Using a mobile phone application in youth mental health - an evaluation study.

Background: This study evaluates a mobile phone self monitoring tool designed to assist paediatricians in assessing and managing youth mental health.

Methods: Patients from an adolescent outpatient clinic monitored mental health symptoms throughout each day for 2-4 weeks. Paediatricians specialising in adolescent health and participants reviewed the collated data displayed online and completed quantitative and qualitative feedback.

Effect of warfarin on menstruation and menstrual management of the adolescent on warfarin.

Aim: The aim of this study was to review a consecutive cohort of adolescent females on warfarin to determine the effect of warfarin on menstruation, management options and their perceived efficacy.

Methods: All female patients on warfarin, over the age of 10 years, as of 31 August 2006, were identified using the Department of Haematology (Royal Children's Hospital) warfarin database. The presence of menorrhagia was defined by clinical indicators.

On what basis should the effectiveness of decision aids be judged?

Objective: Attempts to synthesize the evidence on the effects of decision aids have been hampered by the lack of consensus regarding how such effectiveness should be measured. This paper seeks to describe and critically assess the range of measures of effectiveness used in randomized controlled trials of decision aids.

Search Strategy: The published systematic reviews of the field were used to identify primary studies evaluating the effects of decision aids.

Effects of decision aids for menorrhagia on treatment choices, health outcomes, and costs: a randomized controlled trial.

Context: Decision aids can increase patient involvement in treatment decision making. However, questions remain regarding their effects and cost implications.

Objective: To evaluate the effects of information, with and without a structured preference elicitation interview, on treatment choices, health outcomes, and costs.

Resource use data by patient report or hospital records: do they agree?

Background: Economic evaluations alongside clinical trials are becoming increasingly common. Cost data are often collected through the use of postal questionnaires; however, the accuracy of this method is uncertain. We compared postal questionnaires with hospital records for collecting data on physiotherapy service use.

Antarctic fellfield response to climate change: a tripartite synthesis of experimental data.

This paper explores the biological consequences of climate change by integrating the results of a tripartite investigation involving fumarole, field manipulation and laboratory incubation experiments. The geographical region for this research is the maritime Antarctic. Under contemporary climate conditions, the lithosols in this region support only a sparse cryptogamic flora of limited taxonomic diversity and low structural complexity.