The director of the national nursing research unit has called into question the worth of clinical risk assessment tools routinely relied on by thousands of frontline nurses. Risk assessment tools, ...

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has released two new tools for use in healthcare facilities, the Sepsis Prevention Assessment Tool for Nursing Homes (SPAT) and the Targeted Assessment for ...

Long-term use of sustained-release cytarabine for symptomatic management and treatment of meningeosis neoplastica. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2012 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This abstract ...

Created by Johns Hopkins School of Nursing Professor Jacquelyn Campbell in 1986, the Danger Assessment includes a calendar assessing the frequency and severity of battering in the past year and a ...

A tool that nurses can use to assess how well patients adjust psychologically after stoma surgery has been developed by UK nurse researchers Subscribe today for unlimited access to 6,000+ clinical ...

Nursing homes across the Fraser Health region are adopting a tool that has reduced transfers of patients to emergency departments by as much as 71 per cent. Taking care facility residents to hospital ...

With accelerated population ageing and the growing prevalence of multimorbidity, polypharmacy in older adults has become a major challenge for medication safety and treatment effectiveness.