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IMP 1-11 ARMSTRONG: None to date.

IMP 2-11 CULLUM

Qualitative Research in to Nurse Decision Making: Factors for Consideration in Theoretical SamplingThompson, C.
Qualitative Health Research. 9 (6) 815-828.

A Conceptual Treadmill: The Need for 'Middle Ground' in Clinical Decision Making Theory in NursingThompson, C.
Journal of Advanced Nursing. 1999, 30 (5), 1222-1229.

IMP 3-5 FEDER

Practice Teams Need Support in Organizing Pharmacological and Lifestyle InterventionsFeder, G., & Griffiths, CJ.
(Letter). BMJ 1998;316:309

Do Guidelines-derived Postal Prompts to Survivors of Myocardial Infarction and Their GPs Improve Secondary Prevention?Spence, M., Feder, G., Griffiths, C., & Formby, J.
(Abstract) Family Practice 1996; 13(3):346.

IMP 3-10 WYATT: None to date.

IMP 3-12 BISSELL

Medicines Counter Assistants: Roles and Responsibilities in the Sale of Deregulated MedicinesWard, PR., Bissell, P., & Noyce, PR.

International Journal of Pharmacy Practice 6(4), 207-215. 1998

IMP 3-16 EDWARDS

Judging the Weight of Evidence in Systematic Reviews: Introducing Rigour into the Qualitative Overview Stage By Assessing Signal and NoiseEdwards, A., Elwyn, G., Hood, K., & Rollnick, S.
Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. In press 1999

General Practice Registrar Responses to the Use of Different Risk Communication Tools in Simulated Consultations: Problems and opportunitiesEdwards, AGK., Elwyn, GJ., & Gwyn, R.
BMJ 1999;319:749-752

Shared Decision-making in Simulated General Practice Consultations: Perceptions and Reactions of GP RegistrarsElwyn, GJ., Edwards, AGK., Gwyn, R., & Grol, R.
BMJ 1999;319:753-6

How Should Effectiveness of Risk Communication to Aid Patients Decisions Be Judged? A Review of the LiteratureEdwards, AGK., & Elwyn, GJ.
Medical Decision Making. In press 1999

The Potential Benefits of Decision Aids in Clinical Medicine (editorial)Edwards,AGK., & Elwyn, G.
Journal of the American Medical Association. 1999;282:779-780

Is Shared Decision Making Feasible in Consultations for Upper Respiratory Tract Infections? Assessing the Influence of Antibiotic Expectations Using Discourse AnalysisElwyn,GJ., Gwyn, R., Edwards, AGK., & Grol, R. Health Expectations 1999;2:105-117

Efficient Literature Searching in Diffuse Topics: Lessons From a Systematic Review of Research on Communicating Risk to Patients in Primary CareMatthews, EJ., Edwards, A., Barker, J et al. Health Libraries Review 1999;16:112-120

Shared-decision Making in Primary Care: The Neglected Second Half of the ConsultationElwyn, GJ., Edwards, AGK., & Kinnersley, P. British Journal of General Practice 1999;49:477-482

Communication About Risk: Diversity Among Primary Care ProfessionalsEdwards, A., Matthews, E., Pill, R., & Bloor, M.
Family Practice. 1998;15(4):296-300

Communication About Risk: The Responses of Primary Care Professionals to Standardising the 'Language of Risk' and Communication ToolsEdwards, A., Matthews, E., Pill, R., & Bloor, M.
Family Practice. 1998;15(4):301-307

Signal Versus Noise in the Evidence Base for Medicine - An Alternative to Hierarchies of Evidence?Edwards, AGK., Russell, IT., Stott, NCH.
Family Practice 1998;15(4):319-322

IMP 4-13 COULTER

Sharing Decisions with Patients: Is the Information Good Enough?Coulter, A., Entwistle, V., & Gilbert, D.
BMJ 1999; 318: 318-322.

Informing Patients: An Assessment of the Quality of Patient Information MaterialsCoulter, A., Entwistle, V, & Gilbert, D.
London: King's Fund, 1998. (Book)

IMP 4-16 GANN: None to date.

IMP 4-21 SMITH

Touchscreen Patient Education SystemSmith, APM.
Trends in Urology Gynaecology & Sexual Health. Vol 2, No. 6, September 1997

Touchscreen Displays for Prenatal Diagnostic TestsSmith, APM., Hamilton, NM., & Smith, NC.
The Diplomate. Vol.3, No.3, September 1996

IMP 5-23 YATES: None to date.

IMP 5-40 HEWISON: None to date.

IMP 5-41 NEWTON

Hierarchies and Cliques in the Social Networks of Health Care Professionals: Implications for the Design of Dissemination StrategiesWest, E., Barron, N., Dowsett, J., & Newton, J.
Social Science and Medicine. 25th January 1999.

IMP 10-11 SCHOFIELD: None to date.

IMP 10-16 BAKER: None to date.

IMP 11-10 ROGERS

General Practitioners' Perceptions of Effective Health CareTomlin, Z., Humphreys, C., & Rogers, S.
BMJ 1999;318:1532-5

IMP 11-26 McINTOSH: None to date.

IMP 11-29 FREEMANTLE

Impact of Formal Continuing Medical Education: Do Conferences, Workshops, Rounds and Other Traditional Continuing Education Activities Change Physician Behavior or Health Care Outcomes?Davis, D., Thomson O'Brien, MA., Freemantle, N., Wolf, FM., Mazmanian, P., & Taylor-Vaisey, A.
Journal of the American Medical Association 1999; 282: 867-74.

Educational Meetings, Workshops and Preceptorships to Improve the Practice of Health Professionals and Health Care Outcomes (Cochrane Review)Thomson, MA., Freemantle, N., Wolf, F., Davis, DA., & Oxman, AD. In: The Cochrane Library, Issue 3, 1998. (Protocol published)

IMP 12-8 DEEKS

Teaching Critical Appraisal Skills in Health Care SettingsParkes, J., Deeks, J., Milne, R., & Hyde, C.
(Teaching Critical Appraisal Protocol for a Cochrane Review) The Cochrane Library, Issue 4, 1998.

IMP 12-9 TAYLOR

A Systematic Review of the Effectiveness of Critical Appraisal Skills Training for CliniciansTaylor, R., Reeves, B., Ewings, P.,Binns, S., Keast, J., & Mears, R.
Journal of Medical Education. (Due to be published early 2000)

IMP 14-32 THOMAS

Clinical Practice GuidelinesThomas, LH.
Evidence-Based Nursing. 2:38-9. 1999

Effect of Clinical Guidelines in Nursing, Midwifery and The Therapies: A Systematic Review of EvaluationsThomas, LH., McColl, E., Cullum, N., Rousseau, N., Soutter, J., & Steen, N.
Quality in Health Care. 7:183-191. 1998

Systematic Review of the Effectiveness of Clinical Guidelines in Nursing, Midwifery and Professions Allied to MedicineThomas, LH., McColl, E., Cullum, N., Rousseau, N, Soutter, J., & Steen, N.

Which is in:

Collaboration on Effective Professional Practice Module of the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews Thomas, LH., McColl, E., Cullum, N., Rousseau, N., Soutter, J., and Steen, N.
Available in The Cochrane Library [database on disc and CD ROM]. The Cochrane Collaboration; Issue 4, 1999. Updated quarterly.

Clinical Guidelines in Nursing, Midwifery and the Therapies: A Systematic ReviewThomas, LH., McColl, E., Cullum, N., Rousseau, N., & Soutter, J.
Journal of Advanced Nursing. (In press)

IMP 15-4 LOGAN: None to date.

IMP 15-8 WALTON

Computer Support for Determining Drug Dose: Systematic Review and Meta-analysisWalton, R., Dovey, S., Harvey, E., & Freemantle, N.
BMJ 1999;318(7189):984-90.

IMP 15-9 ECCLES

North of England Evidence Based Guideline Development Project: Methods of Guideline DevelopmentEccles, MP., Clapp, Z., Grimshaw, JM., Adams, PC., Higgins, B., Purves, I., & Russell, IT. BMJ 1996; 312:760-1.

North of England Asthma Guideline Development ProjectEccles, MP., Clapp, Z., Grimshaw, JM., Adams, PC., Higgins, B., Purves, I., & Russell, IT. Summary Version of Evidence Based Guideline for The Primary Care Management of Asthma in Adults. BMJ 1996;312:762-6.

North of England Stable Angina Guideline Development GroupEccles, MP., Clapp, Z., Grimshaw, JM., Adams, PC., Higgins, B., Purves, I., & Russell, IT. Summary Version of Evidence Based Guideline for The Primary Care Management of Stable Angina in Adults. BMJ 1996; 312:827-832.

North of England Asthma Guideline Development Project. Evidence Based Clinical Practice Guideline for the Primary Care Management of Asthma in AdultsEccles, MP., Clapp, Z., Grimshaw, JM., Adams, PC., Higgins, B., Purves, I., & Russell, IT. BMJ 1996; 312:http://www.bmj.com/bmj/

North of England Stable Angina Guideline Development Group. Evidence Based Clinical Practice Guideline for the Primary Care Management of Stable Angina in AdultsEccles, MP., Clapp, Z., Grimshaw, JM., Adams, PC., Higgins, B., Purves, I., & Russell, IT. BMJ 1996;312:http://www.bmj.com/bmj/

Developing Valid Guidelines: Methodological and Procedural Issues from the North of England Evidence Based Guideline Development ProjectEccles, MP., Clapp, Z., Grimshaw, J., Adams, PC., Higgins, B., Purves, I, & Russell, IT.
Quality in Health Care. 1996;5:44-50.

IMP 15-11 WYATT: None to date.

IMP 15-12 THAPAR: None to date.

IMP 15-19 BOWNS: None to date.

IMP 15-21 SZCZEPURA: None to date.

IMP 16-18 FREEMANTLE

Impact of Mass Media on Health Services Utilisation (Cochrane Review)Grilli R, Freemantle N, Minozzi S, Domenighetti G, Finer D.
In: The Cochrane Library, Issue 3, 1998.

IMP 16-19 PHILO

The Human Drama of Science: 'Hard' and 'Soft' Media Representations of Breast Cancer GeneticsHenderson, L., & Kitzinger, J. Sociology of Health and Illness 5 (5) 1999
(reprinted as chapter in Gabe, J., & Conrad, P. (eds) Genetics and Society).

Sexualised Illness: The Newsworthy Body in Media Representations of
Breast CancerSaywell, C., Henderson, L., & Beattie, L. in Potts, L. (ed) Ideologies of Breast Cancer Macmillan: London. (1999)

IMP 17-12 IBBOTSON

Opinion Leaders in General Practice: Can They Be Identified?Ibbotson, T., Greener, J., Grimshaw, J., Eccles, M., Sullivan, F., & Kahan, J.
(In press)

IMP 17-13 GRIMSHAW

Implementation of a National Guideline on Prophylaxis of Venous
Thromboembolism: A Survey of Acute Services in ScotlandWalker, AE., Campbell, SE., Grimshaw, JM., & The TEMPEST Study Group.
Health Bulletin. 1999;57(2):141-147

When Do Clinicians Follow Guidelines? Using the Theory of Planned Behaviour to Predict Intentions to Prescribe Prophylaxis for Patients at Risk of Deep Vein ThrombosisWalker, AE., Johnston, M., Grimshaw, JM., Abraham, SCS., Campbell, MK., & The TEMPEST Study Group. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. 1998;52(10):676

Effective Professional Practice and the Theory of Planned BehaviourWalker, AE., Johnston, M., Abraham, SCS., Grimshaw, JM., & The TEMPEST Trial Group. European Health Psychology Society CD-ROM, 1998

IMP 19-15 STRANG

National and Local Guidance on Services for Drug Misusers: Do They Influence Current Practice? - Results of a Survey of Community Pharmacists in South East EnglandSheridan, J., Strang, J., & Lovell, S.
International Journal of Pharmacy Practice. 7, 100-106. 1999

Effect of Government Recommendations on Methadone Prescribing in South East England: Comparison of 1995 and 1997 SurveysStrang, J., & Sheridan, J.
BMJ 317, 1489-1490. 1998.

Pharmacy Practice Research at the National Addiction CentreSheridan, J.
Pharmaceutical Journal. 261, 752-754. 1998 (Article).

IMP R2-25 CHEATER: None to date.

IMP R2-34 CLARKE: None to date.

IMP R2-64 PITTS

Scientists Get to Root of a Teething ProblemScottish Herald. 11 April 1999

Words of Wisdom for DentistsDundee Evening Telegraph. 12 April 1999

Computer Wisdom Can Help DentistsDundee Courier. 13th April 1999

Third Molars - When to ExtractScottish Dentist. Issue No 39. July/August 1999