Aimée Fox, Sheena McHugh, John Browne, Louise C. Kenny et al.
To estimate the cost of preeclampsia from the national health payer's perspective using secondary data from the SCOPE study (Screening for Pregnancy End Points). SCOPE is an international observational prospective study of healthy nulliparous women with singleton pregnancies. Using data from the Iri...
Brendan Walsh, Edel Doherty, Ciarán O’Neill
The Vaccines for Children program is a US government intervention aimed at increasing vaccination uptake by removing financial barriers that may prevent US children from accessing vaccinations. This study examined the impact that this intervention had on race and ethnicity-related and income-related...
Anna Hobbins, Luke E. Barry, Dan Kelleher, Ciarán O’Neill
<ns4:p> <ns4:bold>Background:</ns4:bold> The EQ-5D descriptive system has become a widely used generic instrument to measure population health. In this study we use the EQ-5D-5L system to describe the health of residents in Ireland in 2015/16 and examine relationships between health and a range of s...
Martin Tickle, Ciarán O’Neill, Michael Donaldson, Stephen Birch et al.
We conducted a parallel group randomized controlled trial of children initially aged 2 to 3 y who were caries free, to prevent the children becoming caries active over the subsequent 36 mo. The setting was 22 dental practices in Northern Ireland, and children were randomly assigned by a clinical tri...
ESRI, Sheelah Connolly, Aoife Brick, Ciarán O’Neill et al.
Recent reform proposals in the healthcare systems of Ireland and Northern Ireland have highlighted the need to improve population health and to deliver more care in the community. There are significant variations between the two healthcare systems, providing an opportunity to examine how different a...
Dan Kelleher, Luke E. Barry, Anna Hobbins, Stephen O’Neill et al.
The concept of transnationalism may provide an alternative rationale to observed differences in patterns of migrant healthcare use and health-related behaviours. In this study, we examined the health preferences of Eastern European migrants residing in another European state relative to comparable n...
Luke E. Barry, Ciarán O’Neill, Claire A. Butler, Rekha Chaudhuri et al.
BACKGROUND: Approximately 50% of adults on long-term asthma medication are nonadherent. Current methods to detect nonadherence have had limited effect. Fractional exhaled nitric oxide suppression testing (FeNOSuppT) has demonstrated clinical effectiveness as an adherence screening tool to detect poo...
Mimi Xiao, Ciarán O’Neill
INTRODUCTION: As part of a control strategy current guidance in the UK recommends more intense surveillance of HbA1C levels among those of South-east Asian or Chinese ethnicity above specified BMI thresholds. The objective of this study was to determine whether disparities in the identification and ...
Nga Nguyen, Grainne Crealey, Ciarán O’Neill
The approval and subsequent reimbursement of CFTR modulator therapies from 2012 have provided a potential "game-changing" treatment for patients with cystic fibrosis (CF), especially among younger patients. We used HCUP-NIS and HCUP-KID data in 2006, 2009, 2012 and 2016 to compare the number of admi...
Pat McGregor, Pat McKee, Ciarán O’Neill
A substantial amount of health care resources is allocated within the UK using formulae that relate funding to measures of population need. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the importance of non-need factors in determining utilisation of services at an individual level and explore the implica...
Ciarán O’Neill, Paul Brocklehurst, Saif Sayeed Syed, Michelle Harvey et al.
BACKGROUND: In the UK older adults in care homes have exhibited poorer oral health than age-equivalent persons in the community. In response the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence issued guidance (NG48) on the maintenance and improvement of oral health in this group. Currently, there ...
Mairéad Furlong, Ann Stokes, Sinéad McGilloway, Gráinne Hickey et al.
<ns4:p>The prevention of child abuse and neglect is a global public health priority due to its serious, long-lasting effects on personal, social, and economic outcomes. The Children At Risk Model (ChARM) is a wraparound-inspired intervention that coordinates evidence-based parenting- and home-visiti...
Tom Pierse, Luke E. Barry, Liam Glynn, Andrew W. Murphy et al.
Mairéad Furlong, Sinéad McGilloway, Ann Stokes, Gráinne Hickey et al.
<ns4:p>The prevention of child abuse and neglect is a global public health priority due to its serious, long-lasting effects on personal, social, and economic outcomes. The Children At Risk Model (ChARM) is a wraparound-inspired intervention that coordinates evidence-based parenting- and home-visiti...
Sharon Walsh, Paddy Gillespie, Anna Hobbins, Ciaran O’Neill et al.
This paper presents independent associations between complex multimorbidity and health-related quality of life using the EQ-5D-5L instruments. Identifying the decrements in utility associated with complex multimorbidity is of value for economic evaluation and health technology assessment. Data from ...