Effect of interactive digital counselling on risk factors and lifestyle in patients with coronary artery disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Aims: Digital counselling has gained paramount importance for coronary artery disease (CAD) patients' treatment in recent years. It has been shown to provide a multitude of benefits, including improved risk factors and enhanced lifestyles. No previous reviews have emphasized the interactiveness of digital counselling.

Behavioural and social drivers of human papillomavirus vaccination in eThekwini District of KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa.

Background: Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer in women in South Africa. Infection with high-risk types of human papillomavirus (HPV) is the cause of cervical cancer, which can be prevented by HPV vaccination. However, there is wide variation in HPV vaccination coverage among the urban districts of South Africa; with the lowest coverage being 40% in eThekwini, KwaZulu-Natal.

Patients' Experiences of Healthcare Professionals' Competence in Digital Counselling in Healthcare Settings-A Qualitative Systematic Review.

Aim: To critically appraise and synthesise qualitative evidence about patients' experiences of healthcare professionals' competence in digital counselling in healthcare settings.

Design: A qualitative systematic review.

Methods: The review followed the Joanna Briggs Institute methodology for systematic reviews of qualitative evidence.

Home visits for preterm/low birthweight infants in South Africa: Qualitative evidence synthesis.

Background: Prematurity and low birth weight (LBW) are the main causes of neonatal mortality in South Africa (SA). Home visits by lay health workers (LHWs) may be effective in addressing this.

Aim: To inform a national guideline on LHW home visits as part of the Global Evidence, Local Adaptation (GELA) project, we conducted a rapid qualitative evidence synthesis exploring the acceptability, feasibility and equitability of this intervention for preterm and LBW babies.

Nurses' Perceptions of Organisational Attractiveness and Related Factors in Health Care: A Mixed Methods Systematic Review.

Aim: To identify and integrate the best evidence on nurses' perceptions of organisational attractiveness and related factors in health care.

Design: A mixed methods systematic review.

Methods: The review followed the Joanna Briggs Institute Mixed Methods Systematic Review methodology and a convergent segregated approach which involved separate qualitative and quantitative syntheses followed by integration in a narrative form.

Tranexamic acid for preventing postpartum haemorrhage after caesarean section.

Rationale: Postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) is common and potentially life-threatening. The antifibrinolytic drug tranexamic acid (TXA) is recommended for treating PPH; it reduces the risk of death from haemorrhage by one-third when given soon after bleeding onset, but not overall risk of death. Interest in whether TXA may be effective in preventing PPH is growing.

Factors Related to Evidence-Based Practices Among Mental Health Nurses in Thailand: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Background And Objectives: Despite the robustness of evidence-based practice in increasing efficiency in nursing care and improving patient safety, using evidence in practice is still rare in mental health nursing. This correlational descriptive research aimed to explore the factors and examine the relationship between attitudes, knowledge/skills, organizational culture, mentorship, and demographic factors to evidence-based practices among mental health nurses working in psychiatric hospitals in Thailand.

Methods: The sample consisted of 255 nurses working in psychiatric hospitals under the Thai Department of Mental Health, located in service units across the country's four regions.

Correct patient identification and matching of adults in an ambulatory care setting: a best practice implementation project.

Introduction: Ambulatory care settings are at high risk for errors when identifying patients and matching them to their intended care.

Objective: The objective of this project was to improve correct and consistent patient identification and matching to their intended care by nurses in ambulatory care settings.

Methods: The seven-phase JBI Evidence Implementation Framework was used to guide this project.

Characteristics of nursing educators' professional competency standards: A scoping review.

Aim: To map the characteristics of nursing educators' competency standards for practice from the existing literature, examine the evidence and identify commonalities and differences.

Background: Many countries or regions have produced nursing educator standards, however, there is no common set of standards or competencies used globally. Mapping these nursing educator standards should identify a common set of standards that can be applied across any nursing educator practice setting.

Lag screw versus locking plate fixation for traumatic displaced medial malleolar fractures: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Background: Lag screw fixation (LSF) or locking plate fixation (LPF) are both recommended for the treatment of medial malleolar fractures (MMFs). However, no standard has been established for attaining optimal surgical treatment or functional recovery. We hypothesized that LPF for MMFs would result in superior outcomes compared to LSF.

Higher fiber higher carbohydrate diets better than lower carbohydrate lower fiber diets for diabetes management: Rapid review with meta-analyses.

Background: Some dietary recommendations continue to recommend carbohydrate restriction as a cornerstone of dietary advice for people with diabetes.

Purpose: We compared the cardiometabolic effects of diets higher in both fiber and carbohydrate with lower carbohydrate lower fiber diets in type 1 or type 2 diabetes.

Data Sources: MEDLINE, Embase, and the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews up to June 24, 2024, with additional hand searching.

Experiences of empathy of caregivers caring for persons with dementia: a qualitative systematic review protocol.

Objective: The aim of this systematic review will be to explore the experiences of empathy in informal caregivers providing care for persons with dementia.

Introduction: Positive caregiving experiences of informal caregivers providing care for persons with dementia have many beneficial outcomes, such as improved well-being of both caregivers and care receivers and a higher quality of care for the persons with dementia. Empathy is a factor associated with positive caregiving experiences and is strongly correlated with reduced depression and reduced anxiety in informal caregivers of persons with dementia.

Defining and identifying the critical elements of operational readiness for public health emergency events: a rapid scoping review.

Introduction: COVID-19 showed that countries must strengthen their operational readiness (OPR) capabilities to respond to an imminent pandemic threat rapidly and proactively. We conducted a rapid scoping evidence review to understand the definition and critical elements of OPR against five core sub-systems of a new framework to strengthen the global architecture for Health Emergency Preparedness Response and Resilience (HEPR).

Methods: We searched MEDLINE, Embase, and Web of Science, targeted repositories, websites, and grey literature databases for publications between 1 January 2010 and 29 September 2021 in English, German, French or Afrikaans.

GRADE guidance 39: using GRADE-ADOLOPMENT to adopt, adapt or create contextualized recommendations from source guidelines and evidence syntheses.

Background And Objective: The Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluations (GRADE)-ADOLOPMENT methodology has been widely used to adopt, adapt, or de novo develop recommendations from existing or new guideline and evidence synthesis efforts. The objective of this guidance is to refine the operationalization for applying GRADE-ADOLOPMENT.

Methods: Through iterative discussions, online meetings, and email communications, the GRADE-ADOLOPMENT project group drafted the updated guidance.

Shared decision-making in healthcare: development and assessment of the translated Finnish version of the SDM-Q-9.

Aims: The aim of this study was to assess the cultural validity and reliability of a Finnish version of the nine-item Shared Decision-Making Questionnaire (SDM-Q-9) in a sample of patients with different sociodemographic characteristics.

Method: The original SDM-Q-9 was translated into Finnish with the agreement of the developers of the original scale. The standardised translation procedure was followed by a pilot test of the questionnaire.

Adverse drug events in cost-effectiveness models of pharmacological interventions for diabetes, diabetic retinopathy, and diabetic macular edema: a scoping review.

Objective: The objective of this review was to examine the role of adverse drug events (ADEs) caused by pharmacological interventions in cost-effectiveness models for diabetes mellitus, diabetic retinopathy, and diabetic macular edema.

Introduction: Guidelines for economic evaluation recognize the importance of including ADEs in the analysis, but in practice, consideration of ADEs in cost-effectiveness models seem to be vague. Inadequate inclusion of these harmful outcomes affects the reliability of the results, and the information provided by economic evaluation could be misleading.

Recommended target audience, course content and learning arrangements for teaching health informatics competencies: A scoping review.

As healthcare depends on health information technology, there is a growing need for Health Informatics competencies in daily practice. This review aimed to explore how the teaching of education in HI has been arranged. 28 publications, published in English between 2016 and 2020 and obtained from selected bibliographic databases, were reviewed.

Review of the Australian nurse teacher professional practice standards: An e-Delphi study.

Aim: The aim of the study was to review the 2010 Australian nurse teacher professional practice standards ('the Standards') to see if they were still relevant to current nursing educator practice in any practice setting, such as academia or clinical settings.

Background: It has been over 10 years since 'the Standards have been reviewed. Nurse education practice has met many challenges in the past decade, so it is timely to evaluate whether the Standards are still relevant to nursing educators today.

Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Case-Finding Strategies: Scoping Review.

Background: Finding individuals with drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) is important to control the pandemic and improve patient clinical outcomes. To our knowledge, systematic reviews assessing the effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, acceptability, and feasibility of different DR-TB case-finding strategies to inform research, policy, and practice, have not been conducted and the scope of primary research is unknown.

Objective: We therefore assessed the available literature on DR-TB case-finding strategies.

Adherence to the Guideline for Reporting Evidence-based practice Educational interventions and Teaching (GREET) of studies on evidence-based healthcare e-learning: a cross-sectional study.

Objectives: The objectives of this study are to assess reporting of evidence-based healthcare (EBHC) e-learning interventions using the Guideline for Reporting Evidence-based practice Educational interventions and Teaching (GREET) checklist and explore factors associated with compliant reporting.

Design: Methodological cross-sectional study.

Methods: Based on the criteria used in an earlier systematic review, we included studies comparing EBHC e-learning and any other form of EBHC training or no EBHC training.