Republished: how to study improvement interventions: a brief overview of possible study types

MC Portela, PJ Pronovost, T Woodcock… - Postgraduate …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Improvement (defined broadly as purposive efforts to secure positive change) has become
an increasingly important activity and field of inquiry within healthcare. This article offers an …

[HTML][HTML] Role of visual analytics in supporting mental healthcare systems research and policy: A systematic scoping review

Y Chung, N Bagheri, JA Salinas-Perez… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
The availability of healthcare data has exponentially grown, both in quantity and complexity.
The speed of this evolution has generated new challenges for translating complex data into …

[HTML][HTML] Designing the future of children's mental health services

AR Lyon, AR Dopp, SK Brewer, JA Kientz… - … and Policy in Mental …, 2020 - Springer
Advancements in evidence-based psychosocial interventions, digital technologies, and
implementation strategies (ie, health services research products) for youth mental health …

Co-production as an approach to developing stakeholder partnerships to reduce mental health inequalities: an evaluation of a pilot service

S Lwembe, SA Green, J Chigwende… - Primary health care …, 2017 - cambridge.org
AimThis study aimed to evaluate a pilot cross-sector initiative–bringing together public
health, a community group, primary mental health teams and patients–in using co …

[HTML][HTML] Using geographical information systems and cartograms as a health service quality improvement tool

DA Lovett, AJ Poots, JTC Clements, SA Green… - Spatial and spatio …, 2014 - Elsevier
Introduction Disease prevalence can be spatially analysed to provide support for service
implementation and health care planning, these analyses often display geographic …

Epidemiology of paediatric minor head injury: comparison of injury characteristics with indices of multiple deprivation

C Hawley, J Wilson, C Hickson, S Mills, S Ekeocha… - Injury, 2013 - Elsevier
Background Head injury (HI) is a common presentation to Child Emergency Departments
(CEDs), but the actual number of children attending with minor HI is unclear. Most research …

Use of discrete event simulation to improve a mental health clinic

B Kim, Y Elstein, B Shiner, R Konrad… - General hospital …, 2013 - Elsevier
Objective To improve clinic design, trial-and-error is commonly used to discover strategies
that lead to improvement. Our goal was to predict the effects of various changes before …

A retrospective observational analysis to identify patient and treatment-related predictors of outcomes in a community mental health programme

SA Green, E Honeybourne, SR Chalkley, AJ Poots… - BMJ open, 2015 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives This study aims to identify patient and treatment factors that affect clinical
outcomes of community psychological therapy through the development of a predictive …

Improving mental health outcomes: achieving equity through quality improvement

AJ Poots, SA Green, E Honeybourne… - … journal for quality in …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Objective To investigate equity of patient outcomes in a psychological therapy service,
following increased access achieved by a quality improvement (QI) initiative. Design …

Improving access to primary mental health services: are link workers the answer?

L Evans, S Green, K Sharma, F Marinho… - London journal of …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Background The incidences of common mental disorders such as anxiety, depression and
low-level post-traumatic stress are associated with deprivation. Since 2007, the Improving …