Scale for the Environment Evaluation of Professional Nursing Practice: Construct validation.

Aim: Testing the validity and reliability of the Scale for the Environments Evaluation of Professional Nursing Practice (SEE-Nursing Practice).

Background: The environment of professional nursing practice is key to achieve better results for clients, nurses and institutions. Therefore, instruments enabling the assessment of all its attributes are required.

Instruments for assessing professional nursing practice environments: An integrative review.

Objective: To identify the instruments used to evaluate the professional nursing practice environments in the hospital context.

Method: An integrative review, whose research process was conducted independently by two researchers in the period from July to August 2019 in the CINHAL, PubMed and SciELO databases.

Results: Based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria, 53 studies published between 2009 and 2019 were considered for analysis.

On ciprofloxacin concentration in chronic rhinosinusitis.

Objective: Considering that all the evidence indicates that chronic rhinosinusitis without nasal polyps (CRSsNP) and chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP) are distinct entities, the aim of this study was to compare the concentrations obtained in plasma and in sinonasal mucosa with oral and nasal topical ciprofloxacin, in patients with and without nasal polyps, without evaluating the effectiveness of the use of an antibiotic.

Methods: Prospective clinical study with single-blind randomization. The population consisted of patients with chronic rhinosinusitis with eligible for endonasal surgery, over 18 years old.

Cardiac venous arterialization in acute myocardial infarction: how great is the benefit?

Objectives: Cardiac venous arterialization has been proposed as an alternative approach for myocardial revascularization in ischaemic heart disease. It is based on using the cardiac venous system to transport arterial blood from a systemic artery to infarcted myocardial areas. Our goal was to evaluate its benefit in reducing acute myocardial infarct size and its effects on cardiac performance.

Immunohistochemical evaluation of MMP-2 and TIMP-2 in canine mammary tumours: a survival study.

Canine mammary tumours (CMTs) are a very heterogeneous group of neoplasms with variable prognosis. Their aggressiveness is mainly due to their ability to invade locally and to metastasize. The degradation of extracellular matrix components is an important determinant of the invasive phenotype.

Immunohistochemical analysis of urokinase plasminogen activator and its prognostic value in canine mammary tumours.

Urokinase plasminogen activator (uPA) has been associated with aggressive behaviour and poor prognosis in human breast cancer, but there is no information on its expression in canine mammary tumours (CMT). uPA immunohistochemical expression was studied in 119 CMT (24 benign, 95 malignant) to investigate its relationship with clinical and histopathological parameters. Dogs with malignant mammary tumours (MMT) underwent a 2-year follow-up evaluation.

Strengthening health development at the community level in Thailand: what events should be managed?

Community action for health development is important for sustaining community health. This study aimed to identify the components and processes for strengthening the community health development process. We used an exploratory, cross-sectional design and focus group discussions in Chonburi, Thailand, between March 2003 and April 2005.

Awareness of chronic diseases in the rapidly developing community of Chon Buri, Thailand.

This study investigated the contributing behaviors to chronic diseases in rapidly developing communities. An exploratory cross-sectional design and focus group discussions were employed for data collection from March, 2003 - April, 2005. Five representative communities located in the rapidly growing industrial region of Chon Buri, Thailand were included.