Barriers and facilitators to resuming meaningful daily activities among critical illness survivors in the UK: a qualitative content analysis.

Objective: To identify critical illness survivors' perceived barriers and facilitators to resuming performance of meaningful activities when transitioning from hospital to home.

Design: Secondary content analysis of semistructured interviews about patients' experiences of intensive care (primary analysis disseminated on the patient-facing website www.healthtalk.

Exploring Occupational Therapists' Experiences in U.S. Primary Care Settings: A Qualitative Study.

Importance: Occupational therapy's scope of practice aligns with the goals of comprehensive primary care set forth by the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Pub. L. 111-148).

Post-Intensive Care Unit Care. A Qualitative Analysis of Patient Priorities and Implications for Redesign.

Although survival during critical illness is improving, little evidence exists to guide post-intensive care unit (ICU) care. Understanding patients' needs and priorities is fundamental to improving care quality. To describe the evolution of patients' priorities for recovery across the spectrum of post-ICU care.

Analysis of the chronic wound microbiota of 2,963 patients by 16S rDNA pyrosequencing.

The extent to which microorganisms impair wound healing is an ongoing controversy in the management of chronic wounds. Because the high diversity and extreme variability of the microbiota between individual chronic wounds lead to inconsistent findings in small cohort studies, evaluation of a large number of chronic wounds using identical sequencing and bioinformatics methods is necessary for clinicians to be able to select appropriate empiric therapies. In this study, we utilized 16S rDNA pyrosequencing to analyze the composition of the bacterial communities present in samples obtained from patients with chronic diabetic foot ulcers (N = 910), venous leg ulcers (N = 916), decubitus ulcers (N = 767), and nonhealing surgical wounds (N = 370).

Fractures of the distal radius.

Distal radius fractures represent 1 of every 6 fractures treated in emergency departments (EDs) each year. This injury has a peak incidence within both the 5- to 24-year-old age group and the elderly female population aged 65 years and older. An understanding of the functional anatomy of the wrist fracture will greatly aid the practitioner in proper treatment and referral for these injuries.