Surgical site infections after craniotomy: a matched health-care cost and length of stay study.

Objective: To assess the extra health-care costs and length of stay resulting from surgical site infection (SSI), as well as to identify the most frequent aetiological microorganisms of SSIs among Jordanian craniotomy surgery patients.

Method: A retrospective, descriptive, correlational and nested 1:1 matched case-control design was used. A computerised list of patients, who underwent surgery between May 2009 and March 2015, was generated in the targeted hospital.

Research Use of Nurses Working in the Critical Care Units: Barriers and Facilitators.

Background: There is a distinct gap between theory and practice with respect to research use in clinical practice, particularly in critical care units, that could be related to the presence of a number of barriers that hinder the use of research findings.

Aims: The aims of the study were to identify barriers and facilitators to research use as perceived by Jordanian nurses in critical care units and to examine the predictors of research use among those nurses.

Methods: The study used a cross-sectional, correlational design.

The effects of health beliefs on health care-seeking decisions of Jordanian patients with myocardial infarction symptoms.

The main purpose of this study was to examine the significance of health beliefs, perceived seriousness of harmful consequences and perceived barriers in explaining health care-seeking decisions of patients experiencing myocardial infarction symptoms. A structured interview guide developed by the researchers that included health beliefs, patient delay, sociodemographics and clinical characteristics of the patients was introduced to 79 myocardial infarction patients on the third day of hospitalization. Thirty-eight per cent of the patients delayed the health care-seeking decision > 1 h.

The perceived needs of Jordanian families of hospitalized, critically ill patients.

The purpose of this study was to identify needs of Jordanian families of hospitalized, critically ill patients. The Critical Care Family Needs Inventory was introduced to 158 family members who were visiting their hospitalized, critically ill relatives. The findings revealed that > or = 80% of the family members perceived 16 need statements as important or very important.