Nurses' Perceptions of In-Hospital Versus Telephone Availability of an Intensivist at Night in an Intensive Care Unit.

Background: Evidence suggests that in-person management by nighttime intensivists does not change patients' mortality rates in high-intensity intensive care units.

Objective: To better understand domains affected by nighttime intensivist staffing not previously measured.

Methods: Semistructured interviews of 13 night-shift nurses in an academic medical intensive care unit to elicit perceptions of nighttime staffing with attending intensivists versus residents with attending intensivists on call remotely.

Location of In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest in the United States-Variability in Event Rate and Outcomes.

Background: In-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA) is a major public health problem with significant mortality. A better understanding of where IHCA occurs in hospitals (intensive care unit [ICU] versus monitored ward [telemetry] versus unmonitored ward) could inform strategies for reducing preventable deaths.

Methods And Results: This is a retrospective study of adult IHCA events in the Get with the Guidelines-Resuscitation database from January 2003 to September 2010.

Mental health in primary care for adolescent parents.

Mental health care is important for everyone, especially teenagers. However, seeking mental health services may be challenging for teenagers, particularly when they are also parents. Offering mental health care in a safe, attractive and easily accessible manner, such as primary care, increases the chances that teenage parents will receive help.