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List of works by Ala Szczepura

A cluster randomised controlled trial of the efficacy of a brief walking intervention delivered in primary care: study protocol

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A cluster randomized controlled trial of the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of intermediate care clinics for diabetes (ICCD): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

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A multicentred randomised controlled trial of a primary care-based cognitive behavioural programme for low back pain. The Back Skills Training (BeST) trial

scientific article published on August 1, 2010

A new fetal RHD genotyping test: costs and benefits of mass testing to target antenatal anti-D prophylaxis in England and Wales

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A study of the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of MRSA screening and monitoring on surgical wards using a new, rapid molecular test (EMMS).

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A ‘home for life’ in residential homes for older people in England: exploring the enhancers and inhibitors

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Access to health care for ethnic minority populations

scientific article published on March 2005

All Change: What is Happening in NHS General Practice?

An Intervention to Increase Condom Use Among Users of Chlamydia Self-Sampling Websites (Wrapped): Intervention Mapping and Think-Aloud Study

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

An integrated care pathway for menorrhagia across the primary-secondary interface: patients' experience, clinical outcomes, and service utilisation

scientific article published on April 2007

Antipsychotic prescribing in care homes before and after launch of a national dementia strategy: an observational study in English institutions over a 4-year period

scientific article published on 20 September 2016

Attitudes of women with menstrual disorders to the use of clinical guidelines in their care

scientific article published on 23 December 2009

Balancing patient preferences and clinical needs: Community versus hospital based care for patients with suspected DVT

scientific article published on 06 December 2008

Breast and bowel cancer screening uptake patterns over 15 years for UK south Asian ethnic minority populations, corrected for differences in socio-demographic characteristics

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Changing case Order to Optimise patterns of Performance in mammography Screening (CO-OPS): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

scientific article published on 10 January 2014

Clinical and cost effectiveness of mechanical support for severe ankle sprains: design of a randomised controlled trial in the emergency department [ISRCTN 37807450]

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Comparison of breast and bowel cancer screening uptake patterns in a common cohort of South Asian women in England

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Creating a strategic management plan for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provision.

scientific article published in September 2000

Design considerations in a clinical trial of a cognitive behavioural intervention for the management of low back pain in primary care: Back Skills Training Trial

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Differing perspectives on a role for technology in care homes to improve the lives of older people and the work environment of staff

Effect of Using the Same vs Different Order for Second Readings of Screening Mammograms on Rates of Breast Cancer Detection: A Randomized Clinical Trial

scientific article published on May 2016

Efficiency in pathology laboratories: A survey of operations management in NHS bacteriology

scientific article published on 01 January 1991

Enhanced diabetes care to patients of south Asian ethnic origin (the United Kingdom Asian Diabetes Study): a cluster randomised controlled trial

scientific article published in May 2008

Ethnic differences in health related quality of life for patients with type 2 diabetes

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Evaluation of delivery of enhanced diabetes care to patients of South Asian ethnicity: the United Kingdom Asian Diabetes Study (UKADS).

scientific article published in December 2004

Evaluation of the clinical and cost effectiveness of intermediate care clinics for diabetes (ICCD): a multicentre cluster randomised controlled trial

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Finding a way through the cost and benefit maze

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Health utilities in evaluating intervention in the sleep apnoea/hypopnoea syndrome

scientific article published in November 2002

How do hospital professionals involved in a randomised controlled trial perceive the value of genotyping vs. PCR-ribotyping for control of hospital acquired C. difficile infections?

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Implementing digital skills training in care homes: a literature review

scientific article published on April 2016

In-reach specialist nursing teams for residential care homes: uptake of services, impact on care provision and cost-effectiveness

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Information for decision makers at hospital laboratory level: An example of a graphical method of representing costs and effects for a replacement automated technology in a haematology laboratory

scientific article published on 01 January 1988

Integrated Long-Term Care ‘Neighbourhoods’ to Support Older Populations: Evolving Strategies in Japan and England

scientific article published in 2023

Interests in health care technology assessment (HCTA) and HCTA training needs in eight European countries: COMETT-ASSESS.

scientific article published on June 1994

Interventions designed to improve therapeutic communications between black and minority ethnic people and professionals working in psychiatric services: a systematic review of the evidence for their effectiveness

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Interventions to improve therapeutic communications between Black and minority ethnic patients and professionals in psychiatric services: systematic review

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Limited role of multi-attribute utility scale and SF-36 in predicting management outcome of heavy menstrual bleeding

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Managing Injuries of the Neck Trial (MINT): design of a randomised controlled trial of treatments for whiplash associated disorders.

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Measuring trade-offs in nephrology: a systematic review of discrete choice experiments and conjoint analysis studies

scientific article published on February 2017

Medication administration errors for older people in long-term residential care

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Non-invasive fetal RHD genotyping tests: a systematic review of the quality of reporting of diagnostic accuracy in published studies

scientific article published on 09 December 2008

Nutrition in an ethnically diverse society: what are some of the key challenges?

scientific article published on 30 March 2011

Purchasing and Providing Cost-Effective Health Care

scientific article published in the British Medical Journal

Quality of Rh genotyping studies and diagnostic accuracy estimation

scientific article published on 01 July 2007

Reduction in the rate of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus acquisition in surgical wards by rapid screening for colonization: a prospective, cross-over study

scientific article published in 2010

Residential and nursing homes: how can they meet the challenge of an aging population?

Review of the evidence on the use of arbitration or consensus within breast screening: A systematic scoping review

scientific article published on 13 February 2017

South Asian Ethnicity, Socioeconomic Status, and Psychological Mediators of Faecal Occult Blood Colorectal Screening Participation: A Prospective Test of a Process Model

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THERACOM: a systematic review of the evidence base for interventions to improve Therapeutic Communications between black and minority ethnic populations and staff in specialist mental health services

scientific article published on 25 February 2013

Taking ACTION to establish direct costs and outcomes of treating advanced non-small cell lung cancer in routine clinical practice

scientific article published on 01 January 2004

The eSexual Health Clinic system for management, prevention, and control of sexually transmitted infections: exploratory studies in people testing for Chlamydia trachomatis.

scientific article published on 18 March 2017

Treatment of severe ankle sprain: a pragmatic randomised controlled trial comparing the clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of three types of mechanical ankle support with tubular bandage. The CAST trial.

scientific article published in February 2009

UK Families with Children with Rare Chromosome Disorders: Changing Experiences of Diagnosis and Counseling (2003 to 2013).

scientific article published on 10 January 2018

UK ethnicity data collection for healthcare statistics: the South Asian perspective

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User interface design for mobile-based sexual health interventions for young people: design recommendations from a qualitative study on an online Chlamydia clinical care pathway

scientific article published on 26 August 2015

Utilizing rapid multiple-locus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis typing to aid control of hospital-acquired Clostridium difficile Infection: a multicenter study

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Who should be prioritized for renal transplantation?: Analysis of key stakeholder preferences using discrete choice experiments

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Wrapped: Development of an intervention to increase condom use amongst users of chlamydia self-sampling websites (Preprint)

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Young people's preferences for the use of emerging technologies for asymptomatic regular chlamydia testing and management: a discrete choice experiment in England

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