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N A Todd

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PubMed1998

Home care concerns for the normal newborn.

Four of the most common problems encountered with newborns in the home include feeding difficulties, jaundice, gastrointestinal problems, and inconsolable crying. This article suggests assessment measures and intervention strategies to deal with these problems and evaluate the home environment for safety. This article also includes suggestions to promote safe infant feeding, bathing, sleeping arrangements, car safety seats, firearm and poison storage, fall prevention, concerns about pets, pest control, heating and cooling, and a nonsmoking environment.

Community Health Nursing↗
PubMed1989

The Scottish first episode schizophrenia study. VII. Two-year follow-up. Scottish Schizophrenia Research Group.

Of 49 schizophrenic patients followed up 2 years after their first admission to hospital, 37% were well, 47% had been readmitted to hospital at some time over the 2 years, and 38% showed schizophrenic symptoms at follow-up. A poor outcome at 2 years was associated with male sex, poor outcome after the first 5 weeks of the first admission, negative schizophrenic symptoms on first admission, and a diagnosis of definite or probable schizophrenia using the Feighner criteria. Only 23% were in employment. A small double-blind discontinuation study of maintenance antipsychotic medication during the second year found more relapses in those switched to placebo medication. Repeat psychometric assessment at 2 years confirmed modest improvements found at 12 months; that is, there was no evidence of intellectual decline. Relatives showed no more psychosocial distress than that found in a normal community sample; what distress there was correlated with patients' schizophrenic symptoms.

Clinical Trials as Topic↗
PubMed1976

Some features of 'new long-stay' male schizophrenics.

From an original cohort of 471 admissions of male schizophrenics (260 individuals) to Leverndale Hospital, Glasgow, in the years 1967-70 inclusive, 39 patients were found who in December 1973 had become long-term residents by virtue of over three years' stay. These patients were followed up two years later, when it was found that 33 remained. Three had died and two had been discharged, though one was later admitted elsewhere. Those remaining had an average age 45-4 years, and an average duration of illness of 15 years. The patients are considered in terms of their clinical state, management problems, accommodation, occupational grade, and social circumstances. It is concluded that they represent a hard cord and that very few of them are likely to be suitable for such alternative forms of care as are at present available.

Chronic Disease↗