Source | Topic | Question | Date asked | Output produced | Way research used |
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A1 | Urgent care services | Evidence for implementing an ‘urgent care hub’, consolidating out-of-hours provision on a single site adjacent to an accident and emergency department, with front door triage assessing patients for both facilities | Nov 2013 | Evidence briefing | Symbolic |
A1 | Supporting self-management: helping people manage long-term conditions | Rapid summary of the evidence relating to self-care | Jan 2014 | Evidence note | Symbolic |
All | Urgent care services | Evidence to inform urgent and emergency care systems | March 2014 | Evidence briefing | Conceptual |
A1 | Loneliness and social isolation | Interventions to reduce loneliness and social isolation, particularly in elderly people. | Apr 2014 | Evidence briefing | Conceptual |
A1 | Supporting self-management: helping people manage long-term conditions | Self-care support for people with COPD | Apr 2014 | Evidence briefing | Conceptual |
All | Low value interventions | Identify relevant recommendations from the NICE Do Not Do database | May 2014 | Evidence note | Conceptual |
A2, all | Low value interventions | Independent appraisal of evidence underpinning 14 proposed value based commissioning policies for MSK procedures | July 2014 | Evidence briefing | Instrumental |
A1 | Community pharmacy minor ailments service | Identify evidence to inform a review of the community pharmacy minor ailments service | July 2014 | Evidence note | Conceptual |
A1 | Integrated community teams | Evidence for effects of integrated community teams including any examples of best practice | Aug 2014 | Evidence note | Conceptual |
A2 | Psychiatric Liaison | Models of psychiatric liaison implemented in general hospital settings | July 2014 | Evidence note | Instrumental |
A1 | ‘One stop shop’ screening model for diabetes | Does implementing a comprehensive one stop shop annual review and screening model for diabetes have an adverse impact on either the quality or uptake | Sept 2014 | Evidence note | Symbolic |
A2 | Frailty | What evidence/ validated tools are there for frailty risk profiling in an A&E context | Oct 2014 | Short email Note sufficient to address question. Later followed up with related Effectiveness Matters on recognising and managing frailty in primary care | Conceptual |
A2 | Unplanned admissions from care homes | What is the evidence for effects of interventions to reduce inappropriate admissions and deaths in hospital of patients from care homes | Oct 2014 | Evidence briefing | Conceptual |
A2 | Social prescribing | What is the effectiveness and cost effectiveness evidence of social prescribing programmes in primary care | Oct 2015 | Evidence note and then later updated into evidence briefing | Conceptual |
A1 | Supporting self-management: helping people manage long-term conditions | What is the evidence for the effects of phone apps to help people to manage their own care | Nov 2015 | Evidence note | Instrumental |
A1 | Supporting self-management: helping people manage long-term conditions | What is the evidence for the effects of interventions to promote shared decision-making | Nov 2015 | Evidence note | Conceptual |
A1 | Supporting self-management: helping people manage long-term conditions | What is the evidence for interventions to support promoting patient-centred care planning consultations | Nov 2015 | Evidence briefing | Conceptual |
A1 | Supporting self-management: helping people manage long-term conditions | Evidence for lay-led self-care education programmes generally as part of creating an environment and culture that supports self-care | Nov 2015 | Evidence briefing | Conceptual |
A1 | Supporting self-management: helping people manage long-term conditions | An evidence based steer in how to give patients the confidence and skills to effectively self-manage their long-term conditions. | Nov 2015 | Evidence briefing | Conceptual |
A2 | Accountable care organisations | What is the evidence for accountable care organisations | Apr 2015 | Evidence note | Conceptual |
A2 | Enhancing access in primary care | What is the evidence for extended hours, telephone consultation/triage, and role substitution in enhancing access in primary care | June 2015 | Evidence briefing | Conceptual |
A2 | Telehealth for COPD | What lessons can be learned from previous evaluations of the implementation of telehealth for COPD | July 2015 | Evidence note | Instrumental |
A1 | Participatory democracy | What is the evidence for different methods of patient/public engagement in decision-making | Aug 2015 | Evidence note | Conceptual |
All | Low-value interventions: existing hernia and hysterectomy policies | Independent review of evidence for existing hernia and hysterectomy policies | Aug 2015 | Â | Instrumental |