Publications 2024  

Cardiovascular disease and the risk of incident falls and mortality among adults aged ≥ 65 years presenting to the emergency department: a cohort study from national registry data in Denmark 

Aisling M. O’Halloran, Jolien Cremers, Karsten Vrangbæk, Lorna Roe, Robert Bourke, Laust H. Mortensen, Rudi G. J. Westendorp & Rose Anne Kenny 

Examining universal access to acute hospital care in Ireland during the first three months of COVID-19: Lessons from the policy process 

Luisne Mac Conghail, Sarah Parker, Sara Burke 

How and why do financial incentives contribute to helping people stop smoking? A realist review 

Rikke Siersbaek, Paul Kavanagh, John Ford, Sara Burke & Sarah Parker 

Lifecycle evaluation of medical devices - supporting or jeopardizing patient outcomes? A comparative analysis of evaluation 

Kathleen R Harkin, Jan Sorensen, Steve Thomas 

Place of Death for Adults Receiving Specialist Palliative Care in Their Last 3 Months of Life: Factors Associated With Preferred Place, Actual Place, and Place of Death Congruence 

Samantha Smith, PhD, Aoife Brick, PhD, Bridget Johnston, PhD, Karen Ryan, MB Bch BAO, Regina McQuillan, MB, MA (Ethics), Sinead O’Hara, MA, Peter May, PhD, Elsa Droog, PhD, Barbara Daveson PhD, R. Sean Morrison, MD, Irene J. Higginson, PhD and Charles Normand, DPhil 

Primary data on symptom burden and quality of life among elderly patients at risk of dying during unplanned admissions to an NHS hospital: a cohort study using EuroQoL and the integrated palliative care outcome scale 

Bridget M. Johnston, Mary Miller, Charles Normand, Magnolia Cardona, Peter May & Aoife C. Lowney 

The impact of a new approach to family safeguarding in social care: Initial findings from an analysis of routine data 

Dulcie Irving, Ruta Buivydaite, Apostolos Tsiachristas, Steve Thomas, Hannah Farncombe, Rafael Perera-Salazar, Charles Vincent 

Dissonance in the face of Alzheimer's breakthroughs: Clinician and lay stakeholder acceptance, concerns and willingness to pay for emerging disease-modifying therapies 

Irina Kinchin, Sharon Walsh, Rachel Dinh, Margaret Kapuwa, Sean P Kennelly, Ann-Marie Miller, Ann Nolan, Sean O'Dowd, Laura O'Philbin, Suzanne Timmons, Iracema Leroi 

Lessons learned from COVID-19: improving breast cancer care post-pandemic from the patient perspective 

Charlotte Myers, Kathleen Bennett , Caitriona Cahir  

Mitigating the regressivity of private mechanisms of financing healthcare: An Assessment of 29 countries 

Ruth Waitzberg, Sara Allin, Michel Grignon, Åsa Ljungvall, Katharina Habimana, Marios Kantaris, Steve Thomas, Thomas Rice 

Navigating the future of Alzheimer's care in Ireland - A service model for disease-modifying therapies in small and medium-sized healthcare systems 

Iracema Leroi, Helena Dolphin, Rachel Dinh, Tony Foley, Sean Kennelly, Irina Kinchin, Rónán O'Caoimh, Sean O'Dowd, Laura O'Philbin, Susan O'Reilly, Dominic Trepel, Suzanne Timmons 

Prevalence, severity and impacts of breathlessness in Indian adults: An exploratory, nationally representative, cross-sectional online survey 

Slavica Kochovska ,Rajam Iye, Sungwon Chang, Diana Ferreira,  Vanessa N. Brunelli, Irina Kinchin, Danny J. Eckert, Joseph Clark, Jacob Sandberg, Magnus Ekström, David Currow, Sujeet Rajan 

 State of Long-term Care in Ireland 

WHO Regional Office for Europe, in collaboration with the Department of Health of Ireland. Principal report writers:  Stefania Ilinca and Cassandra Simmons (WHO Regional Office for Europe), along with Katharine Schulmann (Trinity College Dublin), under the guidance of Natasha Azzopardi-Muscat and Tomas Zapata (WHO Regional Office for Europe) 

Support needs of Australians bereaved during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional survey study 

Serra E Ivynian, Fiona Maccallum, Sungwon Chang, Lauren J Breen, Jane L Phillips, Meera Agar, Annmarie Hosie, Jennifer Tieman, Michelle DiGiacomo, Tim Luckett, Jennifer Philip, Ann Dadich, Christopher Grossman, Imelda Gilmore, Janeane Harlum, Irina Kinchin, Nicholas Glasgow, Elizabeth A Lobb 

The high cost of care and limited evidence on cost-effective strategies for Lewy body dementia: systematic review of evidence 

Erin Boland, Rachel Fitzpatrick, Dearbhail Ryan, Joseph Kane, Sara Betzhold, Iracema Leroi, and Irina Kinchin 

The palliative care experience in Irish nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic: a survey of residents, family, and staff 

Owen Doody, John Lombard, Tara Delamere & Mary Rabbitte 

The role of governance in shaping health system reform: a case study of the design and implementation of new health regions in Ireland, 2018–2023. 

Katharine Schulmann, Carlos Bruen, Sarah Parker, Rikke Siersbaek, Luisne Mac Conghail, Sara Burke 

Understanding the legacies of shocks on health system performance: Exploring Ireland's management of recent crises and its implications for policy 

Liz Farsaci, Padraic Fleming, Arianna Almirall-Sanchez, Catherine O'Donoghue, Steve Thomas 

Defining and quantifying population-level need for children’s palliative care: findings from a rapid scoping review 

Tara Delamere, Joanne Balfe, Lorna K. Fraser, Greg Sheaf & Samantha Smith 

Does a palliative medicine service reduce hospital length of stay and costs in adults with a life-limiting illness?—a difference-in-differences evaluation of service expansion in Ireland 

Soraya Matthews, Eimir Hurley, Bridget M. Johnston, Pauline Kane, Karen Ryan, Eoin Tiernan, Charles Normand, Peter May 

Exploring Novel Assessment Approaches in Health Policy Management using GenAI – Using GenAI in Teaching, Learning and Assessment in Irish Universities 

Carlos Bruen 

Book chapter from Using GenAI in Teaching, Learning and Assessment in Irish Universities Dr Ana Elena Schalk Quintanar (Editor) and Dr Pauline Rooney (Editor) 

How many people will live and die with serious illness in Ireland to 2040? Estimated needs and costs using microsimulation 

Peter May, Charles Normand, Samantha Smith, Frank Moriarty, Mark Ward, Karen Ryan, Bridget M. Johnston, Roman Romero-Ortuno, Rose Anne Kenny, R. Sean Morrison, Bryan Tysinger 

Long-term care of older people in residential care settings in Ireland during waves 1 and 2 of the COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons (still to be) learned 

Sara Burke, Katharine Schulmann, Virpi Timonen, Eimir Hurley 

Book chapter from Long-Term Care and Older People in Western Europe Lessons From the COVID-19 Pandemic Edited by Eloísa del Pino and Francisco Javier Moreno-Fuentes  

Mirtazapine to alleviate severe breathlessness in patients with COPD or interstitial lung diseases (BETTER-B): an international, multicentre, double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled, phase 3 mixed-method trial 

Prof Irene J Higginson, FFPHM, Sarah T Brown, MScc ∙ Adejoke O Oluyase, PhD ∙ Peter May, PhD, Prof Matthew Maddocks, PhD, Massimo Costantini, MD, Sabrina Bajwah, PhD, Prof Charles Normand, DPhil, Prof Claudia Bausewein, PhD, Prof Steffen T Simon, PhD, Prof Karen Ryan, MD, Prof David C Currow, PhD, Prof Miriam J Johnson, MD, Simon P Hart, PhD, Hannah Mather, MSc, Prof Malgorzata Krajnik, PhD, Silvia Tanzi, PhD, Luca Ghirotto, PhD, Prof Charlotte E Bolton, MD, Piotr Janowiak, PhD, Elena Turola, PhD, Caroline J Jolley, PhD, Geraldine Murden, MSc, Andrew Wilcock, DM, Prof Bobbie Farsides, PhD, Prof Julia M Brown, MSc, BETTER-B consortium 

Protocol: Use of telephone follow-up with text or WhatsApp message summary versus telephone follow-up alone to trial participants to improve trial retention. SWAT 232 

People to show as the source of this idea: Professor Anne Hickey, Dr. Carlos Bruen, Dr. Catherine Moran 

Reimagining Health and Care to Tackle the Rising Tide of Inequity, Multimorbidity, and Complex Conditions 

Irene J. Higginson, OBE, BMedSci, BMBS, PhD, FMedSci, FRCP, FFPHM, FKC, Jenny Shand, PhD, MPH https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4899-795X, Glenn Robert, PhD, MSc, Annette Boaz, PhD, MSc, Catherine French, PhD, Msc, Andreia Carvalho N’Djai, PhD, Mary Malone, PhD, RN, RM, PGDip HV, Ingrid Wolfe, OBE, BSc, MBBS, MSc, PhD, FRCPCH, FFPH, Charles Normand, BA(Hons), MA, DPhil, and Matthew Hotopf, CBE, BSc, MBBS, MSc, PhD, FRCPsych, FMedSci 

Relevance and Premises of Values-Based Practice for Decision Making in Brain Health 

Panagiotis Alexopoulos, Iracema Leroi, Irina Kinchin, Alison J. Canty, Jayashree Dasgupta, Joyla A. Furlano, and Aline Nogueira Haas 

Co-producing evidence to inform universal health coverage implementation in Ireland: 2019-2024 

S Burke, S Parker, C Bruen, K Schulmann, R Siersbaek, L Mac Conghail 

Co-producing research on universal health system reform in the context of COVID-19 

P Crowley, S Burke, S Parker, K Schulmann, C Bruen 

Dual Training Specialties of Medicine Workforce in Ireland 2024-2038 

Ali McDonnell, Andrew Malone, Bridget Johnston, Veronica Segerstrom, Tom Pierse, Aimee Maguire, Eddie Staddon, Leah O’Toole, Prof Anthony O’Regan 

Edward Elgar Handbook of Health System Resilience 

Edited by Steve Thomas and Padraic Fleming 

Chapter 1: Introduction: health system resilience - a concept whose time has come 

Steve Thomas, Padraic Fleming   

Chapter 3: Economics insights into shocks and health system resilience 

Steve Thomas 

Chapter 15: Learning from the economic shock - health system resilience in Ireland 

Sara Burke , Sarah Parker , Catherine O’Donoghue , Steve Thomas , Sarah Barry , and Padraic Fleming 

Chapter 29: Conclusions: so what have we learned? 

Steve Thomas, Liz Farsaci, Catherine O’Donoghue, Arianna Almirall-Sanchez, Lucy Gilson, Stephanie M. Topp, Alastair Ager, Laura C. Rosella, Lynn Unruh, Shu-Ti Chiou, Marco Antonio Catussi Paschoalotto, Brian Baigrie, Sarah Barry, Sara Burke, Riya D. Doshi, Charalampos Economou, Paddy Enright, Astrid Eriksen, Michelle Fernandez, Moytrayee Guha, Laura Kihlström, José R. Repullo, Dell D. Saulnier, Malabika Sarker, Ewout van Ginneken, Karsten Vrangbæk, and Gemma A. Williams 

Governance and health system reform: a case study of new health regions in Ireland, 2018-2023 

K Schulmann, C Bruen, S Parker, R Siersbaek, L Mac Conghail, S Burke 

How can we engage the public health community in innovative solutions to public health challenges? 

Monica-Georgiana Brînzac, Jinane Ghattas, Charlotte Myers, Domitilla Marconi and Sophie Christine Eicher 

How to not revert to type: learnings from the pandemic response for universal health system reform 

S Parker, S Burke, L Mac Conghail, R Siersbaek 

Lessons learned from COVID-19: improving breast cancer care post-pandemic from the patient perspective 

Charlotte Myers, Kathleen Bennett, Caitriona Cahir 

Primary prevention in hospitals in 20 high-income countries in Europe – A case of not “Making Every Contact Count”? 

Bernd Rechel, Béatrice Durvy, GonçaloFigueiredo Augusto, Isabelle Aujoulat, Daiga Behmane, Anne-Carole Bensadon, Sara Burke, Melissa D'Agostino, Krisztina Davidovics, Mark Dayan, Antonio Giulio De Belvis, Judith de Jong, Katarzyna Dubas-Jakóbczyk, Inês Fronteira, Elena Gabriel, Giuseppe Greco, Peter Groenewegen, Signe Smith Jervelund, Marios Kantaris, Madelon Kroneman, Jerneja Farkas-Lainscak,  Benjamin Maurice, Luisne Mac Conghail, Liubove Murauskiene, Mircha Poldrugovac ,  Zsuzsa Rákosy, Silvia Gabriela Scintee, Christoph Sowada, Frédéric Turblin, Desislava Vankova, Zita Velkey, Cristian Vladescu, Dorja Vocanec, Karsten Vrangbæk, Johannes Wünsche, Tuija Ylitörmänen 

Surgery Medical Workforce in Ireland 2024-2038 

Prof. Anthony O’Regan, Roisin Morris, Tom Pierse, Dr. Consilia Walsh, Hugo Nolan, Ciara Hughes, Sharon Casey, Ali McDonnell, Veronica Segerstrom, Padraig Fleming 

Using Collective Intelligence to Develop Design Requirements for a Complex Intervention for Advance Care Planning in the Community 

Monika Pilch, Catherine B Hayes, Owen Harney, Frank Doyle, Stephen Thomas, Victoria Cooper Lunt, Michael Hogan