What Clinical Interventions Have Been Implemented to Prevent or Reduce Postpartum Hypertension Readmissions? A Clin-IQ

What Clinical Interventions Have Been Implemented to Prevent or Reduce Postpartum Hypertension Readmissions? A Clin-IQ.

A literature review was conducted to determine what clinical interventions have been studied and implemented to prevent and/or reduce postpartum hypertension readmissions. Appropriate verbal and printed educational materials should be given to the patient prior to discharge with use of the "teach back" method. Patients and health care providers within the multidisciplinary team should be educat...

Using clinical pathways to assess interventions to prevent COPD readmissions.

Two recent articles and the accompanying editorial in CHEST (May 2015) 1 3 correctly point out that 30-day readmissions aft er COPD are usually not for COPD exacerbations and that the eff ect of currently identifi ed interventions may not vary from control groups. Risk predictors for 30-day readmissions aft er COPD may depend on the principal discharge diagnosis of the readmission, since the ma...

Heart Failure Interventions to Reduce Hospital Readmissions

Interventions to reduce HIV/AIDS stigma: what have we learned?

This article reviews 22 studies that test a variety of interventions to decrease AIDS stigma in developed and developing countries. This article assesses published studies that met stringent evaluation criteria in order to draw lessons for future development of interventions to combat stigma. The target group, setting, type of intervention, measures, and scale of these studies varied tremendous...

Nonpharmacological and pharmacological interventions to prevent or reduce airway remodelling.

In the present review of airway remodelling and its response to therapies, clinical observations about airway physiological abnormalities, assumed to be caused by remodelling processes, are related to what is known about the components of structural changes from airway sampling and histopathological analysis. The review focuses on three important diseases: asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary ...