Assessment and management of neonatal pain: a best practice implementation project.

Background And Aims: Neonates are exposed to varying degrees of pain during their hospitalization, which are going to have a profound impact on their lives. Interventions to alleviate neonatal pain are inadequate and inconsistent. The project aims to promote evidence-based practice (EBP) for the assessment and management of neonatal patients with acute pain and to evaluate the impact of these practices on neonatal pain in hospital.

Relationship between dry skin and pressure injury in older patients: A multicentre cross-sectional survey in China.

Dry skin and pressure injuries in older persons have become global health care problems. This was a multicentre, prospective cross-sectional study in 44 hospitals and 8 long term care institutions from 20 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities in China and aimed to explore the relationship between the two skin problems in older patients. We mainly found 11 602 cases with dry skin and 1076 cases with pressure injuries in a total of 33 769 valid participants.

Prevalence and associated factors of dry skin among older inpatients in hospitals and nursing homes: A multicenter cross-sectional study.

Background/objectives: Dry skin is a common skin problem in older persons. Aim of this study was to determine the prevalence, associated factors of dry skin in older inpatients.

Design: A multicenter cross-sectional study was designed and conducted.

Internet+Continuing Nursing (ICN) Program Promotes Motor Function Rehabilitation of Patients With Ischemic Stroke.

Background And Purpose: Ischemic stroke is a severe disorder with high rates of death and recurrence that causes disability in patients and for which there is currently no effective treatment. Internet-based rehabilitation helps patients with disability recover at home with the help of their household or family members in a nonclinical setting. However, the effects of the internet+continuing nursing (ICN) program on the recovery of patients after ischemic stroke remains unknown.

High-quality nursing can reduce the incidence of adverse events in esophageal cancer patients after operation in the intensive care unit and improve postoperative rehabilitation.

Objective: This research aimed at observing the effect of applying high-quality nursing in the intensive care unit (ICU) to esophageal cancer (EC) patients after radical resection.

Methods: From January 2015 to February 2020, 155 EC patients who underwent radical resection were divided into the control group (CG; n=77) and the observation group (OG; n=78). The CG was given conventional nursing intervention, and the OG was given high-quality nursing intervention.

Risk factors of postoperative delirium after cardiac surgery: a meta-analysis.

Background: Postoperative delirium is a frequent event after cardiac surgery. This meta-analysis aimed to identify relevant risk factors.

Method: In this meta-analysis, all original researches regarding patients undergoing mixed types of cardiac surgery (excluding transcatheter procedures) and postoperative delirium were evaluated for inclusion.

Diagnostic performance of individual characteristics and anthropometric measurements in detecting elevated serum alanine aminotransferase among children and adolescents.

Background: Screening for elevated serum alanine aminotransferase (ALAT) can help identifying individuals at the risks of chronic and metabolic diseases, but blood collection is invasive and cannot be widely used for investigations. Considered as simple and inexpensive screening indices, individual characteristics and anthropometric measurements can be measured in a large crowd and may be important surrogate markers for ALAT levels. This study aimed to examine the diagnostic performance of individual characteristics and anthropometric parameters as predictive factors for discerning an elevated ALAT activity among Shenzhen children and adolescents.

Stonin 2 Overexpression is Correlated with Unfavorable Prognosis and Tumor Invasion in Epithelial Ovarian Cancer.

Stonin 2 (), which functions in adjusting endocytotic complexes, is probably involved in the monitoring of the internalization of dopamine D2 receptors which have an inhibitory action of dopamine on tumor progression. However, its clinical significance in tumor progression and prognosis remains unclear. We explored the association between and the clinicopathological characteristics of epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC).