The nursing shared decision making attitude scale: A translation and psychometric evaluation study.

Background: Nurses have an increasingly important role in the 'shared decision-making' process. Knowledge about attitudes can facilitate the implementation process of the different roles of nurses in shared decision-making. However, no specific instrument is available in Dutch to assess Dutch nurses' attitudes towards shared decision-making.

Care complexity, perceptions of complexity and preferences for interprofessional collaboration: an analysis of relationships and social networks in paediatrics.

Background: In the context of increasingly intricate healthcare systems, professionals are compelled to collaborate within dynamically changing interprofessional teams. Moreover, they must adapt these collaborative processes to effectively and efficiently manage the evolving complexity of care needs. It remains unclear how professionals determine care complexity and relate this complexity to their preferences for interprofessional collaboration (IPC).

Opening the black box of team-based learning (TBL): A study of verbal interactions in online application sessions.

Context: In team-based learning (TBL), an instructional strategy that encourages in-depth team discussion and deep learning, interactions in terms of sharing, co-construction, constructive conflict and procedural interactions are important. Since TBL has also been applied online in recent years, the question is whether these interactions are sufficiently present in an online setting.

Aim: Gain insight into the nature and extent of these types of interactions in online TBL application sessions and to what extent these vary between teams and sessions.

Team-based learning (TBL): Each phase matters! An empirical study to explore the importance of each phase of TBL.

Context: In Team Based Learning (TBL), it is, based on theory, assumed that knowledge development in each phase contributes to the subsequent phase and to learning performance. However, there is no empirical evidence for this assumption.

Aim: In order to find support for the relation between TBL and the underlying theory, we determined to what extent each phase of TBL is associated with the knowledge development in the next phase and with the total learning performance.

Additional preconditioning program for bariatric surgery: Any benefits? A large cohort study.

Postbariatric outcomes may improve by providing an additional preconditioning program (APP) in targeted patients. However, APPs are a demand for health resources while only little and inconsistent evidence consists to support their effectiveness. This cohort study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of APP, by comparing outcomes of patients with and without such APP.

How nursing students' placement preferences and perceptions of community care develop in a more 'community-oriented' curriculum: a longitudinal cohort study.

Background: Extramuralisation in healthcare has influenced medical and nursing curricula internationally with the incorporation of themes related to primary/ community care. Despite this, students do not easily change their career preferences. The hospital is still favourite, leading to labour market shortages in extramural care.

The Scale on COmmunity care PErceptions (SCOPE) for nursing students: A development and psychometric validation study.

The aim of this study was to develop a valid instrument to measure student nurses' perceptions of community care (SCOPE). DeVellis' staged model for instrument development and validation was used. Scale construction of SCOPE was based on existing literature.

Factors underlying perceptions of community care and other healthcare areas in first-year baccalaureate nursing students: A focus group study.

Background: Despite the increasing labour market shortage of well-educated community nurses, few baccalaureate nursing students choose for a career in community care. Obtaining knowledge of how students perceive healthcare areas early in their education is important to take meaningful steps in counteracting any existing misconceptions with targeted curriculum redesign.

Objective: Determination of factors underlying perceptions of healthcare areas in first-year baccalaureate nursing students.

Perceptions of community care and placement preferences in first-year nursing students: A multicentre, cross-sectional study.

Background: Despite increasing shortages of highly educated community nurses, far too few nursing students choose community care. This means that a strong societal problem is emerging that desperately needs resolution.

Objectives: To acquire a solid understanding of the causes for the low popularity of community care by exploring first-year baccalaureate nursing students' perceptions of community care, their placement preferences, and the assumptions underlying these preferences.

Thiamine Levels During Intensive Insulin Therapy in Critically Ill Patients.

Introduction: Thiamine is an essential cofactor in carbohydrate metabolism, and deficiency can therefore cause various organ dysfunctions. Little is known about the prevalence and possible worsening of thiamine deficiency in critically ill patients. In this study, we investigated the prevalence of thiamine deficiency at admission to the intensive care unit (ICU) and hypothesized that intensive insulin therapy, aimed at regulating glucose levels, increases thiamine utilization and therefore might cause or worsen deficiency in patients with limited thiamine stores.

Nursing students' perceptions of community care and other areas of nursing practice - A review of the literature.

Objectives: To review recent literature on student nurses' perceptions of different areas of nursing practice, in particular community care. Healthcare is changing from care delivery in institutional settings to care to patients in their own homes. Problematic is that nursing students do not see community care as an attractive line of work, and their perceptions of community care do not reflect the realities of the profession.

Practice variation in treatment of suspected asymptomatic bacteriuria prior to cardiac surgery: are there differences in postoperative outcome? A retrospective cohort study.

Objectives: It is unclear whether postoperative infections can be prevented by treating asymptomatic bacteriuria, or whether, on the other hand, such treatment will increase the risk of more serious infection by pathogenic bacteria different from the ones causing bacteriuria. This study aimed to support future treatment decisions for preoperative cardiothoracic surgery patients with asymptomatic bacteriuria, by examining current preoperative practice, in relation to postoperative outcome.

Methods: A retrospective cohort study was conducted.

Incident and error reporting systems in intensive care: a systematic review of the literature.

Purpose: We performed a systematic review to assess (i) to what extent incident reporting systems (IRSs) on the adult intensive care unit (ICU) meet the criteria of the WHO Draft Guidelines for Adverse Event Reporting and Learning Systems, (ii) to what extent the IRSs comply with the four aspects of the iterative quality loop and (iii) whether IRSs have led to improvement measures in clinical practice.

Data Sources: The authors searched multiple electronic databases from 1966 until 26 June 2014.

Study Selection: Studies were included if they reported incident reporting systems on the adult ICU.

Ambulance Transfer in Case of Postpartum Hemorrhage after Birth in Primary Midwifery Care in The Netherlands: A Prospective Cohort Study.

Background: The objective of this prospective cohort study was to assess whether the 45-minute prehospital limit for ambulance transfer is met in case of postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) after midwifery-supervised home birth in The Netherlands and evaluate the process of ambulance transfer, maternal condition during transfer, and outcomes in relation to whether this limit was met.

Methods: Using ambulance report forms and medical charts, ambulance intervals, urgency coding, clinical condition (using the lowest Revised Trauma Score, [RTS]), and maternal outcomes were collected. From April 2008 to April 2010, midwives reported 72 cases of PPH.

Generalized joint hypermobility, muscle strength and physical function in healthy adolescents and young adults.

Background: Generalized Joint Hypermobility (GJH) is regarded as the main diagnostic criterion for Hypermobility Syndrome and is assumed to be of importance for the development of musculoskeletal complaints and functional decline. However GJH is also highly prevalent amongst healthy individuals whereas its consequences for physical functioning are unclear. Therefore the objective of the study was to determine the association of GJH with physical functioning in healthy adolescents and young adults.

Microcirculatory perfusion and vascular reactivity are altered in post cardiac arrest patients, irrespective of target temperature management to 33 °C vs 36 °C.

Aim: In previous reports both microcirculatory alterations and impaired vascular reactivity have been described in post cardiac arrest patients treated with mild therapeutic hypothermia. As of now it is unknown whether these alterations are related to the temperature management or to the cardiac arrest itself. Aim of the present study was to investigate the potential difference in microcirculatory alterations and vascular reactivity in comatose patients after out of hospital cardiac arrest treated with target temperature management of 33 °C (TTM33) in comparison to patients treated with 36 °C (TTM36).

Sensor monitoring to measure and support daily functioning for independently living older people: a systematic review and road map for further development.

Objectives: To study sensor monitoring (use of a sensor network placed in the home environment to observe individuals' daily functioning (activities of daily living and instrumental activities of daily living)) as a method to measure and support daily functioning for older people living independently at home.

Design: Systematic review.

Setting: Participants' homes.

Cardiac surgery-specific screening tool identifies preoperative undernutrition in cardiac surgery.

Background: Loss of body tissue resulting in undernutrition can be caused by reduced food intake, altered metabolism, ageing, and physical inactivity. The predominant cause of undernutrition before cardiac operations is unknown. First, we explored the association of reduced food intake and inactivity with undernutrition in patients before elective cardiac operations.

Generalized joint hypermobility in professional dancers: a sign of talent or vulnerability?

Objective: To study the impact of generalized joint hypermobility (GJH) in professional dancers on physical fitness, musculoskeletal complaints and psychological distress.

Methods: Thirty-six professional dancers were recruited and compared with control subjects (mean age 20.1, range 17-27).

The bioelectrical impedance phase angle as an indicator of undernutrition and adverse clinical outcome in cardiac surgical patients.

Background & Aims: In cardiac surgical patients, undernutrition increases the risk of adverse clinical outcome. We investigated whether the bioelectrical impedance phase angle is an indicator of undernutrition and clinical outcome in cardiac surgery.

Methods: In 325 cardiac surgical patients, we prospectively analyzed the associations between a preoperative low phase angle, measured by bioelectrical impedance spectroscopy, and well-established indicators of undernutrition such as body mass index (kg/m(2)), unintended weight loss, and fat free mass index (kg/m(2)), and muscle strength (handgrip strength (kg)), immune function (C-reactive protein and albumin), and adverse clinical outcomes.

Accuracy of quick and easy undernutrition screening tools--Short Nutritional Assessment Questionnaire, Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool, and modified Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool--in patients undergoing cardiac surgery.

The objective of this study was to compare the quick-and-easy undernutrition screening tools, ie, Short Nutritional Assessment Questionnaire and Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool, in patients undergoing cardiac surgery with respect to their accuracy in detecting undernutrition measured by a low-fat free mass index (FFMI; calculated as kg/m(2)), and secondly, to assess their association with postoperative adverse outcomes. Between February 2008 and December 2009, a single-center observational cohort study was performed (n=325). A low FFMI was set at ≤14.