Barriers to advance care planning with patients as perceived by nurses and other healthcare professionals: A systematic review.

Introduction: Advance care planning is a means for patients to communicate their wishes, fears and desires for future health decisions should they lose the ability to consider or communicate these. Despite being supported by governments and healthcare leaders, uptake amongst the general population remains low. Nurses play a crucial role in promoting and engaging with these discussions given their close relationship with patients and families in a range of clinical settings.

A novel inpatient complex pain team: protocol for a mixed-methods evaluation of a single-centre pilot study.

Introduction: Complex pain is a debilitating condition that is responsible for low quality of life and significant economic impacts. Although best practice in the treatment of complex pain employs a multidisciplinary team, many patients do not have access to this care, leading to poor outcomes.

Methods And Analysis: This study evaluates a novel inpatient complex pain team at a large London teaching hospital.

Predicting postoperative morbidity in adult elective surgical patients using the Surgical Outcome Risk Tool (SORT).

Background: The Surgical Outcome Risk Tool (SORT) is a risk stratification instrument used to predict perioperative mortality. We wanted to evaluate and refine SORT for better prediction of the risk of postoperative morbidity.

Methods: We analysed prospectively collected data from a single-centre cohort of adult patients undergoing major elective surgery.

Co-occurrence of 12-month mood and anxiety disorders and personality disorders in the US: results from the national epidemiologic survey on alcohol and related conditions.

The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence and co-occurrence of DSM-IV personality disorders (PDs) among individuals with current DSM-IV mood and anxiety disorders in the US population and among individuals who sought treatment for such mood or anxiety disorders. Face-to-face interviews were conducted with 43,093 individuals, 18 years and older, in the National Institute on alcohol abuse and alcoholism's 2001-2002 National epidemiologic survey on alcohol and related conditions (NESARC). Odds ratios (ORs) were calculated to determine the prevalence and associations between current DSM-IV axis I and axis II disorders.