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Commentaries

Child health

• Child health: Engaging teenagers with text-message services for glycaemic control (19 October, 2019) Free

  Marion Waite
• Child health: Moderate-to-vigorous exercise is beneficial and can improve symptoms of fatigue and depression in young people with paediatric-onset multiple sclerosis and other demyelinating conditions (28 August, 2019)

  Karen McGuigan, Charles J McGuigan

Adult nursing

• Adult nursing: Study of nurses’ use of early warning scoring systems for patient deterioration highlights the need to strengthen nurses’ knowledge and confidence in their clinical judgement in using these tools (28 August, 2019)

  Salma Rehman, Parveen Ali
• Adult nursing: Fan therapy is a treatment option for relieving of chronic breathlessness (11 September, 2019)

  Magnus Ekström

Mental health

• Mental health: The largest meta-analysis of pharmaceutical treatments of Generalised Anxiety Disorder consolidates current knowledge and reveals convincing effectiveness of Venlafaxine (28 May, 2019)

  Stacey Roles
• Mental health: Mental health nurses can play a key role in supporting gay, bisexual and two-spirit men experiencing mental health challenges and inequalities (14 October, 2019)

  Elizabeth Hughes, Elizabeth Mcdermott
• Mental health: Fathers get depressed too: lifestyle and relationship factors, stress and sleep quality are associated with depression in new fathers in the first 6 months postbirth (28 August, 2019)

  Oyeyemi Olajumoke Oyelade, Atinuke Oluwatoyosi Olowe
• Mental health: Medication assisted therapy (MAT) for opioid use disorder (OUD) in youth improves outcomes and saves lives (28 August, 2019)

  Patricia O'Malley

Women's health & midwifery

• Women’s health & midwifery: It is time to consider labour companionship as a human rights issue (12 September, 2019)

  Hannah G Dahlen
• Women’s health & midwifery: Provider-level characteristics are significantly associated with the increased likelihood of mastectomy over conservative surgery among elderly women with breast cancer (6 September, 2019)

  Mahzabin Ferdous, Tanvir C Turin

Care of the older person

• Care of the older person: The evidence base for pain management of people with dementia in the community is weak and needs to be improved (25 October, 2019)

  Gareth Parsons
• Care of the older person: Being non-frail and having an elective procedure are the strongest predictors associated with functional recovery among older survivors of major surgery (7 September, 2019)

  Kaye Rolls, Lynette Mc Evoy, Matthew Ritcher, Steven A Frost

Nurse education

• Nurse education: Student nurses require a supportive environment when exercising their moral obligation for patient safety (25 September, 2019)

  Rosario Rose Sakamoto

Nursing issues

• Nursing issues: Australian secondary analysis reveals that vascular access device procedures aimed at preventing harm may be causing skin complications (27 June, 2019)

  Angie McNamara
• Nursing issues: Qualitative research shows that preferences for place of end-of-life care and death are shaped by the uncertainty of living with a life-limiting illness for patients and family caregivers and are neither synonymous nor stable (5 September, 2019)

  Jackie Robinson, Merryn Gott
• Nursing issues: Pain assessments in emergency departments lack consistency and validity, and this impacts effective pain management (13 July, 2019)

  Lisa Wehner
• Nursing issues: Metasynthesis: dying adults’ transition process from cure‐focused to comfort‐focused care (19 September, 2019) Free

  Alison Kate Lillie, Amanda Cheesley
• Nursing issues: Compounded creams no better than placebo creams for localised chronic pain (16 July, 2019)

  Jiale Hu
• Nursing issues: Negative workplace behaviour: nurses’ power games, blame culture and incivility—why nurses do not care for each other (28 May, 2019)

  Vanessa Heaslip, Claire Nadaf

Community and primary care nursing

• Community and primary care nursing: Duration of antibiotic treatment for common infections frequently exceeds recommended guidelines, potentially impacting antimicrobial resistance (17 September, 2019)

  Nicole Zhang

Health promotion and public health

• Health promotion and public health: Evaluation of care coordination among healthy community-dwelling older adults finds promising but minimal impact (11 July, 2019)

  Terri Kean
• Health promotion and public health: Maternal weight status before pregnancy is strongly associated with offspring weight status in childhood (19 September, 2019)

  Rachel Cooper, Snehal M Pinto Pereira
• Health promotion and public health: School asthma intervention programme effectively improved children’s knowledge and attitudes, and led to decreased hospital admission, length of stay and school absences (19 August, 2019)

  Asmaa Salah Eldin Mohamed Saleh