Effectiveness of decision aids on critically ill patients' outcomes and family members' knowledge, anxiety, depression and decisional conflict: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Background: Decision aids (DAs) have been proposed to support patients and families with disease information processing and decision-making, but their effectiveness for critically ill patients and their families is incompletely understood.

Aim: To systematically synthesize evidence on the effectiveness of the DAs on the prognosis of critically ill patients and knowledge, anxiety, depression and decisional conflict of their family members.

Study Design: Systematic review and meta-analysis.

Development and validation of the parental health literacy scale for children with asthma (PHLSCA).

Objective: This study aimed to develop and validate an instrument to assess the health literacy of parents of children with asthma in a Chinese context.

Methods: The preliminary Parental Health Literacy Scale for Children with Asthma (PHLSCA) was developed based on a literature review and refined to 45 items through two rounds of expert consultation using the Delphi method. A total of 481 parents of children with asthma were recruited from seven hospitals across four provinces in China between February and April 2019.

Implementation of early prophylaxis for deep-vein thrombosis in intracerebral hemorrhage patients: an observational study from the Chinese Stroke Center Alliance.

Background: There is substantial evidence to support the use of several methods for preventing deep-vein thrombosis (DVT) following intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH). However, the extent to which these measures are implemented in clinical practice and the factors influencing patients' receipt of preventive measures remain unclear. Therefore, we aimed to evaluate the rate of the early implementation of DVT prophylaxis and the factors associated with its success in patients with ICH.

The Hotspots Analysis of Education and Management of Childhood Asthma Based on Cluster Analysis Method.

By the use of SPSS software and computer programs, this paper gives a co-word clustering analysis of the articles on education and management of childhood asthma worldwide published in the Web of Science before September 2018. Correlation and dissimilarity matrix and hierarchical clustering were constructed. Finally, 66 high-frequency keywords of 6147 papers were included, 9 hotspots in this field emerged by cluster analysis, which could provide some valuable information of hot research on this field.

Development and validation of the family management scale for children with asthma (FMSCA).

This study aims to develop and validate the Family Management Scale for Children with Asthma (FMSCA) in China context. Based on the Family Management Style Framework (FMSF) model, an original 89 items were generated from literature review and interviews with 15 caregivers of children with asthma. The preliminary scale was refined to 82 items through two rounds of experts' evaluation and a pilot study, then administered to 329 caregivers of children with asthma for testing between April and July 2013.

Evidence-based nursing outputs and hot spot analysis of the last 5 years in mainland China: Results of a bibliometric analysis.

Background: Evidence-based nursing has been highlighted and highly developed in recent decades in mainland China. Nevertheless, little is known about its overall development.

Aims: To gain insights on the overall development of evidence-based nursing in the most recent 5 years and to inform future evidence-based nursing research in mainland China.