3.1 Members Toshiyuki Imamura (Team Leader) Yoshiharu Ohi (PostDoctoral Researcher) Yusuke Hirota (PostDoctoral Researcher) Daichi Mukunoki (PostDoctoral Researcher) Daisuke Takahashi (Senior Visiting Researcher) Franz Franchetti (Visiting Researcher) Yoshio Okamoto (Visiting Researcher) Takeshi Fukaya (Visiting Researcher) Cong Li (Student Trainee) Doru Thom Popovich (Student Trainee) Yukiko A...

14.1 Members Kenji Ono (Team Leader) Jorji Nonaka (Researcher) Mikio Iizuka (Researcher) Chongke Bi (Postdoctoral Researcher) Daisuke Sakurai (Postdoctoral Researcher) Kazunori Mikami (Technical Staff) Tomohiro Kawanabe (Technical Staff) Seiji Fujino (Senior Visiting Scientist) Naohisa Sakamoto (Visiting Scientist) Masahiro Fujita (Visiting Technician) Kentaro Oku (Visiting Technician) Steve Pe...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of home visiting programmes that offer health promotion and preventive care to older people. DESIGN Systematic review and meta-analysis of 15 studies of home visiting. PARTICIPANTS older people living at home, including frail older people at risk of adverse outcomes. OUTCOME MEASURES Mortality, admission to hospital, admission to institutional care,...

15.1 Members Takemasa Miyoshi (Team Leader) Koji Terasaki (Research Scientist) Shigenori Otsuka (Postdoctoral Researcher) Keiichi Kondo (Postdoctoral Researcher) Shunji Kotsuki (Postdoctoral Researcher) Guo-Yuan Lien (Postdoctoral Researcher) Takumi Honda (Postdoctoral Researcher) Yasumitsu Maejima (Research Associate) Africa Perianez Santiago (Research Associate) Hazuki Arakida (Technical Staf...

Background The Federal Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (HV) Program serves over 100,000 vulnerable families at risk for child abuse in the USA and aims to improve many outcomes, including maternal mental health (HRSA's Federal Home Visiting Program: partnering with parents to help children succeed, 2017). Most clients are insured by Medicaid, and about 40% are adolescent mot...

During this COVID-19 global pandemic, seriously ill patients rely on nurses more than ever. Providing care in the altered environment of pandemic can be stressful for and interdisciplinary team. Faced with limited time resources, restricted visiting family members loved ones, changing science affecting treatments, are extraordinarily challenged. Fortunately, benefit from integrating palliative ...

11.1 Members Hirofumi Tomita (Team Leader) Yoshiyuki Kajikawa (Senior Scientist) Shin-ichi Iga (Research Scientist) Seiya Nishizawa (Research Scientist) Hisashi Yashiro (Research Scientist) Sachiho Adachi (Research Scientist) Yoshiaki Miyamoto (Special Postdoctoral Researcher) Yousuke Sato (Postdoctoral Researcher) Tsuyoshi Yamaura (Postdoctoral Researcher) Ryuji Yoshida (Postdoctoral Researche...

One nurse’s vision that, in addition to quality care, patients need the support and reassurance that only family members can bring them resulted in implementation of an open family visitation policy in the intensive care unit (ICU) at St. John’s Mercy Medical Center, St. Louis, Mo. Recognized as a leader, mentor and compassionate nurse who provides excellent end-of-life care, BJ Hipsky, RN, BSN...