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PICO, PICOS and SPIDER: a comparison study of specificity and sensitivity in three search tools for qualitative systematic reviews (2014)
Journal Article
Chew-Graham. (2014). PICO, PICOS and SPIDER: a comparison study of specificity and sensitivity in three search tools for qualitative systematic reviews. BMC Health Services Research, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-014-0579-0

Background
Qualitative systematic reviews are increasing in popularity in evidence based health care. Difficulties have been reported in conducting literature searches of qualitative research using the PICO search tool. An alternative search tool, e... Read More about PICO, PICOS and SPIDER: a comparison study of specificity and sensitivity in three search tools for qualitative systematic reviews.

CASPER plus (CollAborative Care in Screen-Positive EldeRs with major depressive disorder): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. (2014)
Journal Article
Chew-Graham. (2014). CASPER plus (CollAborative Care in Screen-Positive EldeRs with major depressive disorder): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. Trials, https://doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-15-451

Background
Depression accounts for the greatest disease burden of all mental health disorders, contributes heavily to healthcare costs, and by 2020 is set to become the second largest cause of global disability. Although 10% to 16% of people aged 65... Read More about CASPER plus (CollAborative Care in Screen-Positive EldeRs with major depressive disorder): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial..

Understanding the challenges to implementing case management for people with dementia in English primary care using Normalisation Process Theory (2014)
Journal Article
Chew-Graham. (2014). Understanding the challenges to implementing case management for people with dementia in English primary care using Normalisation Process Theory. BMC Health Services Research, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-014-0549-6

Background
Case management has been suggested as a way of improving the quality and cost-effectiveness of support for people with dementia. In this study we adapted and implemented a successful United States’ model of case management in primary care... Read More about Understanding the challenges to implementing case management for people with dementia in English primary care using Normalisation Process Theory.

'I wouldn't push that further because I don't want to lose her': a multiperspective qualitative study of behaviour change for long-term conditions in primary care. (2014)
Journal Article
Chew-Graham, C. (2014). 'I wouldn't push that further because I don't want to lose her': a multiperspective qualitative study of behaviour change for long-term conditions in primary care. Health Expectations, 1995 -2010. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.12304

BACKGROUND: Health outcomes for long-term conditions (LTCs) can be improved by lifestyle, dietary and condition management-related behaviour change. Primary care is an important setting for behaviour change work. Practitioners have identified barrier... Read More about 'I wouldn't push that further because I don't want to lose her': a multiperspective qualitative study of behaviour change for long-term conditions in primary care..

Introducing case management for people with dementia in primary care: a mixed-methods study (2014)
Journal Article
Iliffe, S., Robinson, L., Bamford, C., Waugh, A., Fox, C., Livingston, G., …Katona, C. (2014). Introducing case management for people with dementia in primary care: a mixed-methods study. British Journal of General Practice (BJGP), 64(628), e735-e741. https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp14x682333

Background Case management may be a feasible solution to the problem of service fragmentation for people with dementia.

Aim To adapt a US model of primary care-based case management for people with dementia and test it in general practice.

Desi... Read More about Introducing case management for people with dementia in primary care: a mixed-methods study.

Implementation of a self-management support approach (WISE) across a health system: a process evaluation explaining what did and did not work for organisations, clinicians and patients. (2014)
Journal Article
Kennedy, A., Rogers, A., Chew-Graham, C., Blakeman, T., Bowen, R., Gardner, C., …Protheroe, J. (2014). Implementation of a self-management support approach (WISE) across a health system: a process evaluation explaining what did and did not work for organisations, clinicians and patients. Implementation Science, 129 -?. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13012-014-0129-5

BACKGROUND: Implementation of long-term condition management interventions rests on the notion of whole systems re-design, where incorporating wider elements of health care systems are integral to embedding effective and integrated solutions. However... Read More about Implementation of a self-management support approach (WISE) across a health system: a process evaluation explaining what did and did not work for organisations, clinicians and patients..

Effect of information and telephone-guided access to community support for people with chronic kidney disease: randomised controlled trial. (2014)
Journal Article
Chew-Graham, C. (2014). Effect of information and telephone-guided access to community support for people with chronic kidney disease: randomised controlled trial. PloS one, e109135 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0109135

BACKGROUND: Implementation of self-management support in traditional primary care settings has proved difficult, encouraging the development of alternative models which actively link to community resources. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a common co... Read More about Effect of information and telephone-guided access to community support for people with chronic kidney disease: randomised controlled trial..

Depression predicts future emergency hospital admissions in primary care patients with chronic physical illness (2014)
Journal Article
Chew-Graham. (2014). Depression predicts future emergency hospital admissions in primary care patients with chronic physical illness. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 54-61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychores.2014.10.002

Objective
More than 15 million people currently suffer from a chronic physical illness in England. The objective of this study was to determine whether depression is independently associated with prospective emergency hospital admission in patients... Read More about Depression predicts future emergency hospital admissions in primary care patients with chronic physical illness.

A motivational intervention for patients with COPD in primary care: qualitative evaluation of a new practitioner role (2014)
Journal Article
Langer, S., Chew-Graham, C. A., Drinkwater, J., Afzal, C., Keane, K., Hunter, C., …Salmon, P. (2014). A motivational intervention for patients with COPD in primary care: qualitative evaluation of a new practitioner role. BMC Family Practice, 15, Article 164. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2296-15-164

BACKGROUND: Long-term conditions such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are growing challenges for health services. Psychosocial co-morbidity is associated with poorer quality of life and greater use of health care in these patients but... Read More about A motivational intervention for patients with COPD in primary care: qualitative evaluation of a new practitioner role.

Cost-Effectiveness of Collaborative Care for Depression in UK Primary Care: Economic Evaluation of a Randomised Controlled Trial (CADET) (2014)
Journal Article
Green, C., Richards, D. A., Hill, J. J., Gask, L., Lovell, K., Chew-Graham, C., …Barkham, M. Cost-Effectiveness of Collaborative Care for Depression in UK Primary Care: Economic Evaluation of a Randomised Controlled Trial (CADET). PloS one, 9(8), e104225. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0104225

Background
Collaborative care is an effective treatment for the management of depression but evidence on its cost-effectiveness in the UK is lacking.

Aims
To assess the cost-effectiveness of collaborative care in a UK primary care setting.

Me... Read More about Cost-Effectiveness of Collaborative Care for Depression in UK Primary Care: Economic Evaluation of a Randomised Controlled Trial (CADET).

The effectiveness of collaborative care for people with memory problems in primary care: results of the CAREDEM case management modelling and feasibility study. (2014)
Journal Article
Chew-Graham. (2014). The effectiveness of collaborative care for people with memory problems in primary care: results of the CAREDEM case management modelling and feasibility study. Health Technology Assessment, 1 - 148. https://doi.org/10.3310/hta18520

Background
People with dementia and their families need support in different forms, but currently services are often fragmented with variable quality of care. Case management offers a way of co-ordinating services along the care pathway and therefor... Read More about The effectiveness of collaborative care for people with memory problems in primary care: results of the CAREDEM case management modelling and feasibility study..

Development and evaluation of culturally sensitive psychosocial interventions for under-served people in primary care (2014)
Journal Article
Lovell, K., Lamb, J., Gask, L., Bower, P., Waheed, W., Chew-Graham, C., …Dowrick, C. (2014). Development and evaluation of culturally sensitive psychosocial interventions for under-served people in primary care. BMC Psychiatry, 14(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-014-0217-8

Background
Psychological therapy is effective for symptoms of mental distress, but many groups with high levels of mental distress face significant barriers in terms of access to care, as current interventions may not be sensitive to their needs or... Read More about Development and evaluation of culturally sensitive psychosocial interventions for under-served people in primary care.

Implementing, embedding and integrating self-management support tools for people with long-term conditions in primary care nursing: a qualitative study (2014)
Journal Article
Chew-Graham, & Protheroe. (2014). Implementing, embedding and integrating self-management support tools for people with long-term conditions in primary care nursing: a qualitative study. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 1103 - 1113. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2013.11.008

BACKGROUND: An implementation gap exists between policy aspirations for provision and the delivery of self-management support in primary care. An evidence based training and support package using a whole systems approach implemented as part of a rand... Read More about Implementing, embedding and integrating self-management support tools for people with long-term conditions in primary care nursing: a qualitative study.

Diabetes and depression in general practice: meeting the challenge of managing comorbidity (2014)
Journal Article
Chew-Graham, C., Sartorius, N., Cimino, L. C., & Gask, L. (2014). Diabetes and depression in general practice: meeting the challenge of managing comorbidity. British Journal of General Practice (BJGP), 64(625), 386-387. https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp14x680809

BACKGROUND
One of the greatest challenges facing medicine in the 21st century is comorbidity, where two or more diseases occur together in the same individual. The World Health Organization estimates that two-thirds of people >55 years of age with a... Read More about Diabetes and depression in general practice: meeting the challenge of managing comorbidity.

Experiences of UK health‐care services for people with Multiple Sclerosis: a systematic narrative review (2014)
Journal Article
Methley, A. M., Chew‐Graham, C., Campbell, S., & Cheraghi‐Sohi, S. (2015). Experiences of UK health‐care services for people with Multiple Sclerosis: a systematic narrative review. Health Expectations, 18(6), 1844-1855. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.12228

Background
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a chronic, degenerative condition with an estimated UK prevalence of 100 000. Contact with health-care services is frequent and long-term; however, little research has investigated the experiences of health care... Read More about Experiences of UK health‐care services for people with Multiple Sclerosis: a systematic narrative review.

Facilitating professional liaison in collaborative care for depression in UK primary care; a qualitative study utilising normalisation process theory (2014)
Journal Article
Coupe, N., Anderson, E., Gask, L., Sykes, P., Richards, D. A., & Chew-Graham, C. (2014). Facilitating professional liaison in collaborative care for depression in UK primary care; a qualitative study utilising normalisation process theory. BMC Family Practice, 15(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2296-15-78

Background
Collaborative care (CC) is an organisational framework which facilitates the delivery of a mental health intervention to patients by case managers in collaboration with more senior health professionals (supervisors and GPs), and is effect... Read More about Facilitating professional liaison in collaborative care for depression in UK primary care; a qualitative study utilising normalisation process theory.

Overcoming the barriers to the diagnosis and management of chronic fatigue syndrome/ME in primary care: a meta synthesis of qualitative studies (2014)
Journal Article
Chew-Graham. (2014). Overcoming the barriers to the diagnosis and management of chronic fatigue syndrome/ME in primary care: a meta synthesis of qualitative studies. BMC Family Practice, 44 -?. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2296-15-44

Background
The NICE guideline for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) emphasises the need for an early diagnosis in primary care with management tailored to patient needs. However, GPs can be reluctant to make a diagnosis and... Read More about Overcoming the barriers to the diagnosis and management of chronic fatigue syndrome/ME in primary care: a meta synthesis of qualitative studies.

Having diabetes and having to fast: a qualitative study of British Muslims with diabetes (2014)
Journal Article
Patel, N. R., Kennedy, A., Blickem, C., Rogers, A., Reeves, D., & Chew‐Graham, C. (2015). Having diabetes and having to fast: a qualitative study of British Muslims with diabetes. Health Expectations, 18(5), 1698-1708. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.12163

Background
There are approximately 2.7 million Muslims in the UK, constituting 4.8% of the population. It is estimated that 325 000 UK Muslims have diabetes. Whilst dietary practices of Muslims with diabetes have been explored, little work has descr... Read More about Having diabetes and having to fast: a qualitative study of British Muslims with diabetes.