"Learning a Way of Thinking"-World Café on Clinical Reasoning in Nursing and Midwifery Education and Practice across Five European Union Countries.

Clinical reasoning is a key attribute of nursing and midwifery professionals. As a part of the Erasmus plus project, we designed a study with the aim of exploring the understanding of clinical reasoning as a concept, experiences of teaching clinical reasoning and practices related to using clinical reasoning in nursing and midwifery. A qualitative study was carried out using the World Café method, involving 44 participants from five European countries.

Tools to Assess Pain or Lack of Comfort in Dementia: A Content Analysis.

Context: There is need for tools to help detect pain or lack of comfort in persons unable to communicate. However, pain and (dis)comfort tools have not been compared, and it is unclear to what extent they discriminate between pain and other possible sources of discomfort, or even if items differ.

Objectives: To map and compare items in tools that assess pain and the broader notion of discomfort or comfort in people with severe dementia or at the end of life.

Velocity dependence of eccentric strength in young and old men: the need for speed!

Older adults better maintain eccentric strength relative to isometric strength, as indicated by a higher ratio of eccentric:isometric torque as compared with younger adults. The effect of increasing angular velocities (>200°/s) on the age-related maintenance of eccentric strength has not been tested and thus it is unknown whether the eccentric:isometric ratio is velocity dependent in old age. The purpose of this study was to investigate eccentric strength of the ankle dorsiflexors over a large range of lengthening angular velocities in young and older men.

Golf-related low back pain: a review of causative factors and prevention strategies.

Golf is a popular sport with both perceived and real health benefits. However, certain injury risks are also prevalent, particularly to the lower back. Epidemiological studies have shown that lower back pain (LBP) from golf account for between 18% and 54% of all documented ailments, leading many researchers to regard the condition as the most common golf injury.

Hospitalizations of nursing home residents with dementia in the last month of life: results from a nationwide survey.

Background: Hospitalizations of nursing home residents with dementia may not be uncommon. However, evidence from epidemiological studies outside the United States and knowledge about the circumstances of hospitalizations are lacking.

Aim: To examine the proportion of nursing home residents with dementia hospitalized in the last month of life and factors associated with hospitalization.