Administrative data algorithms to identify second breast cancer events following early-stage invasive breast cancer.

Background: Studies of breast cancer outcomes rely on the identification of second breast cancer events (recurrences and second breast primary tumors). Cancer registries often do not capture recurrences, and chart abstraction can be infeasible or expensive. An alternative is using administrative health-care data to identify second breast cancer events; however, these algorithms must be validated against a gold standard.

Juvenile mental health courts for adjudicated youth: role implications for child and adolescent psychiatric mental health nurses.

Topic: Juvenile mental health courts for adjudicated youth.

Purpose: To describe the role of psychiatric nurses in reducing mental health disparities for adjudicated youth via juvenile mental health courts.

Sources: ISI Web of Knowledge; Sage Journals Online; HighWire; PubMed; Google Scholar and Wiley Online Library and websites for psychiatric nursing organizations.

Screening for Wilson disease in acute liver failure: a comparison of currently available diagnostic tests.

Unlabelled: Acute liver failure (ALF) due to Wilson disease (WD) is invariably fatal without emergency liver transplantation. Therefore, rapid diagnosis of WD should aid prompt transplant listing. To identify the best method for diagnosis of ALF due to WD (ALF-WD), data and serum were collected from 140 ALF patients (16 with WD), 29 with other chronic liver diseases and 17 with treated chronic WD.

Itemized clinician ratings versus global ratings of symptom severity in patients with schizophrenia.

This study compares ratings obtained with an itemized clinician-rated symptom severity measure--the 24-item Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS24)--with a Physician Global Rating Scale (PhGRS) and a Patient Global Rating Scale (PtGRS) in assessing treatment outcomes in patients with schizophrenia (SCZ). A total of 91 patients (31 inpatients and 60 outpatients) with SCZ were enrolled in a feasibility study of the use of medication algorithms in the treatment of SCZ. Clinicians completed the BPRS24 and the PhGRS; patients completed the PtGRS at each visit.