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Joseph MacMahon
Researcher at Belfast City Hospital
Publications - 14
Citations - 534
Joseph MacMahon is an academic researcher from Belfast City Hospital. The author has contributed to research in topics: Pulmonary rehabilitation & Histamine. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 14 publications receiving 501 citations. Previous affiliations of Joseph MacMahon include Belfast Health and Social Care Trust.
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The challenge of patients' unmet palliative care needs in the final stages of chronic illness.
Donna Fitzsimons,D. Mullan,Julie Wilson,B Conway,B Corcoran,Martin Dempster,Jacqueline Gamble,C. Stewart,S Rafferty,M. Molly McMahon,Joseph MacMahon,P. Mulholland,P Stockdale,E Chew,L Hanna,J H Brown,G Ferguson,Damian Fogarty +17 more
TL;DR: Deteriorating health status was the central theme derived from this analysis and an earlier and more effective implementation of the palliative care approach is necessary if the needs of patients in the final stages of chronic illness are to be adequately addressed.
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Prevalence of psychomorbidity among patients with chronic cough
Lorcan McGarvey,Carol Carton,Lucy A Gamble,Liam G Heaney,Richard Shepherd,M. Ennis,Joseph MacMahon +6 more
TL;DR: Patients with chronic cough appear to have increased levels of emotional upset although psychological questionnaires do not readily distinguish between idiopathic coughers and those successfully treated.
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Education in pulmonary rehabilitation: The patient's perspective
TL;DR: Wilson et al. as discussed by the authors used focus groups of patients and health professionals to ascertain from patients' perspectives what should be included in the educational component of pulmonary rehabilitation and how it should be delivered, and compare those perspectives with the views of health professionals.
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Facilitating education in pulmonary rehabilitation using the living well with COPD programme for pulmonary rehabilitation: a process evaluation.
Denise Cosgrove,Denise Cosgrove,Joseph MacMahon,Jean Bourbeau,Judy Bradley,Judy Bradley,Brenda O'Neill +6 more
TL;DR: This rigorous process evaluation has demonstrated that the LWWCOPD programme for pulmonary rehabilitation can be used to deliver high quality, consistent and equitable education sessions during hospital and community-based pulmonary rehabilitation.
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Assessing education in pulmonary rehabilitation: the Understanding COPD (UCOPD) questionnaire.
TL;DR: The UCOPD questionnaire assesses understanding, self-efficacy and use of key self-management skills (Section A) and satisfaction (Section B) and has good validity and practical properties, and readability was acceptable.