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  1. improving Pain mAnagement for childreN and young people attendeD by Ambulance (PANDA): protocol for a realist review.

    Article • NIHR Open Research, January 2025, National Institute for Health Research

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  2. Effectiveness of a personalised self-management intervention for people living with long covid (Listen trial): pragmatic, multicentre, parallel group, randomised controlled trial

    Article • BMJ Medicine, January 2025, BMJ

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  3. Language of primary medical qualification and differential MRCGP exam attainment: an observational study

    Article • British Journal of General Practice, October 2024, Royal College of General Practitioners

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  4. Routine outcomes to investigate differences between ethnic minorities and White British people presenting to emergency services for injury: the stakeholder consultation

    Article • Health and Social Care Delivery Research, October 2024, National Institute for Health Research

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  5. improving Pain mAnagement for childreN and young people attendeD by Ambulance (PANDA): protocol for a realist review.

    Article • NIHR Open Research, September 2024, National Institute for Health Research

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  6. Perceptions and experiences of trainers and trainees of UK workplace-based assessment for general practice licensing: a mixed methods survey

    Article • Education for Primary Care, August 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  7. Emergency medical service interventions and experiences during pandemics: A scoping review

    Article • PLOS One, August 2024, PLOS

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  8. Nurse-delivered sleep restriction therapy to improve insomnia disorder in primary care: the HABIT RCT

    Article • Health Technology Assessment, August 2024, National Institute for Health Research

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  9. improving Pain mAnagement for childreN and young people attendeD by Ambulance (PANDA): protocol for a realist review.

    Article • NIHR Open Research, July 2024, National Institute for Health Research

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  10. Community First Responders’ role in the current and future rural health and care workforce: a mixed-methods study

    Article • Health and Social Care Delivery Research, July 2024, National Institute for Health Research

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  11. Ambulance Services Attendance for Mental Health and Overdose Before and During COVID-19 in Canada and the United Kingdom: Interrupted Time Series Study

    Article • JMIR Public Health and Surveillance, May 2024, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  12. Development of indicators for avoidable emergency medical service calls by mapping paramedic clinical impression codes to ambulatory care sensitive conditions and mental health conditions in the UK and Canada

    Article • BMJ Open, December 2023, BMJ

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  13. Nurse-delivered sleep restriction therapy in primary care for adults with insomnia disorder: a mixed-methods process evaluation

    Article • British Journal of General Practice, September 2023, Royal College of General Practitioners

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  14. Clinical and cost-effectiveness of nurse-delivered sleep restriction therapy for insomnia in primary care (HABIT): a pragmatic, superiority, open-label, randomised controlled trial

    Article • The Lancet, September 2023, Elsevier

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  15. Volunteering on Heritage at Risk sites and wellbeing: A qualitative interview study

    Article • Health Expectations, August 2023, Wiley

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  16. Community efforts to promote vaccine uptake in a rural setting: a qualitative interview study

    Article • Health Promotion International, August 2023, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  17. External validation of the Manchester Acute Coronary Syndromes ECG risk model within a pre-hospital setting

    Article • Emergency Medicine Journal, April 2023, BMJ

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  18. Building an understanding of Ethnic minority people’s Service Use Relating to Emergency care for injuries: the BE SURE study protocol

    Article • BMJ Open, April 2023, BMJ

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  19. Patient, family member, and ambulance staff experiences of prehospital acute pain management in adults: A systematic review and meta‐synthesis

    Article • Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open, April 2023, Elsevier

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  20. Performance of ethnic minority versus White doctors in the MRCGP assessment 2016–2021: a cross-sectional study

    Article • British Journal of General Practice, February 2023, Royal College of General Practitioners

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  21. Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a personalised self-management intervention for living with long COVID: protocol for the LISTEN randomised controlled trial

    Article • Trials, February 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  22. Community First Responders’ Contribution to Emergency Medical Service Provision in the United Kingdom

    Article • Annals of Emergency Medicine, February 2023, Elsevier

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  23. Examiner perceptions of the MRCGP recorded consultation assessment for general practice licensing during COVID-19: cross-sectional study

    Article • BMC Medical Education, January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  24. Practitioners’ views on community implementation of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) in the UK: a qualitative interview study

    Article • BMC Health Services Research, January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  25. Common hierarchies, varied rules - the problem of governing community first responders in prehospital care for quality standards: documentary discourse analysis

    Article • BMC Health Services Research, January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  26. The effect of specific learning difficulties on general practice written and clinical assessments

    Article • Academic Medicine, December 2022, Wiley

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  27. Scaling-up a pharmacist-led information technology intervention (PINCER) to reduce hazardous prescribing in general practices: Multiple interrupted time series study

    Article • PLoS Medicine, November 2022, PLOS

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  28. The experiences and perceptions of wellbeing provision among English ambulance services staff: a multi-method qualitative study

    Article • BMC Health Services Research, November 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  29. Optimising ambulance conveyance rates and staff costs by adjusting proportions of rapid-response vehicles and dual-crewed ambulances: an economic decision analytical modelling study

    Article • Emergency Medicine Journal, November 2022, BMJ

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  30. Time intervals and distances travelled for prehospital ambulance stroke care: data from the randomised-controlled ambulance-based Rapid Intervention with Glyceryl trinitrate in Hypertensive stroke Trial-2 (RIGHT-2)

    Article • BMJ Open, November 2022, BMJ

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  31. Perceptions and experiences of medical student first responders: a mixed methods study

    Article • BMC Medical Education, October 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  32. Implementing public involvement throughout the research process—Experience and learning from the GPs in EDs study

    Article • Health Expectations, July 2022, Wiley

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  33. Evaluation of the effectiveness and costs of inhaled methoxyflurane versus usual analgesia for prehospital injury and trauma: non-randomised clinical study

    Article • BMC Emergency Medicine, July 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  34. Improving ambulance care for children suffering acute pain: a qualitative interview study

    Article • BMC Emergency Medicine, June 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  35. Characterizing Unusual Spatial Clusters of Male Mental Health Emergencies Occurring During the First National COVID-19 “Lockdown” in the East Midlands Region, UK: A Geospatial Analysis of Ambulance 999 Data

    Article • American Journal of Men s Health, May 2022, SAGE Publications

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  36. The effectiveness of primary care streaming in emergency departments on decision-making and patient flow and safety – A realist evaluation

    Article • International Emergency Nursing, May 2022, Elsevier

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  37. Migrant GPs and patients: a cross-sectional study of practice characteristics, patient experiences and migration concordance

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care, April 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  38. If you build it, will they come? Realist analysis of whether Emergency Departments with primary care services generate ‘provider-induced demand’.

    Article • March 2022, Research Square

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  39. Ambulance attendance for substance and/or alcohol use in a pandemic: Interrupted time series analysis of incidents

    Article • Drug and Alcohol Review, March 2022, Wiley

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  40. Corrigendum to: Perceptions and experiences of residents and relatives of emergencies in care homes: a systematic review and metasynthesis of qualitative research

    Article • Age and Ageing, March 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  41. Exploring the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Male Mental Health Emergencies Attended by Ambulances During the First National “Lockdown” in the East Midlands of the United Kingdom

    Article • American Journal of Men s Health, March 2022, SAGE Publications

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  42. An exploration of factors characterising unusual spatial clusters of COVID-19 cases in the East Midlands region, UK: A geospatial analysis of ambulance 999 data

    Article • Landscape and Urban Planning, March 2022, Elsevier

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  43. Patients’ experiences of attending emergency departments where primary care services are located: qualitative findings from patient and clinician interviews from a realist evaluation

    Article • BMC Emergency Medicine, January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  44. Pre-hospital transdermal glyceryl trinitrate in patients with stroke mimics: data from the RIGHT-2 randomised-controlled ambulance trial

    Article • BMC Emergency Medicine, January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  45. Rethinking the health implications of society-environment relationships in built areas: An assessment of the access to healthy and hazards index in the context of COVID-19

    Article • Landscape and Urban Planning, January 2022, Elsevier

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  46. Alcohol and other substance use during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review

    Article • Drug and Alcohol Dependence, December 2021, Elsevier

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  47. Learning from diagnostic errors to improve patient safety when GPs work in or alongside emergency departments: incorporating realist methodology into patient safety incident report analysis

    Article • BMC Emergency Medicine, November 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  48. Patient‐reported symptoms and experience following Guillain‐Barré syndrome and related conditions: Questionnaire development and validation

    Article • Health Expectations, October 2021, Wiley

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  49. Perceptions and experiences of residents and relatives of emergencies in care homes: a systematic review and metasynthesis of qualitative research

    Article • Age and Ageing, September 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  50. Trends, variations and prediction of staff sickness absence rates among NHS ambulance services in England: a time series study

    Article • BMJ Open, September 2021, BMJ

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  51. Candidate perceptions of the UK Recorded Consultation Assessment: cross-sectional data linkage study

    Article • Education for Primary Care, August 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  52. Call volume, triage outcomes, and protocols during the first wave of the COVID‐19 pandemic in the United Kingdom: Results of a national survey

    Article • Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open, August 2021, Elsevier

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  53. Mental health emergencies and COVID-19: the impact of ‘lockdown’ in the East Midlands of the UK

    Article • BJPsych Open, July 2021, Royal College of Psychiatrists

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  54. Identifying safe care processes when GPs work in or alongside emergency departments: a realist evaluation

    Article • British Journal of General Practice, May 2021, Royal College of General Practitioners

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  55. Ambulance clinician perspectives of disparity in prehospital child pain management: A mixed methods study

    Article • Health Science Reports, April 2021, Wiley

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  56. Effects of cognitive behavioural therapy on insomnia in adults with tinnitus: Systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials

    Article • Sleep Medicine Reviews, April 2021, Elsevier

    Professor Alina Rodriguez, Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  57. Senior clinical and business managers’ perspectives on the influence of different funding mechanisms, and barriers and enablers to implementing models of employing General Practitioners in or alongside emergency departments: Qualitative study

    Article • Health Policy, April 2021, Elsevier

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  58. Machine Learning for Predictive Modelling of Ambulance Calls

    Article • Electronics, February 2021, MDPI AG

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  59. Patients’ experiences and perceptions of Guillain-Barré syndrome: A systematic review and meta-synthesis of qualitative research

    Article • PLOS One, February 2021, PLOS

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  60. Pre-hospital Transdermal Glyceryl Trinitrate in Patients With Stroke Mimics: Data From the Right-2 Randomised-controlled Ambulance Trial

    Article • January 2021, Research Square

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  61. Predictors of recognition of out of hospital cardiac arrest by emergency medical services call handlers in England: a mixed methods diagnostic accuracy study

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Trauma Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  62. Machine Learning for Predictive Modelling of Ambulance Calls

    Article • January 2021, MDPI AG

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  63. Barriers and facilitators to implementing a cancer risk assessment tool (QCancer) in primary care: a qualitative study

    Article • Primary Health Care Research & Development, January 2021, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  64. Do National and International Ethics Documents Accord With the Consent Substitute Model for Emergency Research?

    Article • Academic Emergency Medicine, December 2020, Wiley

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  65. Understanding and remedying the performance of doctors in training

    Article • Academic Medicine, September 2020, Wiley

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  66. Factors that motivate individuals to volunteer to be dispatched as first responders in the event of a medical emergency: A systematic review protocol

    Article • HRB Open Research, September 2020, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  67. The predictors, barriers and facilitators to effective management of acute pain in children by emergency medical services: A systematic mixed studies review

    Article • Journal of Child Health Care, August 2020, SAGE Publications

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  68. Emergency department clinical leads’ experiences of implementing primary care services where GPs work in or alongside emergency departments in the UK: a qualitative study

    Article • BMC Emergency Medicine, August 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  69. Exploring the experiences of having Guillain‐Barré Syndrome: A qualitative interview study

    Article • Health Expectations, August 2020, Wiley

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  70. Predictors of effective management of acute pain in children within a UK ambulance service: A cross-sectional study

    Article • The American Journal of Emergency Medicine, July 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  71. Challenges of recruiting emergency department patients to a qualitative study: a thematic analysis of researchers’ experiences

    Article • BMC Medical Research Methodology, June 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  72. Challenges of recruiting emergency department patients to a qualitative study: a thematic analysis of researchers’ experiences

    Article • May 2020, Research Square

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  73. Communicating cancer risk in the primary care consultation when using a cancer risk assessment tool: Qualitative study with service users and practitioners

    Article • Health Expectations, April 2020, Wiley

    Joseph Akanuwe, Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  74. Understanding how Eastern European migrants use and experience UK health services: a systematic scoping review

    Article • BMC Health Services Research, March 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  75. Primary care treatment of insomnia: study protocol for a pragmatic, multicentre, randomised controlled trial comparing nurse-delivered sleep restriction therapy to sleep hygiene (the HABIT trial)

    Article • BMJ Open, March 2020, BMJ

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  76. Factors that motivate individuals to volunteer to be dispatched as first responders in the event of a medical emergency: A systematic review protocol

    Article • HRB Open Research, December 2019, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  77. PRe-hospital Evaluation of Sensitive TrOponin (PRESTO) Study: multicentre prospective diagnostic accuracy study protocol

    Article • BMJ Open, October 2019, BMJ

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  78. A tailored e-learning gives long-term changes in determinants of GPs’ benzodiazepines prescribing: a pretest-posttest study with self-report assessments

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care, September 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  79. Taxonomy of the form and function of primary care services in or alongside emergency departments: concepts paper

    Article • Emergency Medicine Journal, September 2019, BMJ

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  80. Performance in candidates declaring versus those not declaring dyslexia in a licensing clinical examination

    Article • Academic Medicine, August 2019, Wiley

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  81. Exploring reasons for differences in performance between UK and international medical graduates in the Membership of the Royal College of General Practitioners Applied Knowledge Test: a cognitive interview study

    Article • BMJ Open, May 2019, BMJ

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  82. Developing new ways of measuring the quality and impact of ambulance service care: the PhOEBE mixed-methods research programme

    Article • Programme Grants for Applied Research, April 2019, National Institute for Health Research

    Emeritus Professor Mike Campbell, Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  83. Proactive Assessment of Obesity Risk during Infancy (ProAsk): a qualitative study of parents’ and professionals’ perspectives on an mHealth intervention

    Article • BMC Public Health, March 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  84. Prehospital transdermal glyceryl trinitrate in patients with ultra-acute presumed stroke (RIGHT-2): an ambulance-based, randomised, sham-controlled, blinded, phase 3 trial

    Article • The Lancet, March 2019, Elsevier

    Mr Peter John Godolphin, Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  85. Patient and clinician factors associated with prehospital pain treatment and outcomes: cross sectional study

    Article • The American Journal of Emergency Medicine, February 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  86. Effect of Digital Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia on Health, Psychological Well-being, and Sleep-Related Quality of Life: A Randomized Clinical Trial

    Article • JAMA Psychiatry, January 2019, American Medical Association (AMA)

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  87. Outcomes for Patients Who Contact the Emergency Ambulance Service and Are Not Transported to the Emergency Department: A Data Linkage Study

    Article • Prehospital Emergency Care, December 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  88. Understanding Care Navigation by Older Adults With Multimorbidity: Mixed-Methods Study Using Social Network and Framework Analyses

    Article • JMIR Aging, November 2018, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  89. Telemonitoring in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (CHROMED). A Randomized Clinical Trial

    Article • American Review of Respiratory Disease, September 2018, American Thoracic Society

    Raffaele Dellaca', Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  90. Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest termination of resuscitation with ongoing CPR: An observational study

    Article • Resuscitation, September 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  91. Caregivers’ interactions with health care services – Mediator of stress or added strain? Experiences and perceptions of informal caregivers of people with dementia – A qualitative study

    Article • Dementia, January 2018, SAGE Publications

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  92. What are the predictors, barriers and facilitators to effective management of acute pain in children by ambulance services? A mixed-methods systematic review protocol

    Article • British Paramedic Journal, January 2018, Class Publishing

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  93. Exercise referral schemes - exercise as medicine?

    Article • Qualitative Research in Sport Exercise and Health, July 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson, Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  94. A Systematic Review and Meta-Synthesis of Patients’ Experiences and Perceptions of Seeking and Using Benzodiazepines and Z-Drugs: Towards Safer Prescribing

    Article • The Patient Patient-Centered Outcomes Research, June 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  95. Digital Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Insomnia versus sleep hygiene education: the impact of improved sleep on functional health, quality of life and psychological well-being. Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

    Article • Trials, May 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  96. Ethnicity and pre-hospital care for people with suspected cardiac pain: cross-sectional study

    Article • Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, March 2016, Wiley

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  97. Comparing importance and performance from a patient perspective in English general practice: a cross-sectional survey

    Article • Family Practice, March 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  98. Response

    Article • CHEST Journal, January 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson, Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  99. Influenza vaccination and risk of stroke: Self-controlled case-series study

    Article • Vaccine, October 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  100. Involving older people in a multi-centre randomised trial of a complex intervention in pre-hospital emergency care: implementation of a collaborative model

    Article • Trials, July 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  101. Using patient narratives to enhance care for those with asthma

    Article • CHEST Journal, July 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson, Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  102. Quality assurance of the Applied Knowledge Test (AKT) of the MRCGP examination – an immediate post-test questionnaire evaluation of the candidates’ views

    Article • Education for Primary Care, July 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  103. DEVELOPMENT OF A PATIENT REPORTED EXPERIENCE MEASURE (PREM) FOR USE IN THE AMBULANCE SERVICE

    Article • Emergency Medicine Journal, May 2015, BMJ

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  104. Systematic review of randomised controlled trials of interventions that aim to reduce the risk, either directly or indirectly, of overweight and obesity in infancy and early childhood

    Article • Maternal and Child Nutrition, April 2015, Wiley

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  105. WHAT DO USERS VALUE ABOUT THE EMERGENCY AMBULANCE SERVICE?

    Article • Emergency Medicine Journal, April 2015, BMJ

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  106. LEADERSHIP, INNOVATION AND ENGAGEMENT IN QUALITY IMPROVEMENT IN THE AMBULANCE SERVICES CARDIOVASCULAR QUALITY INITIATIVE: CROSS SECTIONAL STUDY

    Article • Emergency Medicine Journal, April 2015, BMJ

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  107. PREHOSPITAL OUTCOMES FOR AMBULANCE SERVICE CARE: SYSTEMATIC REVIEW

    Article • Emergency Medicine Journal, April 2015, BMJ

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  108. Responding to Diversity and Delivering Equality in Prehospital Care: Statutory Responsibilities, Best Practice and Recommendations

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  109. Views of Paramedics on Their Role in an Out-of-Hospital Ambulance-Based Trial in Ultra-Acute Stroke: Qualitative Data From the Rapid Intervention With Glyceryl Trinitrate in Hypertensive Stroke Trial (RIGHT)

    Article • Annals of Emergency Medicine, December 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  110. A qualitative study of decision-making and safety in ambulance service transitions

    Article • Health Services and Delivery Research, December 2014, National Institute for Health Research

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  111. Reassurance as a key outcome valued by emergency ambulance service users: a qualitative interview study

    Article • Health Expectations, October 2014, Wiley

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  112. Identifying barriers and facilitators to ambulance service assessment and treatment of acute asthma: a focus group study

    Article • BMC Emergency Medicine, August 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  113. Influenza and pneumococcal vaccination and risk of stroke or transient ischaemic attack—Matched case control study

    Article • Vaccine, March 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  114. Sleep Restriction Therapy for Insomnia is Associated with Reduced Objective Total Sleep Time, Increased Daytime Somnolence, and Objectively Impaired Vigilance: Implications for the Clinical Management of Insomnia Disorder

    Article • SLEEP, February 2014, Associated Professional Sleep Societies (APSS)

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  115. The effect of a national quality improvement collaborative on prehospital care for acute myocardial infarction and stroke in England

    Article • Implementation Science, January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  116. Reliability of non-pretested versus pretested questions in the applied knowledge test (AKT) of the MRCGP: evidence of quality assurance

    Article • Education for Primary Care, January 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  117. General practitioners’ experiences and perceptions of benzodiazepine prescribing: systematic review and meta-synthesis

    Article • BMC Family Practice, December 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  118. Severe hypoglycaemia requiring emergency medical assistance by ambulance services in the East Midlands: A retrospective study

    Article • Primary Care Diabetes, July 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  119. Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of an educational intervention for practice teams to deliver problem focused therapy for insomnia: a pilot cluster randomised trial

    Article • December 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  120. Integrating online communities and social networks with computerised treatment for insomnia: a qualitative study

    Article • British Journal of General Practice, December 2012, Royal College of General Practitioners

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  121. Patients’ and ambulance service clinicians’ experiences of prehospital care for acute myocardial infarction and stroke: a qualitative study: Table 1

    Article • Emergency Medicine Journal, November 2012, BMJ

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  122. To be or not to be LGBT in primary health care: health care for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people

    Article • British Journal of General Practice, September 2012, Royal College of General Practitioners

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  123. Medical Priority Dispatch System Breathing Problems Protocol Key Question Combinations are Associated with Patient Acuity

    Article • Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, July 2012, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  124. UK health visitors' role in identifying and intervening with infants at risk of developing obesity

    Article • Maternal and Child Nutrition, June 2012, Wiley

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  125. Comparing performance among male and female candidates in sex-specific clinical knowledge in the MRCGP

    Article • British Journal of General Practice, June 2012, Royal College of General Practitioners

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  126. Patients' and emergency clinicians' perceptions of improving pre-hospital pain management: a qualitative study

    Article • Emergency Medicine Journal, April 2012, BMJ

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  127. Determining the Feasibility of Ambulance-Based Randomised Controlled Trials in Patients with Ultra-Acute Stroke: Study Protocol for the “Rapid Intervention with GTN in Hypertensive Stroke Trial” (RIGHT, ISRCTN66434824)

    Article • Stroke Research and Treatment, January 2012, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  128. Response to letter to the editor by Nicholas S. Kelley, Michael T. Osterholm, and Edward A. Belongia, M.D.

    Article • Vaccine, June 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  129. Room for improvement? Leadership, innovation culture and uptake of quality improvement methods in general practice

    Article • Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, March 2011, Wiley

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  130. The effect of influenza vaccination on risk of acute myocardial infarction: Self-controlled case-series study

    Article • Vaccine, February 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  131. Feline Responses to Hypoglycemia in People with Type 1 Diabetes

    Article • The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, February 2011, Mary Ann Liebert Inc

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  132. What influences pre-hospital cannulation intentions in paramedics? An application of the theory of reasoned action

    Article • Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, August 2010, Wiley

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  133. Exploratory cross-sectional study of factors associated with pre-hospital management of pain

    Article • Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, August 2010, Wiley

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  134. General practitioners' preferences for managing insomnia and opportunities for reducing hypnotic prescribing

    Article • Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, June 2010, Wiley

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  135. Patients' and clinicians' experiences of consultations in primary care for sleep problems and insomnia: a focus group study

    Article • British Journal of General Practice, May 2010, Royal College of General Practitioners

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  136. Why do GPs prescribe psychotropic drugs when they would rather provide alternative psychological interventions?

    Article • British Journal of General Practice, April 2010, Royal College of General Practitioners

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  137. Health visitors’ perception of their role in the universal childhood immunisation programme and their communication strategies with parents

    Article • Primary Health Care Research & Development, December 2009, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  138. Performance and views of examiners in the Applied Knowledge Test for the nMRCGP licensing examination

    Article • British Journal of General Practice, February 2009, Royal College of General Practitioners

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  139. Canine Responses to Hypoglycemia in Patients with Type 1 Diabetes

    Article • The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, December 2008, Mary Ann Liebert Inc

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  140. The current and future role of HCAs in general practice

    Article • British Journal of Healthcare Assistants, September 2008, Mark Allen Group

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  141. Magic bullets for insomnia? Patients' use and experiences of newer (Z drugs) versus older (benzodiazepine) hypnotics for sleep problems in primary care

    Article • British Journal of General Practice, June 2008, Royal College of General Practitioners

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  142. Drivers for change in primary care of diabetes following a protected learning time educational event: interview study of practitioners

    Article • BMC Medical Education, January 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  143. Healthcare workers and influenza vaccination Commentary on Canning HS, Phillips J & Allsup S (2005) Healthcare workers beliefs about influenza vaccine and the reasons for non-vaccination ? a cross-sectional survey. Journal of Clinical Nursing 14, 922?925

    Article • Journal of Clinical Nursing, June 2007, Wiley

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  144. Evaluation of a Postgraduate Examination for Primary Care: Perceptions and Performance of General Practitioner Trainers in the Multiple Choice Paper of the Membership Examination of the Royal College of General Practitioners

    Article • Education for Primary Care, January 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  145. Teaching and Learning Evidence-Based Medicine: Cross-Sectional Survey Investigating Knowledge and Attitudes of Teachers and Learners in Primary and Secondary Care

    Article • Education for Primary Care, January 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  146. Are they really refusing to travel? A qualitative study of prehospital records

    Article • BMC Emergency Medicine, September 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  147. End-of-life care for ethnic minority groups

    Article • Clinical Cornerstone, January 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  148. General practitioners, revalidation and appraisal: a cross sectional survey of attitudes, beliefs and concerns in Lincolnshire

    Article • Academic Medicine, September 2003, Wiley

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  149. Increasing influenza and pneumococcal vaccination rates in high risk groups in one primary care trust as part of a clinical governance programme

    Article • Clinical Governance An International Journal, September 2003, Emerald

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena