Seeking Excellence in End of Life Care (SEE Care): A Multi-Centered Acute Hospitals Service Evaluation.

Context: A proportion of UK hospital inpatients have palliative care needs but do not access specialist services.

Objectives: To contemporaneously evaluate the significance of unmet specialist palliative care needs within the hospital inpatient population.

Methods: Prospective multi-centered service evaluation was conducted through 4 snapshots across 4 acute NHS hospital trusts.

What Solutions Exist for Developmental Delays Facing Indigenous Children Globally? A Co-Designed Systematic Review.

Early childhood is important for future cognitive and educational outcomes. Programs overcoming barriers to engagement in early education for Indigenous children must address family cultural needs and target developmental delays. This systematic review identifies culturally adapted programs to improve developmental delays among young children, in response to an identified priority of a remote Indigenous community.

Investigating the feasibility of text message reminders to improve adherence to nebulized medication in children and adolescents with cystic fibrosis.

Background: Children with cystic fibrosis (CF) often have suboptimal adherence rates to nebulized medication. Adherence barriers cited include forgetting to take the nebulizers, due to busy home and social lives. Text message reminders have been shown to be effective at improving adherence rates in other chronic diseases such as asthma and diabetes.

Factors which influence the length of an out-of-hours telephone consultation in primary care: a retrospective database study.

Background: Given the increasing use of telephone consultation it is important to determine the factors which influence the length of a telephone consultation.

Method: Analysis of 128717 telephone consultations during January to December 2011 to a National Health Service (NHS) out-of-hours primary care service provider in Shropshire and Telford and Powys, England, involving 102 General Practitioners (GPs) and 36 Nurse Practitioners (NPs). Telephone consultation conclude with one of three outcomes - advice only, the patient is invited to a face-to-face consultation with a GP or NP at a nearby health centre (known as a base visit) or the patient is visited at home by a GP or NP (known as home visit).