Patient education and counseling
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Multicenter Study Comparative Study
Development and evaluation of the "Advanced Heart Failure Clinical Competence Survey": a tool to assess knowledge of heart failure care and self-assessed competence.
We developed a tool to identify self-assessment of skills for advanced HF assessment and management and knowledge of HF care. ⋯ The Advanced Heart Failure Clinical Competence Survey can identify hospice nurses' confidence and knowledge or the need for education to enable patient and family education and counseling regarding self-care, medications, distressing symptoms and approaching the end of life.
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Multicenter Study Clinical Trial
The LBP patient perception scale: a new predictor of LBP episode outcomes among primary care patients.
To describe a new tool designed to capture patients' perception of their low back pain (LBP) episodes-the patient perception scale (PPS) and test its ability to predict episode outcomes. ⋯ The PPS-pt could potentially be used as part of the standard initial patient evaluation of new LBP patients, as a proxy for "yellow flags" (markers of psychosocial risk) where a positive score might be the equivalent to high-risk identification. The apparent advantage of this scale is its brevity and simplicity of administration. The separation, through this scale of pain episodes into simple and complex LBP might be a useful tool for helping direct resources and avoiding chronicity.