Impact of falls on mental health outcomes for older adult mental health patients: an Australian study. Int J Ment Health Nurs 2016; 25:3-11.Heslop KR, Wynaden DG, (2016). Impact of falls on mental health outcomes for older adult mental health patients: An Australian study. International ...
The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of the different causes of falling in () and to evaluate the influence of falls on patients' quality of life (QoL). We recruited 60 PD patients (31 with falls, 29 without falls). We found that falls were caused by: unstable postu...
Aim To describe nurse‐specific and patient risk factors present at the time of a patient fall on medical surgical units within an academic public health care system. Background The incidence of falls can be devastating for hospitalized patients and their families. Few studies have investigated how...
The architectural design of hospitals worldwide is centred around individual departments, which require the movement of patients between wards. However, patients do not always take the simplest route from admission to discharge, but can experience convol
Although underweight and obesity are important clinical characteristics of patients with CVD, few studies have attempted to demonstrate the effect of BMI on all-cause death or cardiovascular outcomes in patients with acute severe hypertension. In this study, we investigated the association of BMI level...
it would suggest the presence of common method bias. the data results indicate that there are 12 factors with eigenvalues greater than 1, and the contribution of the first factor is 30.38%, which falls below the predetermined threshold of 40%. therefore, these findings suggest that there is no...
To investigate factors that have an impact on the risk of falls and determine whether radiographic knee osteoarthritis (KOA) is a factor involved in falls independent of knee pain, psychological factors, and physical function. A cross-sectional analysis
AimThe aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of a fall prevention educational session on fall risk knowledge, use of fall prevention interventions and the number of falls in community‐dwelling older persons attending physical therapy.doi:10.1002/nop2.165Ott Lynda DeeNursing Open...
Thus, many patients with poor glycaemic control despite treatment do not receive timely and appropriate intensification of therapy. This failure of physicians to initiate or intensify therapy in a timely manner, despite recognition of the problem, has become known as ‘clinical inertia’ [11], [12...
of immunosuppression. For instance, among children, those with Down syndrome [5], cystic fibrosis [6], biliary atresia [7], or transplant patients [8] are at higher risk for complications or severe forms of the disease than the general population. Further, among transplant patients, the risk...