Counselling techniques can be built into health apps to help users to get more physically active, say researchers after initial tests on a prototype called the Precious app. The tests were carried out by a research team including University of Cambridge researcher, Johanna Nurmi. Drawing from behavioural science, the Precious app aims to support the […]
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New way to measure multiple health conditions may help healthcare services respond to the needs of patients
The Cambridge Multimorbidity Score is a new method for measuring multiple long-term health conditions amongst primary care patients, intended to help healthcare planners trying to respond to the needs of patients with multiple health conditions, or multimorbidity. It outperforms the most commonly used current measure, called the Charlson index. Numbers of patients with multimorbidity are […]
Best software tools to help researchers conduct systematic reviews in healthcare research identified in new study
Systematic reviews are vital to the pursuit of evidence-based medicine within healthcare. Screening titles and abstracts for inclusion in a systematic review is an intensive, and often collaborative, step. The use of appropriate tools is therefore important. A new study identifies and evaluates the usability of software tools that support the screening of titles and […]
Public support for a policy can be increased by communicating evidence of its effectiveness
Small increases in public support for policies to address problems such as obesity, gun crime and climate change could be achieved by providing evidence about what works, according to the first systematic review of studies exploring the impact of communicating policy effectiveness on public support, published today in Royal Society Open Science. Concerted national and […]
Improving care by using patients’ feedback in the NHS: NIHR research review features Primary Care Unit research
Both NHS staff and patients express a desire for patients’ feedback about their care experiences to be heard and acted upon and the NHS has clear policies to encourage this. But listening to feedback and taking action in response to this can be complicated and challenging. A new NIHR Themed Review brings together research on […]
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