Publications by authors named "J L Silcock"

Accounting for the cost of repairing the degradation of Earth's biosphere is critical to guide conservation and sustainable development decisions. Yet the costs of repairing nature through the recovery of a continental suite of threatened species across their range have never been calculated. We estimated the cost of in situ recovery of nationally listed terrestrial and freshwater threatened species (n = 1,657) across the megadiverse continent of Australia by combining the spatially explicit costs of all strategies required to address species-specific threats.

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  • Heart failure is a critical health issue that can lead to high patient mortality and hospital readmissions, emphasizing the need for better medicines management during hospital discharge to improve patient outcomes.
  • The Medicines at Transitions Intervention (MaTI), part of the ISCOMAT program, was developed to enhance the transition of heart failure patients from hospital to community care by providing a toolkit for patients and improving communication with community pharmacies.
  • The study revealed challenges in implementing the MaTI due to poor communication between hospital staff and pharmacies, leading to incomplete delivery of certain program components, despite some positive feedback on the patient toolkit for education.
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Introduction: Many older people live with both multiple long-term conditions and frailty; thus, they manage complex medicines regimens and are at heightened risk of the consequences of medicines errors. Research to enhance how people manage medicines has focused on adherence to regimens rather than on the wider skills necessary to safely manage medicines, and the older population living with frailty and managing multiple medicines at home has been under-explored. This study, therefore, examines in depth how older people with mild to moderate frailty manage their polypharmacy regimens at home.

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Objectives: To summarise the extent and type of evidence available regarding economic evaluations of adult critical care pharmacy services in the context of UK practice.

Methods: A literature search was conducted in eight electronic databases and hand searching of full-text reference lists. Of 2409 journal articles initially identified, 38 were included in the final review.

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Herbivore exclusion is implemented globally to recover ecosystems from grazing by introduced and native herbivores, but evidence for large-scale biodiversity benefits is inconsistent in arid ecosystems. We examined the effects of livestock exclusion on dryland plant richness and reproductive capacity. We collected data on plant species richness and seeding (reproductive capacity), rainfall, vegetation productivity and cover, soil strength and herbivore grazing intensity from 68 sites across 6500 km of arid Georgina gidgee (Acacia georginae) woodlands in central Australia between 2018 and 2020.

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