Prize-winners for outstanding presentations and posters at the SAPC SE conference at Madingley Hall, Cambridge, 23 and 24 January 2020, organised by the Primary Care Unit, University of Cambridge SAPC winner Liza Kirtchuk (KCL): ‘The Medical School as Multiple Communities of Practice: analysis of a longitudinal GP clerkship’. SAPC runners-up Gwilym Thomas (University of Cambridge): […]
Counselling techniques can be built into health apps to help users to get more physically active
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 […]
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 […]
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