7 results match your criteria: "Hospital Care Service[Affiliation]"

Aim: To explore what factors determine communication with awake intubated critically ill patients from the point of view of critical care nursing professionals.

Background: Impaired communication frequently affects mechanically ventilated patients with artificial airways in the intensive care unit. Consequences of communication breaches comprise emotional and ethical aspects as well as clinical safety, affecting both patients and their conversation partners.

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Aims: This study aimed to investigate the association between organizational citizenship behaviour enacted by nurses and the occurrence of adverse nursing-sensitive patient outcomes.

Background: Managing psychosocial factors (i.e.

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Background And Aim: Among the Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) adverse events, an increasingly arising problem is the transmission of Multi Drug Resistant (MDR) Bacteria through duodenoscopes. The aim of this survey was to evaluate the current clinical practice of management of ERCP associated infections in Emilia-Romagna, Italy.

Methods: An online survey was developed including 12 questions on management of ERCP associated infections risk.

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Background: Despite the importance of walking recovery in real life contexts, only 7% of stroke survivors at discharge from neuro-rehabilitation units recover independent walking in the community. However, studies on outcome indicators of walking ability restoration following stroke rarely regard the community ambulation.

Aim: The aim of the study is to investigate how sociodemographic and sub-acute clinical characteristics of stroke survivors at admission and at discharge may predict a good participation in community walking activity 6 months post-stroke.

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Acute Phase Predictors of 6-Month Functional Outcome in Italian Stroke Patients Eligible for In-Hospital Rehabilitation.

Am J Phys Med Rehabil

July 2018

From the Department of Neurorehabilitation, IRCCS San Raffaele Pisana, Rome, Italy (MF); Department of Neurorehabilitation, San Raffaele University, Rome, Italy (MF); Department of Neuromotor Physiology, Azienda Unità Sanitaria Locale-IRCCS, Reggio Emilia, Italy (S. Fugazzaro, CS); Department of Geriatrics and Rehabilitation, University Hospital Parma, Parma, Italy (MA); Institute of Neuroscience, Italian National Research Council, Florence, Italy (ADC); Statistics Computing and Applications Department, DISA "G. Parenti" Florence University, Florence, Italy (LC); and Hospital Care Service, Regione Emilia-Romagna, Bologna, Italy (S. Ferro).

Purpose: The aim of the study was to assess early poststroke prognostic factors in patients admitted for postacute phase rehabilitation.

Methods: A 1-yr multicenter prospective project was conducted in four Italian regions on 352 patients who were hospitalized after a first stroke and were eligible for postacute rehabilitation. Clinical data were collected in the stroke or acute care units (acute phase), then in rehabilitation units (postacute phase), and, subsequently, after a 6-mo poststroke period (follow-up).

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