nursing care of patients receiving intravenous therapy

... involvement of patients in clinical duties to become “expert patients TASO provides a range of services, including HIV testing, clinical care, provision of cART and psychosocial Page of support ... one country A previous systematic review, of early experiences providing antiretroviral therapy, found a ratio of 2.3:1 of women receiving antiretroviral therapy compared with men across 13 countries ... cohort of patients receiving antiretroviral therapy in Uganda Journal of the International AIDS Society 2011 14:52 Submit your next manuscript to BioMed Central and take full advantage of: • Convenient...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... Mod (0–9% of the time) (10–39% of the time) (40–69% of the time) Max (>70% of the time) Eye squeeze None Min Mod (0–9% of the time) (10–39% of the time) (40–69% of the time) Max (>70% of the time) ... atmosphere of learning and support that allows us to care for our patients Most of all, this book is for our patients and their families Thank you for letting us be a part of your lives in the midst of ... Nursing Care Treatment Options for CIIM Medical Surgical Nursing Care Treatment Options for Syringomyelia Nursing Care...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 22:20

... C6 Other Cause of DRP related to the logistics of the prescribing or dispensing mechanism Other causes of DRPs Currently, in the provision of pharmaceutical care, healthcare professionals work ... exchange of health-related data for the purpose of increasing the effectiveness of health care delivery The main aims of e-Health are to provide an improvement in the quality of patient care, increase ... improve the pharmaceutical care of patients with cancer Thus, a key issue exists – can the pharmaceutical care of patients with cancer be enhanced by leveraging on the role of pharmacoinformatics...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 15:50

... In 92% of the cases, patients were receiving continuous infusions; in 4% of the cases, patients were receiving boluses; in the remaining 4% of the cases, patients were not receiving sedation as ... 0.78) Patients were awake on 46% of evaluations Patients treated by DIS were agitated (RASS score > 0) during 18% of the evaluations, whereas patients treated by SA were agitated on 5% of the ... for patients treatedline )of total duration of sedation (thick line) and Kaplan-Meier survival curve daily= 0.0003) of mechanical ventilation (MV) for patients treated by daily interruption of...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:35

... influences of the CTLA-4 genotype upon the outcome of IFN adjuvant therapy, on the basis of prior suggestions of the role of certain polymorphisms of the CTLA-4 gene and other immunotherapies for patients ... Page of Table Univariate Cox Regression Models of Relapse-free Survival and Overall Survival No of events/No of patients Median Relapse- free Survival (months) P value No of events/No of patients ... variety of autoimmune phenomena have been reported to occur during adjuvant therapy with HDI In a substudy of a large randomized trial of HDI in patients with stage IIB/III melanoma, 26% of 200 patients...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... type Source of most of funding No of patients cared for (2007-8) Type of patients cared for Number of patients recruited (total N = 285) A Urban Home care, day care, outpatient clinic, hospital ... Quality of Life Outcomes 2011, 9:21 http://www.hqlo.com/content/9/1/21 Page of 14 Table Description of participating palliative care services Site Area served Service type Source of most of funding ... healthcare providers attempt to understand the impact of healthcare interventions on patients lives rather than solely their physical outcomes [20] In particular, the main focus of palliative care...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 01:22

... cumulative incidence of stroke in patients with single antiplatelet treatment was higher than that in patients receiving the combination of antiplatelet and anticoagulation therapy (log-rank test, ... the secondary prevention of stroke with APS, and compared single antiplatelet therapy and a combination of antiplatelet and anticoagulation therapy in ischemic stroke patients with APS The subjects ... single antiplatelet therapy and a combination of antiplatelet and anticoagulation therapy for secondary prevention in ischemic stroke patients with APS According to the guidelines of the American...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:48

... overestimate of the true situation of how effective nurses pay attention to nutritional problems among their patients Nutrition education of professionals The nutrition education of professionals in nursing ... various parts of Finland (Table 5) Table Description of the studied elderly residents in nursing homes, dementia wards and patients in long term care hospitals Nursing homes and long term care hospitals ... nutritional status of elderly nursing home residents and long term care patients 5.2 The energy and nutrient intake of elderly residents in dementia wards 5.3 Nursing and nutritional care factors 5.4...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 18:20

... tertiary care hospital located in the central region of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), provides multilevel health care for National Guard soldiers and their extended families It has one of the ... outcomes of patients diagnosed with active pulmonary tuberculosis requiring ICU admission, and to identify potential factors affecting mortality rates We reviewed the records of patients age of 18 ... total number of admissions to the ICU during the six-year period covered by our study Within the cohort of 33 patients, 20 (60.7%) were male, and 13 (39.3%) female The mean age of all patients was...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 12:20

... Use of health care The aim of this section is to analyse the current use of health care services by the elderly and the determinants of this utilisation Indicators for the use of health care ... limited USE OF HEALTH AND NURSING CARE | Table Results of data collection Hospital admissions Length of hospital stay Contact with a doctor Long-term care in institutions Long-term care at home ... number of caregivers in families, because of the absence of spouses While better health could have a decreasing impact on the need for long-term care, the declining potential source of informal caregivers...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 18:20

... level of care The principle of the lowest effective level of care (LEON ) was first introduced in a White Paper (22) and has since been one of the basic principles of Norwegian health care policy ... not met, could the patients be ‘better off elsewhere’? An important issue for community care is how to predict the level of care Health care managers, home care agencies, patients, and their ... responsibility for care This thesis compares formal and informal care across the sites related to care burden Home is looked upon as the lowest level of care However, the care often carried out...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 17:20

... Programme for care and treatment of HIV/AIDS patients The main purpose of antiretroviral care and treatment programme is to provide care to HIV patients Attention is paid to a number of issues including ... METHODS 11 Study area 11 Health care system 12 Programme for care and treatment of HIV/AIDS patients 12 Programme for care and treatment of tuberculosis and leprosy patients 14 Study design 18 Study ... problem of adherence among HIV patients and patients co-infected with TB/HIV (4)A cohort study of HIV patients on HAART is highly recommended in order to assess the effect of HAART on development of...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 18:20

... Perioperative Care of the Child Consequently, the models of care used with children in the perioperative environment (as in all branches of health care) must be cognizant of children’s needs Models of care ... model for the nursing care of an 8-year-old child with leukemia Journal of Pediatric Oncology Nursing, 9: 17–24 Price, S (1994) The special needs of children Journal of Advanced Nursing, 20: 227–232 ... psychosocial care of children in the perioperative area – Linda Shields Children’s perceptions of the operating theatre The effect of hospitalisation on children Models of care The presence of parents...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 11:21

... end of therapy (samples C); these components formed [A

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... development of outcomes-based care delivery Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America 1998, 1(10):1-11 Cheah J: Development and implementation of a clinical pathway programme in an acute care general ... of a pilot in the development of a fractured neck of femur integrated care pathway Journal of Orthopaedic Nursing 2002, 6:130-134 Campbell H, Hotchkiss R, Bradshaw N, Porteous M: Integrated care ... important to facilitate a healthy transition process In contrast to the care of younger patients, the care of elderly patients is more complex with more factors involved (such as health status,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20

... epidemiologic characteristics of patients accessing ART during this phase of the scale up in east Africa Methods Patients The EA-IeDEA is a cohort of patients from clinical care sites in Uganda, Kenya ... of patients had pre -therapy WHO stage documented: of those, 16% were Stage 1, 21% were Stage 2, 46% were Stage and 17% were Stage The fraction of patients with WHO Stage disease at the time of ... characteristics of care, such as the fraction of patients who self-pay for ART and the travel time from home to clinic, over time can provide an understanding of structural obstacles to care [12,13]...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... emerged: access to care, coordination of care, physical comfort, technical aspects of care, involvement of family and friends, interpersonal care, attitude of health care professionals and information ... Information Co-ordination of care Interpersonal Care Access to Care 1.0 0.42 0.36 0.33 Information - - 0.39 0.49 Co-ordination of care - - - 0.46 Age -0.12 0.13 -0.03 -0.09 quality of care4 -0.28 -0.31 ... measures four aspects of patients experiences of relapse management: Access to Care (6 items), Coordination of Care (11 items), Information (7 items), and Interpersonal Care (18 items) (see Additional...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... determining the attitudes of health professionals to the care of psychiatric patients within the hospital, also looked at possible relationships between some of their attitudes to such care and their sociodemographic ... Tests of association between some of the responses and some of the respondents' sociodemographic features such as type of profession, gender, and sex were determined with the χ2 test A P value of ... population of the Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, grouped into nine strata by profession The sample size of 326 with a 95% confidence interval and a 4.6% margin of error were taken from a population of...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:21

... and represent the standard of care for breast cancer patients around the world, the incidence of local recurrence (LR) has been widely studied It occurs in 5-10% of patients at 10 years, and it ... because of fear of relapse, is now performed routinely for an increasing number of patients This has a profoundly positive psychological effect, and allows for a more solid recovery of these ... than 2% of patients whose surgical specimen was interpreted as containing DCIS only, probably because the presence of invasive cancer can be unrecognized [159] Page of 17 Studies of patients...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 03:21

... disease-related complications), 12 patients stopped for withdrawal of consent and patients stopped for protocol violation Of the remaining 474 patients, 102 (22%) patients, who were not optimally ... score of this model had an AUC of 0.870 (95% CI: 0.828–0.912) with a sensitivity at the 95% specificity level of 45.5% (95% CI: 38.7–50.3) Evaluation of the discriminant score of the variables of ... disadvantage of a more complex model and calculations This study also demonstrates the robustness of the scores and coefficients of the DAS28 in a cohort of RA patients under infliximab therapy and...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 06:23