Demographics and deprivation in obstetric brachial plexus palsy: a retrospective cohort study.

The present study analyses the relationships between deprivation and obstetric brachial plexus palsy (OBPP). A retrospective observational study was conducted of infants with OBPP seen between 2008 and 2020 ( = 321). The index of multiple deprivation (IMD) was used to assign an IMD rank to patients based on birth postcode and the relationship with OBPP was analysed, including deprivation, gestational diabetes, age at referral and at first assessment.

Comparing everyday autonomy and adult identity in young people with and without intellectual disabilities.

Aim: This study was undertaken to investigate how young people with and without mild intellectual disabilities experience and perceive their own behavioural autonomy.

Method: Fifty-six young people with mild intellectual disabilities and 49 young people without disabilities aged 16-19 participated in a novel picture card sorting task to investigate their participation in a range of activities, and the obstacles preventing them from doing so.

Results: School pupils with intellectual disabilities engaged in significantly fewer activities than their typically developing peers and were more likely to state not to be allowed to.

Transitioning to adulthood with a mild intellectual disability-Young people's experiences, expectations and aspirations.

Aim: Very little attention has been paid to the views and experiences of young people with mild intellectual disabilities on the broad topics of adulthood and adult identity. The following study was undertaken to explore how young adults with mild intellectual disabilities conceptualize, relate to, and experience the process of transition.

Method: Eight young adults with mild to borderline intellectual disabilities participated in semi-structured interviews.

The supportive care plan: a tool to improve communication in end-of-life care.

The End of Life Care Strategy (Department of Health, 2008a) states that acute hospitals need mechanisms in place to ensure that people who are approaching the end of life have their needs assessed, their wishes and preferences discussed, and an agreed set of actions reflecting these choices recorded in a care plan. The Supportive Care Plan was designed to encourage discussion of patients' preferences for end-of-life care, and to provide a tool for recording those preferences and communicating them to other healthcare professionals. Initial analysis of the results of a pre- and post-implementation audit of patient notes suggests that there has been an improvement in the documentation about preferred place of care and patient and family understanding of the illness.