OBJECTIVE To investigate the impact of advance care planning on end of life care in elderly patients. DESIGN Prospective randomised controlled trial. SETTING Single centre study in a university hospital in Melbourne, Australia. PARTICIPANTS 309 legally competent medical inpatients aged 80 or more and followed for six months or until death. INTERVENTIONS Participants were randomised to r...

How do you comply with a patient's wishes when he can't express them? The protection of the rights of people in hospital who are inarticulate is in the hands of the nurses.

This report reviews and summarizes numerical electromagnetic modeling techniques that can be used to analyze sources of electromagnetic interference. Several references are cited to aid the reader who wishes to investigate a particular technique in more detail.

Key messages • Dementia is a progressive condition but it is not always easy for care staff and family carers to tell when the end of life is approaching. This means that people with dementia sometimes do not receive the end of life care they would have wanted. • People with dementia may be willing and able to discuss preferences even when they are no longer considered to have the capacity to m...

1 The person who initiated this paper provided the detailed analysis of the NIST report and largely set the structure and style of the paper but wishes to remain anonymous.

Previous research has indicated a high prevalence of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) among men who have sex with men (MSM) in the United States, and has suggested that CSA history is a risk factor for HIV infection in MSM. We conducted a systematic review to identify, synthesize, meta-analyze, and critique the current state of relevant literature. Systematic review methodology was utilized to iden...