Impact of hospital outpatients' experiences of patient safety on fear of infection: a secondary analysis of national data.

Introduction: Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, outpatients' concerns about infection risk have increased. It is crucial to understand the factors that contribute to this fear of infection to promote patient safety and encourage outpatients to seek proper follow-up treatment without fear. This study aims to understand the relationship between outpatients' experiences of patient safety and their fear of infection.

Experiences of Nurses Speaking Up in Healthcare Settings: A Qualitative Metasynthesis.

Aim: To systematically review and synthesise qualitative research on nurses' experiences of speaking up in various contexts and to identify factors facilitating or impeding such a behaviour.

Design: This review was conducted as a qualitative metasynthesis, utilising the qualitative meta-ethnography approach.

Methods: A total of 6250 articles were screened.

A comparative analysis of nurses' reported number of patients and perceived appropriate number of patients in integrated nursing care services.

This study aimed to compare the number of assigned and appropriate patients per nurse in integrated nursing care service wards and analyze factors associated with the gap. For this cross-sectional secondary analysis, data were collected from surveys of 2312 nurses and institutional data from their affiliated 106 hospitals in Korea. We used the Wilcoxon signed-rank test and t-test to compare the number of patients assigned to nurses with the number they considered appropriate.

Effects of work environments on satisfaction of nurses working for integrated care system in South Korea: a multisite cross-sectional investigation.

Background: Nurses' satisfaction has an impact on organizational and patient outcomes. Integrated care system in South Korea was established in 2015 to improve care quality and decrease caregiving burden. Since then, nurses' satisfaction has increased due to an increase in nursing staffing.

Clinical decision support system for clinical nurses' decision-making on nurse-to-patient assignment: a scoping review protocol.

Introduction: Optimal nurse-to-patient assignment plays a crucial role in healthcare delivery, with direct implications for patient outcomes and the workloads of nursing staff. However, this process is highly intricate, involving a multitude of factors that must be carefully considered. The application of a clinical decision support system (CDSS) to support nursing decision-making can have a positive impact not only on patient outcomes but also on nursing efficiency.

Effect of Postpartum Depression on Infant Safety Practices in Korea.

Objective: To describe the prevalence of postpartum depression in a sample of Korean women and to examine the effect of postpartum depression on their adoption of safety practices for their infants.

Design: Secondary, cross-sectional.

Setting: South Korea.

Patient-level and organizational-level factors influencing in-hospital falls.

Aim: In-hospital fall is one key safety issue in a healthcare setting. Although healthcare providers apply several strategies for preventing falls, falls still occur in hospitals. The aim of this study was to investigate patient-level and organizational-level factors influencing in-hospital falls.

The effect of the reformed nurse staffing policy on employment of nurses in Korea.

Aim: This study aims to analyse the employment effect of reformed nurse staffing policy which is the "Integrated Nursing and Care Service" scheme that was introduced by the Korean government.

Design: Economic evaluation study focusing on employment effect.

Method: An input-output model was used to estimate the employment-inducing effect of the new staffing policy.

Efficacy of recombinant measles virus expressing highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (HPAIV) antigen against HPAIV infection in monkeys.

Highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (HPAIV) is a serious threat not only to domestic fowls but also to humans. Vaccines inducing long-lasting immunity against HPAIV are required. In the present study, we generated recombinant measles virus (MV) expressing the hemagglutinin protein of HPAIV without the multibasic site necessary for its pathogenicity in chickens using the backbone of an MV vaccine strain (rMV-Ed-H5HA) or a wild-type MV-derived mutant (rMV-HL-Vko-H5HA).

Measles virus induces persistent infection by autoregulation of viral replication.

Natural infection with measles virus (MV) establishes lifelong immunity. Persistent infection with MV is likely involved in this phenomenon, as non-replicating protein antigens never induce such long-term immunity. Although MV establishes stable persistent infection in vitro and possibly in vivo, the mechanism by which this occurs is largely unknown.

Experimental infection of macaques with a wild water bird-derived highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (H5N1).

Highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (HPAIV) continues to threaten human health. Non-human primate infection models of human influenza are desired. To establish an animal infection model with more natural transmission and to determine the pathogenicity of HPAIV isolated from a wild water bird in primates, we administered a Japanese isolate of HPAIV (A/whooper swan/Hokkaido/1/2008, H5N1 clade 2.

Amelioration effects of traditional Chinese medicine on alcohol-induced fatty liver.

Aim: To examine the effects of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) on alcohol-induced fatty liver in rats. TCM consists of Astragalus membranaceus, Morus alba, Crataegus pinnatifida, Alisma orientale, Salvia miltiorrhiza, and Pueraria lobata.

Methods: The rats were separated randomly into five groups.