Foreword
IMPROVING PATIENT CARE THROUGH RESEARCH
Defibrillators in general practice save lives
Improving outcomes of diabetes in pregnancy – an Irish perspective
Switching on to assistive technology
Getting hip to PET scans for bone health
Power to the people – autonomy in older residential care
Irish patients help unravel genetic clues to motor neurone disease
People with cystic fibrosis in Ireland are living longer
Giving migrants a voice in GP consultations
Ready for home?
How was your stay? Assessing inpatient experience in Ireland
A silent topic: managing after rectal surgery
SEARCHING FOR BETTER TREATMENTS
How to hit a tumour spot on – with engineered adult stem cells
Keeping a step ahead of diabetic foot disease
Towards a universal flu vaccine
Looking after smiles in older people
Digging into the genes behind rare diseases
A helping hand for Hepatitis C treatment
Does the immune system wise up to foreign stem cells?
A stiff warning for heart failure
A candid look at fungal infections
INNOVATING HEALTH POLICY AND PRACTICE
Establishing standards for the quality of primary care
The information diet – promoting health and wellbeing with high-quality data
A new view of road traffi c collision ‘hotspots’
Resistance needed for antibiotic misuse
Peer support in diabetes – does it really work?
Children are not small adults – new perspectives on the young immune system
How can we tell if your heart is working well?
Smoking and obesity – a double whammy for the immune system
“Catching children being good” helps their conduct and their parents
Tackling a weighty warning sign for patients with heart failure
SPECIAL FOCUS: UNDERSTANDING THE BRAIN
Targeting Parkinson’s disease from the inside out
Do combinations of genes increase ADHD risk?
Don’t forget – assessing patients with traumatic brain injury
Cell waste and Alzheimer’s – a new perspective?
Paying attention to attention after brain injury
How does the brain protect itself from HIV?
The Picture of Health 2012 demonstrates just some of the outcomes and achievements that are emerging from funded work. The outcomes from 92 HRB grants completed included: 17 new products and interventions in development; 58 influences on policy and practice; 1317 patients able to participate in cancer clinical studies; 256 new national or international collaborations; 113 research-related jobs across the health services and academia; More than €14 million leveraged in additional research funding for Ireland; 38 PhD students trained across a variety of health disciplines.
| Format | Download |
|---|---|
| Keywords | health, medical research |
| Publisher | HRB |
| Classification | medical research |
| ISSN | 1649-8844 |
| Pages | 56 |
| Categories: | Reports, Irish Content |
| External Link | http://www.hrb.ie/ |
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