Students' interaction anxiety and social phobia in interprofessional education in Hong Kong: mapping a new research direction.

Background: Interprofessional education (IPE) has been promoted as a breakthrough in healthcare because of the impact when professionals work as a team. However, despite its inception dating back to the 1960s, its science has taken a long time to advance. There is a need to theorize IPE to cultivate creative insights for a nuanced understanding of IPE.

The effects of advance care planning intervention on nursing home residents: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials.

Background: Advance care planning is a communication and decision-making process during which people express their wishes for future healthcare and treatment decisions. Advance care planning is particularly relevant to frail older adults. Recently, more advance care planning interventions have been implemented in nursing homes using randomised controlled trial approaches; however, no meta-analysis has been performed evaluating and synthesising the effect of advance care planning in nursing homes.

A pilot randomized controlled trial using Baduanjin qigong to reverse frailty status among post-treatment older cancer survivors.

Objectives: To evaluate the feasibility and potential effects of qigong Baduanjin for reversing frailty status among older cancer survivors.

Materials And Methods: Twenty-eight older cancer survivors screened as pre-frail or frail were recruited. They were randomly assigned (1:1) to receive a sixteen-week Baduanjin intervention or an active control condition (light flexibility exercise).

Effect of qigong for sleep disturbance-related symptom clusters in cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Objectives: To examine the effects of qigong interventions on sleep disturbance-related symptom clusters for cancer patients and to explore the possible mediating role of fatigue and depression in affecting sleep.

Methods: In this systematic review and meta-analysis, a systematic search was conducted through October 2020 by searching multiple English and Chinese databases. Inclusion was limited to randomized controlled trials that measured the effect of qigong on sleep and fatigue/depressive symptoms in cancer patients.

Exercise levels and preferences on exercise counselling and programming among older cancer survivors: A mixed-methods study.

Objectives: To assess exercise levels and exercise counselling /programming preferences among older cancer survivors.

Materials And Methods: A mixed-methods study design was employed. Quantitative instruments on exercise levels, exercise counselling and programming preferences, frailty status, and cancer-related symptoms were administered to 290 post-treatment older cancer survivors aged ≥65.

Effects of a Home-Based Palliative Heart Failure Program on Quality of Life, Symptom Burden, Satisfaction and Caregiver Burden: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

Context: Provision of home-based palliative care (PC) for seriously ill patients is important, yet few home-based PC services specifically or exclusively focus on end-stage heart failure (ESHF) patients.

Objectives: This study aimed to examine the effect of a home-based palliative heart failure (HPHF) program on quality of life (QOL), symptoms burden, functional status, patient satisfaction, and caregiver burden among patients with ESHF.

Methods: This study was a two-group randomized controlled trial undertaken in three hospitals.

Cost-effectiveness of a transitional home-based palliative care program for patients with end-stage heart failure.

Background: Studies have shown positive clinical outcomes of specialist palliative care for end-stage heart failure patients, but cost-effectiveness evaluation is lacking.

Aim: To examine the cost-effectiveness of a transitional home-based palliative care program for patients with end-stage heart failure patients as compared to the customary palliative care service.

Design: A cost-effectiveness analysis was conducted alongside a randomized controlled trial (Trial number: NCT02086305).

Effects of a transitional palliative care model on patients with end-stage heart failure: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.

Background: Heart failure (HF) is characterized by high rates of readmission after hospitalization, and readmission is a major contributor to healthcare costs. The transitional care model has proven efficacy in reducing the readmission rate and economic outcomes, and increasing satisfaction with care. However, the effectiveness of the transitional care model has not been evaluated in patients with end-stage HF.

Effects of a transitional palliative care model on patients with end-stage heart failure: a randomised controlled trial.

Objective: To examine the effects of home-based transitional palliative care for patients with end-stage heart failure (ESHF) after hospital discharge.

Methods: This was a randomised controlled trial conducted in three hospitals in Hong Kong. The recruited subjects were patients with ESHF who had been discharged home from hospitals and referred for palliative service, and who met the specified inclusion criteria.