Correction to: Dimensions within 24 weight history indices and their association with inpatient treatment outcome in adults with anorexia nervosa: analysis of routine data.

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1186/s40337-019-0249-z.].

[Pathways to Care and Duration of Untreated Illness of Inpatients with Anorexia and Bulimia nervosa].

Objective: The study aimed to investigate pathways to care and duration of untreated illness of inpatients with eating disorders.

Methods: 206 patients were assessed using a self-developed questionnaire.

Results: On average, the delay between the onset of the eating disorder and treatment initiation was up to five years.

Dimensions within 24 weight history indices and their association with inpatient treatment outcome in adults with anorexia nervosa: analysis of routine data.

Objective: Next to weight suppression (WS), there are a range of less often examined weight history indices, and improvements to the WS construct have been proposed. We aimed to examine redundancy and overlap between 24 weight history indices in order to identify suitable constructs for further investigation.

Method: Analysis of routine data of 770 female adult inpatients treated for AN.

Predicting Cognitive Decline and Dementia with the Newly Normed SKT Short Cognitive Performance Test.

Objective: The aim of this article was to determine the criterion-related validity of the newly normed SKT (Syndrom-Kurztest) Short Cognitive Performance Test with the onset of dementia as the predicted criterion.

Methods: The cognitive ability was tested with the SKT in a sample of 546 cognitively healthy adults aged 65-85 years. New cases of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or dementia were determined in 3 follow-up investigations at 1-year intervals.

Impact of comorbid borderline personality disorder on inpatient treatment for bulimia nervosa: analysis of routine data.

Background: A substantial rate of patients with bulimia nervosa (BN) also suffer from Borderline personality disorder (BN + BPD). It is widely unknown how these comorbid patients with BN + BPD present and respond to inpatient treatment. Aims of the study were to examine (1) specific characteristics of patients with BN + BPD at admission, discharge, and during treatment, and (2) differential effects of inpatient treatment for BN vs.

The Prevalence of Dementia and Cognitive Impairment in Hospitals.

Background: The care of elderly patients with comorbid dementia poses an increasing challenge in the acute inpatient setting, yet there remains a lack of representative studies on the prevalence and distribution of dementia in general hospitals.

Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study of patients aged 65 and older in randomly selected general hospitals in southern Germany. Patients were excluded if they were in an intensive care unit or isolation unit or if they were on specialized wards for psychiatry, neurology, or geriatric medicine.

Usability and Naturalness of Videoconference-Based Exposure and Response Prevention for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder at the Patients' Homes: A Pilot Study.

The treatment of choice for obsessive-compulsive disorders is cognitive behavioral therapy, including exposure and response prevention (ERP). Therapist-supervised ERP is more effective than self-controlled ERP, and exposure should take place at the patient's home. This standard might be achieved with ERPs at home via videoconference supervision from the therapist.

Are there differences between men and women in outcome of intensive inpatient treatment for anorexia nervosa? An analysis of routine data.

Objective: Anorexia nervosa (AN) in men is rare and understudied. We compared admission characteristics and response to specialized inpatient treatment between men and women with AN.

Method: One hundred sixteen consecutive male patients with AN were matched to 116 female patients.

Weight Suppression But Not Symptom Improvement Predicts Weight Gain During Inpatient Treatment for Bulimia Nervosa.

Objective: Fear of gaining weight is a common obstacle to seeking treatment for bulimia nervosa (BN). We investigated changes in body mass index (BMI) during inpatient treatment for BN in relation to treatment outcome and weight suppression (WS).

Methods: Female inpatients of a specialized eating disorders clinic were grouped as deteriorated/unchanged, reliably improved, and clinically significantly improved based on Eating Disorder Inventory-2 scores.

[Dementia friendly care services in general hospitals : Representative results of the general hospital study (GHoSt)].

Background: Mostly model projects report on special care services and procedures for general hospital patients with cognitive impairment. The objective of this study was to determine the frequency of special care services and procedures in general hospitals on the basis of a representative cross-sectional study.

Methods: From a list of all general hospitals in southern Germany we randomly selected a specified number of hospitals und somatic wards.

Applying Psycholinguistic Evidence to the Construction of a New Test of Verbal Memory in Late-Life Cognitive Decline: The Auditory Wordlist Learning Test.

The construction of the German Auditory Wordlist Learning Test (AWLT) for the assessment of verbal memory in late-life cognitive decline was guided by psycholinguistic evidence, which indicates that a word's linguistic characteristics influence its probability of being learned and recalled. The AWLT includes four trials of learning, short and long delayed free recall, and a recognition task. Its words were selected with taking into account their semantic content, orthographic length, frequency in the language, and orthographic neighborhood size (the number of words derived by adding, subtracting, or replacing a single letter at a time).

Differential Linguistic Recall Effects in the California Verbal Learning Test in Healthy Aging and Alzheimer's Dementia: Analysis of Routine Diagnostic Data.

Objective: Psycholinguistic evidence suggests that certain word characteristics might influence recall rates in word-list learning tests. These effects were investigated in the German California Verbal Learning Test (CVLT-G) in a clinical setting.

Method: Subjects were memory clinic patients without cognitive diagnosis (N = 45) and with dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT) (N = 48) matched for age, sex, depressive symptoms, and education.

The 6-Item Cognitive Impairment Test as a bedside screening for dementia in general hospital patients: results of the General Hospital Study (GHoSt).

Objective: The objective of this study was to examine the psychometric quality of the 6-Item Cognitive Impairment Test (6CIT) as a bedside screening for the detection of dementia in general hospital patients.

Method: Participants (N = 1,440) were inpatients aged ≥65 of 33 randomly selected general hospitals in Southern Germany. The 6CIT was conducted at bedside, and dementia was diagnosed according to DSM-IV.

Smoking increases the risk of delirium for older inpatients: a prospective population-based study.

Objectives: To investigate the association between smoking in the older population and the risk of inpatient delirium, which is common and has adverse consequences.

Method: Participants (N=3754) were insurants aged ≥55years of the largest German statutory health insurance company, who enrolled in a 6-year prospective population-based study. Baseline smoking, adjusted for age, sex, depressive symptoms, cognitive impairment and alcohol consumption, was analyzed as risk factor of inpatient delirium.