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Strategy Selection and Comparison in the Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Cancer Screening
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Public Health & Primary Care, 2023)Cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) is well-established in application to cancer screening programmes. CEAs of screening differ from analyses of therapeutic interventions as the choice of strategies for comparison is not ... -
Facilitating readiness for advance care planning in Ireland: Informing the design of an innovative intervention for middle aged and older people in the community
Background: Advance care planning (ACP) is a process aiming to elicit, communicate, and document future care wishes, providing mechanisms through which individual preferences can be supported. Poor and fragmented ... -
Vitamin D in the Irish Population: an analysis of prevalence and determinants
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Public Health & Primary Care, 2023)Introduction: Vitamin D has an established role in bone and muscle health, with deficiency causing rickets in children, osteomalacia in adults and contributing to the development of osteoporosis. More recently it has been ... -
Work like a Doc: A comparison of regulations on residents' working hours in 14 high-income countries
(2023)Background: Medical residents work long, continuous hours. Working in conditions of extreme fatigue has adverse effects on the quality and safety of care, and on residents' quality of life. Many countries have attempted ... -
The PRESTO report. Sustainability and Resilience in the Irish Health System
(Trinity College Dublin/London School of Economics/Partnership for Health System Sustainability & re, 2023)The recovery of the Irish health system from the COVID-19 pandemic provides an opportunity for reflection and learning. COVID-19 has tested health systems in the extreme and spotlighted long- standing weaknesses. This ...
