Where Adults with Congenital Heart Disease Die: Insights from the CDC-WONDER Database.

The population of adults with congenital heart disease (ACHD) is rapidly increasing. There is limited understanding of location of death and associated disparities in these patients. From 2005-2018, a trend-level analysis was performed using death certificate data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Wide-ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research Database, with individual-level mortality data obtained from National Center for Health Statistics.

Approaching End-of-Life Decisions in Adults with Congenital Heart Disease.

Purpose: Despite tremendous advances in medical and surgical care, some adults with congenital heart disease (ACHD) develop terminal conditions where therapy is limited. This paper reviews the important role of palliative care, advance care planning (ACP), and end-of-life (EOL) care in ACHD.

Recent Findings: Recent studies suggest that ACP is infrequently utilized in ACHD.

Role of diversity in assembling of rehabilitation teams in Central Europe.

Background: Multiprofessional teamwork in physical and rehabilitation medicine (PRM) allows achieving patient-centered goals in accordance with the assumptions of the bio-psycho-social model of functioning. Team composition and methods of collaboration depend of the specificity of goals to be achieved, as well local contextual factors. International comparative studies on rehabilitation teamwork are lacking, despite data on how teams differ between countries are crucial for the process of harmonization of PRM practice across Europe.

Effectiveness of rehabilitation after cervical disk surgery: a systematic review of controlled studies.

Objectives:: To present a synopsis of evidence on the efficacy of rehabilitation after cervical disk surgery performed for neck pain and radiculopathy.

Data Sources:: The databases of Medline, EMBASE, and Cochrane Central were searched for studies reporting effects of rehabilitation interventions in patients undergoing surgery due to cervical disk disease with pain and radicular syndrome, published before 31 August 2018.

Review Methods:: Project was registered with PROSPERO database (number CRD42018085937).

Perception of the role of physical and rehabilitation medicine among physiotherapy students.

Objective: To determine how the role of physical and rehabilitation medicine specialists in healthcare is perceived by physiotherapy students.

Design: Cross-sectional observational study.

Subjects: A total of 677 physiotherapy students and 519 final year medical students at the largest university-level educational institutions in Warsaw, Poland.