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Designed for Satisfaction: The Impact of Single-Family Room Neonatal Intensive Care Units on Family Presence and Satisfaction.

J Perinat Neonatal Nurs

September 2024

University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky (Mrs Fay); GBBN Architects, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Ms Daneshvar); Mount Carmel College of Nursing, Columbus, Ohio (Mrs Julien-Bell); University of Kentucky Children's Hospital, Lexington, Kentucky (Mrs Haynes); and University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky (Mr Santiago).

Purpose: This study aimed to assess the extent to which single-family room (SFR) designs enhance family presence and satisfaction and to examine the impact of built environment factors such as proximity, access, privacy, technology, lighting, and acoustics on these outcomes.

Background: The SFR neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) presents a highly intricate setting with distinctive design attributes. This study investigated a NICU environment moving from an open-bay model to a single-family unit.

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Importance: Only about half of patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) who are at increased risk for stroke are treated with an oral anticoagulant (OAC), despite guideline recommendations for their use. Educating patients with AF about prevention of stroke with OACs may enable them as agents of change to initiate OAC treatment.

Objective: To determine whether an educational intervention directed to patients and their clinicians stimulates the use of OACs in patients with AF who are not receiving OACs.

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  • In 2008, guidelines were established for researching autophagy, which has since gained significant interest and new technologies, necessitating regular updates to monitoring methods across various organisms.
  • The new guidelines emphasize selecting appropriate techniques to evaluate autophagy while noting that no single method suits all situations; thus, a combination of methods is encouraged.
  • The document highlights that key proteins involved in autophagy also impact other cellular processes, suggesting genetic studies should focus on multiple autophagy-related genes to fully understand these pathways.
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