Introduction: Smoking continues to be a significant public health issue, but nursing students do not receive sufficient training on tobacco cessation education. Integrating the 5As behaviors for tobacco cessation into a compulsory course could improve nursing students' skills and increase their clinical behaviors for assisting patients in quitting smoking. The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of evidence-based tobacco cessation education on the perceptions and behaviors of nursing students who are assisting patients to quit smoking.
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April 2015
Objective: To explore the risk factors of portal vein thrombosis (PVT) after splenectomy and esophagogastric devascularization for advanced schistosomiasis portal hypertension.
Methods: The clinical data were collected retrospectively from 211 advanced schistosomiasis portal hypertension patients after splenectomy and esophagogastric devascularization from August, 2004 to March 2014, and all the data were analyzed statistically for the risk factors of PVT after the surgery by single factor analysis and Logistic regression analysis.
Results: Totally 59 patients were found with PVT and the incidence was 27.