A Pilot Study Comparing Two Measures of Perceived Health Services Access Among Military Veterans With Musculoskeletal Injuries and Mental Health Conditions.

Introduction: Service members endure a number of musculoskeletal injuries (MSIs) during service (e.g., ankle sprains and chronic back pain).

Pain Patterns and Treatment Among Nursing Home Residents With Moderate-Severe Cognitive Impairment.

Objectives: To examine the frequency and severity of pain and use of pain therapies among long-term care residents with moderate to severe dementia and to explore the factors associated with increased pain severity.

Design: Prospective individual data were collected over 1 to 3 days for each participant.

Setting: Sixteen long-term care facilities in Alabama, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey.

Enabling Advance Directive Completion: Feasibility of a New Nurse-Supported Advance Care Planning Intervention.

Adults who complete an advance directive (AD) are not consistently offered information about the risks, benefits, or alternatives (RBA) of the life-sustaining medical procedures addressed on standardized forms. The current article describes a new patient-centered nurse-supported advance care planning (NSACP) intervention focused on providing information about RBA of life-sustaining procedures. Fifty participants (mean age = 50.