Best practices in survivor engagement in IRCT member centres.

Introduction: While the literature encourages engaging torture survivors in the direction and provision of services, little is known about how best to do this.

Method: We surveyed 82 member centres of the International Rehabilitation Council for TortureVictims (IRCT), a worldwide network of anti-torture organisations, and interviewed fourteen staff members and executive directors about current practices, best practices, and the advantages and disadvantages of engaging survivors.

Results: While few agencies involve survivors extensively, those that did found survivor engagement helped agencies engage in better planning, service provision, and advocacy, while at the same time being healing and empowering for survivors.

What is 'agency' in torture and trauma recovery? An inquiry into the properties and explanations of the concept of agency and it's impacts.

This paper presents learnings from trauma recovery mechanisms and social movements from around the world relating to a survivor's role and as such- their agency. It unpacks various conceptual frameworks as possible alternative, effective and strategic pathways in torture rehabilitation. Ongoing and new challenges such as resourcing, cultural adaptability limitations, lack of access to services and inhumane foreign policies pose barriers to established systems that render some practices inadequate in terms of meaningful service delivery or social impact for torture survivors (Wheildon et al.

Reliability and validity of the Veterans Administration Mobility Screening and Solutions Tool.

Objectives: The Veterans Administration (VA) Mobility Screening and Solutions Tool (VA MSST) was developed to screen a patient's safe mobility level 'in the moment' and provide clinical decision support related to the use of safe patient handling and mobility (SPHM) equipment. This evidence-based flowchart tool is a common language tool that enables any healthcare worker at any time to accurately measure and communicate patient mobility and transfer equipment needs across disciplines and settings.

Methods: The VA MSST has four levels and differentiates between the need for powered and non-powered equipment depending on the patient's independence.

Integrating Safe Patient Handling and Early Mobility: Combining Quality Initiatives.

Background: Safe Patient Handling and Mobility (SPHM) programs reduce staff injuries from lifting and repositioning patients. Early Mobility programs improve many patient-centered outcomes. Reframing SPHM equipment as mobilization tools can help safely mobilize hospitalized patients to their highest abilities.

The detection of subclinical synovitis by ultrasound in oligoarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis: a pilot study.

Objectives: Adult studies have demonstrated that ultrasonography (US) is more sensitive at detecting synovitis than clinical examination. The detection of subclinical disease has implications for deciding which patients receive more aggressive therapy from the outset. This study aimed to determine whether children with clinically diagnosed oligoarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) had US-detectable subclinical synovitis.