Publications by authors named "Katherine Prescott"

Background: Access to maternal healthcare services is an essential pre-requisite for improving women's health. However, due to poor access and underutilization, women in developing countries remain vulnerable to various complications. Evaluation of quality maternal healthcare services in any country must include the opinions of the women being as a key stakeholder utilizing maternal healthcare services.

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Background: Carbapenemase Producing Enterobacterales (CPE) are a global health concern. Nosocomial outbreaks have been reported globally with patient-to-patient transmission felt to be the most frequent route of cross-transmission.

Aim: To describe the investigation and control of an outbreak of healthcare-associated New Delhi Metallo-beta-lactamase (NDM) CPE on a haematology ward, over 2 months.

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Background: The cognitive interview (CI) has been shown to increase correct memory recall of a diverse range of participant types, without an increase in the number of incorrect or confabulated details. However, it has rarely been examined for use with adults with intellectual disability.

Measures And Method: This study compared the memory recall of twenty-one adults with a mild intellectual disability (ID) (IQ 70-50) and twenty-one adults from the general population (GP).

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Aims: The primary aim of this paper is to provide comprehensive contemporaneous data on the demographics, patterns of presentation and management of all episodes of deliberate self-poisoning presenting to a large regional teaching hospital over a 12 month period.

Methods: We undertook detailed, retrospective analyses using information from electronic patient records and local patient-tracking, pathology and administrative databases. Statistical analyses were performed using Chi-squared tests, anova and two-tailed t-tests (Graphpad Prism).

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