Improved quality of life in Norwegian heart failure patients after follow-up in outpatient heart failure clinics: results from the Norwegian Heart Failure Registry.

Aims: To evaluate the quality of life in heart failure (HF) outpatients attending multidisciplinary disease management programmes at HF clinics in Norwegian hospitals.

Methods And Results: Data from HF patients at 24 hospital outpatient clinics were entered in a common database; The Norwegian Heart Failure Registry. Quality of life assessment was done using Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire (MLHF).

A study of outcome in patients treated at a psychiatric emergency unit.

Background: Although being an important part of the psychiatric treatment chain, there are few outcome studies of treatment at psychiatric emergency units (PEU).

Aims: The aim was to measure changes in psychopathology and humiliation during admission at a PEU.

Methods: The sample consisted of 147 patients examined at admission and discharge.

Psychometric examination and normative data for the narcissistic personality inventory 29 item version.

The Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI) is commonly used in empirical studies of narcissism. Few population-based studies have been published. Our aim was to do a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) of the NPI 29 item version with a four-factor structure, in two population-based samples and in a patient sample, and present normative population-based data.

Patients' experience of humiliation in the admission process to acute psychiatric wards.

The objective of the study was to investigate the experiences of humiliations by patients in the admission process to acute psychiatric wards. One-hundred-and-two patients were interviewed within 48 h after hospitalization about their experiences of the admission process. The structured Admission Experience Survey questionnaire was used to identify negative events of the admission process.