A Qualitative Study on the Experiences of Patients with Pulmonary Hypertension Undergoing Polypharmacy.

Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a severe progressive disease characterized by elevated blood pressure in the lungs. Medications are a critical form of treatment for patients with PH. This study aims to explore the experiences of patients with PH undergoing polypharmacy, thereby providing a more concrete foundation for formulating targeted intervention measures.

Association Between Leisure-Time Physical Activity and All-Cause Mortality Among Stroke Survivors: Findings From National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.

Background: Stroke is the second leading cause of death and the third leading cause of disability globally. But little is known about the optimal level of physical activity for stroke survivors. Therefore, we aimed to analyze the dose-response relationship between leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) and all-cause mortality in stroke survivors.

The experience of surrogate decision-making and deciphering critically ill patient values: A qualitative study.

Background: Surrogate decision-makers (SDMs) who make decisions for critically ill patients often face great challenges. Although shared decision-making has been advocated, its implementation has been less than satisfactory.

Aim: To explore the experience of the surrogate decision-making process and determine how SDMs understand the values and preferences of critically ill patients.

Supportive interventions for preparation for future care of community-dwelling older adults: A scoping review.

Aim: To identify and summarize the content and effectiveness of existing supportive interventions for preparation for future care of community-dwelling older adults.

Design: A scoping review.

Data Sources: PubMed, Embase, Scopus, Web of Science, Wanfang, China National Knowledge Infrastructure and Chinese medical journal databases were used to identify studies alongside a search for grey literature, from inception to December 1, 2023.

Impact of knowledge, attitudes and self-reported practices of nurses on early mobilization of mechanically ventilated patients in the ICU.

Background: Many ICUs worldwide are striving to integrate early mobilization as part of critical care rehabilitation. However, ICU nurses, who are essential contributors to the early mobilization of critically ill patients, still lack comprehensive surveys assessing their knowledge, beliefs, and practices regarding the early mobilization of mechanically ventilated patients.

Aim: To analyse the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of intensive care unit (ICU) nurses regarding the early mobilization of mechanically ventilated patients and to explore the effects of these practices.

Dynamic Nomogram for Subsyndromal Delirium in Adult Intensive Care Unit: A Prospective Cohort Study.

Purpose: To develop a dynamic nomogram of subsyndromal delirium (SSD) in intensive care unit (ICU) patients and internally validate its efficacy in predicting SSD.

Patients And Methods: Patients who met the inclusion and exclusion criteria in the ICU of a tertiary hospital in Zhejiang from September 2021 to June 2022 were selected as the research objects. The patient data were randomly divided into the training set and validation set according to the ratio of 7:3.

Immunoglobulin G4-related Disease with Multiple Organs Involvement Depicted on FDG PET/CT: A Case Report and Literature Review.

Introduction: Immunoglobulin G4-related disease (IgG4-RD) is a relatively rare immune-mediated chronic inflammatory disease with fibrosis newly defined in recent years. It can involve multiple systems and organs with complex clinical manifestations. Due to mass-like lesions, it is easily misdiagnosed as tumors.

Everyday life experiences of Chinese community-dwelling oldest old who live alone at home.

Purpose: Older adults aged ≥ 80 years living alone at home are more likely to experience challenges. Daily life experiences regarding living alone are still limited in the Asian context. This study explored the everyday life experiences of older Chinese residents living alone at home.

Effects of the Implementation of Intelligent Technology for Hand Hygiene in Hospitals: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

Background: The World Health Organization recommends regular hand hygiene monitoring and feedback to improve hand hygiene behaviors and health care-associated infection rates. Intelligent technologies for hand hygiene are increasingly being developed as alternative or supplemental monitoring approaches. However, there is insufficient evidence regarding the effect of this type of intervention, with conflicting results in the literature.

A self-administered immersive virtual reality tool for assessing cognitive impairment in patients with cancer.

Objective: This study was aimed at exploring the feasibility and validity of a self-administered immersive virtual reality (VR) tool designed to assess cognitive impairment in patients with cancer.

Methods: In a cross-sectional survey study, an immersive tool was used to rate the previously recommended core assessment domains of cancer-related cognitive impairment-comprising attention, verbal learning memory, processing speed, executive function and verbal fluency-via an interactive VR scenario.

Results: A total of 165 patients with cancer participated in this study.

Survivorship Experiences of Chinese Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Survivors: A Qualitative Study.

Background: The number of global hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) survivors is increasing rapidly. Survivors encounter many challenges, but studies regarding survivorship experiences in China are scarce.

Objectives: This study aimed to explore the survivorship experiences of Chinese patients with hematological cancers after HSCT and to describe the impact of HSCT on the survivors' lives.

Family members' perceptions of surrogate decision-making in the intensive care unit: A systematic review.

Background: A better understanding of the perceptions of family members in making surrogate decisions for loved ones during intensive care is needed to inform the development of targeted supportive interventions.

Objective: To examine and synthesize qualitative data on family members' perceptions of surrogate decision-making in the intensive care unit.

Design: We conducted a systematic review and qualitative data synthesis.

[Review of Physiological Parameters Monitoring Technology in the ICU].

Physiological parameters monitoring is essential to direct medical staff to evaluate, diagnose and treat critical patients quantitatively. ECG, blood pressure, SpO2, respiratory rate and body temperature are the basic vital signs of patients in the ICU. The measuring methods are relatively mature at present, and the trend is to be wireless and more accurate and comfortable.

The effect of felt trust from patients among nurses on attitudes towards nursing service delivery.

Aims: To examine how felt trust motivates nurses to desire to deliver better nursing services and how perspective taking makes nurses feel trusted by their patients. By introducing the concept of prosocial motivation into nursing research, this study further explored a boundary condition that influences the positive relationship between felt trust from patients and attitudes towards nursing service delivery.

Design: This study used a cross-sectional and survey design.

Development and application of quality checklist for the prevention and control of COVID-19 in fever clinic and isolation ward of the general hospital.

To develop a quality control checklist for the prevention and control of coronavirus disease 2019 （COVID-19） in fever clinic and isolation ward of the general hospital and to assess its application. Based on the relevant prevention and control plans and technical guidelines for COVID-19，Delphi method was used to identity items for evaluation，and a quality control checklist for the prevention and control of COVID-19 in the fever clinic and isolation ward was developed in Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital. The checklists included 8 dimensions and 32 items for fever clinic，7 dimensions and 27 items for the isolation ward.

Development and implementation of a novel decision support tool on physical restraint use in critically ill adult patients.

Aim: To investigate whether a novel decision support tool would effectively minimize physical restraint use in critically ill adult patients.

Design: A nonequivalent quasi-experimental design combined with a descriptive qualitative approach was used.

Methods: A Restraint Decision Tree was developed based on a qualitative study that explored the barriers to employ the Restraint Decision Wheel.

Value of pressure injury assessment scales for patients in the intensive care unit: Systematic review and diagnostic test accuracy meta-analysis.

Objectives: To review and examine the evidence of the value of pressure injury risk assessment scales in intensive care patients.

Research Methodology: We searched MEDLINE, Embase, CINAHL, Web of Science, the Cochrane Library, China Biomedical Literature Service System, VIP Database and CNIK from inception to February 2019. Two reviewers independently assessed articles' eligibility and risk of bias using the Quality Assessment of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies-II (QUADAS-2).

The mediating role of regulatory emotional self-efficacy on negative emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional study.

Nurses exposed to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are psychologically stressed. This study examines the characteristics and distribution of negative emotions among Chinese nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic and explores regulatory emotional self-efficacy (RESE) as the underlying mechanism in the relationship between nurses' personalities and negative emotions. A cross-sectional design with convenience sampling was utilized.

Risk predictive models for delirium in the intensive care unit: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Background: An emerging approach to prevent delirium in an intensive care unit is the use of risk prediction models. At present, there is no scientific comparison of the predictive effect of the prediction model. This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to compare the performance of available delirium risk prediction models for intensive care units.

Surviving an infectious disease outbreak: How does nurse calling influence performance during the COVID-19 fight?

Aim: To assess the performance of front-line nurses, who believed they were living out their calling, during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.

Background: Although as a profession nursing generally requires high levels of performance, the disruption arising from an infectious disease outbreak increases the work stress and decreases the performance of front-line nurses. How this situation can be improved has yet to be thoroughly examined.

Emergence Delirium in Elderly Patients as a Potential Predictor of Subsequent Postoperative Delirium: A Descriptive Correlational Study.

Purpose: This study aimed to investigate the incidence of emergence delirium (ED) in elderly patients under general anesthesia and to determine the correlation between ED and delirium at five subsequent postoperative days.

Design: This research is a descriptive correlational study.

Methods: A total of 168 aged patients undergoing elective general anesthesia were recruited from a comprehensive tertiary teaching hospital with 2,400 beds in Southern China from April 2018 to September 2018.

Decision-making among the substitute decision makers in intensive care units: An investigation of decision control preferences and decisional conflicts.

Aims: To explore decision control preferences and decisional conflicts and to analyse their association among the surrogate decision makers in the intensive care unit.

Design: The study carried out a cross-sectional survey among the surrogates.

Methods: The participants were 115 surrogate decision makers of critical patients, from August to September 2019.

Prediction mode of more than 5 central lymph nodes metastases in clinically node-negative ipsilateral papillary thyroid carcinoma with tumor size 1 to 4 cm.

According to the 2015 American Thyroid Association guidelines, either lobectomy or total thyroidectomy was recommended for patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) of 1 to 4 cm without extrathyroidal extension and lymph node metastasis. However, lymph node metastases showed strong association with recurrence and low survival rate, especially in PTC patients with more than 5 metastatic lymph nodes. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the predictive factors of more than 5 central lymph nodes metastases (CLNM) in PTC patients with tumor sizes of 1 to 4 cm.

The Development and Implementation of Nursing Professional Practice Model in a Tertiary Hospital in China.

Developing a professional practice model (PPM) is essential for hospitals seeking Magnet designation. The article describes the development and implementation of a PPM in a tertiary hospital that was the 1st hospital in mainland China applying for Magnet recognition. This article provides a framework for hospital administrators who wish to reference a successful process when creating their own Magnet PPMs.