• An evaluation and exploration of Irish food-service businesses' uptake of and attitudes towards a voluntary government-led menu energy (calorie) labelling initiative 

  Fitzgerald, Sarah; Gilgan, Lauri; McCarthy, Mary; Perry, Ivan J.; Geaney, Fiona (Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Nutrition Society, 2018-08-16)

  Objective: To investigate the uptake of and attitudes towards a voluntary government-led energy (calorie) menu labelling initiative in Ireland among a representative sample of food-service businesses and to inform further ...
• Health technology assessment: a primer for ophthalmology 

  Murphy, Aileen; McElnea, Elizabeth; Byrne, Sinead (SAGE Publications, 2018-03-19)

  Rising healthcare costs and increasing demands for health care require techniques to choose between competing uses and even rationing of health care. Economic evaluations and health technology assessments are increasingly ...
• Biosimilar infliximab introduction into the gastro-enterology care pathway in a large acute Irish teaching hospital: a story behind the evidence 

  O'Brien, Gary L.; Carrol, Donal; Mulcahy, Mark; Walshe, Valerie; Courtney, Garry; Byrne, Stephen (Pro Pharma Communications International, 2018-02-27)

  Background and aim: Biosimilar medicines are not considered exact replicas of originator biological medicines. As a result, prescribers can be hesitant to introduce such medicines into the clinical setting until evidence ...
• Cost-effectiveness analysis of a physician-implemented medication screening tool in older hospitalised patients in Ireland 

  O'Brien, Gary L.; O'Mahony, Denis; Gillespie, Paddy; Mulcahy, Mark; Walshe, Valerie; O'Connor, Marie N.; O'Sullivan, David; Gallagher, James; Byrne, Stephen (Springer International Publishing AG, 2018-07-13)

  Background: A recent randomised controlled trial conducted in an Irish University teaching hospital that evaluated a physician-implemented medication screening tool, demonstrated positive outcomes in terms of a reduction ...
• A protocol to measure the impact of intentional changes to nurse staffing and skill-mix in medical and surgical wards 

  Drennan, Jonathan; Duffield, Christine; Scott, Anne Philomena; Ball, Jane; Brady, Noeleen M.; Murphy, Aileen; Dahly, Darren; Savage, Eileen; Corcoran, Paul; Hegarty, Josephine; Griffiths, Peter (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2018-07-17)

  Aim: The aim of this research is to measure the impact planned changes to nurse staffing and skill-mix have on patient, nurse and organisational outcomes. Background: It has been highlighted that there are several design ...

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