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April 2010, Volume 13, Issue 2

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  1. Purpose and procedure
  2. Therapeutics
  3. Prognosis
  4. Prevelence
  5. Reprinted from DTB
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Purpose and procedure

  • Purpose and procedure

    Evid Based Nurs 2010;13:2 35

Therapeutics

  • Randomised controlled trial: Preoperative skin cleansing with chlorhexidine-alcohol reduces surgical site infection after clean-contaminated surgery compared with povidone-iodine

    • Olivier Mimoz
    Evid Based Nurs 2010;13:2 36-37 doi:10.1136/ebn1032

  • Systematic review with meta-analysis: Systematic review finds no difference in effect between home and centre-based cardiac rehabilitation on mortality, morbidity and modifiable risk factors in patients with CHD

    • Monica Parry
    Evid Based Nurs 2010;13:2 38 doi:10.1136/ebn1033

  • Systematic review: Team-based care interventions involving nurses and primary care or community pharmacists improve hypertension control

    • Ehsan U Khan
    Evid Based Nurs 2010;13:2 47-48 doi:10.1136/ebn1036

  • Systematic review: Current evidence shows no reduction in mortality or re-infarction rate with early mobilisation following myocardial infarction

    • Samar Noureddine
    Evid Based Nurs 2010;13:2 39 doi:10.1136/ebn1037

  • Randomised controlled trial: Ginger reduces severity of nausea in early pregnancy compared with vitamin B6, and the two treatments are similarly effective for reducing number of vomiting episodes

    • Caroline Smith
    Evid Based Nurs 2010;13:2 40 doi:10.1136/ebn1039

  • Randomised controlled trial: CBT improves glucose control and psychosocial factors in type 1 diabetes

    • Marcel C Adriaanse
    Evid Based Nurs 2010;13:2 41 doi:10.1136/ebn1040

  • Randomised controlled trial: Nurse-led postpartum discharge education programme including information on postnatal depression reduces risk of high depression scores at 3-month follow-up

    • C Jane Morrell
    Evid Based Nurs 2010;13:2 48-49 doi:10.1136/ebn1042

  • Systematic review: Depression screening and management programmes with staff assistance in primary care increase response and remission rates, but programmes without staff assistance do not show benefits

    • Steve Wood
    Evid Based Nurs 2010;13:2 49-50 doi:10.1136/ebn1046

  • Randomised controlled trial: Nicotine patch plus lozenge gives greatest increases in abstinence from smoking at 6 months compared with placebo; smaller effects seen with nicotine patch alone, bupropion or nicotine lozenges alone or combined

    • Lynne Buchanan
    Evid Based Nurs 2010;13:2 50-51 doi:10.1136/ebn1047

  • Randomised controlled trial: Culturally tailored intervention for African Americans with type 2 diabetes administered by a nurse case manager and community health worker reduces emergency room visits

    • Anne H Skelly
    Evid Based Nurs 2010;13:2 51-52 doi:10.1136/ebn1048

  • Randomised controlled trial: Telephone-delivered collaborative care for post-CABG depression is more effective than usual care for improving quality of life related to mental health

    • Robyn Gallagher
    Evid Based Nurs 2010;13:2 37 doi:10.1136/ebn1050

  • Randomised controlled trial: Adding live, reactive telephone counselling to self-help literature does not increase smoking cessation

    • Hazel Gilbert
    Evid Based Nurs 2010;13:2 42 doi:10.1136/ebn1053

  • Pragmatic randomised controlled trial: Advanced practice nurses achieve results equal to or better than those of GPs in cardiovascular risk management in primary care

    • Marije Koelewijn-van Loon
    Evid Based Nurs 2010;13:2 43 doi:10.1136/ebn1060

  • Randomised controlled trial: Telephone behavioural intervention delivered by nurses combined with home blood pressure monitoring improves long-term hypertensive management compared with usual care

    • Martha N Hill
    Evid Based Nurs 2010;13:2 46 doi:10.1136/ebn1034

  • Cluster randomised controlled trial: Hand hygiene and facemask use within 36 hours of index patient symptom onset reduces flu transmission to household contacts

    • Dinah Gould
    Evid Based Nurs 2010;13:2 44 doi:10.1136/ebn1038

  • Randomised controlled trial: Compared with usual care, supervised exercise in primary care for people with patellofemoral syndrome does not significantly increase self-reported recovery, but it improves pain and function in the short term and pain in the long term

    • Jyrki Kettunen
    Evid Based Nurs 2010;13:2 52-53 doi:10.1136/ebn1055

  • Randomised controlled trial: Small study finds that hydrophilic catheters decrease use of antibiotics to treat UTI in people with spinal cord injury who use self-intermittent catheterisation compared with non-coated catheters

    • Katherine N Moore,
    • Mandy Fader
    Evid Based Nurs 2010;13:2 45-46 doi:10.1136/ebn1035

Prognosis

  • Prospective cohort: Low specificity and high false-positive rates limit the usefulness of the STRATIFY tool and clinical judgement in predicting falls in older patients in an acute hospital setting

    • Frances Healey
    Evid Based Nurs 2010;13:2 54 doi:10.1136/ebn1031

  • Cohort study: Cohort study finds nine times increased overdose risk (fatal plus non-fatal) in patients receiving 100 mg/day for 90 days compared with 1–20 mg/day opioids for chronic non-cancer pain, but wide CI and possibility of unmeasured confounders

    • Joel Simon Hochman,
    • Joe Pergolizzi
    Evid Based Nurs 2010;13:2 55-56 doi:10.1136/ebn1062

Prevelence

  • Cross-sectional study: Faecal incontinence affects 14% of female and 6% of male nursing home residents in Turkey, and urge incontinence is common

    • Susi Saxer
    Evid Based Nurs 2010;13:2 57 doi:10.1136/ebn1041

  • Cross-sectional study: Small study finds 27.7% prevalence of pressure ulcers in paediatric hospitals in Switzerland, with many cases caused by external medical devices

    • Lisa M Kohr,
    • Martha A Q Curley
    Evid Based Nurs 2010;13:2 58 doi:10.1136/ebn1051

  • Cross-sectional study: 15.4% of older people with hip fracture have visual impairment, 38.6% auditory impairment and 30.1% combined sensory impairment

    • Pamela Z Cacchione
    Evid Based Nurs 2010;13:2 59-60 doi:10.1136/ebn1049
    Editor's Choice

  • Cross-sectional study: Reliance on self-reporting underestimates pregnancy smoking rates in Scotland, with more than 2400 pregnant smokers estimated to be missed annually

    • Geeta K Swamy
    Evid Based Nurs 2010;13:2 60-61 doi:10.1136/ebn1052

Reprinted from DTB

  • Non-drug management of chronic low back pain

    Evid Based Nurs 2010;13:2 62-67 doi:10.1136/dtb.2009.08.0035

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