Professor Rod Sheaff
Professor in Health Services Research
Expertise
Health Policy, Implementation, Organisational Theory, International Health Systems
Biography
For PenCLAHRC I have contributed to the VTE ,COCOA and PFMT projects. I also research health-care commissioning; primary care integration; the organisation of professional partnerships and co-operatives; the conduct and governance of NHS boards; preventing recurrent hospital admissions for older people; healthcare networks, having researched in Germany, Italy, Russia, Portugal and the USA and elsewhere.
Publications
- A group-based behavioural intervention for weight management (PROGROUP) versus usual care in adults with severe obesity: a feasibility randomised controlled trial protocol
- Engaging Stakeholders in Realist Programme Theory Building: Insights from the Prospective Phase of a Primary Care Dementia Support Study
- Categories of context in realist evaluation
- Avoidable Acute Admissions
- Evaluating a Dementia Learning Community: exploratory study and research implications
- From programme theory to logic models for multispecialty community providers: a realist evidence synthesis
- Bridging the discursive gap between lay and medical discourse in care coordination
- How can frontline expertise and new models of care best contribute to safely reducing avoidable acute admissions? A mixed-methods study of four acute hospitals.
- Integration and continuity of primary care: polyclinics and alternatives – a patient-centred analysis of how organisation constrains care co-ordination
- Risks, dangers and competing clinical decisions on venous thromboembolism prophylaxis in hospital care
- The implementation of NICE guidance on venous thromboembolism risk assessment and prophylaxis: A before- after observational study to assess the impact on patient safety across four hospitals in England
- Has incentive payment improved venous thrombo-embolism risk assessment and treatment of hospital in-patients?
- (COCOA) Care for Offenders Continuity of Access
- Understanding professional partnerships and non-hierarchical organisations (OP112 report)
- Implementation of evidence-based national guidance on venous thromboembolism prophylaxis for hospital in-patients in England