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July 1998, Volume 1, Issue 3

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  1. Purpose and procedure
  2. Erratum
  3. Treatment
  4. Prognosis
  5. Causation
  6. Clinical prediction guide
  7. Qualitative
  8. Glossary
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Purpose and procedure

  • Purpose and procedure

    Evid Based Nurs 1998;1:3 66-67 doi:10.1136/ebn.1.3.66

  • Searching for the best evidence. Part 1: where to look

    • K Ann McKibbon,
    • Susan Marks
    Evid Based Nurs 1998;1:3 68-70 doi:10.1136/ebn.1.3.68

  • Promoting research utilisation in nursing: the role of the individual, organisation, and environment

    • Joan Royle,
    • Jennifer Blythe
    Evid Based Nurs 1998;1:3 71-72 doi:10.1136/ebn.1.3.71

Erratum

  • Erratum

    Evid Based Nurs 1998;1:3 72 doi:10.1136/ebn.1.3.72

Treatment

  • Early discharge after nurse specialist education and planning plus follow up visits and telephone calls was cost effective for high risk pregnant women and their newborn infants

    1. Commentator:
      • Sharon Dore
    Evid Based Nurs 1998;1:3 73 doi:10.1136/ebn.1.3.73

  • Review: sucrose reduces crying during painful procedures in newborn infants

    1. Commentator:
      • Dawn Carroll
    Evid Based Nurs 1998;1:3 74 doi:10.1136/ebn.1.3.74

  • Review: non-parental daycare has short term and long term benefits for preschool children

    1. Commentator:
      • David Pontin
    Evid Based Nurs 1998;1:3 75 doi:10.1136/ebn.1.3.75

  • Nurse home visits to low income, first time mothers reduced pregnancy induced hypertension and childhood injuries

    1. Commentator:
      • Sarah Hayward
    Evid Based Nurs 1998;1:3 76 doi:10.1136/ebn.1.3.76

  • Nurse home visits reduced child abuse and neglect over a 15 year period

    1. Commentator:
      • Sarah Hayward
    Evid Based Nurs 1998;1:3 77 doi:10.1136/ebn.1.3.77

  • Return of school forms and nurse home visits increased adherence with follow up reading of tuberculosis tests in children

    1. Commentator:
      • Tracy Carr
    Evid Based Nurs 1998;1:3 78 doi:10.1136/ebn.1.3.78

  • Stress point interventions for parents of children in hospital with chronic conditions reduced stress and improved child and family functioning

    1. Commentator:
      • Jeanette Robertson
    Evid Based Nurs 1998;1:3 79 doi:10.1136/ebn.1.3.79

  • A social support intervention alone and with reminders improved appointment keeping among patients with chronic illnesses

    1. Commentator:
      • Jean Applegarth
    Evid Based Nurs 1998;1:3 80 doi:10.1136/ebn.1.3.80

  • Fewer patients dislodged peripheral intravenous catheters with transparent dressings than with gauze dressings

    1. Commentator:
      • Diane Palmer
    Evid Based Nurs 1998;1:3 81 doi:10.1136/ebn.1.3.81

  • As needed in line suction catheter changes were as safe as and less expensive than daily scheduled catheter changes during mechanical ventilation

    1. Commentator:
      • Kathryn Little
    Evid Based Nurs 1998;1:3 82 doi:10.1136/ebn.1.3.82

Prognosis

  • Unintentional pregnancy was associated with reduced intentions to breast feed

    1. Commentator:
      • Soraya Meah
    Evid Based Nurs 1998;1:3 83 doi:10.1136/ebn.1.3.83

  • Children who were sexually abused were more disturbed than their peers after 5 years

    1. Commentator:
      • Kate Brown
    Evid Based Nurs 1998;1:3 84 doi:10.1136/ebn.1.3.84

Causation

  • Review: previous caesarean delivery or abortion increases the risk of placenta praevia

    1. Commentator:
      • Allison Shorten
    Evid Based Nurs 1998;1:3 85 doi:10.1136/ebn.1.3.85

  • Review: parental tobacco smoke increases the risk of asthma and respiratory symptoms in school age children

    1. Commentator:
      • Julie Bruce
    Evid Based Nurs 1998;1:3 86 doi:10.1136/ebn.1.3.86

  • Review: use of hormone replacement therapy in the past 5 years is associated with an increased risk of breast cancer

    1. Commentator:
      • Marilyn Kirshbaum
    Evid Based Nurs 1998;1:3 87 doi:10.1136/ebn.1.3.87

  • Review: smoking is associated with decreased bone mineral density and increased risk of hip fracture in postmenopausal women

    1. Commentator:
      • Kyung Rim Shin
    Evid Based Nurs 1998;1:3 88 doi:10.1136/ebn.1.3.88

  • Emotional support and mastery were associated with decreased mortality in older people

    1. Commentator:
      • Miriam Stewart
    Evid Based Nurs 1998;1:3 89 doi:10.1136/ebn.1.3.89

Clinical prediction guide

  • A risk assessment score predicted which elderly patients would fall during a hospital stay

    1. Commentator:
      • Nicky Hayes
    Evid Based Nurs 1998;1:3 90 doi:10.1136/ebn.1.3.90

Qualitative

  • Nurses responded on an ad hoc basis to the unpredictable needs of parents of children in hospital

    1. Commentator:
      • Beth Bruce
    Evid Based Nurs 1998;1:3 91 doi:10.1136/ebn.1.3.91

  • Mothers of ill children experienced uncertainty before asthma was diagnosed in their children

    1. Commentator:
      • Lisa Cicutto
    Evid Based Nurs 1998;1:3 92 doi:10.1136/ebn.1.3.92

  • Families with children diagnosed with cancer used various strategies to create a new normal routine

    1. Commentator:
      • Samantha Heath
    Evid Based Nurs 1998;1:3 93 doi:10.1136/ebn.1.3.93

  • The experience of giving up smoking was described as encompassing 7 major categories

    1. Commentator:
      • Nancy Nightingale Gillespie
    Evid Based Nurs 1998;1:3 94 doi:10.1136/ebn.1.3.94

  • Patients' experiences of healing a venous ulcer were described as “forever healing” which affected their activities and treatment

    1. Commentator:
      • Carol Dealey
    Evid Based Nurs 1998;1:3 95 doi:10.1136/ebn.1.3.95

  • Older adults worked through 3 phases as they made the initial transition to permanent residence in a nursing home

    1. Commentator:
      • John Pugh
    Evid Based Nurs 1998;1:3 96 doi:10.1136/ebn.1.3.96

Glossary

  • Glossary

    Evid Based Nurs 1998;1:3 96 doi:10.1136/ebn.1.3.96-a

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