- The COVID-19 impact and characterization on substance use-related emergency department visit for adolescents and young adults in Canada: Practical implications. [Journal Article]J Eval Clin Pract. 2023 Feb 08 [Online ahead of print]JE
- CONCLUSIONS: Our findings indicate unmet substance use treatment needs due to the limited accessibility and heightened threshold for ED visits during the pandemic. Providing access to substance treatment/programs outside ED is critical to reducing substance use-related complications presenting in the ED. Also, policies addressing the pandemic-related complexities in the ED and Health Human Resource challenges are warranted.
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- Bypassing of nearest labor & delivery unit is contingent on rurality, wealth, and race. [Journal Article]Birth. 2023 Feb 08 [Online ahead of print]B
- Patient decisions to bypass the closest labor & delivery (L&D) facility in favor of other birthing locations can have consequences for the provision of health care in rural and micropolitan areas as patient volumes decline and payer mixes change. Among 220 589 uncomplicated births in Iowa, we document characteristics of birth parents who bypass their closest birthing facility, show how this bypas…
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- The challenges facing residential aged care homes to participate in quality food and nutrition research. [Journal Article]J Hum Nutr Diet. 2023 Feb 08 [Online ahead of print]JH
- CONCLUSIONS: Several challenges to undertaking quality empirical research in residential aged care in Australia were identified. Research needs to be part of usual business, like hospitals and operate independently of staffing and funding issues. Issues within foodservices are system issues and there is a need for quality empirical research to determine solutions. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
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- A health systems intervention to strengthen the integration of tuberculosis and COVID-19 detection: Outcomes of a quasi-experimental study in a high burden tuberculosis district in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. [Journal Article]Trop Med Int Health. 2023 Feb 08 [Online ahead of print]TM
- CONCLUSIONS: These results add to the knowledge base regarding the effectiveness of interventions to strengthen TB case detection during the COVID-19 pandemic. The findings support the feasibility of a shift to online learning approaches in low-resource settings with appropriate support and suggest that even low-intensity interventions are capable of activating nurses to integrate existing disease control priorities during pandemic conditions.
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- Increased mortality in ICU patients ≥70 years old with COVID-19 compared to patients with other pneumonias. [Journal Article]J Am Geriatr Soc. 2023 Feb 08 [Online ahead of print]JA
- CONCLUSIONS: In ICU-patients ≥70 years old, COVID-19 is more severe compared to bacterial or viral pneumonia.
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- Evidence-based practice improves patient outcomes and healthcare system return on investment: Findings from a scoping review. [Review]Worldviews Evid Based Nurs. 2023 Feb 08 [Online ahead of print]WE
- CONCLUSIONS: Findings indicate that EBPs improve patient outcomes and ROI for healthcare systems. Coordinated and consistent use of established nomenclature and methods to evaluate EBP and patient outcomes are needed to effectively increase the growth and impact of EBP across care settings. Leaders, clinicians, publishers, and educators all have a professional responsibility related to improving the current state of EBP. Several key actions are needed to mitigate confusion around EBP and to help clinicians understand the differences between quality improvement, implementation science, EBP, and research.
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- Evidence Translating Ability: A Walker and Avant Concept Analysis. [Journal Article]Florence Nightingale J Nurs. 2023 Feb; 31(1):62-68.FN
- CONCLUSIONS: Evidence translating ability requires a set of skills that nurses have to do such as identifying the challenges and analyzing the setting for searching the evidence; the best evidence is not the highest evidence hierarchy, the best evidence is the evidence that suits patient, organization, and practitioner abilities.
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- Occupational Satisfaction of Public Hospital Nurses in India: A Qualitative Explorative Study. [Journal Article]Florence Nightingale J Nurs. 2023 Feb; 31(1):42-47.FN
- CONCLUSIONS: The findings help us understand the various facilitating and hindering challenges nurses face in occupational satisfaction. It also emphasizes the organization's focus on modifiable factors in the working environment, enhancing satisfaction, and helping the nurses work more effectively and efficiently to deliver quality nursing care. Nursing administration in every healthcare setting should focus on strategies to improve nurses' professional development.
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- SHEA/IDSA/APIC Practice Recommendation: Strategies to prevent healthcare-associated infections through hand hygiene: 2022 Update. [Journal Article]Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2023 Feb 08 [Online ahead of print]IC
- The purpose of this document is to highlight practical recommendations to assist acute-care hospitals in prioritization and implementation of strategies to prevent healthcare-associated infections through hand hygiene. This document updates the Strategies to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections in Acute Care Hospitals through Hand Hygiene, published in 2014. This expert guidance document is s…
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- Lived Experiences of Adults with Sickle Cell Disease: A Qualitative Study, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. [Journal Article]East Afr Health Res J. 2022; 6(2):189-195.EA
- CONCLUSIONS: Individuals with SCD experiences several episodes of pain that affect their quality of life. Pain episode can be triggered or aggravated by various factors. Several approaches are used by individuals with SCD to self-manage the pain including taking rest, drinking plenty of water or using pain relieving medication. Care for individuals with SCD should be comprehensive and include proper management of pain, health education on home-based intervention for sickle cell pain, supportive services to deal with psychosocial implications of SCD and improving coping strategies to live with the illness.
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- Validity of Coronavirus Disease 2019 International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision in the Urgent Care Setting and Impact on Antibiotic Prescribing Rates. [Journal Article]Open Forum Infect Dis. 2023 Feb; 10(2):ofad010.OF
- We validated different coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Edition (ICD-10) encounter definitions across 2 urgent care clinics. Sensitivity of definitions varied throughout the pandemic. Inclusion of COVID-19 and COVID-19-like illness (CLI) ICD-10s rendered highest sensitivity but lowest specificity. Antibiotic prescribing rates were low for COVID-…
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- The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and stringent social distancing measures on health-related quality of life and COVID-19 infection rates in patients with rheumatic disease: a longitudinal analysis through the pandemic. [Journal Article]Rheumatol Adv Pract. 2023; 7(1):rkad009.RA
- CONCLUSIONS: Mental and physical health in RD patients has changed throughout the pandemic; outcomes for both metrics of health were worse in CEV patients, although there were no differences in infection rates between the groups. These data might assist the understanding and planning of future health-care policy and social restrictions in RD patients.
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- Oral health in patients with severe inflammatory dermatologic and rheumatologic disease. [Journal Article]Skin Health Dis. 2023 Feb; 3(1):e156.SH
- CONCLUSIONS: Patients with severe inflammatory dermatologic/rheumatologic conditions have poorer OH and OH-related QoL. Clinicians should appreciate the risk of poor OH in this cohort and have a low threshold for involving OH professionals in care pathways for severe inflammatory disease.
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- Are virtual consultations suitable for patients with vulval disease? A multicentre audit of outcomes in the COVID-19 pandemic. [Journal Article]Skin Health Dis. 2023 Feb; 3(1):e178.SH
- CONCLUSIONS: Although in-person consultation remains the gold standard of care, VC may have a role in the management of selected patients with vulval disease. It is possible to provide good-quality photographs for clinical assessment, particularly with the help of a third party and follow-up patients with an established, cancer-unrelated diagnosis may be best suited for this consultation modality.
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- Methods used for indirect comparisons of systemic treatments for psoriasis. A systematic review. [Review]Skin Health Dis. 2023 Feb; 3(1):e112.SH
- CONCLUSIONS: Understanding that there are different methodologies employed to answer differing research questions is key to helping clinicians to interpret the indirect evidence currently available in psoriasis.
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- Functional Ability and Health Problems of Stroke Survivors: An Explorative Study. [Journal Article]Cureus. 2023 Jan; 15(1):e33375.C
- Background A stroke is an emergency medical condition that needs to be treated promptly. Patients who suffer from stroke frequently experience varying degrees of impairment, necessitating emergency hospital treatment and prolonged home care. It can lower the quality of life which leads to social isolation and makes it harder to function independently. The purpose of this research was to assess th…
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- Improving the Hospital Transfer Process for Acute Type A Aortic Dissections. [Journal Article]Cureus. 2023 Jan; 15(1):e33451.C
- Patients with acute type A aortic dissection who arrive at hospitals that lack the facilities to treat them must be transferred to a tertiary care facility to receive treatment. The transfer process involves a checkpoint at which the transfer is accepted or denied. Delays in making this decision may lead to suboptimal health outcomes. In light of this, the goal of this project was to devise a way…
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- Colorectal Cancer: A Systematic Review of the Current Situation and Screening in North and Central Asian Countries. [Review]Cureus. 2023 Jan; 15(1):e33424.C
- The prevalence of colorectal cancer (CRC) is increasing in the past few decades. A significant proportion of this increase is from low to middle income countries (LMIC). CRC prevalence is also increasing in North and Central Asian Countries (NCAC). Screening for colorectal cancer has decreased CRC mortality but data regarding screening practices in NCAC is limited. A literature search was conduc…
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- Patients' Opinions Toward Healthcare Quality and Improvement in Aseer Health: A Cross-Sectional Study. [Journal Article]Cureus. 2023 Jan; 15(1):e33432.C
- Introduction Population health is crucial to government planning. The 2030 national vision is transforming all Saudi sectors. The health sector revolution intends to boost life expectancy by reducing mortality due to road traffic accidents and morbidity due to chronic illness. Health services will change from treatment-based to person-centered and preventive care, empower the population, increase…
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- Quality of life and nurse-patient interaction among NH residents: Loneliness is detrimental, while nurse-patient interaction is fundamental. [Journal Article]J Clin Nurs. 2023 Feb 07 [Online ahead of print]JC
- CONCLUSIONS: This study suggests that loneliness is frequent as well as more detrimental to quality-of-life among nursing home residents compared to anxiety and depression. Furthermore, the present results show that the nurse-patient interaction represents an essential health-promoting resource for Quality-of-life in this population.
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- The effectiveness of pay-for-performance contracts with non-governmental organizations in Afghanistan - results of a controlled interrupted time series analysis. [Journal Article]BMC Health Serv Res. 2023 Feb 07; 23(1):122.BH
- CONCLUSIONS: P4P contracts with NGOs led to a substantial improvement in service delivery at lower cost despite a very difficult security situation. The promising results from this large-scale experience warrant more extensive application of P4P contracts in other fragile settings or wherever coverage remains low.
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- A multi-granular stacked regression for forecasting long-term demand in Emergency Departments. [Journal Article]BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2023 Feb 07; 23(1):29.BM
- CONCLUSIONS: Combining models of population health and wider urgent care service capacity for predicting monthly ED attendances leads to an improved performance compared to each model individually. Policies designed to improve population health will reduce ED attendances and enhance quality and safety in the long-term.
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- Singapore KneE osTeoarthritis CoHort (SKETCH): protocol for a multi-centre prospective cohort study. [Journal Article]BMC Musculoskelet Disord. 2023 Feb 07; 24(1):104.BM
- CONCLUSIONS: Results will allow contextualization, identification, and phenotyping of the critical (and potentially modifiable) psychosocial parameters that predict positive clinical outcomes in the OA population to guide optimization and refinement of healthcare and community. This will facilitate: 1. identification of high-risk knee OA subpopulations that will likely experience poor outcomes and 2. formulation of targeted multidisciplinary comprehensive approaches to address these psychosocial factors to optimize non-surgical treatment care, maximize functional outcomes and create more value-based care model for knee OA.
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- Comparisons on factors affecting residents fulfilling self-determination in ethno-specific and mainstream nursing homes: a qualitative study. [Journal Article]BMC Geriatr. 2023 Feb 07; 23(1):81.BG
- CONCLUSIONS: Culturally competent care created by staff, nursing homes and the aged care system is a basic condition for residents from ethnic minority groups to fulfil self-determination. In addition, person-centred care approach enables residents to optimise self-determination.
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- Informed or misinformed consent and use of modified texture diets in dysphagia. [Journal Article]BMC Med Ethics. 2023 Feb 07; 24(1):7.BM
- CONCLUSIONS: Research is required to examine the informed consent processes in different settings, but there is ample reason to suggest that current practice in this area is suboptimal. Staff need to reflect on their current practice regarding use of modified texture diets with an awareness of the current evidence and through the 'lens' of informed consent. Education is required for staff to clarify the importance of, and requirements for, valid informed consent and for decision making that reflects people's preferences and values.
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- Lessons identified from initiating a thalassaemia programme in a conflict setting: a case study from northeast Syria. [Journal Article]Confl Health. 2023 Feb 07; 17(1):5.CH
- CONCLUSIONS: Although this type of programming was not "routine" for the organisation, MSF demonstrated that life-sustaining thalassaemia care can be provided in complex conflict settings. International non-governmental organisations can consider this care possible in similar contexts.
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- The effects of Digital Buddy programme on older adults' mental well-being: study protocol for a multi-centre, cluster randomized controlled trial. [Journal Article]Trials. 2023 Feb 07; 24(1):95.T
- Mental well-being is associated with many mental health symptoms, including depression and health-related quality of life. Digital divide could impact mental health, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. Information and communication technology (ICT)-based tools and interventions could effectively provide social support. Intergenerational mentoring between college students and older adults c…
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- Clinical research coordinators' role in knowledge translation activities in rehabilitation: a mixed methods study. [Journal Article]BMC Health Serv Res. 2023 Feb 07; 23(1):124.BH
- CONCLUSIONS: This study provides valuable insights into the scope of CRCs' role. The results shed light on the challenges that they face and potential solutions to overcome them. The knowledge generated in this study can be used to implement this role with similar duties in rehabilitation settings or other health care domains.
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- A novel approach to frontline health worker support: a case study in increasing social power among private, fee-for-service birthing attendants in rural Bangladesh. [Journal Article]Hum Resour Health. 2023 Feb 07; 21(1):7.HR
- CONCLUSIONS: The SHE model successfully established a private SBA cadre that improved birth outcomes and enhanced their social power and technical skills in challenging settings through the mainstream health system. Strengthening the agency, voice, and well-being of the SHEs has transformative potential. Designing SBA interventions that increase their power in their social context could expand their economic independence and reinforce positive gender and power norms in the community, addressing long-standing issues of poor remuneration, overburdened workloads, and poor retention. Witnessing the introduction of peer or near-peer women with well-respected, well-compensated roles among their neighbors can significantly expand the effectiveness of frontline health workers and offer a model for other women in their own lives.
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- Student nurses' perceptions and experiences in caring for people living with HIV/AIDS: a qualitative study. [Journal Article]BMC Med Educ. 2023 Feb 07; 23(1):99.BM
- CONCLUSIONS: Findings shed light on the development and changes in student nurses' perspectives on PLWHAs throughout their clinical experiences. Student nurses' perceptions and attitudes toward PLWHAs progressed through three distinct stages, and positive changes were observed after care-giving. Participants' perceptions and practical experiences with patients with AIDS enable patients to receive fair and high-quality care and provide valuable insights for nursing educators better prepare HIV nurses.
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