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Commentaries

• Child health: Association between COVID-19 and Kawasaki-like disease in children is a topic that needs further investigation (1 December, 2020)

  Saivash Moradi, Mohammad Radgoodarzi
• Child health: Direct-to-consumer telemedicine visits demonstrate decreased antibiotic prescribing quality in paediatric clients with acute respiratory infections (20 April, 2020)

  Nicole Zhang, Lorena Marra
• Health promotion and public health: Increased sedentary behaviour is associated with increased depression symptoms in adults (18 March, 2020)

  Sheila Hardy
• Health promotion and public health: Evidence from randomised trials linking intake of red meat to diseases—including cardiovascular disease and cancer—is weak (4 March, 2020)

  Jane Fletcher
• Health promotion and public health: Reducing consumption of red meat may have a very small effect on all-cause mortality and cardiometabolic diseases (25 March, 2020)

  Jane Fletcher
• Nurse education: Assertiveness training during early undergraduate years has the potential to increase students’ confidence and ability to act as patient advocates (17 June, 2020)

  Vania Rohsig, Aline Brenner de Souza
• Nursing issues: Use of personal protective equipment reduces the risk of contamination by highly infectious diseases such as COVID-19 (11 August, 2020)

  Wendel Mombaque Dos Santos
• Nursing issues: Complex interactions between provider, organisation and patient level characteristics influence the effect of pressure ulcer preventive care interventions (27 March, 2020)

  Rossana Urrutia-Bastardo, Tanvir C Turin
• Nursing issues: A workplace sales ban and motivational intervention can reduce sugar-sweetened beverage intake and improve cardiometabolic health (4 March, 2020)

  Tuyen Van Duong
• Nursing issues: Patients need more than just verbal instructions upon discharge from the emergency department (7 February, 2020)

  Yuan Chen, Yijing Shen, Yuting Zhu, Yiwen Gao, Dandan Zhao, Lijuan XI, Shuang Li, Jiayu Liu, Yiyung Yang, Jiling Qu, Jingwen Qin, Amanda J Lee
• Nursing issues: Without adequate nursing support for families, dying at home threatens the values of a good death (25 March, 2020) Free

  David Kenneth Wright, Christine J. McPherson
• Nursing issues: Social media is a source of health-related misinformation (11 February, 2020) Free

  Kaye Rolls, Debbie Massey
• Nursing issues: Better patient activation is a precursor to engagement in shared decision making (7 February, 2020)

  Lisa Kidd
• Learning disabilities: Time to increase the involvement of persons with intellectual disability in palliative care and research (4 March, 2020)

  Linda Johansson
• Learning disabilities: Ethical dilemmas and legal ambivalence affects the midwives’ perception for providing sexual and reproductive health consultation to women with intellectual disability (13 February, 2020)

  Iffat Naeem, Tanvir Chowdhury Turin
• Care of the older person: Feeling fearful and lonely are indicative experiences of emotional distress for people with dementia (29 October, 2019)

  Rita Gruber, Manuel Schwanda
• Care of the older person: Family caregivers expect a patient and family centric approach in holistic end-of-life provision (24 January, 2020)

  Yongxing Patrick Lin, Jia Ning Loi
• Care of the older person: Hopelessness during acute hospitalisation is a strong predictor of mortality (25 March, 2020)

  Rita Gruber, Manuel Schwanda
• Care of the older person: Delirium occurrence in hospitalised older people is positively associated with development of dementia postdischarge (25 March, 2020)

  Gary Mitchell, Sophie Crooks
• Care of the older person: Relational care in older persons nursing is not just a consideration but an organisational priority (7 February, 2020)

  Emily Oliver
• Care of the older person: Frailty is associated with a higher use of potentially inappropriate medications among community‐dwelling older adults (7 February, 2020)

  Cathy Wernham, Tomas Welsh
• Women’s health and midwifery: Uncovering the use and misuse of opioid analgesia in a pregnant and non-pregnant female population (20 January, 2020)

  Martin Galligan
• Women’s health and midwifery: Cannabis use in pregnancy: a harm reduction approach is needed with a focus on prevention and positive intervention (13 February, 2020)

  Cindy-Lee Dennis, Simone Vigod
• Women's health and midwifery: COVID-19 and pregnancy outcomes: initial findings show little threat, but more data are needed (2 September, 2020)

  Caique Jordan Nunes Ribeiro, Shirley Verônica Melo Almeida Lima, Allan Dantas dos Santos
• Adult nursing: Survivorship care plans have minimal impact on health actions (10 February, 2020)

  Doris Howell
• Adult nursing: Current state of knowledge around nurse-led cardioversion: a launchpad for future projects (7 February, 2020)

  Jennifer Fournier
• Adult nursing: Shorter intervals and sequential administration of adjuvant chemotherapy are effective in reducing the 10-year risk of recurrence and death in early breast cancer women without detrimental effects (3 March, 2020)

  Gianluca Catania
• Adult nursing: Nurses’ intuitive worrying predicts physiological changes in patients’ vital signs (25 March, 2020)

  Kate Frazer
• Adult nursing: Bariatric surgery could reduce the risk of specific types of breast cancer (24 January, 2020)

  Úna Kerin
• Mental health: Peer mentorship of hospital inpatients with substance use disorders is associated with beneficial outcomes (24 January, 2020)

  Terence V. McCann, Dan I. Lubman
• Mental health: Short therapy programmes may reduce the risk of suicide reattempts (9 June, 2020)

  Shaminder Singh, Tanvir C Turin
• Mental health: Depressive symptoms in the last year of life: early screening and varied treatment pathways needed (7 February, 2020)

  Jacqueline Reed