Radiography (Lond)
January 2024
Introduction: A positive experience in mammography is essential for increasing patient attendance and reattendance at these examinations, whether conducted for diagnostic or screening purposes. Mammograms indeed facilitate early disease detection, enhance the potential for cure, and consequently reduce breast cancer mortality. The main objective of this review was to identify and map the strategies aiming to improve the patient experience in diagnostic and screening mammography.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: The objective of this review is to map the global evidence on interventions aiming to enhance the patient experience during mammography examination.
Introduction: Mammography is the examination of choice to detect breast cancer, which is the most common malignant condition among women globally. However, this examination can cause psychological distress, discomfort, and pain for patients.
Objective: This scoping review aims to identify and map the behavioral pain indicators observed when adults with an intellectual disability experience pain.
Introduction: Adults with an intellectual disability have more health problems than the general population. The likelihood that this population will experience pain is high, but intellectual disability can obstruct the verbal expression of pain.
Objective: The objective of this review was to identify and describe the factors influencing diabetes self-management in adults by summarizing the available evidence concerning their types, categories, and relative importance.
Introduction: A wide range of factors, acting simultaneously, influence diabetes self-management and interfere with its actual application by patients. There is a variety of systematic reviews of these factors; however, a more thorough examination of their influences was lacking.
Objective: The objective of this review was to gain a better understanding of the interprofessional collaboration between health care professionals from the patients' point of view during hospitalisation; the influence of interprofessional collaboration on patient care, safety, and well-being; and patients' perspectives of their role in the interprofessional collaboration process.
Introduction: Interprofessional collaboration is a key factor in improving patient health care outcomes and safety through better communication between health care professionals, better teamwork, and better care coordination. However, implementing interprofessional collaboration in the clinical setting can prove complex.