This work was then expanded to the healthcare field with the development of the Manchester Patient Safety Framework. This framework was developed through extensive reviews of the literature in healthcare and consultations with experts in the field. It was tested with healthcare profe...
24, 25 HR-QOL is a critical issue, being used to assess the effectiveness of healthcare interventions and it is becoming as important as morbidity and mortality while evaluating outcomes in dialysis patients.26 Manns et al.27 reported 30 important concerns for ESRD patients and found that ...
Conversely, other studies have failed to report such a reduction, especially in complex healthcare environments [41,43]. In this context, multidisciplinary diagnostic stewardship is essential. This refers to the appropriate use of laboratory testing to guide patient management, including treatment, in ...
However, when disagreement among healthcare professionals exists in the patient care setting, nurses describe difficulty in decision-making (Jezewski, 1994). Therefore, fostering a positive nursing practice culture is important to improved decision-making. Unwritten practices may also influence nurse ...
This finding is an indication that patients with such medical problems should be considered for transfer to a tertiary care center at an early stage of critical illness and might benefit from advanced health care facilities. Lower hospital mortality due to cardiovascular problems in such patients ...
Acute kidney injury (AKI) represents a significant challenge to global public health problem and is associated with poor outcomes. There is still considerable debate about the effect of mean blood glucose (MBG) and coefficient of variation (CV) of blood glucose on the short-term mortality of AKI...
Mr. Jones packs his belongings, hooks up to his portable oxygen unit and leaves the hospital. Once at home, Mr. Jones calls the number he was given and waits for the delivery of his home unit.SHANE BRINKERHOFF RRTHome healthcare nurse....
Different health care systems, variable practice and reimbursement models have been implicated. Demographics, service provision landscape and social attitudes have evolved over time. Comorbidities, such as diabetes, have been on the rise (32.7% diabetics starting RRT in 2010). Within the last decade,...
Such differences in distance are often explained by the household responsibility hypothesis or by observations that female-dominated workplaces, like child and healthcare centers, have a more even spatial distribution in the urban area (cf. [25,26]). This could be interprete...
Patients on renal replacement therapy (RRT) infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are a special group with growing interest. In order to study the epidemiological data of HIV+ patients on RRT in Spain, we collected individual information from 2004 to 2011 (period of use of highly...