161 results match your criteria: "Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust; Systematic Review Initiative[Affiliation]"

In a previous unpublished observation, unacceptably high bacterial counts, presumably due to shedding episodes, occurred in two of 56 (3.57%) slit-air samples during arthroplasty surgery in a laminar flow operating theatre. The isolates matched those cultured from swab samples taken from the skin of one of the surgeons's foreheads on each of the two occasions.

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Objectives: Nephropathy is a well-recognised complication of diabetes mellitus (DM). The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of DM on the density and distribution of nitric oxide (NO) synthase (NOS) in the rabbit kidney. Quantification of the NOS radioligand on slide-mounted sections was compared with the nitroblue tetrazolium reaction, where the intensity of the reaction varies with the nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide diaphorase (NADPH-d) activity of NOS.

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Misidentification of Brucella melitensis as Ochrobactrum anthropi by API 20NE.

J Med Microbiol

May 2003

Department of Medical Microbiology, Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust, Barnet Hospital, Wellhouse Lane, Barnet, Herts EN5 3DJ, UK.

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The National Clinical Assessment Authority (NCAA) is a special health authority established on the 1 April 2001 following recommendations made in the Chief Medical Officer's reports, Supporting doctors, protecting patients (November 1999) and Assuring the quality of medical practice (January 2001). The aim of the Authority is to provide a support service to NHS primary care, hospital and community trusts, and to the Prison and Defence Medical Services when they are faced with concerns at the performance of an individual doctor or dentist. The Authority provides advice, takes referrals and carries out targeted assessments where necessary, using trained medical and lay assessors.

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Background: Opioids are commonly used to treat dyspnoea in palliative medicine but there has been no formal evaluation of the evidence for their effectiveness in the treatment of dyspnoea. A systematic review was therefore carried out to examine this.

Methods: The criteria for inclusion required that studies were double blind, randomised, placebo controlled trials of opioids for the treatment of dyspnoea secondary to any cause.

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An examination of senior nursing roles: challenges for the NHS.

J Clin Nurs

March 2001

Optimal Healthcare Solutions Limited, London, UK.

Wellhouse NHS Trust moved its inpatient services to the new Barnet General Hospital in 1997 and merged with Chase Farm Hospital NHS Trust in 1999. To assist with the trust's management of resulting changes in care provision, a short project was conducted to examine the nursing services provided by ward managers (20) and senior nurses (27), that is nurses who undertake specialist/ advanced nursing practice. The project also aimed to present the views of the stakeholders (66) with regard to nursing in the trust and nurse-led services.

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Opioids for the palliation of breathlessness in terminal illness.

Cochrane Database Syst Rev

April 2002

North London Hospice, Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust, Woodside Avenue, London, UK, N12 8TF.

Background: Breathlessness is a common symptom in people with advanced disease. The most effective treatments are aimed at treating the underlying cause of the breathlessness but this may not be possible and symptomatic treatment is often necessary. Strategies for the symptomatic treatment of breathlessness have never been systematically evaluated.

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Two methods of neonatal cranial ultrasound (US) scanning, linear-array and mechanical-sector, were compared for their accuracy in predicting neurodevelopmental outcome in a cohort of 854, of whom 782 (92%) infants, all born less than 33 weeks of gestation and cared for on the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at University College Hospital, London between 1979 and 1988, were included in the analysis. A total of 205 infants were studied by linear-array and 577 infants by mechanical-sector scan. Ultrasound findings were grouped into three risk categories on the basis of the US diagnosis.

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