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Focus group methodology: some ethical challenges (2019)
Journal Article
Sim, J., & Waterfield, J. (2019). Focus group methodology: some ethical challenges. Quality and Quantity, 53, 3003–3022. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-019-00914-5

Focus group methodology generates distinct ethical challenges that do not correspond fully to those raised by one-to-one interviews. This paper explores, in both conceptual and practical terms, three key issues: consent; confdentiality and anonymity;... Read More about Focus group methodology: some ethical challenges.

SAT-374 Adrenal Incidentaloma Management: Development of a Cost-Effectiveness Tool (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hanna, F. W. F., Issa, B., Lea, S., George, C., Golash, A., Firn, M., Sim, J., Xydopoulos, G., Fordham, R., & Fryer, A. SAT-374 Adrenal Incidentaloma Management: Development of a Cost-Effectiveness Tool. Presented at ENDO 2019 - 101st Annual Meeting of the Endocrine Society (23-26 March 2019), New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Outcome-adaptive randomization in clinical trials: issues of participant welfare and autonomy (2019)
Journal Article
Sim. (2019). Outcome-adaptive randomization in clinical trials: issues of participant welfare and autonomy. Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, 83-101. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11017-019-09481-0

Outcome-adaptive randomization (OAR) has been proposed as a corrective to certain ethical difficulties inherent in the traditional randomized clinical trial (RCT) using fixed-ratio randomization. In particular, it has been suggested that OAR redresse... Read More about Outcome-adaptive randomization in clinical trials: issues of participant welfare and autonomy.

Effect on hospital length of stay of tourniquet use during internal fixation of ankle fracture: randomized controlled trial (2018)
Journal Article
Sim, J., Grocott, N., Majeed, H., & McClelland, D. (2019). Effect on hospital length of stay of tourniquet use during internal fixation of ankle fracture: randomized controlled trial. Journal of Foot and Ankle Surgery, 58(1), 114-118. https://doi.org/10.1053/j.jfas.2018.08.023

Approximately 50% of ankle fractures require internal fixation. A tourniquet is often employed to create a bloodless operative field, but its effect on hospital length of stay (LOS) is unclear. This paper reports a parallel-group observer-blinded ran... Read More about Effect on hospital length of stay of tourniquet use during internal fixation of ankle fracture: randomized controlled trial.

Diagnostic experience of patients with fibromyalgia - A meta-ethnography (2018)
Journal Article
Sim, J., Mengshoel, A. M., Ahlsen, B., & Madden, S. (2018). Diagnostic experience of patients with fibromyalgia - A meta-ethnography. Chronic Illness, 14(3), 194-211. https://doi.org/10.1177/1742395317718035

Objective To examine how individuals experience the process and consequences of receiving a diagnosis of fibromyalgia syndrome. Methods A systematic literature search of qualitative studies up to May 2016 was performed. Twenty-eight reports including... Read More about Diagnostic experience of patients with fibromyalgia - A meta-ethnography.

The sample size debate: response to Norman Blaikie (2018)
Journal Article
Sim, J., Saunders, B., Waterfield, J., & Kingstone, T. (2018). The sample size debate: response to Norman Blaikie. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 21(5), https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2018.1454642

In his detailed response to our paper on sample size in qualitative research, Norman Blaikie raises important issues concerning conceptual definitions and taxonomy. In particular, he points out the problems associated with a loose, generic applicatio... Read More about The sample size debate: response to Norman Blaikie.

Can sample size in qualitative research be determined a priori? (2018)
Journal Article
Sim, J., Saunders, B., Waterfield, J., & Kingstone, T. (2018). Can sample size in qualitative research be determined a priori?. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 5, https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2018.1454643

There has been considerable recent interest in methods of determining sample size for qualitative research a priori, rather than through an adaptive approach such as saturation. Extending previous literature in this area, we identify four distinct ap... Read More about Can sample size in qualitative research be determined a priori?.

Interpreting intracorporeal landscapes: how patients visualize pathophysiology and utilize medical images in their understanding of chronic musculoskeletal illness (2018)
Journal Article
Moore, A. J., Richardson, J. C., Bernard, M., & Sim, J. (2019). Interpreting intracorporeal landscapes: how patients visualize pathophysiology and utilize medical images in their understanding of chronic musculoskeletal illness. Disability and Rehabilitation, 41(14), 1647 - 1654. https://doi.org/10.1080/09638288.2018.1443162

Medical science and other sources, such as the media, increasingly inform the general public's understanding of disease. There is often discordance between this understanding and the diagnostic interpretations of health care practitioners (HCPs). In... Read More about Interpreting intracorporeal landscapes: how patients visualize pathophysiology and utilize medical images in their understanding of chronic musculoskeletal illness.