Pediatric Sedation Unit: A Safe, Effective, and Satisfactory Alternative to Outpatient Pediatric Urological Procedures Under Anesthesia.

Introduction: The operating room is an increasingly expensive and limited resource. The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy, safety, cost, and parental satisfaction of transitioning minor pediatric urology procedures from an operating room setting to a pediatric sedation unit.

Methods: Minor urological procedures were transitioned from the operating room to the pediatric sedation unit if they could be completed in 20 minutes using minimal instrumentation.

Mood-altering drugs in the trauma population: hidden dangers, deadly combinations.

Depression is on the rise, and as a result, there is an increased use of psychotropic medications. Also, nonreversible anticoagulants have entered the market and are increasing in use. In combination, these developments have created new risk factors for trauma patients.

The clinical nurse specialist as change agent: reducing employee injury and related costs.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was, first, to examine the role of the clinical nurse specialist (CNS) as it relates to the implementation of a CNS-initiated Safe Movement Program and, second, to report findings from a CNS-initiated safe movement program (SMP) in reducing healthcare workers' injuries and related costs.

Design: A longitudinal preimplementation and postimplementation study design was used.

Setting: Healthcare workers in a 156-bed, extended-care facility (nursing home) participated in the study.

The Shorter PROMIS Questionnaire: further validation of a tool for simultaneous assessment of multiple addictive behaviours.

There is both a theoretical and clinical need to develop a questionnaire that assesses a range of addictive behaviours. The Shorter PROMIS Questionnaire (SPQ) is a 16-scale self-report instrument assessing the use of nicotine, recreational drugs, prescription drugs, gambling, sex, caffeine, food bingeing, food starving, exercise, shopping, work, relationships dominant and submissive, and compulsive helping dominant and submissive. Clinical cut-off scores using the 90th percentile were derived from a normative group of 508 individuals.

A comparison of imputation techniques for handling missing data.

Researchers are commonly faced with the problem of missing data. This article presents theoretical and empirical information for the selection and application of approaches for handling missing data on a single variable. An actual data set of 492 cases with no missing values was used to create a simulated yet realistic data set with missing at random (MAR) data.