Recording intellectual disability . . . and other stories

Patients with intellectual disabilityPeople with intellectual disability need extra care when they’re admitted to hospital. A study from England using linked clinical datasets raises suspicions that they aren’t getting it. Among2500 admissions of people with intellectual disability, fewer than 3% had the condition accurately notedin their hospital records. Even when the criteria were relaxed to include the broader label of learning difficulty, only a quarter had the condition recorded (PLoS Med doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1004117).How many steps a day?Ten years’ follow-up of 3000 adults who had worn an accelerometer in 2005 found that all-cause mortality was 15% lower among those who had taken more than 8000 steps on one or two days during the week of accelerometer recording when compared with people who had never reached that threshold. Surprisingly, walking 8000 steps on more than two days a week didn’t seem to be associated with any additional benefit (JAMA Netw Open doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.5174).Effects of…
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