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Displaying 1–16 of 16 International Literature in Knowledge Library
posted by WM Admin on 2015-05-12 09:12:38.606
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 2015-03-18 07:53:10.867
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 2014-10-22 09:36:25.568
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 2014-07-22 11:15:03.687
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 2014-02-20 09:05:54.154
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 2014-01-23 15:09:15.421
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 2013-12-20 09:48:24.603
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 2013-01-29 09:03:13.095
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 2012-11-26 09:52:19.576
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 2012-11-15 10:36:13.996
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 2012-09-04 13:12:49.232
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 2012-08-22 09:02:46.997
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 2012-05-10 09:40:12.031
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 2011-07-06 10:12:41.13
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 2011-05-26 11:13:57.417
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 2011-03-24 21:07:32.515
In late 2004, the Health Foundation funded the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) (based in Cambridge, Massachusetts) to begin an…