Patient and public involvement in clinical guidelines: international experiences and future perspectives

…, C Sakala, S Sanger, J Strid, V Thomas… - Quality and Safety …, 2010 - qualitysafety.bmj.com
Background Clinical practice guidelines (CPG) are important tools for improving patient care.
Patient and public involvement is recognised as an essential component of CPG …

Underuse of β-blockers in heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

B Lipworth, D Skinner, G Devereux, V Thomas, JLZ Jie… - Heart, 2016 - heart.bmj.com
Objective Although β-blockers are an established therapy in heart failure (HF) guidelines,
including for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), there remain …

Understanding the life histories of pregnant-involved young aboriginal women with substance use experiences in three Canadian cities

…, DLM Kurtz, ND Oelke, V Thomas… - Qualitative Health …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Despite attention paid to substance use during pregnancy, understandings of young
Aboriginal women’s experiences based on their perspectives have been virtually absent in the …

Gazing at “It”: An Intersectional Analysis of Transnormativity and Black Womanhood in Orange is the New Black

VE Thomas - Communication, Culture, and Critique, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Transgender representations are predominantly negative and represent trans identities in
dehumanizing tropes. I analyze the sole Black. transgender character on Orange is the New …

[HTML][HTML] EUPATI guidance for patient involvement in medicines research and development: health technology assessment

A Hunter, K Facey, V Thomas, D Haerry… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The main aim of health technology assessment (HTA) is to inform decision making by health
care policy makers. It is a systematic process that evaluates the use of health technologies …

Patient and public involvement in the development of healthcare guidance: an overview of current methods and future challenges

A Rashid, V Thomas, T Shaw, G Leng - The Patient-Patient-Centered …, 2017 - Springer
Clinical guidelines and health technology assessments are valuable instruments to improve
the quality of healthcare delivery and aim to integrate the best available evidence with real-…

[HTML][HTML] Reaching consensus on reporting patient and public involvement (PPI) in research: methods and lessons learned from the development of reporting …

…, P Littlejohns, C Morris, R Suleman, V Thomas… - BMJ open, 2017 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Introduction Patient and public involvement (PPI) is inconsistently reported in health and
social care research. Improving the quality of how PPI is reported is critical in developing a …

[HTML][HTML] Development and evaluation of 'Sleep, Baby & You'—An approach to supporting parental well-being and responsive infant caregiving

HL Ball, CE Taylor, V Thomas, PS Douglas… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Disrupted parental sleep, presenting as post-partum fatigue and perceived as problematic
infant sleep, is related to increased symptoms of depression and anxiety among new mothers …

[HTML][HTML] Small-particle inhaled corticosteroid as first-line or step-up controller therapy in childhood asthma

…, DS Postma, EV Hillyer, A Burden, V Thomas… - The Journal of Allergy …, 2015 - Elsevier
Background Because randomized controlled trials of established pediatric asthma therapies
are expensive and difficult to perform, observational studies may fill gaps in the evidence …

[HTML][HTML] Implementing shared decision-making in UK: Progress 2017–2022

…, S Finnikin, N Joseph-Williams, V Thomas… - Zeitschrift für Evidenz …, 2022 - Elsevier
Shared decision making has been on the policy agenda in the UK for at least twelve years,
but it lacked a comprehensive approach to delivery. That has changed over the past five years…