The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has released two new tools for use in healthcare facilities, the Sepsis Prevention Assessment Tool for Nursing Homes (SPAT) and the Targeted Assessment for ...

The Rapid Geriatric Assessment (RGA) is a screening tool developed by the Geriatrics Division of Saint Louis University. The RGA includes assessment of frailty, nutrition, loss of muscle mass ...

Long-term use of sustained-release cytarabine for symptomatic management and treatment of meningeosis neoplastica. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2012 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This abstract ...

A tool that nurses can use to assess how well patients adjust psychologically after stoma surgery has been developed by UK nurse researchers Subscribe today for unlimited access to 6,000+ clinical ...

Background: Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust had no common instrument to assess function throughout the trust. Aim: To compare three functional assessment tools, and provide evidence of ...

The existing wound assessment tools, which are based on modern medical theory, limit the clinical application of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) nursing. This research aimed to develop a scientific ...

Nursing homes across the Fraser Health region are adopting a tool that has reduced transfers of patients to emergency departments by as much as 71 per cent. Taking care facility residents to hospital ...

Homecare provider Unique Senior Care has launched a digital resource that evaluates an older person’s daily life, wellbeing ...

Sussex Community NHS Trust has been trialling a suicide risk assessment tool. Andrea Richardson and Nessie Shia describe the system and look at the findings. Mental ill health is one of the main ...