psychological Society of Ireland Annual Conference, Cork, Ireland, 2014
Darker, C.D., Sweeney, B., Keenan, E., Whiston, L., Anderson, A., & Barry, J, Brief intervention for alcohol and illicit drug use in methadone maintained patients: a cluster RCT feasibility study, European Working Group on Drugs Orientated Research , Dublin, 2014
Darker, C.D., Sweeney, B., Keenan, E., Whiston, L., Anderson, A., & Barry, J, Screening and brief interventions for illicit drug use and alcohol use in methadone maintained opiate dependent patients: results of a cluster randomised controlled feasibility study , Psychology, Health & Medicine, University of Limerick, 2014
May P, Normand C, Morrison RS, Economic evaluation of specialist inpatient palliative care consultation teams, iHEA Congress, Dublin, Ireland, July, 2014
May P, Normand C, Morrison RS, Economic evaluation of specialist inpatient palliative care consultation teams, EAPC Research Congress, Lleida, Spain, June, 2014
Royal College of Physicians in Ireland (RCPI). Policy Group on Obesity, The race we don't want to win. Tackling Ireland's obesity epidemic. Evidence document, Dublin: Ireland, August, 2014
Royal College of Physicians in Ireland (RCPI). Policy Group on Obesity, The race we don't want to win. Tackling Ireland's obesity epidemic, RCPI, Dublin: Ireland, August, 2014
Ivers, J & Ducray, K, "A Case Study of Adolescent Substance Misuse: A Successful Application of the Adolescent Community Reinforcement (A-CRA) approach in an Irish context"., 2014
Darker CD, Whiston L, Jordan S, Doogue R, Collins C, Ryan K & O'Shea, A national survey of chronic disease management by practice nurses in Ireland, Dublin, 2014
Darker CD, Bergin C, Walsh G, & O'Shea B, A national survey of chronic disease management by Irish hospital based consultants, Dublin, 2014
Cooper JA, Ryan C, Smith SM, Wallace E, Bennett K, Cahir C, Williams D, Teeling M, Fahey T, Hughes CM; (The PROMPT Steering Group) , The development of the PROMPT (PRescribing Optimally in Middle-aged People's Treatments) criteria., BMC Health Services Research, 14, 2014, p13
Paulden, M, O'Mahony, JF, Culyer, AJ, & McCabe, C, Some Inconsistencies in NICE's Consideration of Social Values, PharmacoEconomics, 32, (11), 2014, p1043 - 1053
Paulden, M, O'Mahony, JF, Culyer, AJ, & McCabe, C, Objectivity and Equity: Clarity Required. A Response to Hill and Olson, PharmacoEconomics, 32, (12), 2014, p1249 - 1250
O'Dowd T., Depression and multimorbidity in psychiatry and primary care., J Clin Psychiatry, 75, (11), 2014, pe1319-20
Heinen MM, Murrin C, Daly L, O'Brien J, Heavey P, Kilroe J, O'Brien M, Scully H, Mulhern LM, Lynam A, Hayes C, O'Dwyer U, Eldin N, Kelleher CC., The Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative (COSI) in the Republic of Ireland: Findings from 2008, 2010 and 2012, Dublin, Health Service Executive, 2014
The impact of the financial crisis on the health system and health in Ireland in, editor(s)Maresso A, Mladovsky P, Thomson S, Sagan A, Karanikolos M, Richardson E, Cylus J, Evetovits T, Jowett M, Figueras J and Kluge H, eds , Economic crisis, health systems and health in Europe: country experience,, Copenhagen, World Health Organization - European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, 2014, pp1 - 42, [Nolan, Anne, Barry Sarah, Burke, Sara, Thomas, Steve]
O'Toole J, Hambly R, Cox AM, O'Shea B, Darker C. , Methadone-maintained patients in primary care have higher rates of chronic disease and multimorbidity, and use health services more intensively than matched controls. , European Journal of General Practice, 20, (4), 2014, p275 - 280
Darker, C. , Hospital governance in Ireland - the dilemma of diversity. , Administration, 62, (1), 2014, p5 - 28
O' Shea, B., McElwee, O., Martin, D., Brennan, B., O'Leary, F., Kavanagh, K., Courtney, A., Scully, M., Ramiah, D., & Darker, C. , Are we ready to"Think Ahead" ? Results from a patient acceptability study using an innovative end of life planning tool in General Practice., Irish Medical Journal, 107, (5), 2014, p138 - 140
Gilroy, D., O'Brien, S., Barry, J., Ivers, J., Whiston, L., Keenan, E., & Darker, C. , Benzodiazepine use in a methadone maintained opioid dependent cohort in Ireland. , Heroin Addiction & Related Clinical Problems, , 14, (3), 2014, p101 - 110
Bridget Kane and Kristina Groth, Multidisciplinary Work Practices: A Comparison of Three Major European Hospitals, 27th International Symposium on Computer Based Medical Systems, New York, USA, May 27th - 29th 2014, IEEE, 2014, pp369 - 375
Bridget Kane and Saturnino Luz, Expanding the HCI Agenda in Healthcare, 27th International Symposium on Computer Based Medical Systems, New York, USA, May 27th - 29th 2014, IEEE, 2014, pp382 - 385
Bridget Kane, Saturnino Luz, Steve Thomas, Including Cost Analysis in a Framework for Evaluating Technology Use at Multidisciplinary Team Meetings in Healthcare, 11th International Health Economics Association, Dublin, 13 - 16 July 2014, 2014
J Klimas, K Lally, L Murphy, L Crowley, R Anderson, D Meagher, BP Smyth, G Bury, W Cullen., Development and process evaluation of an educational intervention to support primary care of problem alcohol among drug users. , Drugs & Alcohol Today ,, 14, 2014, p76 - 86
Fagan,J.B., Lyons, S.M., Smyth, B.P., Content analysis of newspaper reports on alcohol-related deaths, Alcohol and Alcoholism, 49, (4), 2014, p479-483
Schaffalitzky E, Leahy D, Armstrong C, Gavin B, Latham L, McNicholas F, Meagher D, O'Connor R, O'Toole T, Smyth BP, Cullen W, "Nobody really gets it";: a qualitative exploration of youth mental health in deprived urban areas., Early intervention in psychiatry, 2014
Schaffalitzky E, Leahy D, Cullen W, Gavin B, Latham L, O'Connor R, Smyth BP, O'Dea E, Ryan S, Youth mental health in deprived urban areas: a Delphi study on the role of the GP in early intervention., Irish journal of medical science, 2014
McKenna G, Allen F, Woods N, O'Mahony D, Cronin M, DaMata C, Normand C., Cost-effectiveness of tooth replacement strategies for partially dentate elderly: a randomized controlled clinical trial., Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, 42, (4), 2014, p366-74
Burke S, Thomas S, Barry S, Keegan C, Indicators of health system coverage and activity in Ireland during the economic crisis 2008-2014 - From 'more with less' to 'less with less'., Health policy (Amsterdam, Netherlands), 117, (3), 2014, p275-8
Hayes CB., Knowledge of Breast Cancer and its Association with Preventive Practice among Malaysian School-teachers, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, Society for Social Medicine, 58th Annual Scientific Meeting., Oxford, 10-12 Sept 3014, 68: , (Suppl.1), 2014, ppA78 - A78
"I am kind of in stalemate". The experience of non-EU migrant doctors in Ireland in, editor(s)James Buchan, Matthias Wismar, Irene A Glinos, Jeni Bremner , Health Professional Mobility in a Changing Europe, Copenhagen, World Health Organization, 2014, pp233 - 250, [Niamh Humphries, Posy Bidwell, Ella Tyrrell, Ruairi Brugha, Steve Thomas and Charles Normand]
May, P., Normand, C. & Morrison, R. S. , Economic impact of hospital inpatient palliative care consultation: review of current evidence and directions for future research. , Journal of Palliative Medicine, 17, (9), 2014, p1054-63
Moore, PV., Bennett, K., Normand, C., The Importance of Proximity to Death in Modelling Community Medication Expenditures for Older People: Evidence From New Zealand, Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, 12, (6), 2014, p623 - 633
Theodoratou E, Tzoulaki I, Zgaga L, Ioannidis JP., Vitamin D and multiple health outcomes: umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses of observational studies and randomised trials., BMJ, 2014
Whiffin N, Hosking FJ, Farrington SM, Palles C, Dobbins SE, Zgaga L, Lloyd A, Kinnersley B, Gorman M, Tenesa A, Broderick P, Wang Y, Barclay E, Hayward C, Martin L, Buchanan DD, Ko Win A, Hopper J, Jenkins M, Lindor NM, Newcomb PA, Gallinger S, Conti D, Schumacher F, Casey G, Liu T; The Swedish Low-Risk Colorectal Cancer Study Group, Campbell H, Lindblom A, Houlston RS, Tomlinson IP, Dunlop MG., Identification of susceptibility loci for colorectal cancer in a genome-wide meta-analysis., Human Molecular Genetics, 23, (17), 2014, p4729-37
van den Berg SM, de Moor MH, McGue M, Pettersson E, Terracciano A, Verweij KJ, Amin N, Derringer J, Esko T, ... Zgaga L, et al., Harmonization of Neuroticism and Extraversion phenotypes across inventories and cohorts in the Genetics of Personality Consortium: an application of Item Response Theory., Behav Genet. , 44, (4), 2014, p295-313
Loth DW, Artigas MS, Gharib SA, Wain LV, Franceschini N, Koch B, Pottinger TD, Smith AV, Duan Q, Oldmeadow C, ... Zgaga L, et al., Genome-wide association analysis identifies six new loci associated with forced vital capacity., Nature Genetics, 47, (7), 2014, p669-77
Vimaleswaran KS, Cavadino A, Berry DJ; LifeLines Cohort Study investigators, Jorde R, Dieffenbach AK, Lu C, Alves AC, Heerspink HJ, Tikkanen E, Eriksson J, Wong A, Mangino M, Jablonski KA, Nolte IM, Houston DK, Ahluwalia TS, van der Most PJ, Pasko D, Zgaga L, et al., Association of vitamin D status with arterial blood pressure and hypertension risk: a mendelian randomisation study., Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol, 2, (9), 2014, p719-29
Zgaga L, Theodoratou E, Farrington SM, Din FV, Ooi LY, Glodzik D, Johnston S, Tenesa A, Campbell H, Dunlop MG., Plasma Vitamin D Concentration Influences Survival Outcome After a Diagnosis of Colorectal Cancer, Journal of Clinical Oncology, 32, (23), 2014, p2430-9
Galvin R, Moriarty F, Cousins G, Cahir C, Motterlini N, Bradley M, Hughes CM, Bennett K, Smith SM, Fahey T, Kenny RA, Prevalence of potentially inappropriate prescribing and prescribing omissions in older Irish adults: findings from The Irish LongituDinal Study on Ageing study (TILDA)., European journal of clinical pharmacology, 70, (5), 2014, p599-606
May, P., Hynes, G., McCallion, P., Payne, S., Larkin, P., McCarron, M, Policy analysis: Palliative care in Ireland, Health Policy, 115, (1), 2014, p68 - 74
Steve Thomas, Sara Burke, Sarah Barry, The Irish health-care system and austerity: sharing the pain, The Lancet, 383, (9928), 2014, p1545 - 1546
O'Mahony, JF, van Rosmalen, J, Mushkudiani, NA, Goudsmit, F-W, Eijkemans, MJ, Heijnsdijk, EA, Steyerberg E & Habbema, JDF, The Influence of Disease Risk on the Optimal Time Interval between Screens for the Early Detection of Cancer A Mathematical Approach, Medical Decision Making, 2014
Gilroy D, O'Brien S, Barry J, Ivers Jo-Hanna, Whiston L, Keenan E, Darker C, Benzodiazepine use in a methadone maintained opioid dependent cohort in Ireland, Heroin Addiction and related clinical problems, 2014, p17 - 22
Deirdre J Murphy, Clare Dunney, Aoife Mullally, Nita Adnan, Tom Fahey, Joe Barry, A prospective cohort study of alcohol exposure in early and late pregnancy within an urban population in Ireland, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 11, (2), 2014, p2049-63
Teljeur C, Tyrrell E, Kelly A, O'Dowd T, Thomas S., Getting a handle on the general practice workforce in Ireland., Irish Journal of Medical Science, 182, (2), 2014, p207 - 213
Armstrong R, Barry J, Towards a framework for ImplementingEvidence Based Alcohol Interventions, Irish Medical Journal, 107, (2), 2014, p39 - 40
O'Shea B, Ladewig EL, Kelly A, Reulbach U, O'Dowd T, Weighing children : parents agree but GPs conflicted, Archives of Disease in Childhood, 0, (0), 2014, p1 - 3
Broderick, J. M. Guinan, E. Donnell, D. M. O' Hussey, J. Tyrell, E. Normand, C., Calculating the costs of an 8-week, physiotherapy-led exercise intervention in deconditioned cancer survivors in the early survivorship period (the PEACH trial), Physiotherapy, 100, (2), 2014, p182 - 184
Perry JR, Hsu YH, Chasman DI, Johnson AD, Elks C, Albrecht E, Andrulis IL, Beesley J, Berenson GS, Bergmann S, Bojesen SE, Bolla MK, Brown J, Buring JE, Campbell H, et al., DNA mismatch repair gene MSH6 implicated in determining age at natural menopause., Human Molecular Genetics, Epub ahead of print, 2014
Laura Cornelsen, Yvonne McGowan, Laura M Currie-Murphy, Charles Normand , Systematic review and meta-analysis of the economic impact of smoking bans in restaurants and bars., Addiction., 109, (5), 2014, p720-7
Ladewig EL, Hayes C, Browne J, Layte R, Reulbach, U., The influence of ethnicity on breastfeeding rates in Ireland: a cross-sectional study. , Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 68, 2014, p356 - 362
Laura Cornelsen and Charles Normand. , Impact of the Irish smoking ban on sales in bars using a large business level dataset from 1999-2007., Tobacco Control , 23, (5), 2014, p443-8
Smith, Samantha; Brick, Aoife; O'Hara, Sinead; Normand, Charles, Evidence on the Cost and Cost-effectiveness of Palliative Care: A Literature Review, Palliative Medicine, 28, (2), 2014, p130-50
Ni Shuilleabhain, Barry, J., Kelly, A., O'Kelly, F., Darker, C., & O'Dowd, T. , Alcohol consumption in pregnancy: results from the general practice setting, Irish Journal of Medical Science, 183, (2), 2014, p231 - 240
Teljeur C, Tyrrell E, Kelly A, O'Dowd T, Thomas S., Getting a handle on the general practice workforce in Ireland, Irish Journal of Medical Science, 183, (2), 2014, p207 - 213
Gera E. Nagelhout, Bas van den Putte, Shane Allwright, Ute Mons, Ann McNeill, Romain Guignard, François Beck, Mohammad Siahpush, Luk Joossens, Geoffrey T. Fong, Hein de Vries & Marc C. Willemsen, Socioeconomic and country variations in cross-border cigarette purchasing as tobacco tax avoidance strategy. Findings from the ITC Europe Surveys., Tobacco Control, 2014
Jane A Allen, Ellen R Gritz, Haijun Xiao, Rebecca Rubenstein, Eva Kralikova, Margaretha Haglund, Julia Heck, Raymond Niaura, Donna M Vallone, the WELAS Team (Mia Hashibe, Carolyn Dresler, Shane Allwright, Sara Sanchez Bengtsson, Isabelle Stucker and Elizabeth Tamang), Impact of tobacco control policy on quitting and nicotine dependence among women in five European countries, Tobacco Control, 2014