Circadian realignment and depressed mood: A systematic review.

Chronotherapeutic interventions aimed at realigning the circadian system can improve depression. This systematic review evaluated the current evidence for circadian realignment as an antidepressant mechanism. A comprehensive search was conducted in studies that implemented a chronotherapeutic intervention in samples with depression and/or delayed sleep/circadian timing using PubMed, EMBASE, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (Wiley), Europe PMC, and PsycINFO.

Prenatal stress and externalizing behaviors in childhood and adolescence: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Accumulating evidence suggests that psychological distress during pregnancy is linked to offspring risk for externalizing outcomes (e.g., reactive/aggressive behaviors, hyperactivity, and impulsivity).

Research Review: A systematic review and meta-analysis of infant and toddler temperament as predictors of childhood attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

Background: Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a common neurodevelopmental disorder with onset as early as preschool and impairment across the lifespan. Temperament factors, specifically those that theoretically map onto ADHD symptoms, may be early markers of risk for developing later childhood ADHD that could be identifiable in infancy or toddlerhood. This meta-analysis examined the associations between these early temperamental factors and later symptoms and diagnosis of ADHD and mapped early temperament constructs onto the three ADHD symptom dimensions.

Reproductive Decision-Making Capacity in Women With Psychiatric Illness: A Systematic Review.

Background: Decision-making capacity can be affected by psychiatric illness. Women who have psychiatric illness who make decisions about their reproductive health may require evaluation of their decision-making capacity.

Objective: This article aims to characterize existing literature about capacity evaluations in women with psychiatric illness making reproductive decisions.

A systematic review of community pharmacy initiatives to improve treatment of depression and pain: Focus on types of programs and patient-reported outcomes.

Introduction: Depression and pain are common, disabling, mutually exacerbating conditions. Many patients living with these conditions present to community pharmacies on a regular schedule to purchase both prescribed and over-the-counter medications. Community-pharmacy based programs have been developed to improve depression and pain outcomes.

Systematic review of plasma/packed red blood cell ratio on survival in ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms.

Background: The ideal perioperative fluid resuscitation for patients with ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms (rAAAs) is unknown. It has been shown in trauma studies that a higher ratio of plasma and platelets to packed red blood cells confers a mortality benefit. Controversy remains whether this is true also in the rAAA population.

Improving e-book access via a library-developed full-text search tool.

Purpose: This paper reports on the development of a tool for searching the contents of licensed full-text electronic book (e-book) collections.

Setting: The Health Sciences Library System (HSLS) provides services to the University of Pittsburgh's medical programs and large academic health system.

Brief Description: The HSLS has developed an innovative tool for federated searching of its e-book collections.

Use of Web-based library resources by medical students in community and ambulatory settings.

Purpose: The purpose was to evaluate the use of Web-based library resources by third-year medical students.

Setting/participants/resources: Third-year medical students (147) in a twelve-week multidisciplinary primary care rotation in community and ambulatory settings.

Methodology: Individual user surveys and log file analysis of Website were used.