Assessment of delirium in hospital for people with dementia
Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership - The National Audit of Dementia (NAD) is commissioned by the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership to examine aspects of care received by people with dementia in general hospitals in England and Wales. In addition, NAD provides national and local reports to support hospitals to identify areas for quality improvement and share good practice, helping to improve outcomes for patients. This spotlight audit on delirium has been carried out to look in more detail at an area where hospitals have seemed to be underperforming and to clarify inconsistencies in the data.ReportMor...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - August 13, 2018 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Quality of care and clinical outcomes Source Type: blogs
National Ophthalmology Database Audit: year 3 annual report
Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership - HQIP has commissioned the National Ophthalmology Database (NOD) cataract audit to report on all NHS funded cataract surgery in England and Wales. Included in this second prospective report are operations undertaken between 1st September 2016 and 31st August 2017.ReportMore detail (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - August 13, 2018 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Quality of care and clinical outcomes Source Type: blogs
Guidance for the development, production and review of information to support UK population screening programmes
Public Health England -This guidance provides the four UK countries with best practice in terms of developing public information resources such as leaflets to support the national screening programmes. It also provides a definition of ‘personal informed choice’. Information about national screening programmes is available for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.GuidancePublic Health England - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - August 10, 2018 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Local authorities, public health and health inequalities Source Type: blogs
Podcast: Can Children Really Have PTSD?
When we think about post-traumatic stress disorder, our minds typically imagine war veterans or perhaps police officers and firefighters. Sometimes we’ll think of people who endured something horrible, such as a terrible accident, a home invasion, or other shocking events. But few of us picture children. Our guest in this episode witnessed a murder when she was quite young. She shares how this impacted her life, which included time spent in the Witness Protection Program. Listen to hear about the symptoms of PTSD in children, how to identify and avoid triggers, “restorative justice,” and about breaking the cycle ...
Source: World of Psychology - August 9, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Psych Central Show Tags: Children and Teens General PTSD The Psych Central Show Gabe Howard Vincent M. Wales youth Source Type: blogs
Podcast: How Is Depression Expressed in Children and Adolescents?
The rate of depression in children and adolescents continues to grow, leaving many parents clueless on what to do. What is driving this increase? Are things truly different for young people today, compared to twenty or thirty years ago? This episode welcomes a child psychologist to address these issues and more, including: how and why kids today are overloaded with activities, the different ways depression expresses itself in youth versus adults, how to tell when kids are “just being kids” versus dealing with depression, how to recognize the various signs of depression in young people, and how parents can stop feel...
Source: World of Psychology - August 2, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Psych Central Show Tags: Children and Teens Depression General The Psych Central Show Gabe Howard Vincent M. Wales Source Type: blogs
Podcast: My Mentally Ill Brother Murdered Our Parents
A mental illness diagnosis is not only hard on the individual, but the person’s entire family. This week’s guest shares the story of one of his brothers, whose behavior would ultimately be diagnosed as schizophrenia, but who went untreated for many years, coming into and going out of his family’s life for long stretches of time. This would come to an end only after his brother went behind bars for the murder of their parents. Listen in to hear the story, how it affected the family both before and after the tragedy, why his brother was unable to use a mental health defense, and how treatment could have prevented ...
Source: World of Psychology - July 26, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Psych Central Show Tags: Criminal Justice Family General The Psych Central Show Gabe Howard Murder Vincent M. Wales Source Type: blogs
Perspective: How brain training games could help patients with Huntington ’s disease
This article was originally published in The Conversation.
The Article in Context
For further information about Huntington’s disease and support, visit The Huntington’s disease association, or HDBuzz
Five reasons the future of brain enhancement is digital, pervasive and (hopefully) bright
10 neurotechnologies about to transform brain enhancement and brain health
Can brain training work? Yes, if it meets these 5 conditions
(Source: SharpBrains)
Source: SharpBrains - July 20, 2018 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Emma Yhnell Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Technology brain-disorder Brain-Training brain-training-games Huntingtons-Disease Source Type: blogs
Podcast: The Stanford Prison Non-Experiment
For decades, students have been taught about the Stanford Prison Experiment, in which volunteers were assigned as either “prisoners” or “guards” in a mock prison. The “guards” in this scenario allegedly became abusive and controlling toward the “prisoners,” thus it was concluded that average people, given power and control, would turn to such negative behavior. But was this a legitimate experiment? New evidence reveals that there was a lot more going on behind the scenes than was originally reported. Listen as we discuss the origin of the experiment, the controversy surrounding it, and what (if anything...
Source: World of Psychology - July 19, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Psych Central Show Tags: General Psychology The Psych Central Show Violence and Aggression Gabe Howard Stanford Prison Experiment Vincent M. Wales Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - 18th July 2018
Some recent things you might need to know about.StatisticsBirth summary tables in England and Wales.Includes annual births and mean age of mothers.Scientific Advisory Committee on NutritionFeeding in the first year of lifeCovers infant feeding from birth up to 12 months of age, looking at evidence of the impact of infant feeding on short and longer term health outcomes for infants and mothers. Also considers factors that influence eating behaviour and diversification of the diet and makes recommendations on feeding in the first year of life.World Health OrganisationWHO Recommendations on Antenatal Care for a Positive Pregn...
Source: Browsing - July 18, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
Using leaflet, just because
I love it when researchers take the time to share their knowledge of the computational tools that they use. So first, let me point you at Environmental Computing, a site run by environmental scientists at the University of New South Wales, which has a good selection of R programming tutorials.
One of these is Making maps of your study sites. It was written with the specific purpose of generating simple, clean figures for publications and presentations, which it achieves very nicely.
I’ll be honest: the sole motivator for this post is that I thought it would be fun to generate the map using Leaflet for R as an alterna...
Source: What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate - July 17, 2018 Category: Bioinformatics Authors: nsaunders Tags: R statistics leaflet maps rstats Source Type: blogs
Less help to quit: what ’s happening to stop smoking prescriptions across Britain
This report highlights a 75 per cent decline in stop smoking aids being prescribed by GPs and pharmacists across Great Britain. It finds that: in England there was a 75 per cent decline in the number of stop smoking aids dispensed in 2016- 17 compared with 2005-6; Scotland saw a 40 per cent drop in stop smoking aids prescribed, while in Wales, the number of all stop smoking products dispensed in 2016-17 fell to just a third of what was dispensed in 2007-08; and regional variation of clinical commissioning group prescribing levels is huge. There are many areas where prescriptions are extremely low, even in areas with high n...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - July 16, 2018 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Commissioning Local authorities, public health and health inequalities Source Type: blogs
Research into the mental health of prisoners, digested
By Christian Jarrett
Around the world, more people than ever are locked up in prisons – estimated to be in excess of 11 million people, up by almost 20 per cent since the turn of the millennium (pdf). According to a recent House of Commons Briefing Paper the rate of increase is even higher than this in the UK where prison populations are at a record high. Many of these incarcerated individuals have intensifying mental health needs – for instance, the same briefing paper reports that UK rates of self-harm in prisoners were 25 per cent higher in 2015 than in 2014. Ahead of next week’s meeting of the All Party Parl...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - July 13, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Feature Forensic Mental health Source Type: blogs
Podcast: Let ’s Talk About Sex Therapy
Sex therapy. The very term is one that produces a flush of embarrassment in many people and is also prone to being misunderstood. But sex therapy is like most other psychotherapy, focusing on how to fix your issues. In this episode, our guest sex therapist talks about what his work consists of, dispelling a few of the misconceptions. He talks about the three main hallmarks of arousal, discusses common problems, such as erectile dysfunction and partners with extremely different libidos, and introduces practices such as “simmering” and “lazy sex.” He also offers some thoughts on polyamory, including the main fact...
Source: World of Psychology - July 12, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Psych Central Show Tags: General Relationships Sexuality The Psych Central Show Gabe Howard Sex Therapy Vincent M. Wales Source Type: blogs
Inequalities in access to hospice and palliative care
This report finds that people with terminal illnesses and life-limiting conditions in Wales – especially dementia, heart failure and neurological conditions – face a range of barriers in accessing hospice and palliative care. It argues that unequal access to appropriate care for people with terminal and life-limiting conditions is influenced by a range of complex factors. These include people’s diagnoses, age and where they live.ReportPress release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - July 11, 2018 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Local authorities, public health and health inequalities Quality of care and clinical outcomes Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 243
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Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia FFFF…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 243
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[real case] – A 12 year old boy is brought in by his mother with concerns about fatigue, increasing shortness of breath on exertion, easily bruising, swollen gums and ?...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - July 5, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Mark Corden Tags: Frivolous Friday Five Chang Bunker Darier sign Elizabeth Blackwell Eng Bunker leonardo da vinci macrocytosis Neymar Of the heart scurvy Siamese twins vitamin C Source Type: blogs
