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Current and completed projects

The following are just a few of the projects (either current or completed) within the School:

Epidemiology and Public Health projects

• Assessment of drug safety and the impact of illness in pregnancy using routinely collected primary care data
• EMIT (Evaluating Modes of Influenza Transmission) Study
• PRIDE (Post-pandemic review of anti-influenza drug effectiveness) Study
• Predicting the occurrence and mortality of upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage
• The burden, consequences and economic impact of a diagnosis of Irritable Bowel Syndrome
• The occurrence, natural history and consequences of Inflammatory Bowel Disease
• What is the health care burden of chronic liver disease in the UK?
• What is the occurrence and consequence of coeliac disease in the UK?

Primary Care projects

• Access and equity in genetic services
• Acoustic neuroma
• Communication of Carrier Status
• Family History in CHD Risk Assessment
• Inequalities in injury
• PINCER Trial
• Smoking, Nicotine and Pregnancy

Psychiatry projects

• 3-D Surfaces in Epidemiology
• HOP-ON
• Home Support for People with Dementia (developing a fidelity index)
• IMPACT (Improving the psychosocial experiences of adolescents with Tourette syndrome)
• MIDAS (Motivation, Inhibition and Development in ADHD)
• Skinsafe
• SONAR (Study of Nottinghamshire Youth at Risk)

Rehabilitation and Ageing projects

• Appropriateness of acute care for people with long term neurological conditions
• Assistive devices in people who fall
• The Balanced Mind
• Better Mental Health study (SDO)
• Cataract surgery in the prevention of falls: first and second eye cataract trials
• Health benefits of chair based exercises for frail older people
• Changing perceptions of work ability in people with low back pain
• Communication and Low Mood (CALM)
• DRESS (Dressing Rehabilitation Evaluation Stroke Study)
• Early Supported Discharge Services
• Effects of Home Based and Group Exercises on Bone Quality in People aged 65 years and over recruited from primary care
• Evaluating psychological support groups for people with multiple sclerosis
• Falls prevention in a screened population
• Falls prevention in patients who call an ambulance because of a fall and who are not transported to hospital
• Feasibility study of a self-management stroke programme
• Getting out of the house after stroke
• Getting out of the house: a multi centre randomised controlled trial (HTA)
• Intermediate care at home
• Intermediate care – residential
• “Looped” naso-gastric feeding after stroke
• Mapping neurological conditions
• Medical Crises in Older People (NIHR Programme Grant)
• NIAP (Neurological Information and Access Partnership)
• HOVIS (Optimal conduct and resource implications of home visits)
• Predicting fitness to drive
• ProAct65+ (HTA)
• RPDF Rehab (Rehabilitation in Parkinson’s disease)
• REFINE (Reducing Falls in In-patient Elderly) (RfPB)
• Return to work after stroke
• Return to work following traumatic head injury
• Use of commercial gaming devices for upper limb rehabilitation following stroke
• VISION (Vision in Stroke Intervention Or Not) Trial