Ward nurses' experiences and perceptions of the critical care outreach service: A qualitative study undertaken in a large teaching hospital in the West of Ireland.

Background: The critical care outreach service (CCOS) was established in a large teaching hospital in the West of Ireland in 2014 to provide an extension of CCOS between the intensive care unit (ICU) and the wards outside ICU. With the ever-increasing pressure on ICU resources, CCOS seems to offer an additional service to patients who are critically ill and deteriorating in hospital wards.

Aim: The aim of this study is to explore ward nurses' experiences and perceptions of the CCOS.

Integrating cognitive dissonance and social consensus to reduce weight stigma.

Weight stigma is pervasive and has a range of deleterious effects. Among the most promising approaches for modifying this form of stigma are cognitive dissonance and social consensus. Due to their theoretical connection, this study tested the effects of an experimental manipulation of cognitive dissonance blended with social consensus for targeting weight stigma.

[Proposed Pedestrian Crosswalk Safety Rating for Mexico CityProposta de um índice de segurança de travessia de pedestres para a Cidade do México].

Objective: Propose a pedestrian crosswalk safety rating (PCSR) for primary roads in Mexico City in order to rate crosswalk safety at intersections with a traffic light and then compare the PCSR with traffic accidents so as to empirically determine any association between the quality of the crosswalk and the traffic accident rate.

Methods: Identify criteria for the rating system through a state-of-the art review; weight the criteria to create a rating system through multicriterion analysis; design a stratified random sample of crosswalks (n = 490); and evaluate the data set.

Results: Through the PCSR, 91.