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The design and delivery of robust, ethical, high-quality studies in the field of hand hygiene is challenging. As a result, recommendations are often based on a combination of non-randomised controlled...
This study aimed to describe the health literacy levels of people with COPD in a UK population in the Southampton/Hampshire area and explore the relationship between health literacy levels and COPD...
One of the issues expressed in service evaluations for mental health nursing students is that they perceive proficiencies to be easier to achieve for their peers on the adult nursing programme. Mental...
Building on this success, I was eager to explore what a specialised face-to-face response for our patients might look like. In 2017, using quality improvement (QI) methodology, I began conducting test...
Paul Lee (a pseudonym) was a 72-year-old man with a wife and family. He was diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy following a myocardial infarction. This then led to a diagnosis of heart failure with...
Infections that patients acquire while receiving treatment for other conditions within a healthcare environment are known as HAIs. They can result from various pathogens, including bacteria, viruses...
Chronic plaque psoriasis, the most common variant, typically presents with well-demarcated circular to oval bright red/pink lesions (plaques) with an overlying white or silvery scale (Knott, 2021)....
As a smaller scale alternative solution to these imminent capacity issues in a large London head and neck cancer referral centre at Guy's and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, it was proposed that the...
A skilled ACP has the potential to make a significant contribution to several fundamental outcomes: patient satisfaction, patient concordance with prescribed therapies/interventions, overall...
In Western societies, it is embedded in the culture that elimination of bodily waste is a private matter that should be done in a secretive manner within formal facilities (Mitteness and Barker,...
In October 2022, a quality improvement strategy was implemented in response to an increase in the number of central lineassociated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) at a local intensive care unit...
If the patient is relatively stable, the clinician should take a comprehensive history: Table 1 summarises the key points that need to be considered during this process of taking a patient's history....
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