Articles: checklist.
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J Pain Symptom Manage · Mar 2012
Validation of the Symptom and Problem Checklist of the German Hospice and Palliative Care Evaluation (HOPE).
The German Hospice and Palliative Care Evaluation (HOPE) is a national, long-term quality assurance project. Every year, German hospice and palliative care institutions document a core data set for their patients for a period of three months. ⋯ Analyses of reliability and validity of the HOPE-SP-CL showed satisfactory to good psychometric properties; therefore, the HOPE-SP-CL can be recommended for standard implementation in German hospice and palliative care institutions.
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Rev Bras Ter Intensiva · Mar 2012
The incidence of delirium in patients pretreated with statins who remain in an intensive care unit after cardiac surgery.
To determine the association between the preoperative administration of statins and postoperative delirium in a prospective cohort of patients undergoing cardiac surgery. ⋯ The use of preoperative statins is not correlated with postoperative delirium in patients undergoing cardiac surgery.
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Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf · Mar 2012
Implementing a perioperative handoff tool to improve postprocedural patient transfers.
Handoffs in the perioperative setting--the period during which the patient leaves the operating room (OR) and arrives at the postanesthesia care unit (PACU) or intensive care unit (ICU)--have received little attention. A perioperative handoff tool consisting of an OR-to-ICU/PACU protocol and checklists incorporates a defined process, a specified team structure, a procedure for technology transfer, and clearly defined information elements to share. The tool could be applied to any periprocedural setting in which a patient is physically transferred from the procedural location (with the associated procedural team) to a postprocedural care unit with a different care team.