Transitional care after the intensive care unit: current trends and future directions.

Platelet counts and its course for predicting in-hospital mortality in intensive care unit

Background & Aims: Recent studies have shown that thrombocytopenia (TP) is associated with poor outcomes in patients with pneumonia, burns, and H1N1 influenza. The aim of this study is to determine the impact of platelet count trends and TP on mortality in intensive care unit (ICU) patients. Materials & Methods: TP was defined as <150,000 platelets/ml. In this study, 300 patients who had been ...

Future Directions for the Organizational Readiness for Knowledge Translation (OR4KT) Tool: Response to Recent Commentaries

The Relationship between the Perception of the Role of Nurses in Relation to the Family with Satisfaction and Worry of Families of Patients Admitted to the Intensive Care Unit

Introduction: Patient hospitalization in the intensive care unit puts families in a whirlpool of emotional stress. Due to the importance of nurses in addressing the needs and worries of this family, this study investigates the relationship between the family’s perception of the roles of nurses with satisfaction and worries in intensive care units.   Methods: This is a cross-sectional (descript...

Patient Engagement and its Evaluation Tools – Current Challenges and Future Directions; Comment on “Metrics and Evaluation Tools for Patient Engagement in Healthcare Organization- and System-Level Decision-Making: A Systematic Review”

Considering the growing recognition of the importance of patient engagement in healthcare decisions, research and delivery systems, it is important to ensure high quality and efficient patient engagement evaluation tools. In this commentary, we will first highlight the definition and importance of patient engagement. Then we discuss the psychometric properties of the patient engagement evaluati...

Chest drainage and its associated factors in patients who undergone coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery and admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU)

Introduction: Cardiac surgery is one of the common therapeutic interventions in patients with coronary artery disease. However, this therapeutic method has various complications during and after surgical operation. The most frequent complication after coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) is the postoperative bleeding which is considered as a major problem. Objective: This study aims to ...