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Pressure ulcer related pain in community populations: a prevalence survey

Pressure ulcers are costly to the healthcare provider and can have a major impact on patient’s quality of life. One of the most distressing symptoms reported is pain. There is very little published data on the...

Elizabeth McGinnis, Michelle Briggs, Michelle Collinson, Lyn Wilson… in BMC Nursing (2014)

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MIDSHIPS: Multicentre Intervention Designed for Self-Harm using Interpersonal Problem-Solving: protocol for a randomised controlled feasibility study

Around 150,000 people each year attend hospitals in England due to self-harm, many of them more than once. Over 5,000 people die by suicide each year in the UK, a quarter of them having attended hospital in th...

Michelle Collinson, David Owens, Paul Blenkiron, Kayleigh Burton, Liz Graham… in Trials (2014)

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Pilot trial of Stop Delirium! (PiTStop) - a complex intervention to prevent delirium in care homes for older people: study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial

Delirium (or acute confusion) is a serious illness common in older people, in which a person’s thinking and perceptions may be affected. Reducing delirium is important because of the considerable distress it c...

Anne Heaven, Francine Cheater, Andrew Clegg, Michelle Collinson, Amanda Farrin… in Trials (2014)

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Designing and analysing feasibility studies of complex interventions: challenges related to assessing stop/go criteria

Michelle Collinson, Shamaila Anwar, Liz Graham, Kayleigh Burton, Tamar Pincus… in Trials (2013)

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The prevalence of pain at pressure areas and pressure ulcers in hospitalised patients

Patients with pressure ulcers (PUs) report that pain is their most distressing symptom, but there are few PU pain prevalence studies. We sought to estimate the prevalence of unattributed pressure area related ...

Michelle Briggs, Michelle Collinson, Lyn Wilson, Carly Rivers… in BMC Nursing (2013)

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Testing the credibility, feasibility and acceptability of an optimised behavioural intervention (OBI) for avoidant chronic low back pain patients: protocol for a randomised feasibility study

Chronic back pain continues to be a costly and prevalent condition. The latest NICE guidelines issued in 2009 state that for patients with persistent back pain (of between six weeks and twelve months duration)...

Tamar Pincus, Shamaila Anwar, Lance McCracken, Alison McGregor, Liz Graham… in Trials (2013)

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Designing and analysing pragmatic clinical trials of complex interventions in mental health: challenges and solutions

Amanda J Farrin, Michelle Collinson in Trials (2011)