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Stephanie Steels

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Key characteristics of age-friendly cities and communities: A review

S Steels - Cities, 2015 - Elsevier
The creation of age-friendly environments worldwide has been promoted by the World
Health Organization as a strategy to address the challenges posed by the converging trends …

Perceptions of children in residential care homes: A critical review of the literature

S Steels, H Simpson - British Journal of Social Work, 2017 - academic.oup.com
In England, UK, there has been an overall decline in the use of residential care for children
over the years. The aim of this systematic review was to review literature concerning children …

Systematic review and meta-analysis of pre-hospital diagnostic accuracy studies

C Wilson, C Harley, S Steels - Emergency Medicine Journal, 2018 - emj.bmj.com
Introduction Paramedics are involved in examining, treating and diagnosing patients. The
accuracy of these diagnoses is evaluated using diagnostic accuracy studies. We undertook …

[HTML][HTML] Contraceptive and pregnancy concerns in the UK during the first COVID-19 lockdown: a rapid study

N Hammond, S Steels, G King - Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare, 2022 - Elsevier
Objectives COVID-19 resulted in significant disruption to sexual and reproductive health
(SRH) services globally, the impact of this remains under explored. This study aimed to …

[HTML][HTML] Improving our understanding and practice of antibiotic prescribing: a study on the use of social norms feedback letters in primary care

S Steels, N Gold, V Palin, T Chadborn… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
In the UK, 81% of all antibiotics are prescribed in primary care. Previous research has
shown that a letter from the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) giving social norms feedback to …

Implementation of a “real‐world” learning health system: Results from the evaluation of the Connected Health Cities programme

S Steels, J Ainsworth, TP van Staa - Learning Health Systems, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Background The “learning health system” has been proposed to deliver better outcomes for
patients and communities by analyzing routinely captured health information and feeding …

[HTML][HTML] The role of real-world data in the development of treatment guidelines: a case study on guideline developers' opinions about using observational data on …

S Steels, TP van Staa - BMC Health Services Research, 2019 - Springer
Background Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a prominent threat to public health. Although
many guidelines have been developed over the years to tackle this issue, their impact on …

Collecting standardised urban health indicator data at an individual level for adults living in urban areas: methodology from EURO-URHIS 2

D Pope, E Puzzolo, CA Birt, J Guha… - … European Journal of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Background: An aim of the EURO-URHIS 2 project was to collect standardised data on
urban health indicators (UHIs) relevant to the health of adults resident in European urban …

A first step towards best practice recommendations for the design and statistical analyses of pragmatic clinical trials: A modified Delphi approach

V Palin, TP Van Staa, S Steels… - British Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Pragmatic clinical trials (PCTs) are randomized trials implemented through routine
clinical practice, where design parameters of traditional randomized controlled trials are …

Evaluation protocol of the implementation of a learning healthcare system in clinical practice: the Connected Health Cities programme in the north of England

S Steels, T Van Staa - BMJ open, 2019 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Introduction The 'learning healthcare system'(LHS) has been proposed to deliver better
outcomes for patients and communities by analysing routinely captured health information …