Publications by authors named "Janet Elaine Squires"

Pediatric chronic pain is a complex experience that is often challenging to describe and measure. Multidimensional tools that evaluate the biopsychosocial impact of chronic pain in pediatric patients can help clinicians to prioritize and tailor interdisciplinary pain care; yet, the psychometric value and clinical utility of such tools has not yet been systematically studied in the literature. The purpose of this review was to identify multidimensional biopsychosocial tools used in pediatric chronic pain, synthesize their reliability and validity evidence, and draw on this evidence to describe the relationships between chronic pain and biopsychosocial domains.

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Objective: Pediatric primary chronic pain disorders come with diagnostic uncertainty, which may obscure diagnostic expectations for referring providers and the decision to accept or re-direct patients into interdisciplinary pediatric chronic pain programs based on diagnostic completeness. We aimed to attain expert consensus on diagnostic expectations for patients who are referred to interdisciplinary pediatric chronic pain programs with six common primary chronic pain diagnoses.

Method: We conducted a modified Delphi study with pediatric chronic pain physicians, nurse practitioners and clinical nurse specialists to determine degree of importance on significant clinical indicators and diagnostic items relevant to each of the six primary chronic pain diagnoses.

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Objectives: To share a concept analysis of social movement aimed at advancing its application to evidence uptake and sustainability in health-care.

Methods: We applied Walker and Avant method to clarify the concept of social movement in the context of knowledge uptake and sustainability. Peer-reviewed and grey literature databases were systematically searched for relevant reports that described how social movement action led to evidence-based practice changes in health and community settings.

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Objectives: To synthesize the literature describing interventions to improve hand hygiene in ICUs, to evaluate the quality of the extant research, and to outline the type, and efficacy, of interventions described.

Data Sources: Systematic searches were conducted in November 2016 using five electronic databases: Medline, CINAHL, PsycInfo, Embase, and Web of Science. Additionally, the reference lists of included studies and existing review papers were screened.

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