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List of works by Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

A Systematic Review and Meta-Synthesis of Patients' Experiences and Perceptions of Seeking and Using Benzodiazepines and Z-Drugs: Towards Safer Prescribing

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A comprehensive model for diagnosing the causes of individual medical performance problems: skills, knowledge, internal, past and external factors (SKIPE).

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A coproduced patient and public event: An approach to developing and prioritizing ambulance performance measures

scientific article published on 25 August 2017

A primer for quality improvement in primary care

A qualitative study of systemic influences on paramedic decision making: care transitions and patient safety.

scientific article published on January 2015

A unifying theory of clinical practice: Relationship, Diagnostics, Management and professionalism (RDM-p)

scientific article published on 01 January 2009

Action and learning for safer healthcare systems

scientific article published in January 2014

An evaluation of an educational intervention to reduce inappropriate cannulation and improve cannulation technique by paramedics.

scientific article published in November 2009

Are they really refusing to travel? A qualitative study of prehospital records.

scientific article published on 19 September 2006

Canine responses to hypoglycemia in patients with type 1 diabetes.

scientific article published in December 2008

Caregivers' interactions with health care services - Mediator of stress or added strain? Experiences and perceptions of informal caregivers of people with dementia - A qualitative study.

scientific article published in January 2018

Clinical guidelines in primary care: a survey of general practitioners' attitudes and behaviour.

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Clinical role or service specialisation and quality of care

scientific article published in January 2014

Cluster randomised controlled trial of an educational outreach visit to improve influenza and pneumococcal immunisation rates in primary care

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Commissioning for quality improvement

scientific article published in January 2013

Communicating cancer risk in the primary care consultation when using a cancer risk assessment tool: Qualitative study with service users and practitioners ⬇️

scientific article published on 22 January 2020

Comparing importance and performance from a patient perspective in English general practice: a cross-sectional survey.

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Comparing performance among male and female candidates in sex-specific clinical knowledge in the MRCGP.

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Confidentiality in the waiting room: an observational study in general practice.

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Creating a quality healthcare system for the 21st century

scientific article published on 01 January 2008

Data quality and 30-day survival for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in the UK out-of-hospital cardiac arrest registry: a data linkage study.

scientific article published on 20 November 2017

Determining the Feasibility of Ambulance-Based Randomised Controlled Trials in Patients with Ultra-Acute Stroke: Study Protocol for the "Rapid Intervention with GTN in Hypertensive Stroke Trial" (RIGHT, ISRCTN66434824)

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Developing new ways of measuring the quality and impact of ambulance service care: the PhOEBE mixed-methods research programme

Development and pilot of clinical performance indicators for English ambulance services

scientific article published on 01 April 2010

Digital Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Insomnia versus sleep hygiene education: the impact of improved sleep on functional health, quality of life and psychological well-being. Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial.

scientific article published on 23 May 2016

Digital technology to facilitate Proactive Assessment of Obesity Risk during Infancy (ProAsk): a feasibility study.

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Do National and International Ethics Documents Accord with the Consent Substitute Model for Emergency Research?

scientific article published on 28 November 2020

Drivers for change in primary care of diabetes following a protected learning time educational event: interview study of practitioners

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Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of an educational intervention for practice teams to deliver problem focused therapy for insomnia: rationale and design of a pilot cluster randomised trial.

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Engaging clinicians in quality improvement initiatives: art or science?

scientific article published on 01 January 2009

Ethnicity and pre-hospital care for people with suspected cardiac pain: cross-sectional study.

scientific article published on 10 March 2016

Evaluating improvement

Evidence-based healthcare and quality improvement

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Exploration of contextual factors in a successful quality improvement collaborative in English ambulance services: cross-sectional survey

scientific article published on 24 August 2015

Exploratory cross-sectional study of factors associated with pre-hospital management of pain.

scientific article published on 15 August 2010

Exploratory study of factors associated with adverse clinical features in patients presenting with non-fatal drug overdose/self-poisoning to the ambulance service.

scientific article published on 15 September 2010

Exploring reasons for differences in performance between UK and international medical graduates in the Membership of the Royal College of General Practitioners Applied Knowledge Test: a cognitive interview study.

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Exploring the experiences of having Guillain-Barré Syndrome: A qualitative interview study

scientific article published on 03 August 2020

Factors that motivate individuals to volunteer to be dispatched as first responders in the event of a medical emergency: A systematic review protocol

scientific article published on 03 December 2019

Factors that motivate individuals to volunteer to be dispatched as first responders in the event of a medical emergency: A systematic review protocol

scientific article published in 2020

Feasibility of an ambulance-based stroke trial, and safety of glyceryl trinitrate in ultra-acute stroke: the rapid intervention with glyceryl trinitrate in Hypertensive Stroke Trial (RIGHT, ISRCTN66434824).

scientific article published on 03 September 2013

Feline responses to hypoglycemia in people with type 1 diabetes

scientific article published on 07 February 2011

Frameworks for improvement: clinical audit, the plan-do-study-act cycle and significant event audit

scientific article published on January 1, 2013

GPs' attitudes to benzodiazepine and 'Z-drug' prescribing: a barrier to implementation of evidence and guidance on hypnotics

scientific article published in December 2006

General practitioners' experiences and perceptions of benzodiazepine prescribing: systematic review and meta-synthesis

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General practitioners' preferences for managing insomnia and opportunities for reducing hypnotic prescribing.

scientific article published on 10 June 2010

General practitioners, revalidation and appraisal: a cross sectional survey of attitudes, beliefs and concerns in Lincolnshire

scientific article published on 01 September 2003

Healthcare workers and influenza vaccination. Commentary on Canning HS, Phillips J & Allsup S (2005). Healthcare workers beliefs about influenza vaccine and the reasons for non-vaccination - a cross-sectional survey. Journal of Clinical Nursing 14,

scientific article published on 01 June 2007

Identifying barriers and facilitators to ambulance service assessment and treatment of acute asthma: a focus group study.

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Improving primary care quality now and into the next decade

scientific article published on 01 January 2010

Improving the quality of general practice: from cottage industry to consortia

scientific article published on 01 January 2011

Increasing Evidence That Influenza Is a Trigger for Cardiovascular Disease ⬇️

scientific article published on 09 October 2012

Increasing the impact of quality improvement science: learning from the past and changing the future.

scientific article published in January 2011

Individual practice and how to improve it.

scientific article published in January 2014

Influenza and pneumococcal vaccination and risk of stroke or transient ischaemic attack-matched case control study.

scientific article published on 28 January 2014

Influenza vaccination and risk of stroke: Self-controlled case-series study.

scientific article published on 18 August 2015

Integrating online communities and social networks with computerised treatment for insomnia: a qualitative study.

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Intervention fidelity in primary care complex intervention trials: qualitative study using telephone interviews of patients and practitioners

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Investigation of the effect of a countywide protected learning time scheme on prescribing rates of ramipril: interrupted time series study

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Involve the patient and pass the MRCGP: investigating shared decision making in a consulting skills examination using a validated instrument

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Involving older people in a multi-centre randomised trial of a complex intervention in pre-hospital emergency care: implementation of a collaborative model

scientific article published on 10 July 2015

Leadership and management for quality

scientific article published on 01 January 2013

Leadership, organisational culture and the continuing cultural divide in UK health services

scientific article published on January 1, 2013

Magic bullets for insomnia? Patients' use and experiences of newer (Z drugs) versus older (benzodiazepine) hypnotics for sleep problems in primary care

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Measuring for improvement

scientific article published in January 2013

Mechanistic insights into a Ca2+-dependent family of α-mannosidases in a human gut symbiont

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Medical Priority Dispatch System Breathing Problems Protocol Key Question Combinations are Associated with Patient Acuity ⬇️

scientific article published on July 24, 2012

Out of the healthcare crisis.

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Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest termination of resuscitation with ongoing CPR: An observational study

scientific article published on 27 June 2018

PRe-hospital Evaluation of Sensitive TrOponin (PRESTO) Study: multicentre prospective diagnostic accuracy study protocol

scientific article published on 28 October 2019

Parents' beliefs about appropriate infant size, growth and feeding behaviour: implications for the prevention of childhood obesity

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Patient and clinician factors associated with prehospital pain treatment and outcomes: cross sectional study

scientific article published on 23 May 2018

Patient perspectives on quality

article published in 2014

Patients' and ambulance service clinicians' experiences of prehospital care for acute myocardial infarction and stroke: a qualitative study

scientific article published on 08 November 2012

Patients' and clinicians' experiences of consultations in primary care for sleep problems and insomnia: a focus group study.

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Patients' and emergency clinicians' perceptions of improving pre-hospital pain management: a qualitative study.

scientific article published on 27 April 2012

Pay-for-performance in the United Kingdom: impact of the quality and outcomes framework: a systematic review.

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Performance in candidates declaring versus those not declaring dyslexia in a licensing clinical examination

scientific article published on 20 August 2019

Performance of candidates disclosing dyslexia with other candidates in a UK medical licensing examination: cross-sectional study.

scientific article published on 12 January 2018

Pre-hospital ambulance care of patients following a suspected seizure: A cross sectional study

scientific article published on 08 March 2018

Preventing childhood obesity during infancy in UK primary care: a mixed-methods study of HCPs' knowledge, beliefs and practice

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Primary care treatment of insomnia: study protocol for a pragmatic, multicentre, randomised controlled trial comparing nurse-delivered sleep restriction therapy to sleep hygiene (the HABIT trial)

scientific article published on 04 March 2020

Prioritizing novel and existing ambulance performance measures through expert and lay consensus: A three-stage multimethod consensus study

scientific article published on 25 August 2017

Quality assurance of the Applied Knowledge Test (AKT) of the MRCGP examination - an immediate post-test questionnaire evaluation of the candidates' views

scientific article published on 01 July 2015

Quality improvement projects for appraisal and revalidation of general practitioners.

scientific article published in January 2011

Quality in Primary Care indexed in Medline in 2008

scientific article published on 01 January 2008

Quality in primary care 2013.

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Reassurance as a key outcome valued by emergency ambulance service users: a qualitative interview study

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Reducing wasteful innovation.

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Regulating primary care: regulation as the guardian of quality

scientific article published on 01 January 2008

Regulation in primary care

Research on the UK Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) and answering wider questions on the effectiveness of pay-for-performance (P4P) in health care

scientific article published on 01 January 2012

Room for improvement? Leadership, innovation culture and uptake of quality improvement methods in general practice

scientific article published on 01 April 2011

Screening for secondary causes of hyperlipidaemia in general practice. Misdiagnosis may result in litigation.

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Severe hypoglycaemia requiring emergency medical assistance by ambulance services in the East Midlands: a retrospective study.

scientific article published on 29 January 2013

Sleep restriction therapy for insomnia is associated with reduced objective total sleep time, increased daytime somnolence, and objectively impaired vigilance: implications for the clinical management of insomnia disorder

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Specific health issues in ethnic minority groups.

scientific article published in January 2004

Strategies for improving patient recruitment to focus groups in primary care: a case study reflective paper using an analytical framework

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Strategies to increase influenza vaccination rates: outcomes of a nationwide cross-sectional survey of UK general practice ⬇️

scientific article published on May 11, 2012

Supporting research and development in ambulance services: research for better health care in prehospital settings

scientific article published on 01 April 2010

Systematic review of randomised controlled trials of interventions that aim to reduce the risk, either directly or indirectly, of overweight and obesity in infancy and early childhood

scientific article published on 20 April 2015

Systems and spread

Targeting pneumococcal vaccination to high-risk groups: a feasibility study in one general practice

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Taxonomy of the form and function of primary care services in or alongside emergency departments: concepts paper

scientific article published on 07 September 2019

Telemonitoring in COPD: The CHROMED Study, a Randomized Clinical Trial

scientific article published on 20 March 2018

The Winter War.

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The acceptability of personal learning plans in vocational training.

scientific article published on May 1997

The effect of influenza vaccination on risk of acute myocardial infarction: self-controlled case-series study

scientific article published on 18 December 2010

The ethics of pay-for-performance

The exceptional potential for quality improvement methods in the design and modelling of complex interventions

scientific article published on 01 January 2008

The impact of general practitioners working in or alongside emergency departments: a rapid realist review

scientific article published on 11 April 2019

The importance of service users in healthcare quality and research: from involvement to emancipation

scientific article published on 01 January 2010

The predictors, barriers and facilitators to effective management of acute pain in children by emergency medical services: A systematic mixed studies review

scientific article published on 26 August 2020

The quality and outcomes framework: triumph of technical rationality, challenge for individual care?

scientific article published on 01 January 2010

The reaction coordinate of a bacterial GH47 α-mannosidase: a combined quantum mechanical and structural approach

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To be or not to be LGBT in primary health care: health care for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people ⬇️

scientific article published on September 1, 2012

UK health visitors' role in identifying and intervening with infants at risk of developing obesity

scientific article published on 27 June 2012

Understanding Care Navigation by Older Adults With Multimorbidity: Mixed-Methods Study Using Social Network and Framework Analyses

scientific article published on 14 November 2018

Understanding and remedying the performance of doctors in training

scientific article published on 07 September 2020

Understanding processes and how to improve them

Understanding quality improvement through social network analysis

scientific article published in January 2014

Using a common cause strategy for quality improvement: improving hypnotic prescribing in general practice within a Quality Improvement Collaborative.

scientific article published in January 2011

Using quality improvement methods for evaluating health care

scientific article published on 01 January 2009

Views of paramedics on their role in an out-of-hospital ambulance-based trial in ultra-acute stroke: qualitative data from the Rapid Intervention With Glyceryl Trinitrate in Hypertensive Stroke Trial (RIGHT).

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What influences pre-hospital cannulation intentions in paramedics? An application of the theory of reasoned action.

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Why do GPs prescribe psychotropic drugs when they would rather provide alternative psychological interventions?

scientific article published on April 2010

Why quality improvement initiatives succeed or fail: the MUSIQ of quality improvement

scientific article published on 01 January 2012

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