• Ultra-short race-pace training (USRPT) In swimming: current perspectives 

  Nugent, Frank J.; Comyns, Thomas M; Kearney, Philip; Warrington, Giles D (Dovepress Medical Press, 2019)

  The last decade has seen a dramatic rise in sports science research due to the ever-increasing professionalization of sport. As a result, many alternative training methodologies that challenge traditional training ...
• Long-term outcome data for patients with HER2-positive early-stage breast cancer treated with adjuvant trastuzumab: benefit outside clinical trial setting 

  Quintyne, Keith Ian; Woulfe, B; Coffey, JC; Gupta, RK (MedDocs Publishers, 2018)

  Adjuvant treatment options for HER2 positive Early-Stage Breast Cancer (EBC) have grown in recent years. The addition of adjuvant trastuzumab therapy for one-year to standard chemotherapy has been shown in several Randomized ...
• Stauffer syndrome: A comprehensive review of the icteric variant of the syndrome 

  Sharma, Neha; Darr, Umar; Darr, Amir; Sood, Gagan (Cureus, Inc., 2019)

  Stauffer syndrome is a rare paraneoplastic syndrome classically associated with renal cell carcinoma (RCC). This association gave it the historical name of non metastatic nephrogenic hepatic dysfunction syndrome without ...
• Developing deeper understanding of teacher education practice through accessing and responding to pre-service teacher engagement with their learning 

  Fletcher, Tim; Ní Chróinín, Deirdre; O'Sullivan, Mary (Taylor and Francis, 2019)

  In this research we examined the ways we accessed and responded to students’ engagement with a set of pedagogical principles of teacher education focused on meaningful physical education. The research was cross-cultural, ...
• Nurses keeping patients safe by managing risk in perioperative settings: a classic grounded theory study 

  O'Brien, Brid; Andrews, Tom; Savage, Eileen (Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2019)

  Aim To develop and expand how nurses promote safety in perioperative settings. Background This article presents orchestrating a sub‐core category from the theory of anticipatory vigilance in promoting safety ...
• Public health nurses' perinatal mental health training needs: a cross sectional survey 

  Noonan, Maria; Galvin, Rose; Jomeen, Julie; Doody, Owen (Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2019)

  Aim To examine public health nurses’ education, training, and professional support needs in perinatal mental health. Background Public health nurses have a key role in supporting maternal mental health including ...
• Resigned indifference: an explanation of gaps in care for culturally and linguistically diverse patients' 

  Markey, Kathleen; Tilki, Mary; Taylor, Georgina (Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2019)

  Aims To develop a theory that explains students and registered nurses' behaviours when caring for culturally and linguistically diverse patients'. Background Despite ongoing calls for improvements to the quality ...
• The impact of compassionate care education on nurses: a mixed-method systematic review. 

  Coffey, Alice; Saab, Mohamad M; Landers, Margaret; Cornally, Nicola; Hegarty, Josephine; Drennan, Jonathan; Lunn, Cora; Savage, Eileen (Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2019)

  To identify, describe, and summarize evidence from quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-method studies conducted to prepare nurses and nursing students to lead on and/or deliver compassionate care. Mixed-method systematic ...
• Responding to health inequities in New Zealand: the potential of dissuasive cigarettes 

  Houghton, Frank; Duncan, Bruce; Houghton, Sharon; O’Doherty, Diane; McInerney, Derek (New Zealand College of General Practitioners, 2019)

  Dissuasive cigarettes attempt to de-normalise smoking by portraying cigarettes as a repellent product in counter advertising. Emerging research is developing an evidence base that suggests that dissuasive cigarettes may ...
• Associations of self-reported physical activity and depression in 10,000 Irish adults across harmonised datasets: a DEDIPAC-study 

  Dowell, Cillian P.; Carlin, Angela; Capranica, Laura; Dillon, Christina; Harrington, Janas M.; Lakerveld, Jeroen; Loyen, Anne; Chun Man Ling, Fiona; Brug, Johannes; MacDonncha, Ciaran; Herring, Matthew P. (BMC, 2018)

  Background: Depression is a prevalent, debilitating, and often recurrent mood disorder for which successful firstline treatments remains limited. The purpose of this study was to investigate the cross-sectional associations ...
• Peer-supported collaborative inquiry in teacher education: exploring the influence of peer discussions on pre-service teachers' levels of critical reflection 

  McGarr, Oliver; McCormack, Orla; Comerford, Jason (Taylor and Francis, 2019)

  Scaffolding pre-service teachers to critically reflect on their practice remains a challenging goal. Exploring the extent to which peer discussion facilitates this critical reflection is the focus of this paper. Using a ...
• Getting my life reset: Living with an acquired brain injury: The Irish experience 

  Muldoon, Orla T.; Walsh, Stephen R.; Curtin, Mariah; Kinsella, Elaine Louise (Acquired Brain Injury Ireland, 2017)

  Brain injury is a hidden phenomenon in our society. Rarely, if ever, do we get to hear the voice of the person living with ABI. This report, using a research framework, lifts the lid and lets us gain an insight into what ...
• Sonographic markers of fetal adiposity and risk of Cesarean delivery 

  Hehir Mark P.; Burke, Naomi; Burke, Gerard; Turner, Michael; Breathnach, Fionnuala; McAuliffe, Fionnuala M.; Morrison John J.; Dornan Samina; Higgins, John; Cotter, Amanda; Geary, Michael P.; McParland, Peter; Daly, Sean; Cody, Fiona; Dicker, Patrick; Tully, Elizabeth C.; Malone, Fergal D. (Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2019)

  Objective Increased fetal size is associated with shoulder dystocia during labor and subsequent need for assisted delivery. We sought to investigate if increased fetal adiposity diagnosed sonographically in late pregnancy ...
• What psychosocial factors determine the physical activity patterns of university students? 

  Murphy, Joseph J.; MacDonncha, Ciaran; Muprhy, Marie H.; Murphy, Niamh; Nevill, Alan M.; Woods, Catherine B. (Human Kinetics, 2019)

  Background: Although levels of physical activity (PA) have been researched, no information on how university students organize their PA across different life domains is available. The purpose of this study is to explore ...
• Turning the tide - from cars to active transport 

  Mandic, Sandra; Jackson, Andrew; Lieswyn, John; Mindell, Jennifer S.; Bengoechea, Enrique García; Spence, John C.; Wooliscroft, Ben; Wade-Brown, Celia; Coppell, Kirsten J.; Hinckson, Erica (University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, 2019)

  Humans create and use tools that allow us to achieve new things and make our lives easier. This is evident in the world of transport. Since the first sail and the first wheel, new forms of transport have created ...
• Increasing prevalence, time trend and seasonality of gastroschisis in São Paulo state, Brazil, 2005–2016 

  Calderon, Mauricio Giusti; de Sousa Santos, Edige Felipe; de Abreu, Luiz Carlos; Raimundo, Daminello (Nature Ressearch, 2019)

  To estimate the gastroschisis seasonality and trend of prevalence in recent years, stratified by maternal age and geographical clusters of São Paulo state, a population–based study was designed. We used data from the Live ...
• Hand hygiene and professional practice: comparative studies exploring attitudes and practice among healthcare students and among healthcare professionals 

  Kingston, Liz M. (University of Limerick, 2017)

  Hand hygiene is widely recognised as an effective measure in preventing the transmission of healthcare-associated infection (HCAI). HCAI is a public health challenge internationally and the emergence of antimicrobial ...
• Supervised exercise for cardiovascular rehabilitation—the Limerick programme 

  O'Connor, Ray; Power, Ruth; Bissett, Kyle; Bourdan, Kimberly-Ann; Togher, Katie; Power, Hayley; O'Reilly, Kasie; Baistrocchi, Shane; Purtill, Patrick; Keyes, Sarah; Brannock, Molly; Maxwell, James; McAnuff, Ryan; Woods, Catherine (Springer, 2019)

  Dear Editor, We were very interested in the paper by Gezer et al. (IJMS (2019) 188:469–473) which concluded that incorporation of aerobic exercises into conventional rehabilitation programmes of early stroke patients ...
• Social inclusion in the Irish health context: Policy and stakeholder mapping 

  O'Donnell, Patrick; O'Donovan, Diarmuid; Elmusharaf, Khalifa (Springer, 2019)

  Background Social inclusion is a complex concept, and its relationship to health has been widely debated. Across the European Union, there has been a move towards policies promoting social inclusion. Despite this, there ...
• An audit of discharge summaries from secondary to primary care 

  O'Connor, Ray; O'Callaghan, Cliodhna; McNamara, Roisin; Salim, Umbreen (Springer, 2019)

  Background Health is information-intensive. Reliable health care depends on access to this information in a timely and accurate manner. A standardised data set for clinical discharge summaries is essential to optimise the ...

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