An audit of the quality of inpatient care for adults with learning disability in the UK [PDF]
, 2016 OBJECTIVES: To audit patient hospital records to evaluate the performance of acute general and mental health services in delivering inpatient care to people with learning disability and explore the influence of organisational factors on the quality of ...
Burnell, M +9 more
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The effectiveness of a multidisciplinary foot care program for children and adolescents with juvenile idiopathic arthritis: an exploratory trial [PDF]
, 2013 Objectives: To evaluate the effectiveness of multidisciplinary foot-care, and to evaluate the methodological considerations of a trial of multidisciplinary care in juvenile idiopathic arthritis. Design: Exploratory randomised controlled trial.
Brandon, Mhairi +8 more
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Preventive strategies in oral health for special needs patients [PDF]
, 2015 As regards to the most common oral disease in pediatric patients, intellectual disability is not a risk factor for caries disease itself, but it rather reduces the individual capability to self-care and therefore to his own oral care.
BRUGNOLETTI, Orlando +6 more
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2020 Background: This paper explores how implementation and refinement of an early intervention (EI) program for children with delayed development was informed by an iterative, intentional and structured process of measurement.
Dinesh Krishna +24 more
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Why Disability Studies Scholars Must Challenge Transmisogyny and Transphobia [PDF]
, 2018 We argue the need for coalition between trans and disability studies and activism, and that Disability Studies gives us the tools for this task. Our argument rests upon six facets.
Liddiard, Kirsty, Slater, Jen
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The use of therapeutic untruths by learning disability nursing students [PDF]
, 2020 Background: The use of therapeutic untruths raises a number of ethical issues, which have begun to be explored to some extent, particularly in dementia care services, where their use has been found to be high.
James, Ian +3 more
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Criteria of implementing feeding assistance robots in disability care
Journal of Comparative Social Work, 2013 This article discusses the entanglement of implementing welfare technology in disability care, and draws on ethnographic observations from a pilot project involving 30 disabled citizens from three different boroughs in Denmark.
Niels Christian Mossfeldt Nickelsen
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Growing up in a mainstream world: a retrospective enquiry into the childhood experiences of young adults with a physical disability. [PDF]
, 2016 Children with disabilities are at greater risk of developing mental health problems than their peers, yet the emotional well-being of this group is largely overlooked and there is scant literature about children with a mobility disability.
Lumsdaine, Sally, Thurston, Mhairi
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Knowledge of learning disabilities: the relationship with choice, duty of care and non-aversive approaches [PDF]
, 2007 The present study examines the relationship between the knowledge of the diagnostic criteria for a learning disability (based on DSM IV criteria), care practices and experience in health care and social care staff.
Higgon, John +3 more
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Basic movements for postoperative exercise in patients with left ventricular assist devices
Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease, 2019 Patients with advanced heart failure refractory to medical therapy can be treated with left ventricular assist devices, implanted to augment or replace left ventricular function.
Massimiliano Polastri +2 more
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