Publications by authors named "N Aujla"
Existing models for the safe, timely and effective delivery of health and social care are challenged by an ageing population. Services and care pathways are often optimised for single-disease management, while many older people are presenting with multiple long-term conditions and frailty. Systems engineering describes a holistic, interdisciplinary approach to change that is focused on people, system understanding, design and risk management.
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- Novel genome sequencing (GS) presents new chances to share results with healthy people, leading to a need for effective genetic counseling methods.
- A study with 466 participants used a genomic counseling model (GCM) that included a digital platform and webinars, showing that knowledge about genetics improved and decisional conflict (uncertainty in decision-making) decreased after the counseling.
- Most participants (86%) wanted to learn all GS findings after the counseling, indicating that the GCM effectively informed the general public and helped them feel more confident in decisions about genetic information.
Background: Innovation for reforming health and social care is high on the policy agenda in the United Kingdom in response to the growing needs of an ageing population. However, information about new innovations of care being implemented is sparse.
Methods: We mapped innovations for people in later life in two regions, North East England and South East Scotland.
This systematic review evaluates the efficacy of self-care interventions for atrial fibrillation (AF), focusing on strategies for maintenance, monitoring, and management applied individually or in combination. Adhering to the 2020 PRISMA guidelines, the search strategy spanned literature from 2005 to 2023, utilizing keywords and subject headings for "atrial fibrillation" and "self-care" combined with the Boolean operator AND. The databases searched included Medline, Embase, and CINAHL.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: The purpose of this study was to recontact individuals with clinically actionable test results identified through a retrospective research study and to provide a framework for laboratories to recontact patients.
Methods: Genetic testing was conducted on 2977 individuals originally referred for and hereditary breast and ovarian cancer testing that had a negative genetic test result. A gene panel was used to identify pathogenic variants in known or newly discovered genes that could explain the underlying cause of disease; however, analysis was restricted to for the purposes of this study.