Impact of Digital Educational Interventions to Support Parents Caring for Acutely Ill Children at Home and Factors That Affect Their Use: Protocol for a Systematic Review.

Background: Urgent and emergency care health services are overburdened, and the use of these services by acutely ill infants and children is increasing. A large proportion of these visits could be sufficiently addressed by other health care professionals. Uncertainty about the severity of a child's symptoms is one of many factors that play a role in parents' decisions to take their children to emergency services, demonstrating the need for improved support for health literacy.

Seeing the signs.

Invasive meningococcal disease, causing meningitis and/or septicaemia, can kill within hours and leave a significant number of survivors with lifelong disability. Even though there are now three meningococcal vaccines in the U.K.

An overview of meningitis and meningococcal septicaemia.

This article provides an overview of meningitis and meningococcal septicaemia, which can have devastating effects. Nurses working in acute and primary care must be able to recognise the causes and symptoms of these conditions, and have up-to-date knowledge of treatment, prevention and potential after effects.

An overview of meningitis and meningococcal septicaemia.

This article provides an overview of meningitis and meningococcal septicaemia, which can have devastating effects. Nurses working in acute and primary care need to be able to recognise the causes and symptoms of these conditions, and have up-to-date knowledge of treatment, prevention and potential after-effects.