Face-to-face interventions to encourage enrolment in cardiac rehabilitation: a scoping review protocol.

Introduction: Cardiac rehabilitation has become an integral part of secondary treatment of cardiovascular heart disease. Despite evidence demonstrating that cardiac rehabilitation improves prognoses, reduces disease progression and helps patients to find a new foothold in life, many patients do not enrol. Face-to-face interventions can encourage patients to enrol; however, it is unclear which strategies have been developed, how they are structured in a hospital context and whether they target the life-world of the patients.

Educational interventions to improve outcomes in patients with atrial fibrillation-a systematic review.

Background: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is an emerging epidemic associated with poor mental health and quality of life, as well as morbidity and mortality. Whilst other cardiovascular conditions have demonstrated positive outcomes from educational programmes, this approach is not well integrated in clinical practice in patients with AF. Though evidence in this area is mounting, a thorough overview seems to be lacking.

Understanding depression as a workplace issue: Clarifying employers' attitudes to manage employees with depression.

Background: Sickness absence due to depression has indirect and direct costs for employers. Whilst employers play a key role in establishing supportive work environments and providing work adjustments, there is a lack of knowledge on employers' attitudes to support employees with depression.

Objective: To investigate employers' attitudes to manage employees' depression, focusing on the employers' opportunities and challenges to support employees with depression.

The effectiveness of hypnotic analgesia in the management of procedural pain in minimally invasive procedures: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Introduction: Patients undergoing minimally invasive procedures under a light conscious sedation perceive pain and anxiety. Hypnosis used together with analgesics has been investigated in numerous studies.

Aims And Methods: To assess the effectiveness of hypnotic analgesia in management of pain, anxiety, analgesic consumption, procedure length and adverse events in adults undergoing minimally invasive procedures.

Speaking the same language: Development of a Nutrition Minimum Data Set for healthcare professionals in primary healthcare.

Providing the best possible nutritional care requires accurate and precise communication between healthcare professionals. Developing a Nutrition Minimum Data Set will inform professionals in primary healthcare of which core elements should be documented and facilitate a standardized approach to the documentation of nutritional care. A two-step methodological approach was utilized in this study: (1) a systematic scoping review was conducted to map evidence underpinning the development of a Minimum Data Set and (2) the datasources were categorized using the inductive content analysis approach.

Systematic assessment of the rehabilitation needs in early stage dementia for home-dwelling people: a scoping review protocol.

The objective of this scoping review is to examine and map assessment tools and procedures that are used by health and social care professionals in dementia care for the systematic assessment of the need for rehabilitation in primary and/or secondary healthcare settings for home-dwelling people diagnosed with early stage dementia based on recognized diagnostic criteria.

Nursing Minimum Data Sets for documenting nutritional care for adults in primary healthcare: a scoping review.

Objective: To identify all published nutritional screening instruments that have been validated in the adult population in primary healthcare settings and to report on their psychometric validity.

Introduction: Within health care, there is an urgent need for the systematic collection of nursing care data in order to make visible what nurses do and to facilitate comparison, quality assurance, management, research and funding of nursing care. To be effective, nursing records should accurately and comprehensively document all required information to support safe and high quality care of patients.

Effectiveness of respiratory rates in determining clinical deterioration: a systematic review protocol.

The objective of this systematic review is to identify, appraise and synthesize the best available evidence on the effectiveness of manually measuring respiratory rates for 60 s or less in detecting clinical deterioration of inpatients. More specifically, the review question is:Is measurement of respiratory rates for 60 s more effective in detecting clinical deterioration than a shorter duration of measurement?

The effectiveness of systematic perioperative oral hygiene in reduction of postoperative respiratory tract infections after elective thoracic surgery in adults: a systematic review.

Background: Nosocomial infections are a significant contributor to patient morbidity and mortality. Nosocomial infections significantly increase hospital length of stay and total hospital costs. Thoracic surgery, mechanical ventilation and/or admission to an intensive care unit are known to increase patients' risk for nosocomial respiratory tract infection.

Diagnostic test accuracy of nutritional tools used to identify undernutrition in patients with colorectal cancer: a systematic review.

Background: Effective nutritional screening, nutritional care planning and nutritional support are essential in all settings, and there is no doubt that a health service seeking to increase safety and clinical effectiveness must take nutritional care seriously. Screening and early detection of malnutrition is crucial in identifying patients at nutritional risk. There is a high prevalence of malnutrition in hospitalized patients undergoing treatment for colorectal cancer.

Diagnostic accuracy of methods used to verify nasogastric tube position in mechanically ventilated adult patients: a systematic review.

Background: Nasogastric tubes are widely used in hospitals, e.g. for the administration of nutrients.