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A woman is getting blood taken for a routine test

Intervention to help GPs identify, assess and treat patients with hepatitis C found to be effective

  • 27 Feb 2020
ARC bite:

Improving the identification, testing and treatment of Hepatitis C virus in primary care

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Paper:

Increasing uptake of Hepatitis C virus infection case-finding, testing and treatment in primary care: HepCATT (Hepatitis C Assessment Through to Treatment Trial) qualitative evaluation

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Patients on a hospital ward

Not talking about the end of life can contribute to delays in hospital discharges for older people living with frailty

Paper:

Consequences of ‘conversations not had’: insights into failures in communication affecting delays in hospital discharge for older people living with frailty

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Statues of injured chimpanzees outside the Emergency Department

New paper published evaluating the Emergency Department checklist to enhance patient safety

Paper:

The introduction of a safety checklist in two UK hospital emergency departments: a qualitative study of implementation and staff use

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ARC West research features twice in the BJGP’s top five papers for 2019

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How useful are inflammatory marker tests in primary care?

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Drinking alcohol during pregnancy: #Drymester the safest approach

Paper:

Evidence of detrimental effects of prenatal alcohol exposure on offspring birthweight and neurodevelopment from a systematic review of quasi experimental studies

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The value of light-touch evaluation

  • 28 Jan 2020
Paper:

An evaluation of a training intervention to support the use of evidence in healthcare commissioning in England

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