Community and Health Research Unit
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The latest study from CaHRU is published online in Vaccine this month. The study, ‘Influenza vaccine and risk of stroke: self-controlled case series study‘, was co-authored by Dr Zahid Asghar and Professor Niro Siriwardena from CaHRU together with Carol Coupland, Continue reading New study from CaHRU shows link between flu vaccination and reduction in stroke
A new study from CaHRU is published this month in the Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice entitled ‘Exploration of contextual factors in a successful quality improvement collaborative in English ambulance services: cross-sectional survey’. The study, involving a research team Continue reading New paper published on contextual factors for quality improvement in ambulance services
Members of the CaHRU team and School of Health & Social Care had a strong presence at the conference the 44th Annual Conference of the Society for Academic Primary Care (SAPC) from 8th to 10th July at the University of Continue reading CaHRU at Society for Academic Primary Care annual conference in Oxford 2015
One of the few studies of service user involvement in a clinical trials was published this month in the journal Trials: ‘Involving older people in a multi-centre randomised trial of a complex intervention in pre-hospital emergency care: implementation of a Continue reading Study on service user involvement in a prehospital clinical trial of falls published in Trials
Dr Coral Sirdifield of CaHRU contributed to a recent report produced under the EU Health Programme (2008-2013) following completion of the HEALIT4EU project, ‘Study on sound evidence for a better understanding of health literacy in the European Union‘. Prof Niro Continue reading CaHRU contributes to report on a better understanding of health literacy in the European Union