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  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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 • Current Controlled Trials in Cardiovascular Medicine, May 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. Response

    Article • CHEST Journal, January 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson, Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

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

    Article • Vaccine, October 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

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

    Article • Current Controlled Trials in Cardiovascular Medicine, July 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

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

    Article • CHEST Journal, July 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson, Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. 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

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

    Article • Emergency Medicine Journal, April 2015, BMJ

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  17. 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

  18. PREHOSPITAL OUTCOMES FOR AMBULANCE SERVICE CARE: SYSTEMATIC REVIEW

    Article • Emergency Medicine Journal, April 2015, BMJ

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  19. 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

  20. 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

  21. 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

  22. 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

  23. 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

  24. 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

  25. 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

  26. 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

  27. 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

  28. 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

  29. 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

  30. 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

  31. 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

  32. 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

  33. 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

  34. 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

  35. 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

  36. 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

  37. 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

  38. 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

  39. 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

  40. 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

  41. 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

  42. 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

  43. 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

  44. 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

  45. 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

  46. 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

  47. 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

  48. 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

  49. 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

  50. 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

  51. 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

  52. 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

  53. 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

  54. 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

  55. 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

  56. 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

  57. 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

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

    Article • Clinical Cornerstone, January 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

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

    Article • Medical Education, September 2003, Wiley

    Professor Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena

  60. 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