COLUM DUNNE

Publications

• An initial evaluation of the safety of a disposable oscillating positive expiratory pressure device in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a sort-term pilot study.
• The development and structure of the mesentery.
• Outcomes of implementation of the FilmArray meningoencephalitis panel in a tertiary hospital between 2017 and 2020.
• Association between Tocilizumab treatment of hyper-inflammatory patients with COVID-19 in a critical care setting and an elevated incidence of hospital acquired bacterial and invasive fungal infections
• Compulsory vaccination against COVID-19: a legal and ethical perspective on public good versus personal reticence
• Assessment of the microbial load of airway clearance devices used by a cohort of children with cystic fibrosis.
• The evaluation of a training course to enhance intellectual disabilities and mental health awareness amongst General Practitioners attending police stations.
• Repeated transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in an overcrowded Irish emergency department elucidated by whole genome sequencing.
• Impact of breastfeeding on the incidence and severity of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)-associated acute lower respiratory infections in infants: a systematic review highlighting the global relevance of primary prevention
• What is the role of doctors in respect of suspects with mental health and intellectual disabilities in police custody?
• Off-label novel application of diagnostic multiplex molecular platforms for environmental detection of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales.
• The evaluation of a training course to enhance intellectual disability awareness amongst law enforcement officers: a pilot study.
• Epidemiology of dermatomycoses and onychomycoses in Ireland (2001 to 2020): A single-institution review.
• From nowhere to nowhere. Homelessness and incarceration: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
• A hypothesis for association between electrical surgical incision techniques and surgical site infection
• Hand hygiene practices for prevention of health care-associated infections associated with admitted infectious patients in the emergency department: a systematic review
• Vulnerable Suspects, Access to a Lawyer and the Right to a Fair Trial in Ireland
• Exclusive Human Milk Diet for Extremely Premature Infants: A Novel Fortification Strategy That Enhances the Bioactive Properties of Fresh, Frozen, and Pasteurized Milk Specimens.
• Circulating fibrocyte percentage and neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio are accurate biomarkers of uncomplicated and complicated appendicitis: a prospective cohort study.
• Antimicrobial Resistance Is Prevalent in E. coli and Other Enterobacterales Isolated from Public and Private Drinking Water Supplies in the Republic of Ireland
• The collaborative development through multidisciplinary and advocate consensus of an accessible notice of rights for people with intellectual disabilities in police custody.
• Microbial epidemiology and clinical risk factors of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales amongst Irish patients from first detection in 2009 until 2020.
• Comparison of verbal and computerised months backwards tests in a hospitalized older population
• Advances in e-learning in undergraduate clinical medicine: a systematic review.
• Design and initial testing of a novel disposable oscillating positive expiratory pressure device.
• Dermatology Mycology Diagnostics in Ireland: National deficits identified in 2022 that are relevant Internationally.
• A repeated cross‐sectional analysis of breastfeeding initiation rates in Ireland for two decades and 10 recommended priorities for improvement
• Does the Etiology, Phenomenology and Motor Subtype of Delirium Differ When It Occurs in Patients With An Underlying Dementia?: A Multi-Site, International Study.
• Whole-genome sequencing to investigate transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in the acute healthcare setting: A systematic review.
• Large-scale characterisation of hospital wastewater system microbiomes and clinical isolates from infected patients: profiling of multidrug-resistant microbial species.
• Sick Leave Determinants in the Healthcare Sector (Part III): A Review of Individual-Level Factors
• Sick Leave Determinants in the Healthcare Sector (Part I): A Review of Contextual Factors
• Sick Leave Determinants in the Healthcare Sector (Part II): A Review of Organizational-Level Factors.
• Indwelling central venous catheter infection with Chryseobacterium shandongenes, successful eradication in a five-year-old with Cystic Fibrosis.
• Psychiatrists and homicidal threats: a cross-sectional study.
• Challenges for people with intellectual disabilities in law enforcement interactions in Ireland; thematic analysis informed by 1537 person-years' experience.
• Hand hygiene-related clinical trials reported between 2014 and 2020: a comprehensive systematic review.
• How do delirium motor subtypes differ in phenomenology and contributory aetiology? a cross-sectional, multisite study of liaison psychiatry and palliative care patients.
• A 2018 hospital-mediated outbreak of 42 measles cases in Ireland: observations regarding emergency department waiting times and staff vaccination levels.
• ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII Infection in a Child with Cystic Fibrosis.
• Psychiatrists and physical health competencies: a cross-sectional survey.
• A short-term evaluation of a prototype disposable Oscillating Positive Expiratory Pressure (OPEP) device in a cohort of children with cystic fibrosis.
• Seroprevalence study of SARS-CoV-2 infection in General Practice in Ireland.
• Coping with contagions: Maintaining infection prevention and control in an Irish tertiary hospital during COVID and a debilitating nationwide ransomware virus in May 2021.
• Rise in violence in general practice settings during the COVID-19 pandemic: implications for prevention.
• Biomarkers in delirium: A systematic review.
• Corrigendum to "Hand hygiene-related clinical trials reported between 2014 and 2020: a comprehensive systematic review" [J Hosp Infect 111 (2021) 6-26].
• Prevalence of linezolid-resistant organisms among patients admitted to a tertiary hospital for critical care or dialysis
• Adults with Crohn's disease exhibit elevated gynoid fat and reduced android fat irrespective of disease relapse or remission.
• A retrospective observational study of the impact of 16s and 18s ribosomal RNA PCR on antimicrobial treatment over seven years: A tertiary hospital experience
• A comparative study of hand hygiene and alcohol-based hand rub use among Irish nursing and medical students
• Hunger strikes in prison: A legal perspective for psychiatrists
• Outcomes of point-of-care testing for influenza in the emergency department of a tertiary referral hospital in Ireland.
• Faculty of 1000 evaluation for Dynamics of the human gut microbiome in inflammatory bowel disease.
• Covid-19: Is it reasonable to ask retired doctors to return to “duty”?
• The prevalence of major mental illness, substance misuse and homelessness in Irish prisoners: Systematic review and meta-analyses
• Doctors and death threats: an occupational hazard?
• Intellectual disabilities in Irish prisons: Could Article 13 of the UNCRPD hold the key?
• Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) therapy for knee arthritis: a feasibility study in primary care.
• Personalized medicine should not be restricted to the wealthy.
• Inclusion of the mesentery in ileocolic resection for Crohn's disease is associated with reduced surgical recurrence.
• Faculty of 1000 evaluation for A microbial signature for Crohn's disease.
• Faculty of 1000 evaluation for Cross sectional evaluation of the gut-microbiome metabolome axis in an Italian cohort of IBD patients.
• AB184. 237. Development of a novel methodology to assess the microbiome of mesenteric lymph nodes incorporating culture and culture-independent methods
• The human mesenteric lymph node microbiome differentiates between Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis.
• Inform rather than ambush CPE patient contacts.
• Intellectual disability in Irish prisoners: systematic review of prevalence.
• Opportunities lost may be the greatest cost of CPE outbreaks.
• AB070. 59. Investigating how the extracellular matrix directs gene expression in breast cancer metastasis
• E-learning for chest x-ray interpretation improves medical student skills and confidence levels.
• A novel care pathway for prisoners with intellectual disability designed through a Delphi process.
• Psychosocial interventions to reduce alcohol consumption in concurrent problem alcohol and illicit drug users.
• Candidemia in an Irish intensive care unit (ICU) setting between 2004 and 2018 reflects increased incidence of Candida glabrata.
• Medical management of acute upper respiratory infections in an urban primary care out-of-hours facility: cross-sectional study of patient presentations and expectations.
• Over prescribing of antibiotics for acute respiratory tract infections; a qualitative study to explore Irish general practitioners' perspectives.
• Mental healthcare interfaces in a regional Irish prison.
• The psychiatric management of prisoners on hunger strike: developing a management algorithm using the Delphi technique.
• Oscillating Positive Expiratory Pressure Therapy May Be Performed Poorly by Children With Cystic Fibrosis.
• Oxygenating the argument for consistent performance of anaerobic blood cultures and blood volumes collected.
• Systemic molecular mediators of inflammation differentiate between Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, implicating threshold levels of IL-10 and relative ratios of pro-inflammatory cytokines in therapy.
• Hunger strikes and psychiatric care.
• The clinical utility of three visual attention tests to distinguish adults with ADHD from normal controls.
• The inherent jurisdiction of the Irish High Court: Interface with psychiatry.
• A systematic review and meta-analysis of the accuracy of the clock drawing test (CDT) in the identification of delirium in older hospitalised patients.
• The changing face of Capacity legislation in Ireland: algorithms for clinicians.
• Anti-Microbial Coating Innovations to prevent infectious disease: a consensus view from the AMiCl COST Action.
• Reduction in preterm births during the COVID-19 lockdown in Ireland: a natural experiment allowing analysis of data from the prior two decades
• Collagen and fibronectin promote an aggressive cancer phenotype in breast cancer cells but drive autonomous gene expression patterns
• Communication, collaboration and contagion: "virtualisation" of anatomy during COVID-19.
• People with Intellectual Disabilities and the COVID-19 Pandemic.
• Prisons and the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Comparison of novel tools with traditional cognitive tests in detecting delirium in elderly medical patients.
• Experiences of people with intellectual disabilities encountering law enforcement officials as the suspects of crime - A narrative systematic review.
• Proposed hypothesis and rationale for association between mastitis and breast cancer.
• The relationship between post-surgery infection and breast cancer recurrence. A systematic review.
• The experience of law enforcement officers interfacing with suspects who have an intellectual disability - A systematic review.
• Unprecedented reduction in births of very low birthweight (VLBW) and extremely low birthweight (ELBW) infants during the COVID-19 lockdown in Ireland: a 'natural experiment' allowing analysis of data from the prior two decades.
• Role of circulating fibrocytes in the diagnosis of acute appendicitis.
• Designing New Antibacterial Wound Dressings: Development of a Dual Layer Cotton Material Coated with Poly(Vinyl Alcohol)_Chitosan Nanofibers Incorporating Agrimonia eupatoria L. Extract.
• Homelessness amongst psychiatric Inpatients: a cross-sectional study in the mid-west of Ireland.
• Combined education and skin antisepsis intervention for persistently high blood-culture contamination rates in neonatal intensive care.
• Medical devices for cystic fibrosis care may be portable reservoirs of potential pathogens.
• Determination of the lung clearance index (LCI) in a paediatric cystic fibrosis cohort
• Attention, vigilance, and visuospatial function in hospitalized elderly medical patients: Relationship to delirium syndromal status and motor subtype profile
• Hand hygiene and compliance behaviours are the under-appreciated human factors pivotal to reducing hospital-acquired infections
• Children With Cystic Fibrosis May Be Performing Oscillating Positive Expiratory Pressure Therapy Incorrectly
• Antibiotic use for acute respiratory tract infections (ARTI) in primary care; what factors affect prescribing and why is it important? A narrative review
• Hand hygiene: Attitudes and practices of nurses, a comparison between 2007 and 2015
• Clustered interventions to reduce inappropriate duplicate laboratory tests in an Irish tertiary hospital
• Foreseeing the microbiology of bespoke 3D-printed medical devices
• Timely publishing of experiences and sharing of knowledge
• Specialized cleaning associated with antimicrobial coatings for reduction of hospital-acquired infection: opinion of the COST Action Network AMiCI (CA15114)
• Detection of Neisseria meningitidis in a paediatric patient with septic arthritis using multiplexed diagnostic PCR targeting meningitis/encephalitis (ME)
• Hunger strikes in prisons: A narrative systematic review of ethical considerations from a physician's perspective
• Comparison of cognitive and neuropsychiatric profiles in hospitalised elderly medical patients with delirium, dementia and comorbid delirium--dementia
• Hunger strikes in prisons: a narrative systematic review of ethical considerations from a physician's perspective
• Use of 3D printing to create a bespoke repair of a Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG) tube in patient unfit for surgical replacement
• Sleep-wake cycle disturbances in elderly acute general medical inpatients: Longitudinal relationship to delirium and dementia.
• Colonisation with extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL) not detected in a prevalence study.
• A pilot study of performance among hospitalised elderly patients on a novel test of visuospatial cognition: The letter and shape drawing (LSD) test
• Colonisation with extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL) not detected in a prevalence study
• The Impact of a Novel Tool for Comprehensive Assessment of Palliative Care (MPCAT) on Assessment Outcome at 6- and 12-Month Follow-Up.
• Limerick: forever associated with five lines of rhyme or infamous for irrepressible carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae for all time?
• The first reported case of Burkholderia contaminans in patients with cystic fibrosis in Ireland: from the Sargasso Sea to Irish Children.
• An appraisal of the computed axial tomographic appearance of the human mesentery based on mesenteric contiguity from the duodenojejunal flexure to the mesorectal level.
• Food and beverage cues in children's television programmes: the influence of programme genre.
• The Letter and Shape Drawing (LSD) test: An efficient and systematised approach to testing of visuospatial function.
• Benefits of post-operative oral protein supplementation in gastrointestinal surgery patients: A systematic review of clinical trials.
• Response to letter from Chudleigh et al.: Systematic reviews of hand hygiene in patient care post 2010.
• Comparison of cognitive and neuropsychiatric profiles in hospitalised elderly medical patients with delirium, dementia and comorbid delirium-dementia.
• In vitro comparative assessment of the mechanical properties of PMMA cement and a GPC cement for vertebroplasty.
• Regulation and registration as drivers of continuous professional competence for Irish pre-hospital practitioners: a discussion paper.
• Hand hygiene-related clinical trials reported since 2010: a systematic review.
• Concordance between the delirium motor subtyping scale (DMSS) and the abbreviated version (DMSS-4) over longitudinal assessment in elderly medical inpatients.
• Development of a novel computerised version of the Month Backwards Test: A comparison of performance in hospitalised elderly patients and final year medical students.
• Attitudes and practices of Irish hospital-based physicians towards hand hygiene and handrubbing using alcohol-based hand rubs, a comparison between 2007 and 2015.
• Anti-microbial coating innovations to prevent infectious diseases (AMiCI): Cost action ca15114.
• Becoming patient-centred: sobering insight into CPE-positive patients' experiences of clinical care.
• Survey of attitudes and practices of Irish nursing students towards hand hygiene, including handrubbing with alcohol-based hand rub.
• The first occurrence of a CTX-M ESBL-producing Escherichia coli outbreak mediated by mother to neonate transmission in an Irish neonatal intensive care unit.
• Antimicrobial coating innovations to prevent healthcare-associated infection.
• Development of the four-item Letter and Shape Drawing test (LSD-4): A brief bedside test of visuospatial function.
• Subsyndromal delirium compared with delirium, dementia, and subjects without delirium or dementia in elderly general hospital admissions and nursing home residents.
• Feasibility of alcohol screening among patients receiving opioid treatment in primary care.
• Attention, vigilance and visuospatial function in hospitalized elderly medical patients: Relationship to neurocognitive diagnosis.
• An Irish outbreak of New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase (NDM)-1 carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae: increasing but unrecognized prevalence.
• An optimized work-flow to reduce time-to-detection of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE) using direct testing from rectal swabs.
• Determination of the Lung Clearance Index (LCI) in a Paediatric Cystic Fibrosis Cohort.
• Faecal Diversion is Associated with a Regression of Mesenteric Disease Manifestations and a Decrease in Circulating Fibrocytes in Crohn's Disease
• Letter and Shape Drawing Test--4 Item Version
• The mesocolon: a histological and electron microscopic characterization of the mesenteric attachment of the colon prior to and after surgical mobilization.
• A case of Panton--Valentine leucocidin toxin-positive Staphylococcus aureus-mediated neonatal mastitis
• Against the onslaught of endemic carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae, the war is being lost on the Irish Front
• Beliefs, perceptions and behaviours of GPs towards generic medicines
• Children's television and nutrition
• An immunohistochemical and stereological appraisal of mesocolic lymphangiology-implications for surgical technique in resectional colorectal surgery
• A detailed appraisal of mesocolic lymphangiology--an immunohistochemical and stereological analysis
• Using electronic medical records to determine prevalence and treatment of mental disorders in primary care: a database study
• A case of Panton–Valentine leucocidin toxin‐positive Staphylococcus aureus‐mediated neonatal mastitis
• Months backward test: A review of its use in clinical studies.
• Food and beverage cues in UK and Irish children-television programming.
• Awareness of sexually transmitted infection and protection methods among university students in Ireland.
• General practice career intentions among graduate-entry students: a cross-sectional study at Ireland's newest medical school.
• A commentary on the disparate perspectives of clinical microbiologists and surgeons: ad hoc antimicrobial use.
• Using electronic medical records to determine prevalence and treatment of mental disorders in primary care: A database study
• Children's television and nutrition
• Exercise portrayal in children’s television programs: Analysis of the UK and Irish programming
• Enhancing alcohol screening and brief intervention among people receiving opioid agonist treatment: qualitative study in primary care
• Improving delirium care through early intervention: from bench to bedside to boardroom.
• A case of failed eradication of cystic fibrosis-related sinus colonisation by Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
• A detailed appraisal of mesocolic lymphangiology--an immunohistochemical and stereological analysis.
• What do people really think of generic medicines? A systematic review and critical appraisal of literature on stakeholder perceptions of generic drugs.
• Outcomes of Irish graduate entry medical student engagement with self-directed learning of clinical skills.
• The benefit of taking a control sample when performing bronchoalveolar lavage.
• A qualitative assessment of practitioner perspectives post-introduction of the first continuous professional competence (CPC) guidelines for emergency medical technicians in Ireland.
• Psychosocial Interventions for Problem Alcohol Use in Primary Care Settings (PINTA): Baseline Feasibility Data.
• Children's television and nutrition.
• Incidence, management and outcomes of the first cfr-mediated linezolid-resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis outbreak in a tertiary referral centre in the Republic of Ireland.
• Perceptions and attitudes of community pharmacists towards generic medicines.
• Therapeutic use of compression stockings for orthostatic hypotension: an assessment of patient and physician perspectives and practices.
• Concordance between DSM-IV and DSM-5 criteria for delirium diagnosis in a pooled database of 768 prospectively evaluated patients using the delirium rating scale-revised-98.
• A national study of Continuous Professional Competence (CPC) amongst pre-hospital practitioners.
• Reducing drinking in concurrent problem alcohol and illicit drug users: an impact story.
• Anti-RSV prophylaxis efficacy for infants and young children with cystic fibrosis in Ireland.
• Introducing a novel and robust technique for determining lymph node status in colorectal cancer.
• Exercise portrayal in children's television programs: analysis of the UK and Irish programming.
• Remote preconditioning and major clinical complications following adult cardiovascular surgery: systematic review and meta-analysis.
• Terminology and nomenclature in colonic surgery: universal application of a rule-based approach derived from updates on mesenteric anatomy.
• Against the onslaught of endemic carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae, the war is being lost on the Irish Front.
• Beliefs, perceptions and behaviours of GPs towards generic medicines.
• A commentary on the disparate perspectives of clinical microbiologists and surgeons: Ad hoc antimicrobial use.
• Physician and pharmacist perceptions of generic medicines: what they think and how they differ.
• A commentary on the role of molecular technology and automation in clinical diagnostics.
• Paediatric diabetes: information-seeking behaviours of families.
• Food and beverage advertising during children's television programming.
• The first survey of attitudes of medical students in Ireland towards termination of pregnancy.
• Reducing drinking in concurrent problem alcohol and illicit drug users: an impact story
• Clustered multidrug‐resistant Bordetella petrii in adult cystic fibrosis patients in Ireland: case report and review of antimicrobial therapies
• A case of fatal daptomycin-resistant, vancomycin-resistant enterococcal infective endocarditis in end-stage kidney disease
• Milford Palliative Care Assessment Tool
• Perceptions and attitudes of community pharmacists towards generic medicines
• Phenomenological and biological correlates of improved cognitive function in hospitalized elderly medical inpatients
• Apparatus for use in the prophylaxis or treatment of tissue
• Consensus transcriptomic profiles can be utilised to differentiate node negative and node positive colorectal cancer
• Psychosocial interventions to reduce alcohol consumption in concurrent problem alcohol and illicit drug users
• From the Sargasso Sea to the West coast of Ireland: The First Reported Cases of Burkholderia Contaminans in Patients with Cystic Fibrosis
• From biocontrol to cancer, probiotics and beyond
• Therapeutic use of compression stockings for orthostatic hypotension: an assessment of patient and physician perspectives and practices
• Terminology and nomenclature in colonic surgery: universal application of a rule-based approach derived from updates on mesenteric anatomy
• Continuous Professional Competence (CPC) for Irish paramedics and advanced paramedics: a national study
• General practice career intentions among graduate-entry students: a cross-sectional study at Ireland's newest medical school
• Concordance between DSM-IV and DSM-5 criteria for delirium diagnosis in a pooled database of 768 prospectively evaluated patients using the delirium rating scale-revised-98
• Continuous professional competence (CPC) for emergency medical technicians in Ireland: educational needs assessment
• Food and beverage cues in UK and Irish children---television programming
• Generic medicines: an evaluation of the accuracy and accessibility of information available on the internet
• Genetic pre-determinants of concurrent alcohol and opioid dependence: a critical review
• Surgeon-performed ultrasound at the bedside for the detection of appendicitis and gallstones: systematic review and meta-analysis.
• General Practice career intentions among graduate-entry students: A cross-sectional study at Ireland's newest medical school
• Paediatric diabetes: Information-seeking behaviours of families
• Paediatric diabetes: information-seeking behaviours of families.
• General practice career intentions among graduate-entry students: a cross-sectional study at Ireland's newest medical school.
• Perceptions and attitudes of community pharmacists towards generic medicines
• Key performance indicators for mental health and substance use disorders: A literature review and discussion paper
• Psychosocial interventions to reduce alcohol consumption in concurrent problem alcohol and illicit drug users.
• Phenomenological and biological correlates of improved cognitive function in hospitalized elderly medical inpatients.
• Continuous Professional Competence (CPC) for Irish paramedics and advanced paramedics: a national study.
• Patient perceptions of generic medicines: a mixed-methods study.
• Continuous professional competence (CPC) for emergency medical technicians in Ireland: educational needs assessment.
• Generic medicines: an evaluation of the accuracy and accessibility of information available on the Internet.
• A method for the design and development of medical or health care information websites to optimize search engine results page rankings on Google.
• Psychosocial interventions for alcohol use among problem drug users: protocol for a feasibility study in primary care.
• Delirium: a disturbance of circadian integrity?
• Integrating postgraduate and undergraduate general practice education: qualitative study.
• What do we really know about the treatment of delirium with antipsychotics? Ten key issues for delirium pharmacotherapy.
• What is the difference between deontological and consequentialist theories of medical ethics?
• Research confuses me: what is qualitative research & what is the difference between grounded theory and phenomenology?
• What is the difference between sensitivity and specificity? Or positive predictive value and negative predictive value? And what's a ROC if it's not a type of bird?
• What are the differences between common statistical tests?
• What are the differences between a literature search, a literature review, a systematic review and a meta-analysis? And why is a systematic review considered to be so good?
• An evidence-based assessment of primary care needs in an economically deprived urban community.
• What is a randomised controlled trial?
• Research confuses me: what is the difference between case-control and cohort studies in quantitative research?
• What's the difference between PubMed and MEDLINE? And how do you best search MEDLINE anyway?
• Students in medical school become involved in research for many reasons.
• A review of the differences and similarities between generic drugs and their originator counterparts, including economic benefits associated with usage of generic medicines, using Ireland as a case study.
• Towards vertical integration in general practice education: literature review and discussion paper.
• From biocontrol to cancer, probiotics and beyond.
• Primary care support for youth mental health: a preliminary evidence base for Ireland's Mid-West.
• First evaluation of CPD advanced paramedic teaching methods in Ireland
• Consensus transcriptomic profiles can be utilised to differentiate node negative and node positive colorectal cancer
• What is the difference between deontological and consequentialist theories of medical ethics?
• What's the difference between common statistical tests?
• What are the differences between a literature search, a literature review, a systematic review and a meta-analysis? And why is a systematic review considered to be so good?
• Synbiotic consumption modulates cancer risk biomarkers in colon cancer and polypectomised human subjects.
• The Mesocolon--A Histological Characterisation of the Mesenteric Attachment of the Colon
• Induction of apoptosis in 786-0 renal cell carcinoma by reactive oxygen species is ERK1/2-, p38$δ$ and $γ$ MAPK-and Pak-1-dependent but JNK-independent
• Towards vertical integration in general practice education: literature review and discussion paper
• The influence of synbiotic consumption on proliferation in the mucosa of polypectomised human subjects
• Research confuses me: what is the difference between case-control and cohort studies in quantitative research?
• What's the difference between PubMed and MEDLINE? and how do you best search MEDLINE anyway?
• Application of the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) to generate and validate consensus transcriptomic profiles that accurately differentiate nodal status in colorectal cancer
• vhl: Op013 gene mutations in renal cancer are not predictive of hypoxic gene regulation or dissemination of cancer cells: Op013
• The influence of synbiotic consumption on cancer risk biomarkers in previously resected colon cancer subjects
• Anterior knee pain in competitive cyclists.
• Students in medical school become involved in research for many reasons.
• An evaluation and application of publically available microarray data repositories in colorectal cancer-generation and enrichment of a consensus profile differentiating colorectal primary and metastatic tumours
• Research confuses me: what is qualitative research & what is the difference between grounded theory and phenomenology?
• What is the difference between sensitivity and specificity? Or positive predictive value and negative predictive value? And what'sa ROC if It's not a type of bird?
• Psychosocial interventions for problem alcohol use in illicit drug users
• Psychosocial interventions to reduce alcohol consumption in concurrent problem alcohol and illicit drug users: Cochrane Review.
• Children in hospital in Ireland--what do they eat and what do they weigh: a cross-sectional study.
• Induction of apoptosis in renal cell carcinoma by reactive oxygen species: involvement of extracellular signal-regulated kinase 1/2, p38delta/gamma, cyclooxygenase-2 down-regulation, and translocation of apoptosis-inducing factor.
• Correlation of probiotic Lactobacillus salivarius growth phase with its cell wall-associated proteome.
• Combined electric field and ultrasound therapy as a novel anti-tumour treatment.
• Probiotics: an emerging therapy.
• The development of novel flexible electrode arrays for the electrochemotherapy of solid tumour tissue. (Potential for endoscopic treatment of inaccessible cancers).
• Role of probiotics in the treatment of intestinal infections and inflammation.
• Successful application of targeted electrochemotherapy using novel flexible electrodes and low dose bleomycin to solid tumours.
• Prevalence of bone marrow micrometastases in esophagogastric cancer patients with and without neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy.
• Editorial
• Mechanisms of adherence of a probiotic Lactobacillus strain during and after in vivo assessment in ulcerative colitis patients
• Psychosocial interventions to reduce alcohol consumption in concurrent problem alcohol and illicit drug users.
• Sterilization of scrambled eggs in military polymeric trays by radio frequency energy
• What is a randomised controlled trial?
• What's the difference between PubMed and MEDLINE? And how do you best search MEDLINE anyway?
• Students in medical school become involved in research for many reasons.
• Research confuses me: what is qualitative research & what is the difference between grounded theory and phenomenology?
• What is the difference between sensitivity and specificity? Or positive predictive value and negative predictive value? And what's a ROC if it's not a type of bird?
• What are the differences between a literature search, a literature review, a systematic review and a meta-analysis? And why is a systematic review considered to be so good?
• The development of novel flexible electrode arrays for the electrochemotherapy of solid tumour tissue. (Potential for endoscopie treatment of inaccessible cancers)
• Research confuses me: what is the difference between case-control and cohort studies in quantitative research?
• What is the difference between deontological and consequentialist theories of medical ethics?
• What are the differences between common statistical tests?
• A randomised controlled trial of a probiotic Lactobacillus strain in healthy adults: Assessment of its delivery, transit and influence on microbial flora and enteric immunity
• Electrotherapy of tumour cells using flexible electrode arrays
• What answers does the Internet provide for patients in Ireland with questions about generic medicines?
• Psychosocial interventions to reduce alcohol consumption in concurrent problem alcohol and illicit drug users.
• Genotoxicity of fecal water in a free-living Irish population.
• Post-Exercise Feeding of Carbohydrate-Protein Beverages on Subsequent Endurance Performance
• Mechanisms of Adherence of aProbiotic LactobacillusStrain during and afterin vivoAssessment in Ulcerative Colitis Patients
• Probiotic Bacteria and the Human Immune
• Probiotic human bifidobacteria: Selection of a new strain and evaluation in vitro and in vivo
• Inhibition of egg hatch of the potato cyst nematode Globodera rostochiensis by chitinase-producing bacteria
• Box 1. The PROBDEMO probiotic strains
• The survival and colonic adhesion of Bifidobacterium infantis in patients with ulcerative colitis.
• Role of 2,4-Diacetylphloroglucinol in the Interactions of the Biocontrol Pseudomonad Strain F113 with the Potato Cyst Nematode Globodera rostochiensis.
• Management of Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia (SAB) in the oncology patient: Further evidence supports prompt removal of central venous catheters and shorter duration of intravenous antimicrobial therapy
• Assessment of the FilmArray® multiplex PCR system and associated meningitis/encephalitis panel in the diagnostic service of a tertiary hospital
• In vitro selection criteria for probiotic bacteria of human origin: Correlation with in vivo findings
• In vivo assessment of potential probiotic Lactobacillus salivarius strains: Evaluation of their establishment, persistence, and localisation in the murine gastrointestinal tract
• Role of probiotics in the treatment of intestinal infections and inflammation
• Ecological interaction of a biocontrol Pseudomonas fluorescens strain producing 2,4-diacetylphloroglucinol with the soft rot potato pathogen Erwinia carotovora subsp. atroseptica
• Mechanisms involved in biocontrol by microbial inoculants
• The influence of in-egg mortality and spontaneous hatching on the decline of Globodera rostochiensis during crop rotation in the absence of the host potato crop in the field
• Pseudomonads isolated from within fruit bodies of Tuber borchii are capable of producing biological control or phytostimulatory compounds in pure culture
• Role of 2,4-diacetylphloroglucinol in the interactions of the biocontrol pseudomonad strain F113 with the potato cyst nematode Globodera rostochiensis
• Biological control of Pythium ultimum by Stenotrophomonas maltophilia W81 is mediated by an extracellular proteolytic activity
• Adaptation of bacteria to the intestinal niche: probiotics and gut disorder.
• In vitro selection criteria for probiotic bacteria of human origin: correlation with in vivo findings.
• Overproduction of an inducible extracellular serine protease improves biological control of Pythium ultimum by Stenotrophomonas maltophilia strain W81.
• Probiotics: towards demonstrating efficacy.
• The influence of in-egg mortality and spontaneous hatching on the decline of Globodera rostochiensis during crop rotation in the absence of the host potato crop in the field.
• Probiotics: from myth to reality. Demonstration of functionality in animal models of disease and in human clinical trials.
• Combining proteolytic and phloroglucinol-producing bacteria for improved biocontrol of Pythium-mediated damping-off of sugar beet.
• Inhibition of egg hatch of the potato cyst nematode Globodera rostochiensis by chitinase-producing bacteria.
• Ecological interaction of a biocontrol Pseudomonas fluorescens strain producing 2,4-diacetylphloroglucinol with the soft rot potato pathogen Erwinia carotovora subsp. atroseptica
• In vitro selection criteria for probiotic bacteria of human origin: correlation with in vivo findings
• Probiotic human bifidobacteria: Selection of a new strain and evaluation in vitro and in vivo
• Immunologic response to a novel probiotic organism in patients with active Crohn's disease
• The microbial pathology of maternal perinatal sepsis: A single-institution retrospective five-year review
• Indwelling central venous catheter infection with Chryseobacterium shandongense - successful eradication in a 5-year-old with cystic fibrosis.
• A novel characterised multidrug-resistant Pseudocitrobacter isolated from a patient colonised while admitted to a tertiary teaching hospital
• People With Intellectual Disabilities as Accused Persons in the Irish Policing Interface
• Seek and you shall find: Yersinia enterocolitica in Ireland’s drinking water
• Casting light on the links between delirium, infection, and dementia risk.