Enhancing safe medication use in home care: insights from informal caregivers.

Objectives: To investigate the factors influencing medication errors made by informal caregivers while providing care at home.

Methods: A cross-sectional study based on an online survey, which included both structured and open-ended questions, was conducted in Spain. The survey comprised 49 questions to collect self-reported avoidable medication errors made by caregivers at home.

Implementation of a risk-stratified intervention bundle to prevent pressure injury in intensive care: A before-after study.

Background: Hospital-acquired pressure injury is an enduring problem in intensive care. Several intensive care-specific pressure injury risk assessment tools have been developed, but to date, only the COMHON Index has been aligned with risk-stratified preventative interventions.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a risk-stratified intervention bundle to reduce pressure injury in intensive care and to assess compliance with bundled interventions.

Blood-sparing techniques prevalence in adult intensive care units: A multicentre survey study.

Introduction: Anaemia is a common condition in patients admitted to intensive care units (ICUs). It is also well known that a significant amount of the carbon dioxide produced by health services is likely attributable to blood donation, testing, and the manufacture, storage, and distribution of blood components. To mitigate this, prevention strategies such as blood-sparing techniques are available.

[Ethics of care: Assessment of the ethical issues in the protocols or consensuses on mechanical restraint in force in Spain].

Introduction: Mechanical restraints are widely used in health care practice, despite the numerous ethical conflicts they raise. The aim of this study is to evaluate the ethical considerations contemplated in the current protocols on mechanical restraint in Spain.

Method: Systematic review in PubMed, WOS and Scopus, Google and Google Scholar.