methods in a cross-sectional study, 164 adult patients who were admitted to the icu of a teaching hospital were screened for nasal and extra-nasal carriage of mrsa. in addition, the icu-hospitalized patients were evaluated for mrsa acquisition during their icu stay. results out of the 164 patients admitted to the icu, 12 (7.3%) patients were methicillin-susceptible staphylococcus aureus (mssa) ...

background and objectives: studies have shown that patients awaiting coronary angiography (ca) are often anxious. high level of anxiety can lead to physical and psychological stress with adverse effects on organs, es­pecially heart. there is limited information on state and trait anxiety level in these patients in the literature. this study was thus designed to investigate the level of these tw...

background & aim : this study aimed to discover the lived experiences of patients transferred from the intensive care unit (icu) to a general ward, to reach a deeper understanding of this phenomenon. methods & materials: this is a qualitative study with an interpretative phenomenological approach, which is conducted at hospitals affiliated to universities, and private hospitals of tehran in 201...

Measures of the patient care experience are now routinely used in public reports and increasingly influence health provider payment. We examined data from 5,002 patients of forty-nine primary care providers to explore the relationship between patient activation-a term referring to the knowledge, skills, and confidence a patient has for managing his or her health care-and the patient care experi...

The amount of older patients who are discharged from hospitals while continuing to need care is increasing in Norway. The transition between different care services has the potential for high rates of medication errors, incomplete or inaccurate information transfer, and lack of appropriate follow-up care. Thus, insight into the transition process is vital to understanding the complexity and vul...

nurses' experience of dealing with dying patients     karimi moneghy h [1] , zubin f [2] , yavari m [3] *, noghredani m [4] , abdollahi h [5]     received: 9 jul, 2013 accepted: 20 sep, 2013  abstract  background & aims : u nderstanding nurses' experience of patient death, the appropriate approach to understand this phenomenon is the aim of this study. also as a supporting role of the...

in any clinical encounter, an effective physician-patient relationship is necessary for achieving the desired outcome. this outcome is successful treatment, and therefore, the relationship should be a healing one. in addition, in the islamic view, the physician is a manifestation of god’s healing attribute, which is usually undermined in everyday therapeutic communications. yet there are few em...

Understanding patient experience is necessary to advance the patient-centred approach to health service delivery. Australia's primary healthcare model, the 'Health Care Home', is based on the 'Patient-Centered Medical Home' (PCMH) model developed in the United States. Both these models aim to improve patient experience; however, the majority of existing PCMH model evaluations have focussed on f...