Background: Many adverse events are identified as nursing-sensitive indicators (NSIs) and have evidence-based care bundles known to reduce risk of occurrence. Kamishibai cards are a tool from the manufacturing industry used for practice auditing and improvements. Use of Kamishibai cards is believed to be common in the healthcare setting, but true evidence-based guidelines do not yet exist to guide their implementation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFImportance: The phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) pathway is among the most frequently activated pathways in human cancers. As the use of PI3K inhibitors for cancer treatment grows, there is increasing need for understanding the cutaneous effects associated with these therapies.
Objective: To systematically review the published literature reporting incidence of cutaneous adverse events with PI3K inhibitors and to provide pooled incidence estimates using meta-analysis.
Many local governments are adopting inclusionary zoning (IZ) as a means of producing affordable housing without direct public subsidies. In this paper, panel data on IZ in the San Francisco metropolitan area and suburban Boston are used to analyse how much affordable housing the programmes produce and how IZ affects the prices and production of market-rate housing. The amount of affordable housing produced under IZ has been modest and depends primarily on how long IZ has been in place.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To determine whether the contents of food and beverage advertisements are associated with physical activity and athletic ability more often than those for toys and games, and to describe persuasive techniques used in advertising food and beverages to children.
Design: A content analysis of advertisements during 31 hours of school-age children's television programming.
Analysis: Chi-square tests were used to examine differences in depictions of physical activity.