Publications by authors named "Amrita Sandhu"

Objectives: To 1) examine the willingness of residents to undertake shared decision-making and 2) explore whether the willingness to engage in shared decision-making is influenced by the perceived stakes of a clinical situation.

Methods: Sequential mixed methods design. Phase One: Family Medicine residents completed IncorpoRATE, a seven-item measure of clinician willingness to engage in shared decision making.

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Objectives: We evaluated the willingness of Family Medicine residents to engage in SDM, before and after an educational intervention.

Methods: We delivered a lecture and a workshop for residents on implementing SDM in preventive health care. Before the lecture (T1), participants completed a measure of their willingness to engage in SDM.

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There is a need to evaluate current treatments for stages I-III of Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC). A systematic literature review was conducted to understand how patients with stage I-III MCC are treated and assess efficacy, safety, health-related quality of life and economic impact of current therapies. Embase was searched using the following inclusion criteria: publications from 2014 to 2019, in English, with adult patients (≥18 years) with early-stage MCC (i.

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Background: Depression following first episode psychosis (FEP) is a frequent occurrence, with profound impact on recovery and outcome. Whilst many theories exist about the causes of depression here, research to date has been based on nosology imported wholesale from affective disorder, with little primary research on the subjective experience. This study aimed to explore the subjective experience and phenomenological features of post-psychotic depression in FEP.

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