Dementia and the drive to increase diagnosis rates: the debate goes on
As part of its excellent ‘Too Much Medicine’ series, the British Medical Journal last week published an important analysis of the current direction of travel in the field of dementia care. The article...
View ArticlePCTs underperforming in provision of annual health checks for people with...
Annual health checks for people with learning disabilities were introduced as part of the Direct Enhanced Service in England in 2008 and a recent review of studies involving over 5000 people with...
View ArticleWEAVE RCT: GP training, but not screening, may benefit women who have...
Behaviour within an intimate relationship which causes psychological, physical or sexual harm to either party is known as intimate partner violence (IPV). This violence is perpetrated by both men and...
View ArticleFinancial incentives don’t increase depression screening for patients with...
The lines between physical health and mental health are blurred in lots of ways, and one example is the fact that people with chronic physical conditions are also more likely to suffer from depression....
View ArticleLimited evidence to decide whether visual screening reduces the death rate...
Yesterday we looked at a review of the effectiveness of oral examination to detect potentially malignant disorders and mouth cancer today we are looking the latest version of the Cochrane review on...
View ArticlePhysical health monitoring in serious mental illness is a priority in...
It is widely acknowledged that individuals with serious mental illnesses (SMI) such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and severe depression have increased rates of mortality, due to poor physical...
View ArticlePractical recommendations to improve uptake in cancer screening services by...
People with learning disabilities have low take-up rates for health promotion or screening activities. Work in the south west of the country to look at reasonable adjustments a couple of years ago...
View ArticleAddressing the health needs of people who are homeless
Liz Hughes reviews two recent Lancet papers about the health needs of people who are homeless and the best ways to meet these needs. The post Addressing the health needs of people who are homeless...
View ArticlePopulation screening for dementia
Rosalyn Nelson reports on a recent systematic review about population screening for dementia, which highlights the negative attitudes of patients, carers and health care professionals towards...
View ArticleScreening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT)
Sally Adams summarises a meta-analysis of specialty substance use disorder services following brief alcohol intervention, which finds a lack of evidence for SBIRTs despite the widespread public health...
View ArticleDepression in fathers affects children as much as depression in mothers
Jennifer Burgess writes her debut elf blog on evidence from two population-based cohorts of the association between depression in fathers and their adolescent children. The post Depression in fathers...
View ArticlePoorer cardiovascular screening, diagnosis and management if you have a...
Joanne Wallace summarises a systematic review that highlights disparities in the management of cardiovascular risk factors in people with mental illness. The post Poorer cardiovascular screening,...
View ArticleCan we screen-and-treat victims of terror attacks?
Nia Oxbourgh summarises a recent study of the outcomes of mental health screening (the screen and treat programme) for UK nationals affected by the 2015-2016 terrorist attacks in Tunisia, Paris and...
View ArticleCancer screening disparities in people with mental illness
Emily Peckham from the Closing The Gap Network writes her debut blog on a new systematic review, which finds that people with mental illnesses were less likely to receive screening for cancer compared...
View ArticleFirst episode psychosis in prison: is our screening effective?
Danny Whiting explores the issue of screening for first episode psychosis in prison using a retrospective cohort study from Australia. The post First episode psychosis in prison: is our screening...
View ArticleHow do our genes affect our risk of suicidal thoughts and behaviours in...
A group of UCL masters students consider a JAMA Psychiatry study which looks at the associations between genetic risk for adult suicide attempt and suicidal behaviours in young children in the United...
View ArticleCan hearing interventions slow down cognitive decline?
In this blog, Daisy Long and the elf apprentices that took part in the woodland workshop undertook a group critical analysis on Lin, F.R., Pike, J.R., Albert. M.S., Arnold, M., Burgard, S., Chisolm, T....
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