Immediate postnatal care guidelines implementation and associated factors among healthcare providers in East Shewa zone public health facilities, Oromia, Ethiopia, 2022: a multicentre cross-sectional study.

Objectives: Immediate postnatal care is a critical intervention to reduce maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality; however, many women and newborns receive inadequate postnatal care timely and effectively during the first 24 hours following childbirth. Therefore, this study aimed to assess the immediate postnatal care guidelines implementation and its associated factors among healthcare providers in the East Shewa zone public health facilities, Oromia, Ethiopia.

Design: Facility-based cross-sectional study was conducted from 13 September 2022 to 28 October 2022.

Surgical site infection prevention practice and associated factors among nurses working at public hospitals of the western part of southern nation, nationalities, and peoples' region, Ethiopia: A cross-sectional study.

Background: Surgical site infection is a major hazard for surgical patients and compromises their quality of life. Its effect is higher in developing countries compared to developed countries. Most of the studies done in Ethiopia regarding surgical site infection prevention practice on nurses who were not directly exposed to wound care, thus it produces less reliable results.

Relationship between orthostatic hypotension and cognitive impairment in the elderly.

Background And Purpose: To determine the relationship between orthostatic hypotension (OH) and cognitive function in elderly subjects with memory complaints.

Methods: We studied the association between cognitive function and OH in 495 consecutive elderly outpatients attending a memory centre. Blood pressure (BP) was measured in a sitting and standing position.

Definition of ambulatory blood pressure targets for diagnosis and treatment of hypertension in relation to clinic blood pressure: prospective cohort study.

Background: Twenty-four hour ambulatory blood pressure thresholds have been defined for the diagnosis of mild hypertension but not for its treatment or for other blood pressure thresholds used in the diagnosis of moderate to severe hypertension. We aimed to derive age and sex related ambulatory blood pressure equivalents to clinic blood pressure thresholds for diagnosis and treatment of hypertension.

Methods: We collated 24 hour ambulatory blood pressure data, recorded with validated devices, from 11 centres across six Australian states (n=8575).