Objective: Currently, there is an intensive discussion about enhancing and expanding outpatient rhinosurgical procedures. Many questions about how to stratify into out- and inpatient procedures are still not sufficiently clarified. Particularly, the use of nasal packing materials is not adequately discussed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Assessment tools for engagement in people with dementia often rely on self-reported measures which restricts their use in people with severe cognitive limitations. The Engagement of a Person with Dementia Scale (EPWDS) is a valid and reliable tool to assess behavioral and emotional expressions and responses of engagement in people with dementia through observation; however, the EPWDS is not yet available in the German language.
Objectives: 1) Translation and cross-culturally adaptation of the original English version of the EPWDS into the German language (EPWDS-GER) and 2) to gain insights into assessing data with the newly developed instrument.