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Systematic review of interventions to improve constant observation on adult inpatient psychiatric wards
(2020-02)
Constant observation is frequently conducted on inpatient psychiatric units to manage patients at risk of harming themselves or others. Despite its widespread use, there is little evidence of the efficacy of the practice ...
The Convergent Validity of the electronic Frailty Index (eFI) with the Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS)
(2020-11)
Background: Different scales are being used to measure frailty. This study examined the convergent validity of the electronic Frailty Index (eFI) with the Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS). Method: The cross-sectional study ...
The theory-practice gap in wound care: effective ways of embedding your learning into clinical practice
(2020-12)
It has been suggested that there are approximately 2.2 million patients in the UK with a chronic wound (Guest et al, 2016). The cost of managing these wounds and associated comorbidities is approximately £5.3 billion (Guest ...
Sleep disruption after brain injury is associated with worse motor outcomes and slower functional recovery.
(2020-02)
Background and Aims: Sleep is important for consolidation of motor learning, but brain
injury may affect sleep continuity and therefore rehabilitation outcomes. This study aims to
assess the relationship between sleep ...
Virtual reality clinical-experimental tests of compassion treatment techniques to reduce paranoia
(2020-05)
Paranoia may build on negative beliefs held both about the self and others. Compassionate imagery may be one way of reducing such negative beliefs, and hence paranoia. Two studies tested this idea, one targeting compassion ...
Mania as a possible complication of immunotherapy
(2020-02)
Immunotherapy is still a relatively new cancer therapy and this article serves as a reminder to psychiatric teams to consider immunotherapy as a possible factor in psychiatric presentations. Here, the authors present the ...
Dual-Task Effect on Gait in Healthy Adolescents: Association between Health-Related Indicators and DT Performance
(2020-11)
The purpose of this study was to determine how dual-task (DT) effect on gait differs among adolescents with different fitness and health profiles. The gait performances of 365 adolescents aged 13–14 years were assessed at ...
When Helping is Risky: Behavioral and Neurobiological Mechanisms of Prosocial Decisions Entailing Risk.
(2020-03)
Helping others can entail risks. Doctors that treat infectious patients may risk their own health, intervening in a fight can lead to injury, and organ donations can lead to medical complications. When helping others comes ...
An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis exploring how psychiatrists conceptualise conduct disorder and experience making the diagnosis
(2020-10)
The way professionals conceptualise CD likely impacts the identity of children given the diagnosis, yet how psychiatrists conceptualise CD, and experience making the diagnosis, is under-researched. Interpretative ...
Advances in the computational understanding of mental illness
(2020-07)
Computational psychiatry is a rapidly growing field attempting to translate advances in computational neuroscience and machine learning into improved outcomes for patients suffering from mental illness. It encompasses both ...