Exploring nurses' online perspectives and social networks during a global pandemic COVID-19.

Objectives: Examine the online interactions, social networks, and perspectives of nursing actors on COVID-19 from conversations on Twitter to understand how the profession responded to this global pandemic.

Design: Mixed methods.

Sample: Ten-thousand five-hundred and seventy-four tweets by 2790 individuals and organizations.

Birth incidence, deaths and hospitalisations of children and young people with Down syndrome, 1990-2015: birth cohort study.

Objective: To investigate current Down syndrome live birth and death rates, and childhood hospitalisations, compared with peers.

Setting: General community.

Participants: All live births with Down syndrome, 1990-2015, identified via Scottish regional cytogenetic laboratories, each age-sex-neighbourhood deprivation matched with five non-Down syndrome controls.

Recruitment settings, delivery contexts, intervention techniques and outcomes of health promotion programmes for young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities: A systematic review.

Background: People with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) are at risk of developing long term health conditions, and a preventative health agenda research is emerging. However, little is known about the recruitment settings, delivery contexts, intervention techniques and outcomes of health promotion programmes for this population. Therefore, the aim of this review was to synthesize and evaluate these characteristics.

Early death and causes of death of people with Down syndrome: A systematic review.

Background: It is thought that people with Down syndrome die younger than the general population, but that survival rates are improving.

Methods: Five databases were searched for keywords related to intellectual disabilities, Down syndrome and mortality. Strict inclusion criteria were applied.

Early death and causes of death of people with intellectual disabilities: A systematic review.

Background: Death of people with intellectual disabilities is considered to be earlier than for the general population.

Methods: Databases were searched for key words on intellectual disabilities and death. Strict inclusion/exclusion criteria were used.

Healthy lifestyle behaviours for people with intellectual disabilities: An exploration of organizational barriers and enablers.

Background: The health-related behaviours of people with intellectual disabilities may be determined by organisational influences. This innovative study aimed to explore managers' and staffs' perspectives on organisational influences on the promotion of healthy behaviours for this population.

Method: A qualitative methodology was employed.

The health role of local area coordinators in Scotland: a mixed methods study.

The study set out to explore whether local area coordinators (LACs) and their managers view the health role of LACs as an essential component of their work and identify the health-related activities undertaken by LACs in Scotland. A mixed methods cross-sectional phenomenological study involving local authority service managers (n = 25) and LACs (n = 40) was adopted. Quantitative data from LACs were obtained using online and postal questionnaires.

The core content of emergency medical services medicine.

On September 23, 2010, the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) approved emergency medical services (EMS) as a subspecialty of emergency medicine. As a result, the American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) is planning to award the first certificates in EMS medicine in the fall of 2013. The purpose of subspecialty certification in EMS, as defined by ABEM, is to standardize physician training and qualifications for EMS practice, to improve patient safety and enhance the quality of emergency medical care provided to patients in the prehospital environment, and to facilitate integration of prehospital patient treatment into the continuum of patient care.

Expanding the reach of health sciences education and empowering others: the OpenCourseWare initiative at Tufts University.

OpenCourseWare (OCW) represents an innovative and cost-effective opportunity for institutions to take a more active role in strengthening health sciences education worldwide. OCW content can provide a supplement to curricula available in resource-rich settings, as well as provide much of the basic content critical to teaching and research in resource-limited health education environments. Educational institutions worldwide have the opportunity to explore how OCW and other open tools and materials can supplement efforts to build health education capacity to address global shortages of healthcare workers.

Electroglottographic analysis of valved speech following total laryngectomy.

Twenty-seven total laryngectomy patients (19 males and 8 females) and 18 normal control subjects (10 males and 8 females) were subjected to electroglottography-based single voice recordings using sustained vowels and connected speech. The results showed poorer values and larger variability for all the voice measures for the total laryngectomy patients (TO speech) as compared to that of normal subjects. There were statistically significant differences (p<0.