A randomized controlled trial of a postdischarge nursing intervention for patients with decompensated cirrhosis.

Background: Few randomized trials have evaluated the effect of postdischarge interventions for patients with liver cirrhosis. This study assessed the effects of a postdischarge intervention on readmissions and mortality in patients with decompensated liver cirrhosis.

Methods: We conducted a randomized controlled trial at a specialized liver unit.

Low sphingolipid levels predict poor survival in patients with alcohol-related liver disease.

Background & Aims: Alcohol-related hepatitis (AH) and alcohol-related cirrhosis are grave conditions with poor prognoses. Altered hepatic lipid metabolism can impact disease development and varies between different alcohol-related liver diseases. Therefore, we aimed to investigate lipidomics and metabolomics at various stages of alcohol-related liver diseases and their correlation with survival.

Markers of inflammation predict survival in newly diagnosed cirrhosis: a prospective registry study.

The inflammatory activity in cirrhosis is often pronounced and related to episodes of decompensation. Systemic markers of inflammation may contain prognostic information, and we investigated their possible correlation with admissions and mortality among patients with newly diagnosed liver cirrhosis. We collected plasma samples from 149 patients with newly diagnosed (within the past 6 months) cirrhosis, and registered deaths and hospital admissions within 180 days.

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The Danish Health Authority recommends that all patients with life threatening disease, regardless of the diagnosis, are offered palliative care with respect for individual goals of care. Only few studies have investigated the evidence of ACP in patients with decompensated liver cirrhosis. This review defines ways to identify patients with decompensated liver cirrhosis in need of palliative care and how to analyse the goals of care.

Nurse-assisted and multidisciplinary outpatient follow-up among patients with decompensated liver cirrhosis: A systematic review.

Background And Objective: Liver cirrhosis represents a considerable health burden and causes 1.2 million deaths annually. Patients with decompensated liver cirrhosis have a poor prognosis and severely reduced health-related quality of life.

Balancing responsibilities, rewards and challenges: A qualitative study illuminating the complexity of being a rapid response team nurse.

Aim And Objective: To explore Rapid Response Team nurses' perceptions of what it means being a Rapid Response Team nurse including their perceptions of the collaborative and organisational aspects of the rapid response team (RRT).

Background: For more than 20 years, RRT nurses have been on the frontline of critical situations in acute care hospitals. However, a few studies report nurses' perceptions of their role as RRT nurses, including collaboration with general ward nurses and physicians.

[Outpatient control and rehabilitation in decompensated liver cirrhosis should be an interdisciplinary approach].

There are no rehabilitative offers to patients, who are discharged following a hospitalisation with decompensated liver cirrhosis. The development and implementation of a comprehensive rehabilitative offer can lead to early detection and treatment of complications, which could eventually result in hospitalisation. In this review, we argue, that prevention of hospitalisation, self-care, quality of life, patient satisfaction and compliance should form the basis of a rehabilitative offer for patients with liver cirrhosis.

Stuck in tradition-A qualitative study on barriers for implementation of evidence-based nutritional care perceived by nursing staff.

Aims And Objectives: To explore the barriers for nutritional care as perceived by nursing staff at an acute orthopaedic ward, aiming to implement evidence-based nutritional care.

Background: Previous studies indicate that nurses recognise nutritional care as important, but interventions are often lacking. These studies show that a range of barriers influence the attempt to optimise nutritional care.