Tom Burns

Financial incentives to improve adherence to anti-psychotic maintenance medication in non-adherent patients: a cluster randomised controlled trial (FIAT) (2009)

Priebe, Stefan, Burton, Alexandra, Ashby, Deborah, Ashcroft, Richard, Burns, Tom, David, Anthony, ...

Background: Various interventions have been tested to achieve adherence to anti-psychotic maintenance medication in non-adherent patients with psychotic disorders, and there is no consistent evidence...

Financial incentives to improve adherence to anti-psychotic maintenance medication in non-adherent patients - a cluster randomised controlled trial (FIAT) (2009)

Priebe, Stefan, Burton, Alexandra, Ashby, Deborah, Ashcroft, Richard, Burns, Tom, David, Anthony, ...

Abstract Background Various interventions have been tested to achieve adherence to anti-psychotic maintenance medication in non-adherent patients with psychotic disorders, and there is no consistent...

The Legal Implications of Reputation Risk Management for Franchisors (2009)

Tom Burns; University Of Aberdeen

Franchisors in Britain face a difficult problem. If they use the techniques of reputation risk managementto protect their corporate brands (which is usually their most valuable assets), they may...

The transfer of receivables in securitisations under Scots and French law (2009)

Tom Burns

Modern business requires a convenient, cost-effective method of transferring ownership in bulk debts to facilitate securitisations. Under Scots and French law, where notice to the debtors is a...

The transfer of receivables in securitisations under Scots and French law (2009)

Tom Burns

Modern business requires a convenient, cost-effective method of transferring ownership in bulk debts to facilitate securitisations. Under Scots and French law, where notice to the debtors is a...

Art imitates life: Edward G. Landsdale and the fiction of Vietnam = A arte imita a vida: Edward G. Landsdale e a ficção da guerra de Vietnã (2009)

Tom Burns

This article examines the adaptation of an historical person, the Air-Force officer and CIA operative named Edward G. Landsdale, as a model for fictional characters in three novels – English,...

The Impact of Supported Employment and Working on Clinical and Social Functioning: Results of an International Study of Individual Placement and Support (2009)

Burns, Tom, Catty, Jocelyn, White, Sarah, Becker, Thomas, Koletsi, Marsha, Fioritti, Angelo, ...

Background: Concerns are frequently expressed that working might worsen the mental health of people with severe mental illness (SMI). Several studies of Individual Placement and Support (IPS),...

Foreword Dear colleague, (2008)

Tonmoy Sharma, Louise Guest, Tom Burns

The past few years have seen exponential growth in the psychopharmacology of schizophrenia. Rapid expansion in the number of therapeutic agents available to the practicing psychiatrist, coupled with...

Race and mental health: there is more to race than racism (2006)

Singh, Swaran P, Burns, Tom

Some minority ethnic groups in England and Wales have higher rates of admission for mental illness and more adverse pathways to care. Are the resulting accusations of institutional racism within...

Practice nurses and the care of patients receiving depot neuroleptic treatment: views on training, confidence and use of structured assessment (1999)

Millar, Elaine, Garland, Carol, Ross, Fiona, Kendrick, Tony, Burns, Tom

The movement of care into the community for the mentally ill with severe and enduring problems has important implications for primary care services. This paper reports the findings from an interview...

Role of general practitioners in care of long term mentally ill patients (1991)

Kendrick, Tony, Sibbald, Bonnie, Burns, Tom, Freeling, Paul

OBJECTIVE--To assess general practitioners' involvement with long term mentally ill patients and attitudes towards their care. DESIGN--Postal questionnaire survey. SETTING--General practices in South...

A journey into silence: students, stakeholders and the impact of a strategic governmental policy document in the UK

Sandra Sinfield, Debbie Holley, Tom Burns

Purpose – In the UK, higher education (HE) is being positioned as the new global business, and the power relations between its various stakeholders – society, the business community, management,...