Journal of clinical nursing
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Randomized Controlled Trial
'Intensive care unit survivorship' - a constructivist grounded theory of surviving critical illness.
To theorise intensive care unit survivorship after a critical illness based on longitudinal qualitative data. ⋯ For healthcare professionals and policymakers, it is important to realise that recovery and transitioning through to survivorship happen within an individual's time frame, not a schedule imposed by the healthcare system. Currently, there are no care pathways or policies in place for critical illness survivors that would support intensive care unit survivors and their families in the transitions to survivorship.
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Gum chewing combined with oral intake of a semi-liquid diet in the postoperative care of patients after gynaecologic laparoscopic surgery.
To evaluate the effects of gum chewing combined with a semi-liquid diet on patients after gynaecologic laparoscopic surgery. ⋯ This study developed a new postoperative diet regimen to improve the postoperative care of patients undergoing laparoscopic gynecologic surgery.