PURPOSE This study examines population-based trends in home care service utilization, alone and in conjunction with hospitalizations, during a period of health reform in Canada. It focuses on the extent to which observed trends suggest enhanced community-based care relative to three competing hypotheses: cost-cutting, medicalization, and profitization. DESIGN AND METHODS Analyses drew on admi...

aims: endotracheal suctioning is a vital process to keep the airways open. the method of performing endotracheal suctioning has a great effect on its complications and effectiveness. this study was carried out with the aim of assessing gap between the knowledge and performance of nurses' working in intensive care units (icu) in tracheal suctioning.   methods: in this cross sectional study,...

Background: The Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP) is an interdisciplinary protocol, aiming to ensure that dying patients receive dignified and individualized treatment and care at the end-of-life. LCP was originally developed in 1997 in the United Kingdom from a model of cancer care successfully established in hospices. It has since been introduced in many countries, including Norway. The method was...

BACKGROUND The Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP) is an interdisciplinary protocol, aiming to ensure that dying patients receive dignified and individualized treatment and care at the end-of-life. LCP was originally developed in 1997 in the United Kingdom from a model of cancer care successfully established in hospices. It has since been introduced in many countries, including Norway. The method was ...

Nursing-sensitive outcomes provide common information across sectors, thus eliminating duplication that frequently occurs as individuals move across settings. These outcomes also facilitate increased trust among colleagues and support common understandings of patient care needs, thus enhancing continuity of care. Outcomes-oriented information is also likely to increase patient safety and improv...

Background and aims: One of the most challenges in diabetic patients is learning how to glycemic control. Evidence based care is proper, correct and intellectual use of the best evidence in clinical decision making for every single patient care. This study aimed to determine the effect of evidence based care on glycemic control in type 2 diabetes patients. Methods: This study was a clinical ran...

quality of nursing care: nurses’, physicians’, patients’ and patients family’s perspectives: a qualitative study zagheri tafreshi m[1], atashzadeh shorideh f[2]*, pazargadi m[3], barbaz ah[4] received: 20 may, 2012 accepted: 31 jul , 2012abstract background & aims:  quality in health care has varied aspects, definitions and interpretations. according to many differences in definition of nursing...