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  The National Treatment Purchase Fund – A success for some patients yet a public policy failure? 

  Burke, Sara; Brugha, Ruairi; Thomas, Stephen (2019)

  In 2002 the Irish Government announced the establishment of the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) as a means of addressing patients’ long wait times for public hospital treatment. A new health strategy published in ...
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  Improving palliative care with machine learning and routine data: a rapid review 

  May, Peter (2019)

  Introduction: Improving palliative care is a priority worldwide as this population experiences poor outcomes and accounts disproportionately for costs. In clinical practice, physician judgement is the core method of ...
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  Incorporating oral health collaborative practice into primary medical care in Ireland 

  AHERN, JOHN MARTIN (Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Public Health & Primary Care, 2019)

  Aim: The aim of this study was to explore the opportunities for, and the barriers to, the integration of oral health into primary health care in Ireland, and to propose recommendations to support the development of sustainable ...
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  An evaluation of pain management post surgery 

  Mac Lellan, Kathleen (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Community Health and General Practice, 2001)

  Patients continue to suffer m oderate pain post surgery, much of which may be unnecessary with careful strategic pain management. The influence of routine and rituals in the management of pain is evident from the literature. ...
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  Effect of deinstitutionalisation on quality of life for adults with intellectual disabilities: a systematic review 

  May, Peter; Mc Carron, Mary; O'Donovan, Mary-Ann; Normand, Charles; Murphy, Esther; Smith, Valerie (2019)

  Objective: To review systematically the evidence on how deinstitutionalisation affects quality of life (QoL) for adults with intellectual disabilities. Design: Systematic review. Population: Adults (aged 18 years and ...

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