OBJECTIVE This work sought to identify the most important needs for family members of adult critical patients as described in the literature pursuant to the dimensions established in the "Critical Care Family Needs Inventory" (CCFNI) by Molter and Leske. METHODOLOGY A literature review was carried out by using the CCFNI instrument. The databases used were: Pubmed, CINAHL, Proquest Nursing & A...

OBJECTIVES To review and synthesize the currently available research on whether early intervention for psychosis programs reduce the use of inpatient services. METHODS A systematic review was conducted using keywords searches on PubMed, Embase (Ovid), PsycINFO (ProQuest), Scopus, CINAHL (EBSCO), Social Work Abstracts (EBSCO), Social Science Citations Index (Web of Science), Sociological Abstr...

Asian American women face unique stressors that threaten their overall health and well-being. However, resilience is a phenomenon that allows individuals to develop positive adaptation despite adversities and challenges. This integrative review is conducted in order to explore the current state of knowledge regarding the resilience of Asian American women. Twelve databases were used to identify...

The Statewide Database Licensing (SDL) Project brought ProQuest, full-text periodicals and newspapers databases from Bell & Howell, to nearly every library in Washington State. The research presented here investigates the impact of statewide database licensing on the users of public, school and community college libraries. The study was conducted in two stages. At first, transaction log data fr...

Objective: Research was conducted to examine benefits to using non-invasive ventilation (NIV) or continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) early in the treatment of respiratory distress caused by pulmonary edema, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma. Limitations to successful NIV and CPAP therapy were evaluated to determine how prolonged initiation of treatment may lead to h...

AIM OR OBJECTIVE The objective of this systematic review was to evaluate the evidence regarding rest and active treatment/rehabilitation following sport-related concussion (SRC). DESIGN Systematic review. DATA SOURCES MEDLINE (OVID), CINAHL (EbscoHost), PsycInfo (OVID), Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (OVID), SPORTDiscus (EbscoHost), EMBASE (OVID) and Proquest Dissertationsan...

The following study used primary and secondary data sources to identify describe the current workflows available for dual online submission1 of graduate electronic theses dissertations (ETDs) into institutional repository (IR) ProQuest system. main objective is provide a comprehensive examination these their characteristics capabilities manage different aspects stages ETD submittal cycle, from ...

The paper reports the results of a literature review on cesarean rates and models of childbirth care in different countries according to their utilization of technology. There were reviewed 60 studies published between 1999 and 2010 retrieved from the Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education (CAPES) and ProQuest databases. The Brazilian model of childbirth care ...