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From:Nursing Older People (Vol. 24, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAbstract Hospitals provide care for older people who are the frailest, most acutely ill and have the most complex needs, yet older people's wards in many hospitals are poorly staffed. The Royal College of Nursing...
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From:MedSurg Nursing (Vol. 24, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedA practice-improvement project was launched to implement an evidence-based intervention bundle for incontinence-associated dermatitis (IAD) and evaluate its impact on the identification, prevention, and management of...
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From:Indian Journal of Pharmacology (Vol. 47, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedByline: Anita. Kotwani, Santosh. Kumar, Prafulla. Swain, J. Suri, S. Gaur Objective : The objective of this study was to determine patterns and frequency of antimicrobial drug use among hospitalized patients with...
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From:Lung India (Vol. 28, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedByline: Rajesh. Chudasama, Umed. Patel, Pramod. Verma, Chikitsa. Amin, Dinkar. Savaria, Rakesh. Ninama, Nilesh. Fichadiya Background: The first case of 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1) virus infection in India was...
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From:Mental Health Practice (Vol. 13, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedThe number of restricted patients in hospital in England and Wales has grown by 43 per cent in the past ten years. The detention of restricted patients is governed by the secretary of state for justice. The numbers...
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From:Nursing Standard (Vol. 24, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedNurses should not have to subsidise government plans to scrap hospital car parking charges for inpatients, the RCN said last week. Health secretary Andy Burnham told the Labour Party conference that parking fees for...
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From:Revista Brasileira de Obesidade, Nutrição e Emagrecimento (Vol. 3, Issue 14) Peer-ReviewedActually the bariatric surgery is considered the most efficient weight reduction treatment and maintenance of the weight loss in patients with morbid obesity. The aim of this work is to verify the anthropometric...
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From:Therapy (Vol. 5, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedA study published recently in The Lancet suggests that a high proportion of hospitalized patients are at risk of venous thromboembolism, but many do not receive anticoagulant prophylaxis. The study, entitled...
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From:Nursing Management (Harrow) (Vol. 15, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedMore patients than ever before rate the care provided by NHS hospitals as 'excellent', according to survey findings published last month by the Healthcare Commission. In the biggest survey of patients staying...
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From:Pediatrics (Vol. 119, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedOBJECTIVES. Recognition and treatment of evolving critical illness is a fundamental element of hospital care. Hospital systems should triage patients to receive appropriate levels of care. We describe here the levels of...
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From:Health Law Journal (Vol. 15) Peer-ReviewedConfirming "the College's commitment to the safety of the public by affirming the philosophy of Zero Tolerance of sexual abuse, and in accordance with that philosophy, developing policies, procedures, practices, and...
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From:Nursing Management (Harrow) (Vol. 13, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedAddressing patient safety is a priority for all NHS staff, so managers may be interested in flagging this up locally by booking the National Patient Safety Agency's free patient safety roadshow. The roadshow stand is...
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From:Emergency Nurse (Vol. 15, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedAs a recent publication by the Healthcare Commission (2007), Caring for Dignity: A national report on dignity in care for older people while in hospital, makes dear, Britain has an ageing population. This means that,...
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From:Applied Clinical Trials (Vol. 15, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedUnder a new contract with Duke University Health System (Durham, NC), PharmaLinkFHI (Durham, NC) will be responsible for monitoring the health status of surgical patients who may have been exposed to hydraulic fluid at...
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From:Nursing Standard (Vol. 20, Issue 30) Peer-ReviewedHaving a spouse admitted to hospital is associated with an increased risk of death among older people. The effect of the illness of a spouse also varies by diagnosis. Researchers in the United States looked at the...
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From:Nursing Older People (Vol. 17, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedAn inquest into the death of Sarah Ingham was told that she died in pain after staff failed to feed her properly. On one occasion, it was alleged, her 'soft diet' consisted of fish and chips, The Times said....
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From:Nursing Standard (Vol. 19, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedPSYCHIATRIC INPATIENTS receive half as many flowers and cards as medical inpatients, according to a study. It says people are much less likely to tell families and friends that they have a mental illness than if they...
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From:British Medical Journal (Vol. 322, Issue 7295) Peer-ReviewedLittle information was given on inclusion criteria EDITOR--Rodgers et al report a meta-analysis of 141 trials comparing general anaesthesia with neuraxial blocks.[1] They conclude that their data should result in...
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From:American Journal of Critical Care (Vol. 12, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedPurpose: The purpose of this study is to examine patient's preferences for visitors in the intensive care unit (ICU) and on a general care unit (GCU). Background/Significance: As knowledge of environments that support...
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From:Journal of Family Practice (Vol. 51, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedIn this edition of the JFP, Peter Smith and colleagues have taken advantage of a "natural experiment" that resulted from a change in HMO rules forcing a group of patients into the mandatory hospitalist model. Their...