Professor Niroshan Siriwardena

Supervisor

Professor Niroshan Siriwardena

United Kingdom
University of Lincoln

Research Interests: Cardiac Arrest, Cardiology, Education, Older Adult, Pain Management, Staff Wellbeing, Trauma, Indicators, Outcomes, Patient Reported Measures.

Methodological Expertise: Interventional, Observational, Qualitative, Mixed Methods, Review.

Qualifications:

MBBS MMedSci PhD FRCGP

Publications

For a full ist see http://staff.lincoln.ac.uk/nsiriwardena

1. Dickson J, Asghar Z, Siriwardena AN (2018). Pre-hospital ambulance care of patients following a suspected seizure: a cross sectional study. Seizure: European Journal of Epilepsy (in press). 
2. Armstrong S, Langlois A, Laparidou D, Dixon M, Appleton JP, Bath PM, Snooks H, Siriwardena AN (2017). Assessment of consent models as an ethical consideration in the conduct of prehospital ambulance randomised controlled clinical trials: a systematic review. BMC Medical Research Methodology 17:142. 
3. Coster J, Irving AD, Turner JK, Phung VH, Siriwardena AN (2017). Prioritizing novel and existing ambulance performance measures through expert and lay consensus: a three-stage multimethod consensus study. Health Expectations 00-1-12 (online). 
4. Irving A, Turner J, Marsh M, Broadway-Parkinson A, Fall D, Coster J, Siriwardena AN (2017). A coproduced patient and public event: an approach to developing and prioritizing ambulance performance measures. Health Expectations 00:1-9 (online). 
5. Snooks HA, Anthony R, Chatters R, Dale J, Fthergill R, Gaze S, Halter M, Humphreys I, Koniotou M, Logan P, Lyons RA, Mason S, Nicholl J, Pecono J, Phillips C Porter A, Siriwardena AN, Wani M, Watkins A, Wilson L, Russell IT. Paramedic assessment of older adults following falls including community care referral pathway: 
cluster randomized trial. Annals of Emergency Medicine 2017 doi.org/10.1016/j.annemergmed.2017.01.006. 
6. Snooks HA, Anthony R, Chatters R, Dale J, Fothergill R, Gaze S, Halter M, Humphreys I, Koniotou M, Logan P, Lyons R, Mason S, Nicholl J, Peconi J, Phillips C, Phillips J, Porter A, Siriwardena AN, Smith G, Toghill A, Wani M, Watkins A, Whitfield R, Wilson L, Russell IT. Support and Assessment for Fall Emergency Referrals (SAFER) 2: Cluster randomised trial and systematic review of clinical and cost effectiveness of new protocols for emergency ambulance paramedics to assess older people following a fall with referral to community based care when appropriate. Health Technology Assessment 2017; 21(13): 1-218. 
7. Phung VH, Trueman I, Togher F, Orner R, Siriwardena AN. Community First Responders and responder schemes in the United Kingdom: systematic scoping review. Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2017; 25-58. 
8. Johnson M, O’Hara R, Hirst E, Weymann A, Turner J, Mason S, Quinn T, Shewan J, Siriwardena AN . Multiple triangulation and collaborative research using qualitative methods to explore decision making in pre-hospital emergency care. BMC Medical Research Methodology 2017; 17(11):1-11. 
9. Hawkes C, Booth S, Ji C, Brace-McDonnell SJ, Whittington A, Mapstone J, Cooke MW, Deakin CD, Gale CP, Fothergill R, Nolan JP, Rees N, Soar J, Siriwardena AN, Brown TP, Perkins GD and collaborators (2017). Epidemiology and outcomes from out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in England. Resuscitation 110:133-40.2016. 
10. Sirdifield C, Chipchase SY, Owen S, Siriwardena AN. A systematic review and meta-synthesis of patients' experiences and perceptions of seeking and using benzodiazepines and Z-drugs: towards safer prescribing. Patient. 2016 10:1. 
11. Sirdifield C, Caballero AG, Windle K, Jackson C, McKay S, Schäfer WA, Siriwardena AN. Comparing importance and performance from a patient perspective in English general practice: a cross-sectional survey. Family Practice 2016 33(2):179-85. 
12. Asghar Z, Coupland C, Siriwardena AN. Influenza vaccination and risk of stroke: self-controlled case-series study. Vaccine 2015; 33: 5458-5463. 
13. Phung VH, Essam N, Asghar Z, Spaight A, Siriwardena AN. Exploration of contextual factors in a successful quality improvement collaborative in English ambulance services – cross-sectional survey. Journal of Evaluation in Primary Care; 9 (17):1-9. 
14. Koniotou M, Evans BA, Chatters R, Fothergill R, Garnsworthy C, Gaze S, Halter M, Mason S, Peconi J, Porter A, Siriwardena AN, Toghill A, Snooks H. Involving older people in a multi-centre randomised trial of a complex intervention in pre-hospital emergency care: implementation of a collaborative model. Trials 2015 16: 298. 
15. Togher FJ, O’Cathain A, Phung VH, Turner J, Siriwardena AN. Reassurance as a key outcome valued by emergency ambulance service users: a qualitative interview study. Health Expectations 18 (6), 2951-2961. 
16. O'Hara R, Johnson M, Siriwardena AN, Weyman A, Turner J, Shaw D, Mortimer P, Newman C, Hirst E, Storey M, Mason S, Quinn T, Shewan J. A qualitative study of system influences on paramedic decision making and safety. Journal of Health Services Research and Policy 2015; 20 (S1) 45-53. 
17. Siriwardena AN, Asghar Z, Coupland C. Influenza and pneumococcal vaccination and risk of stroke or transient ischaemic attack – matched case control study. Vaccine 2014; 32(12): 1354-1361. 
18. Siriwardena AN, Shaw D, Essam N, Togher F, Davy Z, Spaight A, Dewey M. The effect of the Ambulance Services Cardiovascular Quality Initiative on prehospital care for acute myocardial infarction and stroke in England. Implementation Science 2014; 9:17. 
19. Ankolekar S, Parry R, Sprigg N, Siriwardena AN, Bath PMW. 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). Annals of Emergency Medicine 2014 (online first). 
20. Ankolekar S, Fuller M, Cross I, Renton C, Cox P, Sprigg N, Siriwardena AN, Bath P. Feasibility of an ambulance-based trial, and safety of glyceryl trinitrate, in patients with ultra-acute stroke: the ‘Rapid Intervention with Glyceryl trinitrate in Hypertensive stroke Trial’ (RIGHT, ISRCTN66434824). Stroke 2013; 44(11): 3120-3128.
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