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Drugs Real World Outcomes
December 2024
School of Medicine, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Av. Eugênio do Nascimento s/no Bairro: Dom Bosco, Juiz de Fora, MG, 36038-330, Brazil.
Introduction: This study aimed to investigate the association between the 2023 Beers criteria for inappropriate prescribing and different health outcomes among community-dwelling older individuals after a 1-year follow-up period and to assess the use and factors associated with inappropriate prescribing.
Methods: This longitudinal population study spanning from 2017 to 2018 included 490 community-dwelling older adults (≥60 years old) receiving care from family medicine teams in the city of São João del-Rei, Brazil. The 2023 Beers criteria was used to identify potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs).
World J Psychiatry
December 2024
Department of Gastroenterology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China.
This editorial examines the application of virtual reality (VR) training to mitigate restrictive practices (RPs) within psychiatric facilities. RPs include physical restraints, seclusion, and chemical restraints, used to ensure patient safety but with varying usage rates across regions. In recent years, there has been a growing focus on the adverse effects of RPs on both healthcare workers and patients, leading to calls for its reduction.
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December 2024
Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA.
Although parenting interventions are recommended by major clinical guidelines for managing children's behavioral challenges, including ADHD, their uptake in clinical practice remains limited. Building on the contributions of Hodson et al. and Nijboer et al.
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December 2024
School of Human Sciences, Exercise and Sport Science, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia.
Introduction: As adolescent smoking rates rise, its impact on cognitive function has drawn greater attention. This study explores whether exercise can mitigate the negative effects of smoking on executive function in male college students.
Methods: Sixty male college students were divided into four groups (n = 15 each): sedentary smokers, sedentary nonsmokers, athletic smokers, and athletic nonsmokers.
J Prof Nurs
December 2024
Office of Undergraduate Studies, School of Nursing, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States of America.
The lack of diversity in professional nursing education curricula, practices, and policies is reflective of its colonialist history. Despite increasing calls for action and organizational position statements affirming the importance of advancing diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging, this deeply rooted history has led to embedded structural racism and other forms of bias that have remained rife in the discipline. The desire to maintain a status quo that ignores the institutional and structural effects of bias has even led some states to defund and disempower institutions historically charged with advancing knowledge and fostering inclusive education.
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