Optimising GPs' communication of advice to facilitate patients' self-care and prompt follow-up when the diagnosis is uncertain: a realist review of 'safety-netting'in …

CF Smith, H Lunn, G Wong… - BMJ quality & …, 2022 - qualitysafety.bmj.com
Background Safety-netting has become best practice when dealing with diagnostic
uncertainty in primary care. Its use, however, is highly varied and a lack of evidence-based …

'Clinically unnecessary'use of emergency and urgent care: A realist review of patients' decision making

A O'Cathain, J Connell, J Long, J Coster - Health Expectations, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Background Demand is labelled 'clinically unnecessary'when patients do not need the
levels of clinical care or urgency provided by the service they contact. Objective To identify …

Why parents seek care for acute illness in the clinic or the ED: the role of health literacy

M May, DC Brousseau, DA Nelson, KE Flynn… - Academic pediatrics, 2018 - Elsevier
Objective To explore the decision to seek care and decision-making regarding location of
care among parents with low and adequate health literacy. Methods Parents of children 8 …

Parent's experiences of their children suffering febrile seizures

E Westin, MS Levander - Journal of Pediatric Nursing, 2018 - Elsevier
Purpose To explore parents' experiences of their child suffering febrile seizures. Design and
Method Seven mothers and four fathers with experience of one or several febrile seizures in …

Caring for a sick or injured child during the COVID‐19 pandemic lockdown in 2020 in the UK: An online survey of parents' experiences

S Neill, R Carter, R Jones, D Roland… - Health …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Background During the COVID‐19 pandemic, the first UK lockdown (March to May 2020)
witnessed a dramatic reduction in children presenting to primary/emergency care, creating …

Understanding access to general practice through the lens of Candidacy: a critical review of the literature

C Sinnott, A Ansari, E Price, R Fisher, J Beech… - British Journal of …, 2024 - bjgp.org
Background: Dominant conceptualisations of access to healthcare are limited, framed in
terms of speed and supply. The Candidacy Framework offers a more comprehensive …

Parents' and child's concussion history as predictors of parental attitudes and knowledge of concussion recognition and response

MC Kay, JK Register-Mihalik, CB Ford… - … journal of sports …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Parents' knowledge of and attitudes toward concussions are often vital factors
that affect care for injured adolescent athletes. It is important to understand the role that …

'So why didn't you think this baby was ill?'Decision-making in acute paediatrics

D Roland, E Snelson - Archives of Disease in Childhood-Education and …, 2019 - ep.bmj.com
Determining severity of illness and undertaking an adequate risk assessment is a
fundamental part of acute paediatric practice. This review highlights physiology …

Identifying and prioritising future interventions with stakeholders to improve paediatric urgent care pathways in Scotland, UK: a mixed-methods study

E King, E France, C Malcolm, S Kumar, S Dick… - BMJ open, 2023 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives To identify and prioritise interventions, from the perspectives of parents and
health professionals, which may be alternatives to current unscheduled paediatric urgent …

Immigrant parents' experiences of accessing child healthcare services in a host country: A qualitative thematic synthesis

N Karim, B Boyle, M Lohan… - Journal of advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Aim To explore voluntary immigrant parents' experiences of child healthcare services in host
countries. Design Thomas and Harden's qualitative thematic synthesis method. Data …