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This study explores diverse stakeholder views on oral health needs and care for dependent older adults, highlighting the importance of subjective outcomes like comfort and function often overlooked in service provision and research.
This qualitative study reveals empowerment as central to promoting safer mobility in Parkinson’s disease, emphasizing individualized, contextual, and collaborative strategies for fall prevention.
This study compares the effectiveness of inpatient rehabilitation facilities and skilled nursing facilities on functional recovery after acute stroke, showing inpatient care offers greater long-term home time.
A clinician-led computer vision system enables accurate, feasible, and usable postural assessment in acquired brain injury rehabilitation, demonstrating significant alignment with clinical evaluations and motion capture data.
This study validates a new Contemporary Extended Activities of Daily Living scale, showing it reliably measures functional independence by including modern tasks alongside traditional ones in adults over 60 with chronic conditions.
Study reveals disparities in home and outpatient rehabilitation access among older adults after traumatic brain injury, influenced by clinical needs and non-clinical factors such as ethnicity and rural residency.
A province-wide quality improvement initiative in Ontario implemented a web-based Family Satisfaction in ICU (FS-ICU) survey across adult level 3 ICUs, revealing high satisfaction scores yet highlighting challenges in participation and comp
This article explores the strategic use of patient-centered outcomes data to foster continuous learning and improve rehabilitation care at both individual and system levels, addressing challenges and proposing solutions for effective implem
Parents of children with medical complexity face numerous safety challenges in managing tube-related care at home, developing creative strategies to mitigate risks while often lacking communication with healthcare teams, highlighting the ne
This study examines workplace stressors, burnout, and support needs of home health aides caring for older adults, highlighting significant challenges including racism, violence, and care complexities, and proposes targeted interventions to
This prospective pilot study demonstrates that gastric point-of-care ultrasound (G-POCUS) performed by trained nurses is a feasible, well-tolerated, and reliable method to assess gastric content in patients recovering from gastrointestinal
This study compares the environmental impacts of three offloading treatments for plantar foot ulcers in diabetes, finding removable walkers to be the most sustainable option.
A Swiss study reveals ICU professionals’ perceptions, knowledge, and ethical views on brain death, highlighting knowledge gaps and the positive impact of clinical experience on understanding.
This study explores factors that promote or hinder hospitalized patients’ use of Smart Bedside Station systems, revealing that nursing support and useful video education encourage use, while cognitive and workflow challenges limit sus
This article examines how community health centers use electronic health record tools to address patients’ social needs through care management programs, identifying barriers and proposing targeted implementation strategies to enhance
This multi-institutional qualitative study explores specialty palliative care clinicians’ perspectives on optimizing their role in the ICU, highlighting strategic consultation timing, shared understanding with intensivists, and embedd
A nurse-led, mobile health-supported collaborative care intervention significantly increased days alive and out of hospital and reduced mortality among Indian patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction over 2 years.
When it comes to sexual health and intimacy, one of the most frequent questions health professionals encounter is: "How often should a couple have sex
The AFRI-c trial found no significant reduction in respiratory infection rates or staff absenteeism in care homes using HEPA filters during winter, highlighting the need to maintain established infection control measures.
Recently hospitalized adults with high ACEs describe how routine inpatient care can reactivate medical trauma. Residents and care teams identify barriers to trauma-informed communication.
