Part I. Research in chronic illness. Two decades of insider research: what we know and don't know about chronic illness experience / Sally E. Thorne and Barbara L. Paterson -- Children with epilepsy: quality of life and psychosocial needs / Joan K. Austin and David W. Dunn -- Adherence in chronic disease / Jacqueline Dunbar-Jacob [and others] -- Heart failure management: optimal health care delivery programs / Debra K. Moser -- Cancer care: impact of interventions on caregiver outcomes / Jeannie V. Pasacreta and Ruth McCorkle -- Interventions for children with diabeters and their families / Margaret Grey -- Management of urinary incontinence in adult ambulatory care populations / Jean F. Wyman -- Family interventions to prevent substance abuse: children and adolescents / Carol J. Loveland-Cherry -- School-based interventions for primary prevention of cardiocascular disease: evidence of effects for minority populations / Janet C. Meininger. Part II: milestones in nursing research. Breakthroughs in scientific research: the discipline of nursing, 1960-1999 / Sue K. Donaldson.