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J Clin Nurs
January 2025
School of Nursing and Midwifery College of Health, Medicine, and Wellbeing Hunter and Medical Research Institute Healthcare Transformation Research Program, The Centre for Transformative Nursing, Midwifery, and Health Research, Hunter New England Local Health District, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
Aims: To determine the effectiveness of nurse-led/involved home-based interventions for older people with COPD and to explore the experiences of older people and nurses with the interventions.
Design: A mixed-methods systematic review following the JBI methodology for mixed-methods systematic reviews.
Data Sources: The search included relevant and peer-reviewed studies published from January 2010 to December 2023 in CINAHL, MEDLINE, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, PsycINFO, EMBASE, JBI, EMCARE and ProQuest.
J Cachexia Sarcopenia Muscle
February 2025
Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Background: Cachexia is a frequent companion of chronic diseases and a well-established predictor of poor patient performance and outcome. Since cachexia as a discharge diagnosis is not much investigated, we aimed to investigate prevalence of cachexia in hospitalised patients and their outcome.
Methods: We conducted a retrospective analysis of the National Hospital Health Care Statistics Database using the 10th revision of the International Classification of Diseases codes.
Neurol Clin Pract
April 2025
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Background And Objectives: Early presentation and acute treatment for patients presenting with ischemic stroke are associated with improved outcomes. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic was associated with a large decrease in patients presenting with ischemic stroke, but it is unknown whether these changes persisted.
Methods: This study analyzed emergency department (ED) stroke presentations (n = 158,060) to all nonfederal hospitals in the 50 states and Washington, D.
Digit Health
January 2025
Medical Unit Occupational therapy and Physiotherapy, Women's Health and Allied Health Professionals Theme, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
Introduction: A pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) programme, including exercise training, education, and behaviour change, is highly recommended in treatment guidelines for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). A new PR educational material for PR using an interactive three-dimensional (3D) visualisation technique was developed. There is little known regarding using 3D in this setting.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFChronic kidney disease (CKD) is a global health challenge that affects patients, caregivers, healthcare systems, the environment and national economies. Despite its far-reaching impact, there is no framework to systematically evaluate national CKD prevention and management programmes or evaluate the societal burden of disease. This paper has two objectives: first, to introduce a comprehensive framework to assess national programmes, which recognises gaps and weaknesses and identifies feasible policy interventions to reduce overall CKD burden; second, to present some key challenges and success stories in delivering CKD services delivered in eight different country settings.
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