Patient reported factors influencing the decision-making process of men with localised prostate cancer when considering Active Surveillance-A systematic review and thematic synthesis.

Objectives: Outcomes for men with localised prostate cancer managed with Active Surveillance (AS) are similar to outcomes for men who have received Active Treatment. This review explore men's perceptions of the factors that influence their decision-making process when considering AS.

Method: A systematic review of studies was conducted up to May 2021, including qualitative studies which explored the decision making of men with localised prostate cancer when considering AS.

Barriers and facilitators to the implementation of the advanced nurse practitioner role in primary care settings: A scoping review.

Background: Workload and workforce issues in primary care are key drivers for the growing international trend to expand nursing roles. Advanced nurse practitioners are increasingly being appointed to take on activities and roles traditionally carried out by doctors. Successful implementation of any new role within multidisciplinary teams is complex and time-consuming, therefore it is important to understand the factors that may hinder or support implementation of the advanced nurse practitioner role in primary care settings.

Improving reporting of meta-ethnography: the eMERGe reporting guidance.

Aims: The aim of this study was to provide guidance to improve the completeness and clarity of meta-ethnography reporting.

Background: Evidence-based policy and practice require robust evidence syntheses which can further understanding of people's experiences and associated social processes. Meta-ethnography is a rigorous seven-phase qualitative evidence synthesis methodology, developed by Noblit and Hare.

Improving reporting of meta-ethnography: The eMERGe reporting guidance.

Aims: The aim of this study was to provide guidance to improve the completeness and clarity of meta-ethnography reporting.

Background: Evidence-based policy and practice require robust evidence syntheses which can further understanding of people's experiences and associated social processes. Meta-ethnography is a rigorous seven-phase qualitative evidence synthesis methodology, developed by Noblit and Hare.

Improving reporting of meta-ethnography: The eMERGe reporting guidance.

Aims: The aim of this study was to provide guidance to improve the completeness and clarity of meta-ethnography reporting.

Background: Evidence-based policy and practice require robust evidence syntheses which can further understanding of people's experiences and associated social processes. Meta-ethnography is a rigorous seven-phase qualitative evidence synthesis methodology, developed by Noblit and Hare.

Qualitative analysis of 6961 free-text comments from the first National Cancer Patient Experience Survey in Scotland.

Objectives: To analyse free-text responses from the first Scottish Cancer Patient Experience Survey (SCPES) to understand patients' experiences of care, identify valued aspects and areas for improvement.

Design: Inductive thematic analysis of seven free-text comment boxes covering all stages of the cancer experience, from a national cohort survey.

Setting And Participants: Adult cancer patients diagnosed across all Health Boards in Scotland between July 2013 and March 2014, and who had an inpatient stay or hospital visit between January and September 2014.

Illness beliefs and walking behavior after revascularization for intermittent claudication: a qualitative study.

Purpose: Patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD) are recommended to increase physical activity to reduce cardiovascular risk. Vascular intervention (surgery or angioplasty) treats the symptom (intermittent claudication), but not the underlying cardiovascular disease. This study aims to explore the beliefs and physical activity behavior of patients with PAD who have received vascular intervention.

Body mass index is inversely associated with mortality in patients with peripheral vascular disease.

Background: Current guidelines contain no advice on how to manage obesity and underweight in patients with peripheral vascular disease (PVD).

Objectives: The aim of this study was to assess the association of underweight, overweight and obesity with mortality in patients with PVD.

Patients And Methods: We recruited 1472 patients with a broad range of presentations of PVD.

Increasing walking in patients with intermittent claudication: protocol for a randomised controlled trial.

Background: People with intermittent claudication are at increased risk of death from heart attack and stroke compared to matched controls. Surgery for intermittent claudication is for symptom management and does not reduce the risk of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Increasing physical activity can reduce claudication symptoms and may improve cardiovascular health.