Prioritising our research networks

Prioritising research and dissemination

This paper reports on a Delphi study undertaken by a health librarian and two midwifery professionals, to determine the research priorities of midwives working in NHS Highland. Six important topics were identified: workforce issues, second stage of labour, obesity in pregnancy, women’s expectations of pregnancy and of childbirth, place of birth, and breastfeeding. Related evidence was examined ...

Prioritising general practice research.

1 GAbout 85% of the Australian population claim at least one general practice service from Medicare per year. Over 137 million such consultations were delivered by 33 279 general practitioners in 2014e15. In 2011e12, PHC spending was $50.6 billion (36.1% of total health expenditure), with $28.6 billion spent on predominantly general practice-based medical services and medications. Multiple stud...

Opening: Our Networks, Our Lives

Our Responsibility to Our Research Participants.

As the readers of this journal know all too well, conducting a study takes a lot of time, energy, commitment, and, most of all, work. I do not have to list the myriad steps that need to be taken, often with delays in between, to take a study from good idea to analysis. There are often sweat and tears, if not blood, and, at the end of the process, there may be exhaustion. Then the piles of paper...

Prioritising neonatal medicines research: UK Medicines for Children Research Network scoping survey

BACKGROUND The dosing regimen and indications for many medicines in current use in neonatology are not well defined. There is a need to prioritise research in this area, but currently there is little information about which drugs are used in UK neonatal units and the research needs in this area as perceived by UK neonatologists. METHODS The Neonatal Clinical Studies Group (CSG) of the Medicin...