Background: One of the most important indicators of quality of services and monitoring health services is evaluation and assessment of patient satisfaction of services that comes from sociology research. Aim: To identify the effect of providing post partum care at home on maternal received care and satisfaction. Method: This clinical trial was carried out on 200 mothers who referred to Akbar Ab...

BACKGROUND Intensive oral care can reduce the incidence of pneumonia in elderly nursing home patients, but the mechanism is unknown. OBJECTIVE To explore the effects of intensive oral care on impaired cough reflex sensitivity, which is a known risk factor of aspiration pneumonia. METHODS Cough reflex sensitivity to citric acid was measured in elderly nursing home patients, who were randomly...

Purpose Current evidence on the care-delivering process and the intensity of treatment at the end-of-life of cancer patients is limited and remains unclear. Our objective was to examine the care-delivering processes in health care during the last months of life with real-life data of Swiss cancer patients. Patients and methods The study population consisted of adult decedents in 2014 who were...

Purpose Multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter Baumannii (MDRAB) is a worldwide threat because of its remarkable ability to survive in harsh environment for months. It has been shown that MDRAB can colonize patient environment [1], especially in intensive care units (ICU). This study aims to compare the prevalence and antimicrobial susceptibility pattern of Acinetobacter Baumannii infecting ICU pati...

conclusions since wetting of umbilical cord during tub bathing delays the separation of umbilical cord, sponge bathing is recommended for newborns until the umbilical cord falls off. results the time of separation of umbilical cord in babies who were given sponge bathing (6.1 ± 1.4) was shorter compared to those given tub bathing (8.3 ± 2.5) (p < 0.005). patients and methods this quasi-experime...

    Home health care is a wide range of health care services that can be given in your home for an illness or injury (1). During last decade, home health care is taken into consideration seriously. The concept of home health care began in the 1850's when traveling health care professionals provided in-home visits to patients in need of health care and unable to seek such care on their own (2). ...

BACKGROUND To identify factors influencing place of death among home palliative care patients with advanced cancer, focusing on the timing of referrals from hospital to home care settings. METHODS A cross-sectional nationwide questionnaire survey was conducted on home palliative care patients at 1000 randomly selected home care agencies in Japan. A total of 568 responses were analyzed (effect...