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Commentaries

• Child health: There is an urgent need for evidence-based internationally agreed guidelines for minimising readmissions after paediatric sepsis (17 December, 2019)

  Siba Prosad Paul, Hannah Ruth Walsh
• Child health: When a parent is dying: how we can do more to support families and children with a dying parent (13 December, 2019)

  Cristina Pinto, Sara Pinto
• Adult nursing: Coping with multiple morbidities: Asian perspectives to inform culturally appropriate caregiving (9 January, 2020)

  Xingxing Zhan, Wang Wenchung, Hang Lin, Li Jingran, Baiyu Li, Miao Tian Li, Rao Tian Fu, Yuting Wu, Xiaxia Wu, Xiaxia Shi, Amanda J Lee, Xiang Shengxiao
• Adult nursing: Nurses should recognise that focusing only on the resolution of physical symptoms may not be enough to overcome the psychosocial implications of living with a chronic disease (20 January, 2020)

  Sara Ma
• Adult nursing: Bridging anticoagulation therapy with low molecular weight heparin in patients with atrial fibrillation following a stroke is associated with adverse events (26 November, 2019)

  Rachel Kennedy
• Mental health: College suicide prevention programmes are most effective when they incorporate students’ sense of coherence and connectedness in their design (11 February, 2020)

  Akhtar Ebrahimi Ghassemi
• Mental health: Physical activity reduces symptoms of anxiety, but further research is needed to determine a preventative effect (20 January, 2020)

  Shaminder Singh, Lin Yang
• Mental health: Primary care suicide screening: the importance of comprehensive clinical assessment (5 December, 2019)

  Nicola Clibbens
• Learning disabilities: Critical considerations for engaging in inclusive health research with individuals with intellectual disability (7 February, 2020)

  Nicole Bobbette, Yani Hamdani
• Care of the older person: Healthcare professionals must communicate with patients and relatives. They must enable informed, realistic and appropriate decisions in end-of-life pharmacotherapy (12 November, 2019)

  Amanda J Lee
• Care of the older person: Frailty leads to higher mortality and hospital use (13 January, 2020)

  Karen Harrison Dening
• Care of the older person: Combining physical and cognitive interventions positively affects gait in older adults with cognitive impairment (12 December, 2019)

  Gary Mitchell, Victoria McTurk
• Care of the older person: Repeated hospital admissions are missed opportunities to offer better end-of-life care for people with dementia (17 December, 2019)

  Claire Anderson
• Care of the older person: Personalised, patient-inclusive clinical medication reviews can reduce drug-related problems in older patients (21 November, 2019)

  Michelle Acorn
• Nurse education: Health discipline students face various direct and indirect types of risks and hazards during education in clinical placements (15 November, 2019)

  Richard Booth, Siobhan O'Connor
• Nursing issues: Nursing interventions improve preparedness, competence, reward and burden of family caregivers in end-of-life care at home (3 December, 2019)

  Despina Anagnostou
• Nursing issues: The integration of personal narratives into hospital-based palliative care can relieve patient psychosocial and existential suffering (23 December, 2019)

  Michelle Acorn
• Nursing issues: Family perspectives need considering as part of the assisted dying process (7 January, 2020)

  Paige Hacker Bravo
• Nursing issues: Patients prefer bedside handover and wish to be active partners in it (23 December, 2019) Free

  Jiale Hu
• Nursing issues: Frailty is a predictor of mortality in surgical emergency admissions among UK adults (21 November, 2019)

  Megumi Nimura, Gotaro Kojima
• Nursing issues: Nurses’ night shift performance improves through taking scheduled naps (15 November, 2019)

  Nazanin Izadi
• Community and primary care nursing: Statins used for secondary prevention in patients with stroke reduce the risk of further ischaemic strokes and cardiovascular events (24 December, 2019)

  James Hill, Marianne Hare
• Community and primary care nursing: Support and guide parents on infants problems with home visits and a focus on maternal mental health (23 December, 2019)

  Mahboobeh Namnabati
• Health promotion and public health: Places of worship can be health promotion spaces for faith-based black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) communities (17 December, 2019) Free

  Parveen Ali
• Health promotion and public health: Adhering to tobacco dependency medications requires collaborative and personalised interventions for long-term smoking cessation outcomes in adults (26 November, 2019)

  Kate Frazer
• Health promotion and public health: Pedometer-based walking interventions provide sustained increases in physical activity levels, as well as reductions in cardiovascular events and fractures (15 November, 2019)

  Deepali Pavagadhi, Josip Car