Establishing a Comprehensive Nursing Clinic Using the Case Management Model.

Objective: To explore the practical effect of the case management model in a comprehensive nursing clinic.

Methods: Based on the case management model, the authors constructed a comprehensive nursing clinic providing wound care, ostomy care, peripherally inserted central catheter care, drainage tube care, nursing consultations, and home care. They evaluated the practical effect of the comprehensive nursing clinic according to workload, economic benefits, and satisfaction of the medical staff and patients.

Gap between risk factors and prevention strategies? A nationwide survey of fall prevention among medical and surgical patients.

Aims: This study aimed to determine the extent to which nurses report assessing evidence-based falls risk factors and implementing targeted prevention for medical and surgical patients in China.

Design: This study was a national online survey.

Methods: The respondents were registered nurses working in medical and surgical units in 662 Chinese hospitals.

Post-surgery anxiety and depression in prostate cancer patients: prevalence, longitudinal progression, and their correlations with survival profiles during a 3-year follow-up.

Background: Anxiety and depression are more frequent in cancer patients than general population and may be correlated with cancer prognosis; however, their value in prostate cancer patients is largely unknown. We aimed to evaluate prevalence of anxiety and depression in prostate cancer survivors post the surgeries, and their correlations with patients' disease-free survival (DFS) and overall survival (OS).

Methods: A hundred and ninety-four patients with prostate cancer who underwent radical prostatectomy were enrolled.

Long noncoding RNA NEAT1 correlates with higher disease risk, worse disease condition, decreased miR-124 and miR-125a and predicts poor recurrence-free survival of acute ischemic stroke.

Objective: This study aimed to investigate the predictive value of long noncoding RNA nuclear enriched abundant transcript 1 (lncRNA NEAT1) for acute ischemic stroke (AIS) risk and to explore the correlation of lncRNA NEAT1 with disease severity, inflammation, recurrence and target microRNAs in patients with AIS.

Methods: 210 patients with AIS and 210 controls were enrolled, and their peripheral blood samples were collected within 24 hours after admission and collected on the enrollment, respectively. lncRNA NEAT1 expression was detected by quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR).

Association between anemia and cognitive decline among Chinese middle-aged and elderly: evidence from the China health and retirement longitudinal study.

Background: Our objective was to characterize the relationship of anemia and hemoglobin concentrations with cross-sectional cognitive functions and changes in cognitive functions over 2 years in a large sample of Chinese middle aged and elderly.

Methods: Ten thousand nine hundred eighteen adults aged 45 years or older participating in the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) were used for cross-sectional analyses and 9324 were used for longitudinal analysis. Cognitive functions were assessed by memory recall (episodic memory), mental status (TICS), and global cognitive function at baseline survey (Visit 1) and first follow-up survey (Visit 2).

A randomized clinical trial of comprehensive education and care program compared to basic care for reducing anxiety and depression and improving quality of life and survival in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma who underwent surgery.

This study aimed to investigate the effect of comprehensive education and care (CEC) program on anxiety, depression, quality of life, and survival in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) who underwent surgical resection.Totally 136 patients with HCC who underwent hepatectomy were randomly assigned to CEC group and control group as 1:1 ratio. CEC group received health education, psychological nursing, caring activity, and telephone condolence, whereas control group received basic health education and rehabilitation for 12 months.

Anxiety and depression predict unfavorable survival in acute myeloid leukemia patients.

This study aimed to investigate the prevalence/severity of anxiety and depression, and also their correlations with clinical characteristics and survival profiles in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) patients.In all, 208 AML patients and 200 age and sex-matched healthy controls (HCs) were recruited in this study. Anxiety and depression were assessed by the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) in AML patients before initiating therapy and in HCs after being enrolled.

Geographic Distributions in Hypertension Diagnosis, Measurement, Prevalence, Awareness, Treatment and Control Rates among Middle-aged and Older Adults in China.

Hypertension is of public health importance in China, but information on geographic distribution on hypertension by map visualization is limited for middle-aged and older adults. Regional geographic variations remain unexplained. Our study is to present geographic distributions at the provincial level and identify provinces and municipalities with high hypertension diagnosis, measurement and prevalence rates and/or low awareness, treatment, control rates among aged 45+ adults in China.