Implementing evidence-based patient and family education on oral anticoagulation therapy: a community-based participatory project.

Aims And Objectives: This study aimed at developing and implementing evidence-based patient and family education on oral anticoagulation therapy.

Background: The number of persons with chronic diseases who live at home is increasing. They have to manage multiple diseases and complex treatments.

[Complex drug regimen in multimorbid elderly patients after hospital discharge - a qualitative study].

Background: Older people often have multimorbidity requiring a complex regime of medications, which may change following hospital discharge, thus presenting new challenges. The experiences of older people, who manage their own medications, in particular following hospital discharge, have rarely been studied.

Aim: This study investigates the experiences of older people with multimorbidity taking multiple medications after hospital discharge and how they cope with medication-taking.

The WalkTrainer--a new generation of walking reeducation device combining orthoses and muscle stimulation.

This paper presents a novel reeducation device for paraplegics that combines hybrid orthoses and closed-loop electrical muscle stimulation. Based on the so called Cyberthosis concept, the WalkTrainer enables an active muscular participation of the subject in the walking reeducation process by the mean of closed-loop muscle stimulation. The WalkTrainer is also equipped with a leg and pelvic orthosis, an active bodyweight support, and motorized wheels to allow true over ground deambulation.

[Nursing unit: nurses co-ordinating hospital care--an answer to new challenges in acute medicine].

Some patients at university hospital no longer need frequent medical treatment but complex professional nursing care. At University Hospital (Inselspital) Bern a Nursing Unit with six beds was run as a pilot project based on experiences in British Nursing Development Units. The care concept was specifically developed and based on a definition of professional nursing, an evidence-based practice approach, resource oriented self management, and caring.