Thermal variations in the patient compartment of an ambulance in an Irish context: a feasibility study

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General practitioners, paramedics and the primary care team; the potential for mutual benefit

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The pursuit of quality: a clinical directorate’s progress in clinical governance a case study of the women and children’s directorate, GUH (HSE)

The aim of the overall study is to inform the design and delivery of a high reliability clinical directorate. This report is the result of the mapping phase in the case study of the Women’s and Children’s Directorate, Galway University Hospitals. It describes the current approach and the hospital’s progress in providing a quality service. The policy context clarifies the external and internal influences affecting the present performance level of the Directorate. The enquiry uses a mixed-method strategy to generate quantitative, qualitative, and documentary evidence. The findings provide perceptions of dimensions of clinical governance, and describe the nature and effects of context as opportunities and constraints on performance. Documentary evidence represents the intended or espoused state of performance, as well as realisation in structure, process and outcomes. Key findings from each method are triangulated on the basis of the emergent qualitative categories. While each method provides its own data set, the combined set of evidence is indicative of the hospital’s theory in use as against its espoused theory. This provides a foundation for the next step, i.e. the reflective phase of the project

Is there a role for paramedics in primary care in Ireland: an exploratory study

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Community mental health teams: determinants of effectiveness

Community mental health teams have their Irish origins both in the deinstitutionalisation policy of the 1984 “Planning for the Future” framework1 and the challenge of intervention and recovery strategies for acute episodic and enduring mental illness. In 1994, Corrigan et al.2 observed that rehabilitation produces a set of barriers that are best overcome by multi-disciplinary teams (MDTs). The multidisciplinary approach was again emphasised in the Government’s 2006 policy document, ‘A Vision for Change’3 and the Mental Health Commission’s 2005 study on quality in mental health care4. The reality of the performance of such an approach, however, has not met stakeholder expectations, according to the Commission’s discussion document on MDTs5. It states, that despite user access to such teams during the past 20 years, only a small number of well functioning MDTs are operating in the Adult Mental Health Services

Pipit .qseq files

This zip file contains a separate .qseq file of raw RAD reads for each individual sample

Anthus berthelotii draft genome

Draft genome of Anthus berthelotii, from sample 816 in Porto Sant

Chromosome codes

Chromosome name and associated numeric code used in .bim file

Pipit sample information

Phenotypic and population information for each sampl

Pipit dataset .bed files

.bed and associated .bim and .fam files for each pipit dataset