Holistic needs assessment in outpatient cancer care: a randomised controlled trial.

Design: Analyst blinded, parallel, multi-centre, randomised controlled trial (RCT).

Participants: People with confirmed diagnoses of cancer (head and neck, skin or colorectal) attending follow-up consultation 3 months post-treatment between 2015 and 2020.

Intervention: Holistic needs assessment (HNA) or care as usual during consultation.

Applying a multidimensional approach to understanding clinical conversations: A deprescribing case study in primary care.

Objective: To describe and evaluate the contribution of multiple coding approaches applied to a clinical conversation on deprescribing in primary care (PC).

Methods: Seven distinct coding approaches were applied to one audiotaped consultation. Only exchanges related to deprescribing a benzodiazepine (BZD) were coded for: content, interaction, arguments, connectors, transitions, orientation towards deprescribing and concordance with a deprescribing algorithm.

Deprescribing conversations: a closer look at prescriber-patient communication.

Background: Little is known about the initiation, style and content of patient and healthcare provider communication around deprescribing. We report the findings from a content analysis of audio-recorded discussions of proton pump inhibitor (PPI) and benzodiazepine deprescribing in primary care.

Methods: Participants were healthcare providers ( = 13) from primary care practices ( = 3) and patients aged ⩾65 ( = 24) who were chronic users of PPIs or benzodiazepines.

The impact of a primary care e-communication intervention on the participation of chronic disease patients who had not reached guideline suggested treatment goals.

Objective: To evaluate the efficacy of two web-based educational approaches on doctor-patient communication. The study focused on chronic disease (CD) patients in a lengthy relationship with their family physician (FP) who had not reached guideline suggested treatment goals (off-target) for their CDs.

Methods: 322 hypertensive, diabetic, or dyslipidemic patients of 18 FPs were randomised into three groups: Usual Care (UC), e-Learning (e-L) and e-Learning+Workshop (e-L+W).

Medication discussion between nurse prescribers and people with diabetes: an analysis of content and participation using MEDICODE.

Aim: This paper is a report of a study to identify the content of, and participation in, medicine discussion between nurse prescribers and people with diabetes in England.

Background: Diabetes affects 246 million people worldwide and effective management of medicines is an essential component of successful disease control. There are now over 20,000 nurse independent prescribers in the UK, many of whom frequently prescribe for people with diabetes.

The impact of an intervention for nurse prescribers on consultations to promote patient medicine-taking in diabetes: a mixed methods study.

Background: Nurse prescribers are in a key position to promote medicine-taking in diabetes. Although patients' beliefs about medicines are important predictors of medicine-taking, evidence suggests nurses do not routinely explore these.

Objectives: To evaluate a theory-based intervention designed to increase nurse prescribers' exploration of medicines' beliefs with people with diabetes.