Publications by authors named "R Petchey"
Transition to adult services for children and young people with palliative care needs: a systematic review.
BMJ Support Palliat Care
September 2011
Objective: To evaluate the evidence on the transition process from child to adult services for young people with palliative care needs.
Design: Systematic review.
Setting: Child and adult services and interface between healthcare providers.
Objective: To evaluate the evidence on the transition process from child to adult services for young people with palliative care needs.
Design: Systematic review.
Setting: Child and adult services and interface between healthcare providers.
Contemporary health research is becoming increasingly formalised, regulated and institutionalised. In the UK, this has manifested itself in the development of a framework for 'governing' health research. The framework is often presented as a neutral decision-making tool guiding elements of research (such as ethical and peer review) through formal governance processes and approval procedures.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: Recent changes in medicines legislation in the UK have broadened the opportunities for optometrists to use and supply therapeutic drugs. We set out to investigate the current therapeutic practice of UK optometrists and to elicit their views on an extended prescribing role.
Methods: Members of the College of Optometrists were invited via email to take part in an online survey.
Objectives: To review current understanding of the knowledge and information needs of informal caregivers in palliative settings.
Data Sources: Seven electronic databases were searched for the period January 1994--November 2006: Medline, CINAHL, PsychINFO, Embase, Ovid, Zetoc and Pubmed using a meta-search engine (Metalib). Key journals and reference lists of selected papers were hand searched.