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Commentaries

• Learning disabilities: Tai Chi, Wii Fit and rope skipping exercise interventions are particularly effective in improving balance for young people with intellectual disabilities (28 May, 2019)

  Lesley Collier
• Child health: Using draw-and-tell methods to inform clinical nursing assessments with children aged 6–12 years (11 April, 2019)

  Susan Neilson
• Child health: Childhood obesity is associated with higher incidence of paediatric onset asthma (29 April, 2019) Free

  Veronika Williams, David Nunan
• Child health: Supporting rural nurses to develop and implement a contextualised, systematic approach to paediatric pain management is vital to improve pain care for children (21 June, 2019)

  Amy Noakes
• Adult nursing: Select groups of older adults may benefit from emergency-based short-stay unit admission, as compared to standard medical admission (1 June, 2019)

  Úna Kerin
• Adult nursing: Harm-benefit analysis: treatment of mild hypertension in low-risk individuals (4 April, 2019)

  Terri Kean
• Mental health: Study of electronic records from a south London psychiatric trust suggests that the increased mortality from physical illness linked to depression varies between ethnic groups (29 May, 2019)

  Kwame McKenzie
• Mental health: Antidepressant discontinuation can be problematic for patients but relapse rates might be reduced with cognitive behavioural therapy or mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (4 April, 2019)

  Justine Raynsford
• Mental health: Anger treatment has a therapeutic effect on cardiac function and productive living (13 April, 2019)

  Oyeyemi Olajumoke Oyelade, Nokuthula Gloria Nkosi-Mafutha
• Women’s health and midwifery: Chronic skin disorders negatively impact women’s quality of life and sexual function (22 June, 2019)

  Karen McGuigan, Charles J McGuigan
• Care of the older person: Should aspirin be used for primary prevention in the healthy elderly? (1 June, 2019)

  David Thompson
• Care of the older person: Higher risk of physical frailty in older person is associated with increased levels of loneliness rather than social isolation (11 July, 2019)

  Ganapathy Ganesalingam
• Nursing issues: Visualising the invisible; why cleaning is important in the control of hospital-acquired infection (1 June, 2019) Free

  Stephanie Dancer
• Community and primary care nursing:

  Increased risk of recurrent Clostridium difficile infection among older adults taking antibiotics and acid reducing medications

  (1 June, 2019)

  Terri Kean
• Health promotion and public health: Study shows lower vaccination rates for younger siblings after autism spectrum disorder diagnosis in older siblings (29 May, 2019)

  Samantha Vanderslott
• Health promotion and public health: Relational communication characteristics are an important facet of building effective practitioner–patient care relationships (6 June, 2019)

  Muili Lawal