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Displaying 1–16 of 16 International Literature in Knowledge Library
posted by WM Admin on 12 May 2015
This qualitative study explored the physical and emotional impact of fasting from the perspective of 12 patients in a tertiary…
posted by WM Admin on 18 Mar 2015
In this review, the authors investigate the current evidence for Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) in preoperative, intra-operative and post-operative…
posted by WM Admin on 22 Oct 2014
For shared decision making to be successful, patients should receive sufficient information on possible benefits and harms of treatment options.…
posted by WM Admin on 22 Jul 2014
This study assessed 141 patients’ views of the WHO surgical safety checklist, using a sample of postoperative patients from surgical…
posted by WM Admin on 20 Feb 2014
This study used a pre- and post-interention questionnaire to measure the effects of sending a smoking cessation ‘quit-pack’ to 177…
posted by WM Admin on 23 Jan 2014
In this study, a multidisciplinary working group evaluated the evidence for different interventions in preoperative, perioperative and post-operative care for…
posted by WM Admin on 20 Dec 2013
In this systematic review and narrative synthesis, the authors investigated how pre-operative comprehensive geriatric assessment has been used in surgical…
posted by WM Admin on 29 Jan 2013
This study investigated whether implementation of an oesophagectomy care pathway, introduced into a hospital in Guildford in the UK in…
posted by WM Admin on 26 Nov 2012
This paper describes preoperative educational interventions (including content and delivery time) and postoperative outcomes from studies (published 2004-2010) evaluating the…
posted by WM Admin on 15 Nov 2012
The aim of this Cochrane Review was to determine if preoperative physical therapy with an exercise component can prevent postoperative…
posted by WM Admin on 4 Sep 2012
In this prospective uncontrolled study, the authors present 12-month results from the first dedicated hip fracture unit in Australia, and…
posted by WM Admin on 22 Aug 2012
This study investigated the effectiveness of redesigning and streamlining perioperative services at The Alfred, a major tertiary hospital in Melbourne.…
posted by Research Admin on 10 May 2012
This retrospective, comparative study in the UK investigated the impact of improving patient information in the setting of day-case hemorrhoidectomy…
posted by Research Admin on 6 Jul 2011
A study, reported in the British Medical Journal, aimed to determine the association of resting echocardiography before elective intermediate to…
posted by Research Admin on 26 May 2011
This Canadian retrospective pre-intervention/post-intervention study assessed the impact of a checklist-guided preoperative team briefing on prophylactic antibiotic administration timing in…
posted by Research Admin on 24 Mar 2011
In late 2004, the Health Foundation funded the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) (based in Cambridge, Massachusetts) to begin an…