The value of the ambulatory care nurse remains undocumented from a quality and patient safety measurement perspective and the practice is at risk of being highly variable and of unknown quality. The American Academy of Ambulatory Care Nursing and the Collaborative Alliance for Nursing Outcomes propose nurse leaders create a tipping point to measure the value of nursing across the continuum of n...

Medication adherence and achievement of glycaemic targets in ambulatory type 2 diabetic patientsS.S. Chua, S.P. Chan

Hypertension is a ubiquitous and serious disease. Regular exercise has been recommended as a strategy for the prevention and treatment of hypertension because of its effects in reducing clinical blood pressure; however, ambulatory blood pressure is a better predictor of target-organ damage than clinical blood pressure, and therefore studying the effects of exercise on ambulatory blood pressure ...

During the past several years, the emphasis on quality in health care has been evolving. Alongside this evolution of change has been the advancement of clinical pharmacy services in ambulatory care settings. Although they share importance, both health care quality and ambulatory clinical pharmacy services have progressed and moved in their own directions. Nevertheless, in today’s evolving healt...

Background. There is little information regarding depression treatment patterns among adults with MS and depression in ambulatory settings at national level in the United States (US). Objectives. The objectives of this study were to identify patterns and predictors of depression treatment in ambulatory settings in US among adults with MS and depression. Methods. A cross-sectional study was cond...

OBJECTIVES This study compared clinic and ambulatory blood pressure measurement and the reproducibility of these measurements in older patients with isolated systolic hypertension (ISH). PATIENTS Eighty-seven patients aged greater than or equal to 60 years with ISH on clinic measurement were followed in the placebo run-in phase of the Syst-Eur trial. METHODS Clinic blood pressure was define...

BACKGROUND Frenkel's ambulatory activity has been routinely employed by physiotherapists for rehabilitation of gait coordination, however, its immediate influence on blood pressure and heart rate has not been investigated. OBJECTIVE To investigate the acute effect of Frenkel's ambulatory activity on blood pressure and heart rate of chronic hemiparetic stroke survivors. METHOD Using a compar...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Ambulatory chemotherapy has now been a popular way of treatment in developed countries, for its less medical costs and incidence of adverse events. The aim of this study is to estimate the feasibility and safety of ambulatory chemotherapy in lung cancer in Shanghai chest hospital. METHODS Medical data including performance status, cycles of chemotherapy, pathologic ty...

OBJECTIVE This study established patients' preferences regarding the facilities in an adjacent centre for ambulatory hospital care. It also identified determinants of patients' choice to visit this centre instead of the regional hospital. METHODS A questionnaire survey among 1477 elderly and chronically ill people (response 72%) assessed patients' expectations regarding (a) quality of hospita...

Uzbekistan inherited a hospital-based health system from the Soviet Union. We explore the health system-related challenges faced during the scale-up of ambulatory (outpatient) treatment for drug-susceptible and drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) in Karakalpakstan in Uzbekistan. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with key informants of the TB services, the ministries of health and finance, ...