Health of the Nation Outcome Scales for Infants field trial: concurrent validity.

Background: A review of Australian mental health services identified a gap in routine outcome measures addressing social, emotional and behavioural domains for pre-schoolers and infants. A Child and Adolescent Mental Health Information Development Expert Advisory Panel working group developed the Health of the Nation Outcome Scales for Infants (HoNOSI), a clinician-reported routine outcome measure for infants 0-47 months. Prior face validity testing showed that the HoNOSI was considered useful in measuring mental health outcomes.

The interrater reliability of a routine outcome measure for infants and pre-schoolers aged under 48 months: Health of the Nation Outcome Scales for Infants.

Background: A review of Australian mental health services identified a gap in routine outcome measures addressing social, emotional and behavioural domains for pre-schoolers and infants. The Child and Adolescent Mental Health Information Development Expert Advisory Panel Working Group developed the Health of the Nation Outcome Scales for Infants (HoNOSI), a clinician-reported routine outcome measure for use with those aged under 4 years. Prior psychometric testing showed that the HoNOSI was considered to show face validity, and that it met the standards for concurrent validity and internal consistency.

Tamoxifen for hepatocellular carcinoma.

The review is withdrawn as it has not been updated since its last search for trials in 2004.

Awareness, Access and Use of Internet Self-Help Websites for Depression by University Students.

Background: University students have a higher prevalence rate of depression than the average 18 to 24 year old. Internet self-help has been demonstrated to be effective in decreasing self-rated measures of depression in this population, so it is important to explore the awareness, access and use of such self-help resources in this population.

Objective: The objective of this study is to explore university students' awareness, access and use of Internet self-help websites for depression and related problems.

Patterns of metastases in familial and non-familial melanoma.

Family history is a strong risk factor for the development of primary melanoma and is associated in a subset with inherited mutations in melanoma susceptibility genes. This study sought to determine whether differences in metastatic pattern exist between patients with a positive family history (FH+) and those with a negative family history (FH-). Such differences could have importance for clinical management and in the determination of the function of both known and putative melanoma susceptibility genes.

Surgical management of cerebral metastases from melanoma: outcome in 147 patients treated at a single institution over two decades.

Object: The aim of this study was to review the outcome of patients who underwent surgery for treatment of cerebral metastatic melanoma.

Methods: A retrospective analysis was performed in 147 patients with cerebral metastases from melanoma who were treated surgically at a single institution between 1979 and 1999. Almost all patients underwent postoperative wholebrain radiation therapy.