Exploring hospital mealtime experiences of older inpatients, caregivers and staff using photovoice methods.

Aim: To gather and understand the experience of hospital mealtimes from the perspectives of those receiving and delivering mealtime care (older inpatients, caregivers and staff) using photovoice methods to identify touchpoints and themes to inform the co-design of new mealtime interventions.

Methods: This study was undertaken on acute care wards within a single metropolitan hospital in Brisbane, Australia in 2019. Photovoice methods involved a researcher accompanying 21 participants (10 older patients, 5 caregivers, 4 nurses and 2 food service officers) during a mealtime and documenting meaningful elements using photographs and field notes.

Calcifying Fibrous Tumor of the Neck.

A 19 year old otherwise healthy male presented with a history of acute onset left neck pain with subsequent swelling and development of a left neck mass that progressively enlarged over a two month period. Imaging studies revealed a solid heterogeneous mass with prominent calcifications displacing normal structures. The lesion was resected via transcervical approach and a diagnosis of calcifying fibrous tumor (CFT) was rendered.

Implementation of hospital wide dysphagia screening in a large acute tertiary teaching hospital.

: There are no examples in the literature of successful long-term hospital-wide implementation of nurse-led dysphagia screening. This article aims to describe strategies used to implement hospital-wide dysphagia screening in a large acute tertiary teaching hospital in Australia. It reports on compliance, accuracy and nursing staff satisfaction using the validated Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital Dysphagia Screening Tool (RBWH DST).

Histopathological techniques for the diagnosis of combat-related invasive fungal wound infections.

Background: Effective management of trauma-related invasive fungal wound infections (IFIs) depends on early diagnosis and timely initiation of treatment. We evaluated the utility of routine staining, histochemical stains and frozen section for fungal element identification.

Methods: A total of 383 histopathological specimens collected from 66 combat-injured United States military personnel with IFIs were independently reviewed by two pathologists.

Validation of predictive factors of dysphagia risk following thermal burns: a prospective cohort study.

Purpose: The objective of this study was to prospectively evaluate the validity and reliability of a risk factor model developed for use in predicting dysphagia risk within the first 24 h after injury/hospitalisation in patients with thermal burns.

Method(s): Three hundred and fifty six patients with thermal burns, with or without inhalation injury, who were consecutively admitted to and received management at a quaternary state-wide burn center over a 12 month period, were included. Patients were reviewed for dysphagia risk by nursing staff using an established set of predictive factors.

Triaging dysphagia: nurse screening for dysphagia in an acute hospital.

Aims And Objectives: To (1) develop a dysphagia screening tool to triage all patients at risk of aspiration/dysphagia on admission to acute hospital wards, (2) evaluate tool reliability, (3) evaluate nursing compliance and (4) develop a robust dysphagia training programme.

Background: Failure to diagnose dysphagia has significant medical and economic costs. Dysphagia screening reduces pneumonia threefold.

The use of BeWo cells as an in vitro model for placental iron transport.

BeWo cells are a placental cell line that has been widely used as an in vitro model for the placenta. The b30 subclone of these cells can be grown on permeable membranes in bicameral chambers to form confluent cell layers, enabling rates of both nutrient uptake into the cells from the apical surface and efflux from the basolateral membrane to be determined. The aim of this study was to evaluate structural and functional properties of confluent b30 BeWo cell layers grown in bicameral chambers, focusing on the potential application for studying receptor-mediated uptake and transport of transferrin (Tf)-bound iron (Fe-Tf).

Use of health impact assessment in the U.S.: 27 case studies, 1999-2007.

Objectives: To document the growing use in the United States of health impact assessment (HIA) methods to help planners and others consider the health consequences of their decisions.

Methods: Using multiple search strategies, 27 HIAs were identified that were completed in the U.S.