The study was reviewed and approved by the Scientific Research Committee at the School of Nursing at the University of Jordan, and the ethics committees of participating hospitals..
The Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust (RDE) is a teaching hospital in the south-west of England. Our catchment serves a mixed urban and rural population of about 400 000 people. Here the...
The importance of innovation in health care cannot be overestimated and, since the dawn of communication technology and the invention of the telephone, the healthcare industry has endeavoured to...
The integration of social media into modern society is a contemporary worldwide phenomenon, which has the potential to allow for rapid and global connectivity (Gibbs et al, 2015; Brady et al, 2017)....
Bliss was launched in 1979, initially to raise money for equipment such as incubators for premature babies and those requiring care in neonatal units. The charity has since provided much more than...
There is extensive literature about preference for place of death, which overwhelmingly identifies home as the preferred choice and dying in hospital as the least preferred option for the majority,...
Stoma education was traditionally provided in the postoperative period and a large amount of professional effort has been put into patient education and training over the years. ASCN UK produced Stoma...
The challenge of an ageing society is that the traditional way of moving through the NHS, by which patients see their GP, are referred for treatment in hospital, treated, discharged and return home,...
Between 2010 and 2014 there was a focus on prevention of adverse events and patient safety at hospitals in Denmark. The Region of Southern Denmark—one of 5 regional health authorities—and OUH had...