This paper addresses a fundamental question in evidence based policy making—can
scientists and policy makers work together? It first provides a scenario outlining the different …

OBJECTIVE. The objective of this study was to describe the experiences of parents who
have children with chronic kidney disease. METHODS. We conducted a systematic review …

Background. A growing number of patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) rely on non-
professional healthcare providers, such as family and friends, to manage their long-term …

Background Qualitative research explores complex phenomena encountered by clinicians,
health care providers, policy makers and consumers. Although partial checklists are …

Suicide in London Page 436 43 SUICIDE IN LONDON Peter Sainsbury Source: P. Sainsbury,
Suicide in London, Maudsley Monograph, 1955, pp. 68-83; 87-88; 89-92. Discussion But to …

This paper aims to describe and analyse the ideology of the'good death'; an ideology central
to the modern hospice movement and underpinning many of the challenges to the medical …

Explicit incorporation of patients' values and preferences is important in health care decision
making. However, there are few data about this topic for patients with chronic kidney disease …

The effects that mentally ill people have on their families have been more commented upon
than studied. The currently favoured practice of community care has increased the need for …

Method The patients' symptoms of anxiety and tension were scored by means of an
inventory basedon Cameron's analysis (1944) of the patterns of anxiety and on the results of …

Suicide is underreported for a number of reasons and the reliability of the official rates is
subject to error from variation in defining and reporting cases--the kind of inaccuracies …