Situation-Background-Assessment-Recommendation (SBAR) communication has become the standard for communicating across disciplines. It has demonstrated its effectiveness at improving patient outcomes, enhancing patient and clinician satisfaction, and helping to control healthcare costs. It can help home healthcare clinicians with efforts to prevent avoidable hospitalizations. But how often and ho...

Managing chronic disease is increasingly important in pediatric health care. In internal medicine, patient-reported, patient-important outcomes are a key part of assessment programs. pediatrics, there has been less focus on patient-reported outcomes. These more complex pediatrics because the utility may differ by age and, most cases, parent-reported also relevant. some instances, parents serve ...

Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) are “any outcome based on data provided by patients or patient proxy as opposed to from other sources”. Together with clinician-reported, physiological, and caregiver-reported outcomes, PROs important sources of assess health well-being. Examples include quality life, psychosocial well-being, functional status, symptoms, behaviours, adherence treatment. PRO rese...

Peripheral intravenous catheters are the most common device in hospital patients, but they do come with infection risks. Awareness of the complications and regular assessment can reduce risks and improve patient outcomes.

BACKGROUND Prevention of hospital readmission and emergency department (ED) utilization will be a crucial strategy in reducing health care costs. There has been limited research on nurse assessment and patient perceptions of discharge readiness in relation to postdischarge outcomes. OBJECTIVES To investigate the association of nurse and patient assessments of discharge readiness with postdisc...

OBJECTIVE The objectives of this study were to examine differences in nurse engagement in shared governance across hospitals and to determine the relationship between nurse engagement and patient and nurse outcomes. BACKGROUND There is little empirical evidence examining the relationship between shared governance and patient outcomes. METHODS A secondary analysis of linked cross-sectional d...

conclusions with a thorough preoperative assessment incorporating focused echocardiography, anaesthetists are in the unique position to enhance their role as perioperative physicians and influence short and long term outcomes of their patients. context patients with undifferentiated systolic murmurs present commonly during the perioperative period. traditional bedside assessment and auscultatio...

Vascular access for the infusion of medications and solutions requires timely assessment, planning, insertion, and assessment. Traditional vascular access is reactive, painful, and ineffective, often resulting in the exhaustion of peripheral veins prior to consideration of other access options. Evidence suggests clinical pathways improve outcomes by reducing variations and establishing processe...

Primary brain tumors and their treatment are associated with a significant impact on function and quality of life (QOL). Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) are measures that allow report of the impact directly from the patient. Instruments to measure both QOL and symptom burden have been developed for use in the primary brain tumor patient population. Use of these instruments coupled with tumor r...