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April 2005, Volume 8, Issue 2

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  1. Purpose and procedure
  2. EBN notebook
  3. Resource review
  4. Treatment
  5. Assessment (screening or diagnosis)
  6. Qualitative
  7. Glossary
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Purpose and procedure

EBN notebook

  • The paths from research to improved health outcomes

    • Paul Glasziou,
    • Brian Haynes
    Evid Based Nurs 2005;8:2 36-38 doi:10.1136/ebn.8.2.36

  • bmjupdates+, a new FREE service for evidence-based clinical practice

    • R Brian Haynes
    Evid Based Nurs 2005;8:2 39 doi:10.1136/ebn.8.2.39

Resource review

  • McCormack B, Manley K, Garbett R, editors. Practice development in nursing. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2004. ISBN 1405110384

    • Margaret B Harrison
    Evid Based Nurs 2005;8:2 40 doi:10.1136/ebn.8.2.40

Treatment

  • Dexamethasone reduced the incidence of children with mild croup who returned for medical care

    1. Commentator:
      • Linda O’Mara
    Evid Based Nurs 2005;8:2 41 doi:10.1136/ebn.8.2.41

  • Review: β agonist delivery by metered dose inhaler with a valved holding chamber (compared with a nebuliser) reduces admissions in preschool children and infants with acute asthma or wheezing

    1. Commentator:
      • Lisa Cicutto
    Evid Based Nurs 2005;8:2 42 doi:10.1136/ebn.8.2.42

  • A multifaceted, home based, environmental intervention reduced asthma related morbidity in children with atopic asthma

    1. Commentator:
      • Robin Rider Wilkerson
    Evid Based Nurs 2005;8:2 43 doi:10.1136/ebn.8.2.43

  • Short term coseasonal sublingual immunotherapy reduced the development of asthma in children with hay fever

    1. Commentator:
      • Roberta Heale
    Evid Based Nurs 2005;8:2 44 doi:10.1136/ebn.8.2.44

  • Fluoxetine plus cognitive behavioural therapy was most effective for adolescents with major depressive disorder

    1. Commentator:
      • Lynn Rew
    Evid Based Nurs 2005;8:2 45 doi:10.1136/ebn.8.2.45

  • A telephone psychotherapy programme improved clinical outcomes in patients beginning antidepressant treatment

    1. Commentator:
      • Celia E Wills
    Evid Based Nurs 2005;8:2 46 doi:10.1136/ebn.8.2.46

  • Review: vaccination reduces the incidence of serologically confirmed influenza in healthy adults

    1. Commentator:
      • Toula M Gerace
    Evid Based Nurs 2005;8:2 47 doi:10.1136/ebn.8.2.47

  • Review: antioxidant supplementation does not reduce gastrointestinal cancer

    1. Commentator:
      • Claudia Mariano
    Evid Based Nurs 2005;8:2 48 doi:10.1136/ebn.8.2.48

  • Fluconazole reduced the rate of recurrence of vulvovaginal candidiasis

    1. Commentator:
      • Gene Harkless
    Evid Based Nurs 2005;8:2 49 doi:10.1136/ebn.8.2.49

  • Volunteers trained in CPR and use of automated external defibrillators increased survival after out of hospital cardiac arrest

    1. Commentator:
      • Sidney Cuthbertson
    Evid Based Nurs 2005;8:2 50 doi:10.1136/ebn.8.2.50

  • Methylprednisolone was associated with an increase in death after head injury

    1. Commentator:
      • Hilaire J Thompson and
      • Asha Bakshi
    Evid Based Nurs 2005;8:2 51 doi:10.1136/ebn.8.2.51

  • Review: no evidence exists that thrombolysis is better than heparin for reducing the risk of recurrent pulmonary embolism and death

    1. Commentator:
      • Riek van den Berg
    Evid Based Nurs 2005;8:2 52 doi:10.1136/ebn.8.2.52

  • Review: a single dose of oral naproxen or naproxen sodium reduced acute postoperative pain in adults

    1. Commentator:
      • Tracey Bucknall
    Evid Based Nurs 2005;8:2 53 doi:10.1136/ebn.8.2.53

  • Short term catheterisation after vaginal prolapse surgery increased recatheterisations, but reduced urinary tract infections, duration of catheterisation, and hospital stay

    1. Commentator:
      • Catherine Tracy
    Evid Based Nurs 2005;8:2 54 doi:10.1136/ebn.8.2.54

  • Review: magnesium prophylaxis after cardiac surgery reduces the risk of arrhythmia and atrial fibrillation

    1. Commentator:
      • Gina Maiocco
    Evid Based Nurs 2005;8:2 55 doi:10.1136/ebn.8.2.55

  • Review: non-invasive interventions improve symptoms and psychological functioning in patients with lung cancer

    1. Commentator:
      • E Ann Mohide
    Evid Based Nurs 2005;8:2 56 doi:10.1136/ebn.8.2.56

Assessment (screening or diagnosis)

  • Review: capillary refill time, abnormal skin turgor, and abnormal respiratory pattern are useful signs for detecting dehydration in children

    1. Commentator:
      • Tina Popov
    Evid Based Nurs 2005;8:2 57 doi:10.1136/ebn.8.2.57

  • Review: a low clinical probability plus a normal d-dimer test result excludes a diagnosis of deep venous thrombosis

    1. Commentator:
      • Patricia K Rosier
    Evid Based Nurs 2005;8:2 58 doi:10.1136/ebn.8.2.58

Qualitative

  • Mothers with post-traumatic stress disorder after traumatic childbirth struggled to survive and experienced nightmares, flashbacks, anger, anxiety, depression, and isolation

    1. Commentator:
      • Susan Jack
    Evid Based Nurs 2005;8:2 59 doi:10.1136/ebn.8.2.59

  • Parents’ decisions on MMR vaccination for their children were based on personal experience rather than scientific evidence

    1. Commentator:
      • Marjorie MacDonald
    Evid Based Nurs 2005;8:2 60 doi:10.1136/ebn.8.2.60

  • Patients with acute exacerbations of COPD saw anxiety as a sign, rather than cause, of breathlessness

    1. Commentator:
      • Paula M Meek
    Evid Based Nurs 2005;8:2 61 doi:10.1136/ebn.8.2.61

  • Palliative care involved a specific concept of care focusing on life and optimising patient quality of life

    1. Commentator:
      • Lucille Taylor
    Evid Based Nurs 2005;8:2 62 doi:10.1136/ebn.8.2.62

  • Arthritis symptoms, information sources, and a constantly shifting threshold of risk-benefit ratios influenced elderly patients’ decisions about total joint replacement

    1. Commentator:
      • Laurel E Radwin
    Evid Based Nurs 2005;8:2 63 doi:10.1136/ebn.8.2.63

  • 5 themes described the views of older people on advance care statements and their role in end of life care

    1. Commentator:
      • Judith A Lever
    Evid Based Nurs 2005;8:2 64 doi:10.1136/ebn.8.2.64

Glossary

  • Glossary

    Evid Based Nurs 2005;8:2 64 doi:10.1136/ebn.8.2.64-a

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