367 results on '"Deborah Davidson"'
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2. De novo assembly and annotation of the Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides) genome
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David Ryder, David Stone, Diana Minardi, Ainsley Riley, Justin Avant, Lisa Cross, Marta Soeffker, Deborah Davidson, Andrew Newman, Peter Thomson, Chris Darby, and Ronny van Aerle
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Dissostichus eleginoides ,Nototheniidae ,Illumina sequencing ,PacBio sequencing ,Anti-freeze glycoprotein ,Biotechnology ,TP248.13-248.65 ,Genetics ,QH426-470 - Abstract
Abstract Background Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides) is an economically and ecologically important fish species in the family Nototheniidae. Juveniles occupy progressively deeper waters as they mature and grow, and adults have been caught as deep as 2500 m, living on or in just above the southern shelves and slopes around the sub-Antarctic islands of the Southern Ocean. As apex predators, they are a key part of the food web, feeding on a variety of prey, including krill, squid, and other fish. Despite its importance, genomic sequence data, which could be used for more accurate dating of the divergence between Patagonian and Antarctic toothfish, or establish whether it shares adaptations to temperature with fish living in more polar or equatorial climes, has so far been limited. Results A high-quality D. eleginoides genome was generated using a combination of Illumina, PacBio and Omni-C sequencing technologies. To aid the genome annotation, the transcriptome derived from a variety of toothfish tissues was also generated using both short and long read sequencing methods. The final genome assembly was 797.8 Mb with a N50 scaffold length of 3.5 Mb. Approximately 31.7% of the genome consisted of repetitive elements. A total of 35,543 putative protein-coding regions were identified, of which 50% have been functionally annotated. Transcriptomics analysis showed that approximately 64% of the predicted genes (22,617 genes) were found to be expressed in the tissues sampled. Comparative genomics analysis revealed that the anti-freeze glycoprotein (AFGP) locus of D. eleginoides does not contain any AFGP proteins compared to the same locus in the Antarctic toothfish (Dissostichus mawsoni). This is in agreement with previously published results looking at hybridization signals and confirms that Patagonian toothfish do not possess AFGP coding sequences in their genome. Conclusions We have assembled and annotated the Patagonian toothfish genome, which will provide a valuable genetic resource for ecological and evolutionary studies on this and other closely related species.
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- 2024
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3. Review of Equity of Access to Treatment for Gambling Harms in Racial and Ethnic Minority Populations: A Mixed Methods Study
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Deborah Davidson-Hine, Helen Lloyd, James Close, Konstantinos Ioannidis, and Mat King
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Psychiatry ,RC435-571 - Abstract
Aims The NHS Southern Gambling Service (SGS) is a service providing evidence-based assessment and treatment for people affected by Gambling Disorder (GD) across the South-East of England. This service evaluation aimed to ascertain whether SGS was offering equality of access to treatment and suitable provision of treatment to ethnic minority communities, and whether there were barriers making it difficult for people from ethnic minority communities to access and engage in treatment for gambling harms. Methods Quantitative ethnic origin demographic data was obtained from 120 referrals to SGS between September 2022 and October 2023. These were statistically compared with the ethnic origin demographics of the general population in the same geographical area, as identified by Office of National Statistics (ONS) Census 2021 data. Qualitative data was collected through interviews with three participants from ethnic minority populations who were engaged in treatment with the service. Relevant themes in the qualitative data were identified using thematic analysis. Results Quantitative data results indicated no significant statistical differences in most ethnic origin categories between the proportion of referrals to SGS from the ethnic origin and the recorded proportion of this ethnic origin in the general population. There was a greater difference for the “other ethnic group” category (chi square p,0.05, uncorrected), which was likely due to a difference in categorisation of ethnicity between SGS and ONS in 2021 Census. The qualitative review identified themes of value of money, stigmatisation, different cultural attitudes towards gambling, and experiences of healthcare. GPs were identified as the first step towards seeking help for gambling. Conclusion These results suggested that SGS was offering equality of access to treatment for people from ethnic minority populations and that there were not significant barriers preventing people from ethnic minority populations accessing treatment. The reported positive experiences of participants' referral to and treatment with SGS indicates that for these participants suitable provision of treatment had been offered by our service. With the thematic analysis identifying GPs as the first step towards seeking help for their gambling, this study indicates the importance of the gambling service working closely with primary care for the equitable access to treatment from gambling harms on a regional level. These preliminary findings are based on a limited, small sample. Further research using a larger, more diverse sample to gain a deeper knowledge would be advised to further shape the service offer to ensure equity of access.
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- 2024
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4. How frequent is routine use of probiotics in UK neonatal units?
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Justinas Teiserskas, Rachel Hutchinson, Lisa Szatkowski, Claire Caldwell, Katie Taylor, Emilie Seager, Catherine Longley, Rebecca Smith, Brandy Cox, Cheryl Battersby, Helen Lloyd, Aneurin Young, Deborah Davidson, Jennifer Peterson, Emma Williams, Kirti Gupta, Ahmed Mohamed, Paul Fleming, Tal Oryan, Mia Kahvo, Arameh Aghababaie, Janet Berrington, Michelle Fernandes, Neaha Patel, Jessica Farnan, Allan Jenkinson, Bushra Abdul-Malik, Lucinda Winckworth, Kate Costeloe, Christopher Freeman, Katie Evans, Jasmine Taylor, Mary-Rose Ballard, Rhiannon Jones, Rajkumar Dhandayuthapani, Caroline Fraser, James Stevens, Nuala Calder, Amy Grant, Moataz Badawy, Afza Sadiq, Manohar Joishy, Nathan Collicott, Naseem Sharif, Spandana Rupa Madabhushi, G Natasha, Joe McConville, Rhianna Netherton, Lizaveta Collins, Naomi Lin, Kouros Driscoll, Jonathan Talbot, Rosie Roots, Alison Hopper, Camilla James, Shreesh Bhat, Lauren Ferretti, Niha Peshimam, Benjamin Holter, Sion Glaze, Anna Waghorn, Shweta Dixit, Chibuko Ukeje, Shana Irvine, Fergus Harnden, Christine Lim, Neelakshi Ghosh, Eileen Foster, Swati Jha, Joanna O’Sullivan, Evangelia Myttaraki, Shreya Agrawal, Steve Abbey, Abdulhakim Abdurrazaq, Saud Ahmed, Faith Akano, Muhammad Rehan Akhtar, Oghenetekevwe Patrick Akpofure, Myriam Segovia Almiron, Namita Anand, Jessica Archibald, Harriet Aughey, Lynnlette Aung, Thandi Aung, Pramila Bade, Naomi Bell, Andrada Maria Bianu, Catherine Black, Gennie Booth, Karla Buerano, Chinnu Chandran, Shavin Chellen, Ruth Cousins, Leanne Dearman, Alshaimaa Eldeeb, Teim Eyo, Yasin Fatine, Poppy Flanagan, Abhrajit Giri, Saqib Hasan, Craig Haverstock, Jayne Hillier, Kate Hooper, Zoe Howard, Mais Ismail, Matilda Iverson, Sam Jay, Katie Jenkins, Carla Kantyka, Caroline Kargbo, Almutassem Kazkaz, Shelley Knights, Nikoletta Kottarakou, Carianne Lewis, Carys Mangan, Diane McCarter, Aodhan McGillian, Tasneem Modan, Maria Orford, Salil Pradhan, Patrycja Prusak, Ayesha Rahim, Daniel Ratnaraj, Naveed Shahzad, Adwa Shalabi, Claire Strauss, Jane Sundarsingh, Sumit Thankur, Toby Thenat, Alice Unsworth, Carl Van Heyningen, and Elena Raluka Vlad
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Pediatrics ,RJ1-570 - Abstract
Objective There is a lack of UK guidance regarding routine use of probiotics in preterm infants to prevent necrotising enterocolitis, late-onset sepsis and death. As practices can vary, we aimed to determine the current usage of probiotics within neonatal units in the UK.Design and setting Using NeoTRIPS, a trainee-led neonatal research network, an online survey was disseminated to neonatal units of all service levels within England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales in 2022. Trainees were requested to complete one survey per unit regarding routine probiotic administration.Results 161 of 188 (86%) neonatal units responded to the survey. 70 of 161 (44%) respondents routinely give probiotics to preterm infants. 45 of 70 (64%) use the probiotic product Lactobacillus acidophilus NCFM/Bifidobacterium bifidum Bb-06/B. infantis Bi-26 (Labinic™). 57 of 70 (81%) start probiotics in infants ≤32 weeks’ gestation. 33 of 70 (47%) had microbiology departments that were aware of the use of probiotics and 64 of 70 (91%) had a guideline available. Commencing enteral feeds was a prerequisite to starting probiotics in 62 of 70 (89%) units. The majority would stop probiotics if enteral feeds were withheld (59 of 70; 84%) or if the infant was being treated for necrotising enterocolitis (69 of 70; 99%). 24 of 91 (26%) units that did not use probiotics at the time of the survey were planning to introduce them within the next 12 months.Conclusions More than 40% of all UK neonatal units that responded are now routinely administering probiotics, with variability in the product used. With increased probiotic usage in recent years, there is a need to establish whether this translates to improved clinical outcomes.
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- 2023
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5. Deborah DAVIDSON (dir.) (2017), The Tattoo Project. Commemorative Tattoos, Visual Culture, and the Digital Archive
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Héas, Stéphane
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L’ouvrage collectif dirigé par Deborah Davidson constitue une partie du projet concernant les tatouages commémoratifs, réalisés donc précisément en mémoire d’un être disparu. Dans le même mouvement, une archive internétique (films, photographies, textes, diaporamas, etc.) a été mise en place pour expliciter le projet à un plus grand nombre (http://thetattooproject.info). Le livre est le fruit du travail de 22 auteurs (chercheurs et chercheures en anglais, humanités, philosophie, sociologie, s...
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- 2018
6. Deborah DAVIDSON (dir.) (2017), The Tattoo Project. Commemorative Tattoos, Visual Culture, and the Digital Archive
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Héas, Stéphane, primary
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- 2018
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7. Deborah Davidson (ed.). The Tattoo Project: Commemorative Tattoos, Visual Culture, and the Digital Archive. (Toronto, ON: 2017, Canadian Scholars’ Press Inc. Pp. 222, ISBN 978-1551309453.)
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MacCath-Moran, Ceallaigh S., primary
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- 2015
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8. Family News Harry Griffiths is a patient at Prince Philip Hospital. Our sympathise to the families of Deborah Davidson and Joyce Francis in their loss. Ross Jones and family have now moved to Treharris
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General interest ,News, opinion and commentary - Abstract
Family News Harry Griffiths is a patient at Prince Philip Hospital. Our sympathise to the families of Deborah Davidson and Joyce Francis in their loss. Ross Jones and family have [...]
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- 2014
9. Family News Harry Griffiths is a patient at Prince Philip Hospital. Our sympathies to the families of Deborah Davidson and Joyce Francis in their loss. Ross Jones and family have now moved to Treharris
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General interest ,News, opinion and commentary - Abstract
Family News Harry Griffiths is a patient at Prince Philip Hospital. Our sympathies to the families of Deborah Davidson and Joyce Francis in their loss. Ross Jones and family have [...]
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- 2014
10. RINGSIDE WITH Deborah Davidson Harpur.
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Fender, Brenna
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The article presents an interview with dog trainer Deborah Davidson Harpur. Harpur spoke about how she get started in agility trials for dogs. When asked about the PM2 Dog Agility Team, Harpur says that member of the PM2 Dog Agility Team, either as a handler or a dog owner or even trainee, are part of the family. Harpur also discussed how she get started running dogs that are not owned by her.
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- 2012
11. Deborah Davidson (ed.). The Tattoo Project: Commemorative Tattoos, Visual Culture, and the Digital Archive. (Toronto, ON: 2017, Canadian Scholars’ Press Inc. Pp. 222, ISBN 978-1551309453.)
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Ceallaigh S. MacCath-Moran
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History ,Media studies ,Art history ,Performance art ,Visual culture - Published
- 2015
12. Analysis of the profile, characteristics, patient experience and community value of community hospitals: a multimethod study
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Deborah Davidson, Angela Ellis Paine, Jon Glasby, Iestyn Williams, Helen Tucker, Tessa Crilly, John Crilly, Nick Le Mesurier, John Mohan, Daiga Kamerade, David Seamark, and Jan Marriott
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cottage hospitals ,community hospitals ,intermediate care ,patient experience ,community engagement ,community value ,volunteering ,voluntary income ,relational care ,social value ,Public aspects of medicine ,RA1-1270 ,Medicine (General) ,R5-920 - Abstract
Background: Community hospitals have been part of England’s health-care landscape since the mid-nineteenth century. Evidence on them has not kept pace with their development. Aim: To provide a comprehensive analysis of the profile, characteristics, patient experience and community value of community hospitals. Design: A multimethod study with three phases. Phase 1 involved national mapping and the construction of a new database of community hospitals through data set reconciliation and verification. Phase 2 involved nine case studies, including interviews and focus groups with patients (n = 60), carers (n = 28), staff (n = 132), volunteers (n = 68), community stakeholders (n = 74) and managers and commissioners (n = 9). Phase 3 involved analysis of Charity Commission data on voluntary support. Setting: Community hospitals in England. Results: The study identified 296 community hospitals with beds in England. Typically, the hospitals were small (
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- 2019
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13. De novoassembly and annotation of the Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides) genome
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David Ryder, David Stone, Diana Minardi, Ainsley Riley, Justin Avant, Lisa Cross, Marta Soeffker, Deborah Davidson, Andrew Newman, Peter Thomson, Chris Darby, and Ronny van Aerle
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Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides) is an economically and ecologically important fish species in the family Nototheniidae, found at depths between 70 and 2,500 meters on the southern shelves and slopes around the sub-Antarctic islands of the Southern Ocean. Genomic sequence data for this species is limited. Here, we report a high-quality assembly and annotation of theD. eleginoidesgenome, generated using a combination of Illumina, PacBio and Omni-C sequencing technologies. To aid the genome annotation, the transcriptome derived from a variety of toothfish tissues was also generated using both short and long read sequencing methods. The final genome assembly was 797.8 Mb with a N50 scaffold length of 3.5 Mb. Approximately 31.7% of the genome consisted of repetitive elements. A total of 35,543 putative protein-coding regions were identified, of which 50% have been functionally annotated. Transcriptomics analysis showed that approximately 64% of the predicted genes (22,617 genes) were found to be expressed in the tissues sampled. Comparative genomics analysis revealed that the anti-freeze glycoprotein (AFGP) locus ofD. eleginoidesdoes not contain any AFGP proteins compared to the same locus in the Antarctic toothfish (Dissostichus mawsoni). This is in agreement with previously published results looking at hybridization signals and confirms that Patagonian toothfish do not possess AFGP coding sequences in their genome. The high-quality genome assembly of the Patagonian toothfish will provide a valuable genetic resource for ecological and evolutionary studies on this and other closely related species.
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- 2022
14. ‘Localism and intimacy, and… other rather imponderable reasons of that sort’: A qualitative study of patient experience of community hospitals in England
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Iestyn Williams, Angela Ellis Paine, Jon Glasby, and Deborah Davidson
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Sociology and Political Science ,Health Policy ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,Social Sciences (miscellaneous) - Abstract
Debates over the value and contribution of community hospitals are hampered by a lack of empirical assessment of the experience of patients using these services. This paper presents findings from a study which included a focus on patient and family-carer experiences of community hospitals in England. We adopted a qualitative design involving nine case study hospitals. Data collection included interviews with patients (n = 60), carers (n = 28) and staff (n = 89). Through patients and carers highlighting the value of community hospitals feeling 'close to home', providing holistic and personalised care and supporting them through difficult transitions, the study confirms the importance of functional and interpersonal aspects of care, while also highlighting the importance of social and psychological aspects. These included having family, friends and the community close, maintaining social connections during periods of hospital treatment, and feeling less anonymous and anxious when attending the hospital due to the high levels of familiarity and connectedness. Although the experiences uncovered in this study were not uniformly positive, patients and carers placed a high overall value on the care provided by community hospitals, often arguing that these were distinctive when compared to their experiences of using other health and care services. The study suggests the need to weigh the full range of these dimensions of patient experience-functional, interpersonal, social and psychological-when assessing the role and contribution of community hospitals.
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- 2022
15. Patient compliance with hip precautions 12 weeks following primary elective total hip arthroplasty
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Alistair Ewen, Deborah Davidson, Jamie McNaught, Rohit Maheshwari, and Findlay Welsh
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Activities of daily living ,Arthroplasty, Replacement, Hip ,Adaptive equipment ,medicine.medical_treatment ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Activities of Daily Living ,medicine ,Hip Dislocation ,Humans ,Orthopedics and Sports Medicine ,Postoperative Period ,Medical prescription ,Patient compliance ,030222 orthopedics ,business.industry ,030229 sport sciences ,General Medicine ,Arthroplasty ,Hip arthroplasty ,Orthopedic surgery ,Physical therapy ,Patient Compliance ,Surgery ,business ,Total hip arthroplasty - Abstract
Patients are routinely advised to follow hip precautions following their total hip arthroplasty (THA) surgery. There is lack of evidence regarding compliance with these precautions and when patients return to activities of daily living following their surgery. We designed a new questionnaire to discover when patients return to their activities of daily living. Two hundred and ninety seven consecutive patients who attended 12 week follow up arthroplasty clinic following their primary elective THA were asked to complete the questionnaire. All patients who attended the follow up clinic at 12 weeks responded to the questionnaire. Only 6.3% (n = 19) of the patients reported that they restricted their daily activities, as prescribed for the full 12 week period, while 50% (n = 148) of patients stopped using prescribed adaptive equipment by 6 weeks after their operation. There were no dislocations recorded among the study group. We found that the majority of patients do not adhere to hip precautions advice. They return to their activities of daily living prior to the end of prescription period based on their pain and activity level. Lack of adherence to hip precautions do not predispose to hip dislocation in the immediate post-operative period.
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- 2021
16. Memorial tattoos: Advancing continuing bonds theory
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Carly Greco, Susan Cadell, Mary Ellen Macdonald, Deborah Davidson, and Melissa Reid Lambert
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050103 clinical psychology ,Psychoanalysis ,Tattooing ,Social Stigma ,05 social sciences ,Stigma (botany) ,Symbolic interactionism ,030227 psychiatry ,03 medical and health sciences ,Clinical Psychology ,0302 clinical medicine ,Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) ,Expression (architecture) ,Developmental and Educational Psychology ,Humans ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Psychology - Abstract
A memorial tattoo is a tattoo that honors a person who has died. We aimed to understand how memorial tattoos could be an expression of a bereaved person's continuing relationship with the deceased person that the tattoo memorializes. We interviewed 41 people and used qualitative description grounded in a symbolic interactionist framework to analyze the transcripts. This research expands on continuing bonds theory by showing that memorial tattoos are an expression of the bond with the deceased as well as a way to communicate with others about their ongoing connection and to challenge stigma.
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- 2020
17. The emergence and effect of hospital protocols for perinatal loss in Canada
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Deborah Davidson
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Advanced and Specialized Nursing ,050103 clinical psychology ,Health (social science) ,Psychotherapist ,Social Psychology ,media_common.quotation_subject ,05 social sciences ,humanities ,03 medical and health sciences ,Perinatal loss ,030502 gerontology ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Grief ,Meaning (existential) ,0305 other medical science ,Psychology ,Gerontology ,media_common - Abstract
The 1980s and 1990s saw the remaking of the meaning of perinatal death in Canadian hospitals from that of the silencing to the recognition and attention to women’s grief (Davidson, 2007). By the mi...
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- 2020
18. 'Localism and Intimacy, and… Other Rather Imponderable Reasons of That Sort': A Qualitative Study of Patient Experience in Community Hospitals in England
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Iestyn Williams, Jon Glasby, and Deborah Davidson
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business.industry ,Patient experience ,sort ,Sociology ,Public relations ,Localism ,business ,Qualitative research - Abstract
BackgroundThe community hospital sector is characterised by high levels of upheaval, variation and dispute. Debates over the value and contribution of community hospitals are hampered by a lack of empirical assessment of the experience of patients using these services. This paper presents findings from a study of patient and family experiences in community hospitals in England.MethodsWe adopted a qualitative design involving nine case study hospitals, selected to represent a range of characteristics. Case study data collected included discovery interviews with patients (n=60) and semi-structured interviews with carers (n=28). We conducted thematic analysis of interview data.ResultsThe study confirms some of the distinctive functional and technical aspects of care associated with community hospitals, including: access to services facilities and equipment; the environment and atmosphere; information sharing; continuity, and; the potential for longer lengths of stay. The study also finds high reported levels of personalised care in community hospitals. Our study suggests the importance of additional social and psychological aspects of patient experience. Social aspects included having family and friends close, and the importance of being known and maintaining social connections during periods of hospital treatment. Psychological aspects included feeling less anonymous and frightened than they would in an acute setting, especially when coming to terms with loss and change. Conclusions Although the experiences uncovered in this study were not uniformly positive, patients and carers placed a high overall value on the distinctive qualities of the care provided by community hospitals. The study suggests the need to weigh the full range of these dimensions of patient experience – including functional, relational, social and psychological – when assessing the role and contribution of community hospitals.
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- 2021
19. Use of the internet and griefwork in perinatal loss: Motivations, methodologies and meaning making
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Deborah Davidson and Gayle Letherby
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Perinatal loss ,Sociology and Political Science ,business.industry ,Internet privacy ,Meaning-making ,The Internet ,Development ,business ,Psychology ,Education - Published
- 2019
20. Strategies to Promote the Inclusion of Young Adults With Developmental Disabilities in Community-Based Health Studies
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Luz Maria Vazquez, Nazilla Khanlou, Fatma Aidarus, and Deborah Davidson
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Adult ,Male ,Research design ,Gerontology ,Research Subjects ,Developmental Disabilities ,Community organization ,Nothing About Us Without Us ,Young Adult ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Humans ,Disabled Persons ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Socioeconomic status ,Qualitative Research ,030504 nursing ,Family caregivers ,Patient Selection ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,Service provider ,Disability studies ,Research Design ,Female ,Public Health ,0305 other medical science ,Psychology ,Inclusion (education) - Abstract
We discuss strategies to promote the inclusion of people with developmental disabilities (DDs) in qualitative community-based research studies. Strategies were applied in three projects conducted between 2012 and 2017 that addressed issues of socioeconomic challenges, discrimination, and exclusion of children and young adults with developmental disabilities (YADD). Strategies included partnership with community organizations; inclusion of YADD, family caregivers (FCs), and service providers in advisory committees (ACs); and strategies to accommodate YADD. As part of our contribution, we discuss issues of invisibility and exclusion of individuals with DDs who have “low” functioning capacities. There is a need to review studies sampling inclusion criteria as they may constitute a barrier for participation. Preference for sampling “high” functioning individuals may reinforce exclusion in research, and replicate broader patterns of socioeconomic exclusion of individuals with disabilities. Our discussion of inclusive research is informed by critical disability studies and the underlying principle “nothing about us without us.”
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- 2018
21. Reflections on a Collaborative, Creative ‘Working’ Relationship
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Gayle Letherby and Deborah Davidson
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Focus (computing) ,Work (electrical) ,business.industry ,Memoir ,Sociology ,Space (commercial competition) ,Public relations ,business ,Compliance (psychology) - Abstract
Together and apart, we have adopted an auto/biographical approach to the work that we do and continue to engage with new (to us at least) and different ways to collect, present and archive data. Our relationship as close friends as well as colleagues is relevant here, in that not only do we support each other in our work, but we also provide each other with a safe space to make mistakes, to share ideas to experiment. In our chapter, we reflect on our individual and collective selves and focus on some of our projects—The Tattoo Project (Deborah), Doing Griefwork Through Fiction and Memoir (Gayle) and Stepford Academics (Deborah and Gayle)—to highlight our collective, creative approach and our challenge to rather than compliance with ‘expected’ approaches and practices within the academy.
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- 2020
22. Sibling loss - disenfranchised grief and forgotten mourners
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Deborah Davidson
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Advanced and Specialized Nursing ,050103 clinical psychology ,Health (social science) ,Psychotherapist ,Social Psychology ,media_common.quotation_subject ,05 social sciences ,Disenfranchised grief ,050109 social psychology ,Nurse Administrator ,humanities ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Grief ,Sibling ,Psychology ,Gerontology ,media_common - Abstract
My first encounter with the experience of sibling loss was with a nurse administrator in a neonatal unit that I was interviewing for my dissertation on grief and bereavement. While examining the em...
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- 2018
23. Mothering children with developmental disabilities: A critical perspective on health promotion
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Nida Mustafa, Karen Yoshida, Nazilla Khanlou, Luz Maria Vazquez, and Deborah Davidson
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Adult ,Canada ,030506 rehabilitation ,Adolescent ,Developmental Disabilities ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Immigration ,Emigrants and Immigrants ,Mothers ,Health Promotion ,Developmental psychology ,Young Adult ,03 medical and health sciences ,Social support ,0302 clinical medicine ,Nursing ,Intervention (counseling) ,Ecological psychology ,Humans ,Medicine ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Social determinants of health ,Child ,Qualitative Research ,media_common ,business.industry ,Infant, Newborn ,Infant ,Social Support ,Transformative learning ,Health promotion ,Child, Preschool ,General Health Professions ,Female ,0305 other medical science ,business ,Qualitative research - Abstract
We present findings of a qualitative study exploring what constitutes relevant health promotion initiatives for immigrant mothers of children with developmental disabilities. We apply a social ecological approach, with a focus on gender-specific and transformative health promotion, to examine factors impacting mothers' health and wellbeing. Twenty-eight semi-structured and open-ended interviews were conducted with immigrant mothers in the greater Toronto area, Canada. Mothers identified facilitators, challenges, and strategies for their health promotion, providing relevant insights for meaningful intervention. Our findings show that immigrant mothers' health is influenced by intersecting social determinants of health, including migration status, gender, and disability.
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- 2017
24. Art embodied: tattoos as memorials
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Deborah Davidson
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Advanced and Specialized Nursing ,050103 clinical psychology ,Health (social science) ,Social Psychology ,Invisibility ,05 social sciences ,Representation (systemics) ,050109 social psychology ,Degree (music) ,Silence ,Aesthetics ,Embodied cognition ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Sociology ,Gerontology - Abstract
… profound loss, is one fraught with a considerable degree of silence and invisibility in so much that what is often experienced is considered to be unspeakable and beyond representation (Kitzmann,...
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- 2017
25. Communities as ‘renewable energy’ for healthcare services? a multimethods study into the form, scale and role of voluntary support for community hospitals in England
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Angela Ellis Paine, Daiga Kamerāde, John Mohan, and Deborah Davidson
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Adult ,Male ,Volunteers ,Resource (biology) ,National Health Programs ,coproduction ,Hospitals, Community ,Commission ,Resource Allocation ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Nursing ,Patient experience ,Health care ,Medicine ,Financial Support ,Humans ,030212 general & internal medicine ,community hospitals ,Human resources ,Qualitative Research ,Original Research ,business.industry ,030503 health policy & services ,Role ,General Medicine ,sustainability ,Focus group ,Community hospital ,Social Validity, Research ,volunteering ,Attitude ,England ,Social Perception ,Charities ,Scale (social sciences) ,voluntary income ,Female ,Health Services Research ,0305 other medical science ,business - Abstract
ObjectiveTo examine the forms, scale and role of community and voluntary support for community hospitals in England.DesignA multimethods study. Quantitative analysis of Charity Commission data on levels of volunteering and voluntary income for charities supporting community hospitals. Nine qualitative case studies of community hospitals and their surrounding communities, including interviews and focus groups.SettingCommunity hospitals in England and their surrounding communities.ParticipantsCharity Commission data for 245 community hospital Leagues of Friends. Interviews with staff (89), patients (60), carers (28), volunteers (35), community representatives (20), managers and commissioners (9). Focus groups with multidisciplinary teams (8 groups across nine sites, involving 43 respondents), volunteers (6 groups, 33 respondents) and community stakeholders (8 groups, 54 respondents).ResultsCommunities support community hospitals through: human resources (average=24 volunteers a year per hospital); financial resources (median voluntary income = £15 632); practical resources through services and activities provided by voluntary and community groups; and intellectual resources (eg, consultation and coproduction). Communities provide valuable supplementary resources to the National Health Service, enhancing community hospital services, patient experience, staff morale and volunteer well-being. Such resources, however, vary in level and form from hospital to hospital and over time: voluntary income is on the decline, as is membership of League of Friends, and it can be hard to recruit regular, active volunteers.ConclusionsCommunities can be a significant resource for healthcare services, in ways which can enhance patient experience and service quality. Harnessing that resource, however, is not straight forward and there is a perception that it might be becoming more difficult questioning the extent to which it can be considered sustainable or ‘renewable’.
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- 2019
26. Factors affecting the changing role of GP clinicians in community hospitals: a qualitative interview study in England
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David Seamark, Jon Glasby, Helen Tucker, Angela Ellis-Paine, and Deborah Davidson
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Attitude of Health Personnel ,Hospitals, Community ,Workload ,Job Satisfaction ,State Medicine ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,General Practitioners ,Remuneration ,medicine ,Humans ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Qualitative Research ,business.industry ,030503 health policy & services ,Qualitative interviews ,Research ,Community hospital ,Personal development ,Work (electrical) ,England ,Family medicine ,Models, Organizational ,Job satisfaction ,Clinical Competence ,0305 other medical science ,Family Practice ,business ,Needs Assessment ,Qualitative research - Abstract
BackgroundGPs were a key driving force for the development of a network of community hospitals across England, and have provided medical cover for most of them. However, during the past decade there has been a significant shift, with the dominant trend appearing to be one of declining GP involvement.AimTo explore how and why the role of GPs within community hospitals in England is changing.Design and settingQualitative study in a sample of nine diverse community hospitals in England.MethodQualitative interviews with community hospital clinical staff.ResultsIn all, 20 interviews were conducted and two models of medical care observed: GPs employed by a practice and trust-employed doctors. Interviewees confirmed the trend towards declining GP involvement, with the factors driving change identified as being GP workload and recruitment challenges, a change from ‘step-up’ admissions from the community to ‘step-down’ admissions from acute hospitals, fewer local patients being admitted, increased medical acuity of patients admitted, increased burden of medical support required, and inadequate remuneration. The majority of doctors viewed community hospital work in a positive light, welcoming the opportunities for personal development and to acquire new clinical skills. GPs viewed community hospital work as an extension of primary care, adding to job satisfaction.ConclusionMultiple factors have driven changes in the role of GP community hospital clinicians. The NHS needs to develop a focused strategy if GPs are to remain engaged with community hospital work.
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- 2019
27. Analysis of the profile, characteristics, patient experience and community value of community hospitals : a multimethod study
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Jon Glasby, Helen Tucker, David Seamark, Daiga Kamerade, Jan Marriott, Deborah Davidson, Iestyn Williams, Tessa Crilly, John Mohan, Angela Ellis Paine, Nick Le Mesurier, and John Crilly
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Inpatient care ,Community engagement ,business.industry ,lcsh:Public aspects of medicine ,030503 health policy & services ,lcsh:RA1-1270 ,Interpersonal communication ,Commission ,Focus group ,Community hospital ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Nursing ,Health care ,Patient experience ,030212 general & internal medicine ,0305 other medical science ,business ,Psychology - Abstract
BackgroundCommunity hospitals have been part of England’s health-care landscape since the mid-nineteenth century. Evidence on them has not kept pace with their development.AimTo provide a comprehensive analysis of the profile, characteristics, patient experience and community value of community hospitals.DesignA multimethod study with three phases. Phase 1 involved national mapping and the construction of a new database of community hospitals through data set reconciliation and verification. Phase 2 involved nine case studies, including interviews and focus groups with patients (n = 60), carers (n = 28), staff (n = 132), volunteers (n = 68), community stakeholders (n = 74) and managers and commissioners (n = 9). Phase 3 involved analysis of Charity Commission data on voluntary support.SettingCommunity hospitals in England.ResultsThe study identified 296 community hospitals with beds in England. Typically, the hospitals were small (LimitationsThere were limitations to the secondary data available for mapping community hospitals and tracking charitable funds and to the sample of case study respondents, which concentrated on people with a connection to the hospitals.ConclusionsCommunity hospitals are diverse but are united by a set of common characteristics. Patients and carers experience community hospitals as qualitatively different from other settings. Their accounts highlight the importance of considering the functional, interpersonal, social and psychological dimensions of experience. Community hospitals are highly valued by their local communities, as demonstrated through their active involvement as volunteers and donors. Community hospitals enable the provision of local intermediate care services, delivered through an embedded, relational model of care, which generates deep feelings of reassurance. However, current developments may undermine this, including the withdrawal of GPs, shifts towards step-down care for non-local patients and changing configurations of services, providers and ownership.Future workComparative studies of patient experience in different settings; longitudinal studies of community support and value; studies into the implications of changes in community hospital function, GP involvement, provider-mix and ownership; and international comparative studies could all be undertaken.FundingThe National Institute for Health Research Health Services and Delivery Research programme.
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- 2019
28. The organisational development cycle: putting the approaches into a process
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Deborah Davidson
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Process management ,Process (engineering) ,Organization development ,Business - Published
- 2018
29. Integrating mindsets: a story of a role consultation between peers
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Deborah Davidson and Libby Kinneen
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Medical education ,Psychology - Published
- 2018
30. Reviews and Resources
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Gayle Letherby and Deborah Davidson
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Health (social science) ,Sociology and Political Science - Published
- 2015
31. Embodied Storytelling
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Gayle Letherby and Deborah Davidson
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Health (social science) ,Sociology and Political Science ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Collective work ,Online community ,Presentation ,Creative work ,Embodied cognition ,Aesthetics ,Frame (artificial intelligence) ,Sociology ,Social psychology ,media_common ,Storytelling ,Drama - Abstract
Art, music, literature, and drama are acknowledged to have a place in the embodied experience of bereavement and increasingly are also utilized for the collection and presentation of data in the social sciences and humanities. Such work tells us much about ourselves as individuals and about our relationships with others. The concept of griefwork, which acknowledges and values the collective work the bereaved do with others, is one way to frame such endeavors during bereavement. Here, we outline some of our individual, and yet connected, creative work with reference to both our own experiences of loss and our relationship with each other. Specifically, we reflect on Deborah’s development of an online community for people with commemorative tattoos and Gayle’s exploration of new ways of writing (fiction or faction). We share examples from each project and reflect on their significance to the embodied experience of bereavement.
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- 2015
32. Life history and population characteristics of the Antarctic starfish, Anasterias antarctica Lütken, 1856 (Asteroidea: Forcipulatida: Asteriidae) around the Falkland Islands
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Andy Black, Steve Cartwright, Dion Poncet, Judith Brown, Deborah Davidson, Emma Kälkvist, Paul E. Brewin, Marta Söffker, Paul Brickle, Marie-Julie Roux, Steve Brown, Neil R. Anders, Graham C. Parker, Vladimir Laptikhovsky, and Kalinka Rexer-Huber
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education.field_of_study ,Ecology ,Population ,Sphaeromatidae ,Starfish ,Intertidal zone ,Biology ,biology.organism_classification ,Predation ,Scuba diving ,embryonic structures ,Asteriidae ,General Agricultural and Biological Sciences ,education ,Invertebrate - Abstract
The biology of littoral fauna of the Falkland Islands is largely unknown. This pilot study was launched by Shallow Marine Surveys Group and was aimed at investigating life history of the Antarctic starfish, Anasterias antarctica, a dominating invertebrate predator of intertidal and subtidal, including its distribution, seasonal and ontogenetic migrations, spawning seasonality, fecundity, growth, and feeding habits. A total of 3,426 starfish were sampled in different habitats around the Falkland Islands at low tide using SCUBA diving. Sampling included measuring arm length, presence/absence of brooding and feeding; the prey was identified to the lowest taxa and measured if condition permitted. In a total of 48 broods, eggs were counted and embryonic stage assigned. This medium-sized species attains an arm length of 96 mm (85.4 g). The size increased with depth and starfish carry out seasonal bathymetric migrations with smaller animals ( 10 m depth in winter. Egg laying occurs between March and July, and juvenile dispersal—mostly in October–November. Fecundity (52–363 eggs) and egg/offspring size increase with maternal size. Juvenile starfish are of ca. 2 mm arm length and grow to 9–11 mm in 1 year. Feeding intensity is at a maximum before and after the reproductive period. Females might occasionally resume feeding when they are still brooding a small number of juveniles. The starfish prey upon isopods (Sphaeromatidae), molluscs Pareuthria spp. and variety of gastropods, bivalves chitons, barnacles, and also scavenges. Prey size increases with starfish size.
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- 2014
33. ‘The Pain of the Tattoo Was a Relief': Advancing a Theory of Embodied Pain in a Study of Memorial Tattoos
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Deborah Davidson, Susan Cadell, Melanie Baljko, Melissa Reid Lambert, Mary Ellen Macdonald, and Marcel O'Gorman
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Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine ,Psychotherapist ,business.industry ,Embodied cognition ,Medicine ,Neurology (clinical) ,business ,General Nursing - Published
- 2018
34. Iridophores and sexual dimorphism in the squid Doryteuthis gahi (Loliginidae) from the southwestern Atlantic
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Alexander I. Arkhipkin and Deborah Davidson
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Sexual dimorphism ,Doryteuthis gahi ,Ink sac ,Countershading ,Animal Science and Zoology ,Anatomy ,Aquatic Science ,Biology ,Loliginidae ,biology.organism_classification ,Mantle (mollusc) ,Chromatophore ,Egg laying - Abstract
Light reflecting structures (iridophores) were examined in live Doryteuthis gahi with mantle lengths (ML) between 50 and 420 mm, both during trawl surveys onboard ship and in shallow-water spawning grounds (10–15 m depth) by SCUBA divers around the Falkland Islands. Several types of iridophores were distinguished based on their shape, colour reflection and position on the body. Ventrally, silvery iridophores cover pigmented organs such as the eyeballs and ink sac and might be used for countershading the squid body. Pink iridophores (splotches) cover the whole mantle, head, fins and arm bases. Green-red iridophores on the dorsal side of the eyeballs, as well as pink splotches on the dorsal and lateral mantle, head and arm bases can be either uncovered or masked by overlaying chromatophores. Two specific bright green stripes of iridophores develop under the fins only in females with ML .80 mm; these may be involved with distant sex recognition, both in forming unisex schools and in ‘preliminary mating’ in the twilight feeding grounds located at the shelf edge. During solitary egg laying in shallow waters, females mask these green stripes almost completely using the overlying chromatophores.
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- 2013
35. Reflections on Doing Research Grounded in My Experience of Perinatal Loss: From Auto/biography to Autoethnography
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Deborah Davidson
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Perinatal loss ,Sociology and Political Science ,Perinatal bereavement ,Qualitative Research ,Feminist Research ,Perinatal Loss and Grief ,Bereavement ,Experience ,Auto/biography ,Autoethnography ,Gender studies ,Biography ,Sociology ,Feminist research ,Doctoral dissertation ,Qualitative research - Abstract
This article, derived from my doctoral dissertation ( DAVIDSON 2007 ) examining the emergence of hospital protocols for perinatal bereavement during the last half of the twentieth century in Canada, focuses on the methodological complexities – the draw, the drain, and the delight of doing qualitative research grounded in my own experience of perinatal loss. With my dissertation now a fait a complete, reflecting back on my research, my use of autoethnography at this point allows a return to a story that has already happened and involves “the construction and reconstruction’ of my personal experiences as narratives’ ( AUTREY 2003 : 10). Taking this narrative turn, my enquiry here shifts auto/biography to autoethnography as a mode of enquiry.
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- 2011
36. The changing role of GP clinicians working in community hospitals
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Jon Glasby, David Seamark, Helen Tucker, Angela Ellis-Paine, and Deborah Davidson
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medicine.medical_specialty ,business.industry ,Workload ,Medical care ,Community hospital ,Local community ,Multiple factors ,Family medicine ,medicine ,Remuneration ,Clinical staff ,Clinical care ,Family Practice ,business - Abstract
BackgroundIn 2000 20% of UK GPs had admitting rights to community hospitals. In subsequent years the number of GPs engaged in community hospital clinical care has decreased.AimWhat models of medical care exist in English community hospitals today and what factors are driving changes?MethodInterviews with community hospital clinical staff conducted as part of a multimethod study of the community value of community hospitals.ResultsSeventeen interviews were conducted and two different models of medical care observed: GP led and Trust employed doctors. Factors driving changes were GP workload and recruitment challenges; increased medical acuity of patients admitted; fewer local patients being admitted; frustration over the move from ‘step-up’ care from the local community to ‘step-down’ care from acute hospitals; increased burden of GP medical support; inadequate remuneration; and GP admission rights removed due to bed closures or GP practices withdrawing from community hospital work.ConclusionMultiple factors have driven changes in the role of GP community hospital clinicians with a consequent loss of GP generalist skills in the community hospital setting. The NHS needs to develop a focused strategy if GPs are to remain engaged with community hospital care.
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- 2018
37. A technology of care: Caregiver response to perinatal loss
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Deborah Davidson
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Pregnancy ,Sociology and Political Science ,Distancing ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Perinatal care ,Development ,medicine.disease ,Symbolic interactionism ,Education ,Developmental psychology ,Perinatal loss ,Nursing ,Countermovement ,medicine ,Childbirth ,Grief ,Psychology ,media_common - Abstract
Synopsis Highly technologized care of pregnancy and childbirth, both lauded and vilified, has also seeded a countermovement of high-touch perinatal care. Employing a feminist symbolic interactionist account, this article examines the relationship between high technology and caregiver response in the high-touch care of dying or dead babies and the grief experienced by their mothers. Recognizing the distancing effects technology has on both caregiver–patient and mother–baby relationships, caregivers engaged in a countermovement of high-touch and thus repositioned themselves closer to women's experiences where they were better able to meet women's needs. When technology brings unfavourable consequences humans can, in their innovation and concern for others, reposition themselves in relation to technology, thereby modifying those unfavourable consequences.
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- 2008
38. Opportunity seized or missed? A case study of leadership and organizational change in the creation of a Care Trust
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Edward Peck, Helen Dickinson, and Deborah Davidson
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Mental Health Services ,Core business ,Attitude of Health Personnel ,Medically Underserved Area ,Context (language use) ,State Medicine ,Interviews as Topic ,Organizational Case Studies ,Consistency (negotiation) ,Political science ,Social Work, Psychiatric ,Humans ,Healthcare Disparities ,Action research ,Qualitative Research ,Consumer behaviour ,Local Government ,Delivery of Health Care, Integrated ,business.industry ,Health Status Disparities ,General Medicine ,Consumer Behavior ,Public relations ,Private sector ,Community-Institutional Relations ,Organizational Innovation ,United Kingdom ,Models, Organizational ,General partnership ,Private Sector ,business - Abstract
This paper describes an action research study which focused on an exploration of the aspirations for and initial achievements of Stratham Mental Health NHS and Social Care Trust. Local leaders perceived that Stratham had a good history of health and social care partnership working and as such, adopted an integrationist view of culture to help shape the context of the new structural form. In doing so, consistency remained a key message to staff throughout this organizational transition and the change did not appear to cause the distraction to core business which the literature suggests it would do so. However, this continuity may have come at a cost, at least initially. In the process of formalizing the previous partnership into a Care Trust, Stratham may not have produced all the beneficial effects of synergy which are usually (albeit eventually) associated with mergers in the private sector. Certainly, local actors could see opportunities that had been missed. By focusing on the structural manifestation of the relationship, the opportunities to broaden informal horizontal linkages may have been underexploited. The study of Stratham serves to confirm that the integrationist conception of culture is limited and that the differentiation of professional groupings and the ambiguity of individual experience will always make contested the meanings that are attributed to organizational change.
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- 2007
39. The breastfeeding incident: teaching and learning through transgression
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Deborah Davidson and Debra Langan
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Class (computer programming) ,Social psychology (sociology) ,Higher education ,business.industry ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Breastfeeding ,Feminism ,Education ,Presentation ,Pedagogy ,Sociology ,business ,Youngest child ,media_common ,Marine transgression - Abstract
The authors describe what happened when feminist teaching came head to breast with mothering. The authors' attempt to impact student responses to feminist theorizing in a third‐year social psychology class met with transgressions when a colleague, who had been invited as a guest‐lecturer to speak about social structure and violence against women, brought her three‐year‐old and five‐month‐old sons with her. During her presentation, when her youngest child started to fuss she breastfed him while she lectured. What followed in later class discussions informed the students about their own contradictory investments in dominant discourses, and informed the authors that a breastfeeding feminist university teacher represents transgressions in the academy. The authors discovered through a reflective and layered analysis of the incident that the breastfeeding feminist university teacher is subjected, not merely to a ‘chilly climate’ or an intellectualized ‘symbolic violence’, but, tersely—to violence—because she is...
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- 2006
40. Tamworth, Australia's ‘country music capital’: place marketing, rurality, and resident reactions
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Chris Gibson and Deborah Davidson
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Sociology and Political Science ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Geography, Planning and Development ,Popular culture ,Context (language use) ,Development ,Cultural tourism ,Rurality ,Working class ,National identity ,Country ,Sociology ,Marketing ,Tourism ,media_common - Abstract
Since the 1970s, Tamworth has become well known as Australia's ‘country music capital’. Its annual Country and Western Music Festival has become the leading event of its type in Australia, attracting over 60,000 visitors every year. The festival, and country music more generally, have become central to the town's identity and tourism marketing strategies. This article discusses the social constructions that have surrounded Tamworth's transition to ‘country music capital’—of the ‘rural’, and of ‘country’—within the context of debates about the politics of place marketing. Textual analysis of promotional material and built landscapes reveals representations of rurality (or ‘senses of the rural’). In their most commercial form, representations of rurality converge on a dominant notion of ‘country’, quite different from the ‘countryside’ and ‘rural idyll’ in England. This dominant, or normative ‘country’ forms the basis of imagery for the festival, the Town's marketing strategy, and associated advertising campaigns by major sponsors. It is predominantly masculine, white, working class and nationalist. But links between musical style and discourses of place are complex. Colonial British histories, Celtic musical traditions and North American popular culture all inform ‘country’ in Tamworth, dissipating nationalist interpretations. Normative constructions also contrast with other, heterogeneous ruralities in Australia, that include the lived experiences of rural Australians, and on stage—in country music—where multiple ‘ruralised’ identities are performed. Even those who stand to benefit from place promotion have been uncertain about country music and ‘the country’, because of associated discourses of Tamworth as ‘hick’ and ‘redneck’. In the final section of the paper, reactions of residents to constructions of Tamworth as country music capital are discussed, via the results of a simple resident survey. In contrast to previous studies of the disempowering politics of place marketing, Tamworth residents were on the whole supportive of the new associations and images for the town, despite ‘hick’ connotations, as it has become a centre for ‘country’, and for country music. Reasons for this are explored, and resistances discussed. The result is a complex and entangled politics of national identity, gender, race and class, where meanings for place are variously interpreted and negotiated.
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- 2004
41. Clinical Phenotype of Families with Longevity
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Deborah Davidson, William Greiner, Gil Atzmon, Clyde B. Schechter, Gad Rennert, and Nir Barzilai
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Gerontology ,National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey ,business.industry ,Offspring ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Longevity ,medicine.disease ,Ashkenazi jews ,Diabetes mellitus ,Cohort ,Medicine ,Geriatrics and Gerontology ,Family history ,business ,Body mass index ,media_common - Abstract
Objectives: To determine whether offspring of centenarians acquired protection from age-related diseases. Design: Case-control study. Setting: The study was part of the Longevity Genes Project at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Participants: Centenarians (n=145), offspring of centenarians (n=180), and spouses of the offspring of centenarians (n=75) as a control group. Two additional groups served as controls: age-matched Ashkenazi Jews, and an age-matched control group from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Measurements: Self-reported family history of longevity; prevalence of hypertension, diabetes mellitus, heart attacks, and strokes; and objective measurements of body mass index and fat mass. Results: Parents of centenarians (born in approximately 1870) had a markedly greater (∼sevenfold) “risk” for longevity (reaching ages 90–99), supporting the notion that genetics contributed to longevity in these families. The offspring of long-lived parents had significantly lower prevalence of hypertension (by 23%), diabetes mellitus (by 50%), heart attacks (by 60%), and strokes (no events reported) than several age-matched control groups. Conclusion: Offspring of centenarians may inherit significantly better health. The authors suggest that a cohort of these subjects and their spouses is ideal to study the phenotype and genotype of longevity and its interaction with the environment.
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- 2004
42. Leadership Development: Reflections and Learning on a Two‐Year Programme
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Karen Newbigging, Edward Peck, and Deborah Davidson
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Psychiatry and Mental health ,Leadership development ,Pedagogy ,Psychology - Published
- 2002
43. Plasma HDL Levels Highly Correlate With Cognitive Function in Exceptional Longevity
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Clyde B. Schechter, Deborah Davidson, Gil Atzmon, William Greiner, Nir Barzilai, and Ilan Gabriely
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Male ,Aging ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Apolipoprotein B ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Longevity ,Body Mass Index ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Cognition ,Internal medicine ,Humans ,Medicine ,Triglycerides ,Aged ,media_common ,Aged, 80 and over ,Total plasma ,Apolipoprotein A-I ,biology ,business.industry ,Cholesterol ,Cholesterol, HDL ,Nutritional status ,Middle Aged ,Endocrinology ,chemistry ,biology.protein ,Regression Analysis ,Female ,lipids (amino acids, peptides, and proteins) ,Geriatrics and Gerontology ,Mental Status Schedule ,business ,Body mass index ,Lipoprotein - Abstract
BACKGROUND Families of centenarians have high levels of plasma high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, which may have neurological as well as cardiovascular protective effects during aging. Because plasma HDL level declines progressively with aging, we examined whether centenarians with higher plasma HDL levels have better cognitive function. METHODS Total plasma cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, HDL, triglycerides, and apolipoprotein levels were measured in a group of centenarians (N = 139; older than 95 years) and were correlated with their cognitive function (measured by Mini-Mental State Examination [MMSE]). RESULTS Plasma HDL levels correlated significantly with MMSE (r =.32; p
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- 2002
44. Beyond Involvement: Making Choices and Taking Control
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Nicola Vick and Deborah Davidson
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Service (business) ,Psychiatry and Mental health ,Government ,business.industry ,Project commissioning ,Political science ,Stigma (botany) ,Public policy ,Context (language use) ,Public relations ,business ,National Service Framework ,Mental health - Abstract
he growth of the service user/survivor movement over the last 20 years has provided an opportunity for people to speak openly about their experiences of mental health services and to be involved in local health and social care organisations, regional and national initiatives, and to influence Government policy. The Government’s mental health strategy (Department of Health, 1998) and National Service Framework for Mental Health (Department of Health, 1999) emphasise a more user-centred service and state that their commitment to a modern, decent and inclusive society provides the context for mental health services. The first of the guiding values and principles of the National Service Framework states that: ‘People with mental health problems can expect that services will involve service users and their carers in planning and delivery of care.’ This principle is further echoed in the NHS Plan (Department of Health, 2000) and in the Mental Health Policy Implementation Guide (Department of Health, 2001, p6) which states that: ‘Above all, mental health services must place the needs of ... service users at the centre of their planning and their practice.’ Despite government intentions to put the service user at the centre, there is little evidence of this in the application of policy and practice at a local level. The IAHSP’s work with approximately 50 local implementation teams in the South East, North West, South West and Trent regions of England shows that 90% of their plans and actions do not include user involvement. There are pockets of good practice but T in the main this is limited to involvement on the local implementation teams in commissioning services and, in a few cases, on the boards of trusts. There has also been little action on other stated aims of the National Service Framework – promoting mental health, tackling stigma and discrimination, person-centred planning or promoting independence – and no targeted action in relation to a key issue that service users want; that is, involvement in care planning and treatment provision.
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- 2002
45. Doulas
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Deborah Davidson
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- 2013
46. Reproductive Cancers
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Deborah Davidson
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- 2013
47. Intersex
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Deborah Davidson
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- 2013
48. Disability Definitions
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Deborah Davidson and Nancy La Monica
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- 2013
49. World Health Organization
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Deborah Davidson
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- 2013
50. Snowflake Babies
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Deborah Davidson
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- 2013
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