Cognitive performance in hospitalized patients with severe or extreme anorexia nervosa.

Purpose: Severe malnourishment may reduce cognitive performance in anorexia nervosa (AN). We studied cognitive functioning during intensive nutritional and medical stabilization in patients with severe or extreme AN and investigated associations between weight gain and cognitive improvement.

Methods: A few days after admission to a specialized hospital unit, 33 patients with severe or extreme AN, aged 16-42 years, completed assessments of memory, cognitive flexibility, processing speed, and attention.

Cognitive Flexibility in Hospitalized Patients with Severe or Extreme Anorexia Nervosa: A Case-Control Study.

Objective: To investigate whether cognitive inflexibility could be identified using the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST) in patients with severe and extreme anorexia nervosa (AN) compared to healthy control participants (HCs).

Method: We used the WCST to assess 34 patients with AN (mean age: 25.9 years, mean body mass index (BMI): 13.

Structured decision support to prevent hospitalisations of community-dwelling older adults in Denmark (PATINA): an open-label, stepped-wedge, cluster-randomised controlled trial.

Background: Ageing populations and health-care staff shortages encourage efforts in primary care to recognise and prevent health deterioration and acute hospitalisation in community-dwelling older adults. The PATINA algorithm and decision-support tool alerts home-based-care nurses to older adults at risk of hospitalisation. The study aim was to test whether use of the PATINA tool was associated with changes in health-care use.

Conceptual framework for acute community health care services - Illustrated by assessing the development of services in Denmark.

Acute community health care services can support continuity of care by acting as a bridge between the primary and secondary health care sectors in the early detection of acute disease and provision of treatment and care. Although acute community health care services are a political priority in many countries, the literature on their organization and effect is limited. We present a conceptual framework for describing acute community health care services that can be used to support the policies and guidelines for such services.

Public versus patient health preferences: protocol for a study to elicit EQ-5D-5L health state valuations for patients who have survived a stay in intensive care.

Introduction: The value set used when calculating quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs) is most often based on stated preference data elicited from a representative sample of the general population. However, having a severe disease may alter a person's health preferences, which may imply that, for some patient groups, experienced QALYs may differ from those that are estimated via standard methods. This study aims to model 5-level EuroQol 5-dimensional questionnaire (EQ-5D-5L) valuations based on preferences elicited from a sample of patients who have survived a stay in a Danish intensive care unit (ICU) and to compare these with the preferences of the general population.