Modelling skill competencies in engineering companies (2009)
Coates, G., Thompson, C., Duffy, A.H.B., Hills, W., Whitfield, R.I.
Engineering companies across many industrial sectors have recognised that their engineers’ skills and competencies provide the greatest force for economic competitiveness. More specifi cally, the...
Relja, M, Poole, AC, Schoenen, Jean, Pascual, J, Lei, X, Thompson, C
Our aim was to evaluate the safety and efficacy of botulinum toxin type A (BoNTA; BOTOX (R)) for prophylaxis of episodic migraine. In this double-blind, placebo-controlled study, patients were...
Thompson, C., McCaughan, D., Cullum, N., Sheldon, T., Raynor, P.
Aim: This paper reports a study examining the barriers associated with research knowledge transfer amongst primary care nurses in the context of clinical decision-making. Background: The research...
McCaughan, D., Thompson, C., Cullum, N., Sheldon, T., Raynor, P.
BACKGROUND There is a lack of evidence regarding the kinds of decisions made by primary care nurses and the information sources they use in clinical decision making. OBJECTIVE To describe the...
The North Dublin randomized controlled trial of structured diabetes shared care (2004)
Smith, S, Bury, G, O'Leary, M, Shannon, W, Tynan, A, Staines, A, ...
Background. A new diabetes shared care service was introduced in North Dublin. It was designed as a randomized controlled trial with a complex intervention comprising education of participating...
Increasing the visibility of coding decisions in team-based qualitative research in nursing (2003)
Thompson, C., McCaughan, D., Cullum, N., Sheldon, T.A., Raynor, P.
Objectives: To examine the use of the multi-rater Kappa measure of agreement (Nonparametric Statististics for the Behavioural Sciences, McGraw Hill, New York, 1988) in team based, mixed method,...
Stone, P.H., Thompson, B., Zaret, B.L., Chaitman, B., Gibson, R.S., Schweiger, M.J., ...
Context Current management of patients with unstable angina and non-Q wave myocardial infarction generally consists of intensive medical therapy, with angiography and revascularization sometimes...
High serum D-lactate in patients on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (1997)
Anderson, Y, Curtis, N, Hobbs, J, Thompson, C, Winearls, C, Radda, G, ...
Ueda, Yuji, Levine, Bruce L., Huang, Mark L., Freeman, Gordon J., Nadler, Lee M., June, Carl H., ...
In this report, the co-stimulatory signals provided by CD80 (B7-1) or CD86 (B7-2) were compared to CD28 ligation by mAb. We demonstrate that while both anti-CD3 and anti-CD28 antibodies induced...
Rogers, Thomas J., Guan, Liming, Zhang, Lily, Thompson, C.
It is well established that the bacterial superantigens bind to both TCR β-chain and, with moderate affinity, to MHC class II molecules. Class II-bearing cells bind the superantigen and present the...