This article describes the issues associated with the development of services for people with intellectual disabilities (ID) and mental disorders [including challenging behavior (CB)] and reviews the evidence for providing effective community mental health services. Despite the fact that...

Background: Osteoporosis is considered a disease that affects elderly women. Younger, working-aged women are seldom considered to be at risk, although low bone mass may occur at menopause or even earlier. Bone density testing for working women may therefore be considered of low priority for both...

Clinical practice relies on structured learning that is applied to a patient care setting. Patients present with symptoms and providers try to fit these complaints into known disease categories. Providers depend on memorized algorithms to direct diagnosis and treatment. Well thought-out...

Outpatient parenteral antibacterial therapy (OPAT) is an increasingly popular means of containing the costs of antibacterial therapy, by avoiding the need for hospitalisation or allowing early discharge from hospital, in patients with serious infections. It also offers increased comfort and...

Development of self-management skills for the people with epilepsy is important to maintain optimum health. Self-management has been primarily conceptualised in the research literature as compliance. A conceptual analysis of self-management provided a framework for this literature review and...

Aggressive lipid disorder therapy in both primary and secondary prevention has been shown to reduce progression of coronary heart disease, reduce mortality and clinical events and ultimately reduce healthcare costs. Outpatient cardiac centres, diabetic treatment clinics, multispecialty medical...