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The effectiveness of combining interventions (nutrition screening, provision of oral nutritional supplements, and flagging patients for feeding assistance) in preventing nutritional decline is unknown.We conducted a stepped wedge, randomised, cluster trial to evaluate a multifaceted nutritional intervention implemented across a metropolitan hospital. Change in body weight after the first, and second,...
The aim was to obtain patients' experiences of the cancer treatment pathway at a tertiary teaching hospital using unstructured journals to enable health care professionals to be educated on how to improve patient care. Most of 38 patients (22 females and 16 males), average age of 58 (range 29–80), who returned diaries were starting chemotherapy for a range of cancers. Data entries were transcribed...
This paper aims to provide a quality improvement review to identify the benefits and level of satisfaction for the role of the nurse sedationists.Traditionally procedural sedation was only administered by an anaesthetist or dentist and it was not until the early 1990s that nurses in America commenced administering procedural sedation. A literature review on the role of the nurse sedationist undertaken...
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