JMIR Med Inform
May 2022
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the usual working of many hospitalization units (or wards). Few studies have used electronic nursing clinical notes (ENCN) and their unstructured text to identify alterations in patients' feelings and therapeutic procedures of interest.
Objective: This study aimed to analyze positive or negative sentiments through inspection of the free text of the ENCN, compare sentiments of ENCN with or without hospitalized patients with COVID-19, carry out temporal analysis of the sentiments of the patients during the start of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, and identify the topics in ENCN.
Aims: To assess the efficacy of a prompted voiding programme for restoring urinary continence at discharge in hospitalized older adults who presented with reversible urinary incontinence (UI) on admission to a functional recovery unit (FRU). To assess the maintenance of the outcomes achieved after hospitalization. To identify modifiable and unmodifiable factors associated with the success of the prompted voiding programme.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUrinary Incontinence is a highly prevalent and important health problem in hospitalized elderly people. The increase in the elderly population in Spain requires the care and techniques that apply to geriatric, dependent and chronic patients to be updated. Evidence-based health care procedures assist professionals in decision-making and reduce variability in clinical practice.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: This project aimed to improve care in managing urinary incontinence in older patients admitted to a medium-to-long-stay hospital by developing and implementing strategies to improve the compliance with best practice in managing urinary incontinence and decrease its prevalence.
Introduction: Urinary incontinence (UI) is a major problem in hospitalized older people and is of great significance to public health. The application of evidence-based recommendations for this problem could be expected to improve the quality of care.