DACHA Outputs
This page shows an up-to-date list of academic and public outputs produced by the DACHA research management team.
Summaries and other public resources
Document | Type | Work stream |
Date | Download |
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Ensuring trial interventions in care homes have their best chance of success | Guidance leaflet | Work Package 1 Review 2 | 02.2022 | đź—Ž |
A review of specific factors influencing complex interventions in care homes | Plain English summary leaflet | Work Package 1 Review 2 | 02.2022 | đź—Ž |
Developing a Care Homes Trials Archive | Plain English summary leaflet | Work Package 2 | 02.2022 | đź—Ž |
The realist review of minimum data set (MDS) use in care homes | Plain English summary leaflet | Work Package 3 | 02.2022 | đź—Ž |
Developing a minimum data set for older adult care homes in the UK: Key principles | Plain English summary leaflet | General | 03.2022 | đź—Ž |
Developing a minimum data set for older adult care homes in the UK: Key principles | Extended plain English summary | General | 03.2022 | đź—Ž |
Journal Articles and Protocols
- Burton JK, Wolters AT, Towers AM, Jones L, Meyer J, Gordon AL, Irvine L, Hanratty B, Spilsbury K, Peryer G, Rand S, Killett A, Akdur G, Allan S, Biswas P, Goodman C. (2022) Developing a minimum data set for older adult care homes in the UK: exploring the concept and defining early core principles, The Lancet Healthy Longevity, Volume 3, Issue 3. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666756822000101
- Peryer G, Kelly S, Blake J, Burton JK, Irvine L, Cowan A, Akdur G, Killett A, Brand SL, Musa MK, Meyer J, Gordon AL, Goodman C. (2022) Contextual factors influencing complex intervention research processes in care homes: a systematic review and framework synthesis, Age and Ageing, Volume 51, Issue 3. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afac014
- Musa, M.K., Akdur, G., Brand, S., Killett, A., Spilsbury, K., Peryer, G., Burton, J. K., Gordon, A. L., Hanratty, B., Towers, A-M., Irvine, L., Kelly, S., Jones, L., Meyer, J. & Goodman, C. (2022) The uptake and use of a minimum data set (MDS) for older people living and dying in care homes: a realist review. BMC Geriatr 22, 33. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-021-02705-w
- Irvine L, Burton JK, Ali M, Quinn TJ, Goodman C. (2021) Protocol for the development of a repository of individual participant data from randomised controlled trials conducted in adult care homes (the Virtual International Care Homes Trials Archive (VICHTA)). Trials 22, 157. https://trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13063-021-05107-w
- Musa, M., Akdur, G., Hanratty, B., Kelly, S., Gordon, A., Peryer, G., Spilsbury, K., Killett, A., Burton, J., Meyer, J., Fortescue, S., Towers, A-M., Irvine, L. & Goodman, C. (2020) The uptake and use of a minimum data set (MDS) for older people living and dying in care homes in England – a realist review protocol. 14 Nov 2020, In: BMJ Open. 10, 11, 7 p., e040397. https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/10/11/e040397
- Burton, J. K., Goodman, C., Guthrie, B., Gordon, A. L., Hanratty, B. and Quinn, T. J. (2020) Closing the UK care home data gap – methodological challenges and solutions: Closing the UK care home data gap. International Journal of Population Data Science, 5(4). https://ijpds.org/article/view/1391
- Hanratty, B., Burton, J. K., Goodman, C., Gordon, A. L., & Spilsbury, K. (2020) Covid-19 and lack of linked datasets for care homes. BMJ, 369.https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m2463
- Work Package 3 PROSPERO registration: “The uptake and use of the minimum data set (MDS) for older people living and dying in care homes in care home settings: a realist review” – 9 March 2020 https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/display_record.php?RecordID=171323
- Work Package 1 PROSPERO registration: “A systematic review of process and contextual factors that influence research implementation in care homes and identification of key measures and outcomes in care home research” – 10 January 2020  https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/display_record.php?RecordID=155923
Other Outputs
- ARC East of England and ARC South London Webinar. 4 May 2022. “Policy priorities for high-quality care in care homes: what does the evidence suggest?” https://www.arc-sl.nihr.ac.uk/events-training/events-training/policy-priorities-high-quality-care-care-homes
- University of Hertfordshire Press Release. “New data collection on care homes risks overlooking residents’ quality of life, researchers warn”. 8 March 2022. https://www.herts.ac.uk/about-us/news-centre/news/2022/new-data-collection-on-care-homes-risks-overlooking-residents-quality-of-life,-researchers-warn
- Working with ENRICH. 8 February 2022. The presentations can be accessed here: 1- DACHA Overview, 2- Implementation in Care Homes, 3- Public Involvement
- THIS Space 2021. “Improving the evidence for improving cross-sector working”. 24 November 2021. https://info.thisinstitute.cam.ac.uk/this-space-2021
- PEDS-Knowledge Exchange Seminar Series. “DACHA: an overview of the project and the care home trials archive”. 23 November 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY6-JYBWDcw
- LTCcovid Expert Panel – Claire Goodman, Jenni Burton, Liz Jones. 18 October 2021. https://ukpandemicethics.org/ – https://ltccovid.org/2021/10/06/ltccovid-webinar-whatpolicy-for-uk-social-care-data-needs-to-do-now-18-october-2021-2pm-bst/
- Presentation at The Care Show. “Social care data matters! Lessons learnt from DACHA study”. 14 October 2021. https://www.careshow.co.uk/conference-programme-2021/dacha-study
- East Midlands Research into Ageing Network (EMRAN) webinar. June 2021.
- Non-academic publication on The Carer Digital: “Better Data, Not More Data: How A Study That Develops A Care Home Minimum Data Set Might Help” 26 May 2021. https://issuu.com/thecarer/docs/the_carer_digital_54 (page 8)
- Presentation at Open Data Saves Lives. 6 May 2021. https://opendatasaveslives.org/events/session-27/Â
- Presentation at the Applied Social Care Research Using Routine Data workshop by ARC West/HDRUK – “Developing resources and minimum data set for care homes adoption (DACHA)” 10 December 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HzePDf3tG8  (The event report can be accessed here)
- Presentation at HSR UK Conference 2020 – “Repurposing of clinical trial data: Developing a Repository of Care Home Trials” 17 June 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GtpwuQTjDY
- Presentation at Dementia Care Research Summit 2020 – “Sharing dementia care research data” 12 February 2020  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwb5wdScsU4
Blog Posts
- Please see DACHA blog for all blog posts: http://dachastudy.com/dacha-blogs/
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