People's preferences for self-management support.

Objective: To identify and assess the preferences of people with long-term health conditions toward generalizable characteristics of self-management support interventions, with the objective to inform the design of more person-centered support services.

Data Sources: Primary qualitative and quantitative data collected on a representative sample of individuals with at least one of the fifteen most prevalent long-term conditions in the UK.

Study Design: Targeted literature review followed by a series of one-to-one qualitative semistructured interviews and a large-scale discrete choice experiment.

Emotional intelligence and patient-centred care.

The principles of patient-centred care are increasingly stressed as part of health care policy and practice. Explanations for why some practitioners seem more successful in achieving patient-centred care vary, but a possible role for individual differences in personality has been postulated. One of these, emotional intelligence (EI), is increasingly referred to in health care literature.

Randomized controlled trial of hip protectors among women living in the community.

Objective: To assess whether hip protectors used among women living in the community in the United Kingdom and at high risk of hip fracture, lead to a reduction in hip fracture.

Design: Pragmatic randomized controlled trial (RCT).

Setting: Primary care with participants being recruited largely from general practitioners' patient lists.

Randomised controlled trial of hip protectors for the prevention of second hip fractures.

Objective: to assess whether the use of Safehip hip protectors would prevent second hip fractures among men and women living in the community.

Design: pragmatic randomised controlled trial.

Setting: people living in the community.