Village doctors: a national telephone survey of Bangladesh's lay medical practitioners.

Background: Bangladesh outperforms its Least Developed Country (LDC) status on a range of health measures including life expectancy. Its frontline medical practitioners, however, are not formally trained medical professionals, but instead lightly-trained 'village doctors' able to prescribe modern pharmaceuticals. This current study represents the most complete national survey of these practitioners and their informal 'clinics'.

Development and validation of a survey designed to measure patient experience of and preference for surgical wound care discharge education: A pilot study.

Aim Of The Study: To develop and undertake validation testing of a survey designed to measure patients' experiences of and preferences for surgical wound care discharge education.

Materials And Methods: A literature review and content analysis was undertaken on patients' experiences of and preferences for surgical wound care discharge education. Four themes were uncovered in the literature (wound care discharge education, preferences for discharge education delivery, participation in wound care decisions and patient ability to manage their surgical wound to prevent wound complications), which guided item generation.

Characterising the nature of clinical incidents reported across a tertiary health service: a retrospective audit.

Objective Reducing the number of adverse patient safety incidents (PSIs) requires careful monitoring and active management processes. However, there is limited information about the association between hospital settings and the type of PSI. The aims of this study were to describe the severity, nature and characteristics of PSIs from an analysis of their incidence and to assess the relationships between the type of PSI and its setting.

The quality and clinical applicability of recommendations in pressure injury guidelines: A systematic review of clinical practice guidelines.

Background: Pressure injuries are one of the most frequently occurring, yet preventable hospital-acquired adverse events. Given there are many clinical practice guidelines available on the prevention and treatment of pressure injuries, it is useful to understand the quality of these guidelines and the clinical application of their recommendations.

Objective: To critically evaluate the quality and applicability of the recommendations in pressure injury prevention and treatment clinical practice guidelines.

Identifying barriers and facilitators to recognition and response to patient clinical deterioration by clinicians using a behaviour change approach: A qualitative study.

Background: Failure of clinicians to recognise and respond to patient clinical deterioration is associated with increased hospital mortality. Emergency response teams are implemented throughout hospitals to support direct-care clinicians in managing patient deterioration, but patient clinical deterioration is often not identified or acted upon by clinicians in ward settings. To date, no studies have used an integrative theoretical framework in multiple sites to examine why clinicians' delay identification and action on patients' clinical deterioration.

The Impact of Robotic-Assisted Surgery on Team Performance: A Systematic Mixed Studies Review.

Objective: The aim of this study is to describe the impact of robotic-assisted surgery on team performance in the operating room.

Background: The introduction of surgical robots has improved the technical performance of surgical procedures but has also contributed to unexpected interactions in surgical teams, leading to new types of errors.

Method: A systematic literature search of Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, PubMed, ProQuest, Cochrane, Web of Science, PsycINFO, and Scopus databases using key words and MeSH terms was conducted.

Midwives' self-reported knowledge and skills to assess and promote maternal health literacy: A national cross-sectional survey.

Background: Little is known about midwives' knowledge and skills to assess and promote maternal health literacy.

Aims: To test the reliability and validity of a new tool to assess midwives' health literacy knowledge, skills and attitudes.

Methods: Using a cross-sectional design, midwives were recruited through professional and social media networks.

Empathy in pregnant women and new mothers: a systematic literature review.

Objective: This systematic review explores changes in perinatal empathy and influence on maternal behaviours and child development.

Background: The well-being and development of infants are commonly linked to their mothers' capacity for empathy. However, characteristic changes during pregnancy and childbirth including sleep deprivation, mood and cognitive difficulties may disrupt empathic processing.

Effect of a maternity consumer representative training program on participants' confidence and engagement.

Objective: This paper describes the effects of a maternity consumer representative training program on participants' confidence to fulfil this role and engagement in representative activities.

Methods: The present study was a descriptive, pre-post evaluation design with a 3-month follow-up. Fifty-eight people completed the program and 55 agreed to participate in the evaluation.

Childbirth and criteria for traumatic events.

Objective: for some women childbirth is physically and psychologically traumatic and meets Criterion A1 (threat) and A2 (intense emotional response) for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Fourth Edition (DSM-IV).This study differentiates Criterion A1 and A2 to explore their individual relationship to prevalence rates for posttraumatic stress, each other, and associated factors for childbirth trauma.

Design And Setting: women were recruited at three hospitals from October 2008 to October 2009.

Development and psychometric testing of the Clinical Learning Organisational Culture Survey (CLOCS).

Aim: This paper describes the development and psychometric testing of the Clinical Learning Organisational Culture Survey (CLOCS) that measures prevailing beliefs and assumptions important for learning to occur in the workplace.

Method: Items from a tool that measured motivation in workplace learning were adapted to the nursing practice context. The tool was tested in the clinical setting, and then further modified to enhance face and content validity.