Impact of Chemotherapy Treatment on the Functionality and Quality of Life of Cancer Patients.

Background And Purpose: Cancer is one of the most prevalent diseases in the general population, and is one of the main causes of changes in the population's illness profile. In this study, we assessed changes in the functional status and quality of life of patients in the first months of chemotherapy treatment.

Method: A prospective cohort study was carried out, collecting data from cancer patients seen at an outpatient clinic in the Midwest of Santa Catarina who had breast, lung, colon and rectum, prostate and head and neck cancer.

The risk and prevalence of pressure injuries in older people in the home care service: a cross-sectional study.

Objective: This study aimed to understand the risk of developing pressure injuries (PIs) and their prevalence rate in older adults in Italy who received public funded home care services and who were often living alone.

Method: In May 2019, a cross-sectional study was performed according to the STROBE (STrengthening the Reporting of OBservational studies in Epidemiology) guidelines. The data collection included demographic variables, a PI risk assessment using the Braden Scale score, the type of mobility devices available, the wound description detailing the PI category, body location and ongoing treatment.

Reporting quality of abstracts from randomised controlled trials published in leading critical care nursing journals: a methodological quality review.

Objectives: To evaluate the methodological quality of randomised controlled trial (RCT) abstracts in leading critical care nursing journals against the Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials-Abstracts (CONSORT-A) checklist and to identify variables related with abstract reporting quality.

Design: Descriptive methodological quality review.

Data Source: We searched the PubMed database and the websites of each included journal.

[How nurses spend their time-shift and the strategies adopted to maximize it: a scoping review].

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Introduction: Investigating how nurses spend their time during the shifts has become important mainly recently, due to the nursing shortage.

Anticipated nursing care as perceived by nursing students: Findings from a qualitative study.

Aim: To explore the perceptions of nursing students on the phenomenon of anticipated nursing care.

Design: A descriptive-qualitative study was performed in 2019 according to the Consolidated Criteria for Reporting Qualitative Research principles.

Methods: Data were collected using 16 face-to-face, audio-recorded interviews across four Italian Bachelor of Nursing degrees.

Evaluating the effects of polices on nursing care as promoted by the Veneto region: the research protocol and its implications for public health.

Study Design: Multi-centre mixed-method study design organised into several phases.

Background: The Veneto region has recently defined a set of policies on nursing care by determining the needed amount of daily care in minutes and by initiating a systematic measurement of nursing outcomes; also, with a more recent policy, missed nursing care (MNC) has been established as a process measure of interest. To measure the effect of these policies, a research protocol - aimed at evaluating several end points - has been designed, involving a large target population and hospital units.

Anticipated nursing care: findings from a qualitative study.

Background: Contrary to Missed Nursing Care, some anecdotal data and sparse evidence has documented the tendency of nurses to anticipate some nursing interventions. However, no study has been conducted to date with the purpose of understanding this phenomenon and its underlying mechanisms and consequences. The aim of this study was to describe the phenomenon of delivering anticipated nursing care, its antecedents and consequences as perceived by nurses.

Depicting clinical nurses' priority perspectives leading to unfinished nursing care: A pilot Q methodology study.

Aims: To highlight (a) trends common to all nurses on priorities attributed to interventions, and (b) whether there are profiles of nurses working in the same context who prioritize interventions in a similar way.

Background: The underlying prioritization of interventions leading to unfinished nursing care has been minimally investigated.

Methods: A 2017 pilot Q methodology study.

Intravenous pamidronate treatment in osteogenesis imperfecta.

Three children with osteogenesis imperfecta, severe osteopenia, and repeated fractures were treated with cyclic infusions of aminohydroxypropylidene bisphosphonate (pamidronate) for a period ranging from 22 to 29 months. A clear clinical response was shown, with a striking reduction of new fracture episodes and a marked improvement in the quality of the patients' lives. Bone mineral density increased significantly in two patients, and linear growth continued along the percentile at the start of treatment.

Bone marrow relaxation times in Gaucher disease before and after enzyme replacement therapy.

The aim of this work was to monitor the effectiveness of enzyme replacement therapy on the basis of the changes in T1 relaxation times in Gaucher patients. A total of 26 patients underwent MR before enzyme replacement therapy; of them, 18 have been followed-up. A total of 22 age-matched controls underwent the same MR study.