Quality appraisal of household recycling influences research found evidence was mostly insufficient for drawing conclusions.

Research on recycling behaviour and its influences is critical to supporting public policy efforts to mitigate the negative effects of waste. However, recent reviews have raised concerns about the quality of recycling research. Despite this, no previous reviews have conducted quality appraisals.

Water Treatment for Hemodialysis: Keeping Patients Safe.

All nurses with any responsibility for hemodialysis need to know and understand the clinical ramifications of water treatment and dialysate preparation. Although some hemodialysis programs may have full-time technical staff who operate and test the water treatment and dialysate preparation systems, many programs rely on nursing staff for the day-to-day operation and testing of these systems. It is critical for all staff members to work together to keep patients safe.

"It's not what you see but what you hear…": Understanding environment protection officers' responsive decision making.

Responsive regulation asserts that regulatory enforcement actions are likely to be more effective in promoting compliance when they respond to a duty holder's motives, capabilities, and external pressures. However, operationalizing responsive approaches that also possess qualities of consistency and transparency remains a challenge for environmental management authorities. This study applied a mixed-method qualitative approach to capture the responsive decision making influences on government environment protection officers in a field context when engaging with different duty holders.

Water Treatment for Hemodialysis: What You Must Know to Keep Patients Safe.

It is critical for all staff members to work together to keep patients safe. Nephrology nurses with responsibility for hemodialysis (HD) need to know and understand the clinical ramifications of water treatment and dialysate preparation. Although some HD programs may have full-time technical staff who operate and test the water treatment and dialysate preparation systems, many programs rely on nursing staff members for the dayto- day operation and testing of these systems.

Facilitating adaptive management in a government program: A household energy efficiency case study.

Interim evaluations of government programs can sometimes reveal lower than expected outcomes, leading to the question of how adjustments can be made while the program is still underway. Although adaptive management frameworks can provide a practical roadmap to address this question, a lack of successful learnings and poor implementation have hampered the progress and wider application of adaptive management. Using a case study involving an energy efficiency government program targeting low-income households, this article provides supporting evidence on how adaptive management can be facilitated and applied.

Water treatment for hemodialysis: an update.

While nurses may not routinely service the water treatment system or mix the dialysate, they are responsible for understanding all of the clinical ramifications of water treatment and dialysate preparation for hemodialysis as a part of the entire dialysis treatment picture. Although the water treatment system has historically been in the technicians' domain, knowing the technical aspects is important for the entire team to work together to ensure patient safety and well-being. This article describes the composition of water treatment systems for hemodialysis, as well as the monitoring and testing necessary to assure that both water and dialysate are safe for patient use.

Foscarnet in the management of cytomegalovirus infections in hematopoietic stem cell transplant patients.

Despite significant advances in the day-to-day management of patients receiving hematopoietic stem cell transplantations, including the introduction of new antiviral drugs, cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection continues to be a major cause of morbidity and mortality. The aim of this article is to undertake a literature-based review of foscarnet in this therapeutic setting and to align current best-published evidence with recent recommendations presented at the European Conference on Infections in Leukaemia. Ganciclovir remains the mainstay of CMV infection/disease antiviral management protocols.

What's the problem? River management, education, and public beliefs.

This paper invokes the theory of planned behavior (TPB) as a diagnostic tool to explain an existing public education program's limited success at improving river water quality in the City of Perth, Western Australia. A reflective, client-driven research approach was used. A facilitated expert workshop defined an environmental problem (excess nutrients leaving gardens and entering waterways) and a desired behavior (residents purchasing environmentally sensitive fertilizer) to address the problem.

The new Medicare PPS and home dialysis.

Overall, we believe that bundling of payments to dialysis facilities is positive for home dialysis. The incentive for higher utilization of home therapies comes down to the fact that, with treatments for all modalities being paid at the same rate, providers will see that home modalities cost less than facility-based treatments. The adjustment for home training treatments is certainly helpful, but it is not incentive enough on its own.

Managing risk for silicone tubing applications.

Quality must be designed into medical devices, including into their raw materials and components. Operating according to the critical principles of medical device good manufacturing practices ensures that the silicone tubing incorporated into devices has the highest standards of quality and safety.