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BMJ Journals

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October 1998 - Volume 1 - 4

Purpose and procedure

Purpose and procedure (1 October, 1998) Free

Other articles noted

Other Articles Noted (1 October, 1998)

Searching for the best evidence. Part 2: searching CINAHL and Medline (1 October, 1998)
K Ann Mckibbon, Susan Marks
Quality improvement, research, and evidence-based practice: 5 years experience with pressure ulcers (1 October, 1998)
Margaret B Harrison, Jo Logan, Lynn Joseph, Ian D Graham

Treatment

Offering HIV testing to pregnant women increased test uptake but not anxiety (1 October, 1998)
Cleaning the umbilical cord with water rather than alcohol shortened the time to separation with no change in colonisation (1 October, 1998)
Review: topical agents for cord care have not been shown to be effective in newborn infants in developed countries (1 October, 1998)
Review: morphine, eutectic mixture of local anaesthetics, ketorolac, and sucrose reduce postoperative and procedural pain in children (1 October, 1998)
A school based programme reduced dating violence in adolescents (1 October, 1998)
Review: patient education and counselling increase preventive behaviours (1 October, 1998)
Review: self management education for adults with asthma improves health outcomes (1 October, 1998)
A non-prescription analgesic alleviated migraine headache pain and symptoms (1 October, 1998)
A 6 week psychoeducational programme reduced pain and improved quality of life in adults with chronic idiopathic pain (1 October, 1998)
A home based intervention reduced the frequency of hospital readmissions and out of hospital deaths after discharge (1 October, 1998)

Diagnosis

A primary healthcare team had low sensitivity for detecting postnatal depression (1 October, 1998)

Causation

Pregnancy within 8 months of a previous birth was associated with an increased rate of preterm birth (1 October, 1998)
Higher maternal age at birth was associated with increased self sufficiency of children at age 27 to 33 years (1 October, 1998)
Review: parental smoking increases risk of recurrent otitis media, middle ear effusion, and tonsillectomy or adenoidectomy in children (1 October, 1998)
Offspring of parents who were depressed were more likely to have a psychiatric disorder 10 years later (1 October, 1998)
Death was associated with low and high body mass index in women and older men (1 October, 1998)
Depression was associated with decreased survival for hospital patients who were seriously ill (1 October, 1998)

Quality improvement

Review: case management programmes improve patient outcomes (1 October, 1998)

Qualitative

Discovering a sense of difference was the main experience of growing up with cystic fibrosis (1 October, 1998)
Deliberate HIV exposure by 6 African-American youths was rooted in growing up poor in the inner city (1 October, 1998)
Integrating hearing loss was a complex and dynamic process for patients (1 October, 1998)
Review: patients living with diabetes mellitus focus on learning to balance by assuming control for the management of their illness (1 October, 1998)
Reimaging after an alteration in appearance or function involved 3 phases with assimilation, accommodation, and interpretation (1 October, 1998)
People with drinking problems experienced suffering as a vicious, spiralling vortex that encompassed all aspects of their being (1 October, 1998)

Glossary

Glossary (1 October, 1998) Free

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