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Ireland's central source for Open Access health research

Lenus, the Irish Health Research repository is the leading source for Irish research in health and social care.  The Lenus collections include peer reviewed journal articles, grey literature, dissertations, reports and conference presentations. Lenus contains the publications of the Irish Health Service Executive (HSE) and the collected research output of over 130 health organisations past and present are all freely accessible.

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If you are an Irish researcher or have conducted research in an Irish institution or health organisation, you can add your published research to Lenus. Submitted articles must be available in Open Access format or the publisher's policy must permit author self archiving. Advice on Open Access publishing and publishers' policies is available on the 'Open Access Publishing Guide' and 'Publishers' policies' pages available on the left-hand menu.     

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HSE Open Access Research Awards 2022

The annual HSE Open Access Awards were announced on 5th December 2022. This year the winners were in the following categories:

Acute Care & Hospitals

Response to treatment and outcomes of infantile spasms in Down syndrome.

Susan Harvey and colleagues

 

Community & Social Care

The duration of infectiousness of individuals infected with SARS-CoV-2.

Kieran Walsh and colleagues

 

Mental Health & Disabilities

Brief psychological interventions in face-to-face and telehealth formats: a comparison of outcomes in a naturalistic setting

Padraig Collins and colleagues

 

Integrated Services

Testing the performance of risk prediction models to determine progression to referable diabetic retinopathy in an Irish type 2 diabetes cohort

John Smith and colleagues

 

Climate or Environmental Health

How to Irish Hospitals manage the core components of critical infrastructure resilience, and how can this be developed further to mitigate the impact of extreme weather events?

Yvonne Gregory

 

Special Innovation Award Winner

Flood hydrometeorology and gastroenteric infection: The Winter 2015-2016 flood event in the Republic of Ireland

Martin Boudou and colleagues

 

OVERALL WINNER

An Evaluation of the Impact of a Multicomponent Stop Smoking Intervention in an Irish Prison

Andrea Bowe and colleagues

 

Congratulations to all our winners, and to all who entered their research for the Awards. And a sincere thanks to our judges, who generously lent us their expertise.

 


 

 

 

 

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  • Quality Improvement Terms and Concepts Used in the Irish Healthcare Setting

    National Quality and Patient Safety Directorate (2022-09)
  • HSE National Centre for Clinical Audit Clinical Audit – A Practical Guide

    HSE National Centre for Clinical Audit; HSE National Centre for Clinical Audit (2023-03)
  • An observational study of dose dense chemotherapy with lipegfilgrastim support in early breast cancer.

    Rashed, Ahmed; Fitzpatrick, Orla M; Easty, David J; Collins, Dearbhaile; Mallet, Victoria; Milewski, Maciej; Egan, Keith; Grogan, Liam; Hennessy, Bryan T; Morris, Patrick G; et al. (2023-02-20)
    This was a single arm, non-interventional, prospective study. The primary endpoint was to determine the rate of neutropenia defined as ANC of < 1.0 × 109/L, during four cycles of dose dense AC with lipegfilgrastim support. The secondary endpoints were the incidence of febrile neutropenia, (temperature > 38 °C and ANC < 1.0 × 109/L), treatment delays, premature treatment cessation and toxicity.
  • Improved Strength Recovery and Reduced Fatigue with Suppressed Plasma Myostatin Following Supplementation of a Hydrolysate, in a Healthy Male Population.

    Kerr, Alish; Hart, Luke; Davis, Heidi; Lacey, Seán; Franklyn-Miller, Andrew; Khaldi, Nora; Wall, Audrey; Keogh, Brian (2023-02-16)
    Delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS) due to intense physical exertion can negatively impact contractility and performance. Previously, NPN_1 (PeptiStrong™), a Vicia faba hydrolysate derived from a protein concentrate discovered through artificial intelligence (AI), was preclinically shown to help maintain muscle health, indicating the potential to mediate the effect of DOMS and alter molecular markers of muscle damage to improve recovery and performance. A randomised double-blind placebo-controlled trial was conducted on 30 healthy male (30-45 years old) volunteers (NCT05159375). Following initial strength testing on day 0, subjects were administered either placebo or NPN_1 (2.4 g/day). On day 14, DOMS was induced using resistance exercise. Strength recovery and fatigue were measured after 48 and 72 h. Biomarker analysis was performed on blood samples collected prior to DOMS induction and 0, 2, 48 and 72 h post-DOMS induction. NPN_1 supplementation significantly improved strength recovery compared to placebo over the 72 h period post-resistance exercise (p = 0.027), measured by peak torque per bodyweight, but not at individual timepoints. Muscle fatigue was significantly reduced over the same 72 h period (p = 0.041), as was myostatin expression (p = 0.006). A concomitant increase in other acute markers regulating muscle protein synthesis, regeneration and myoblast differentiation was also observed. NPN_1 significantly improves strength recovery and restoration, reduces fatigue and positively modulates alterations in markers related to muscle homeostasis.

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