Journal of evaluation in clinical practice
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The psychometrics of the Short-Form 36 Health Survey version 2 (SF-36v2) in female breast cancer patients remains unknown. This study aimed to test the reliability, validity, and sensitivity of the Chinese SF-36v2 in women with breast cancer. ⋯ Chinese SF-36v2 has acceptable psychometric properties and is suitable for women with breast cancer.
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Valid and reliable instruments for measuring are needed. To add knowledge to the subject of tools of evidence-based practice (EBP) evaluation in mainland China, the present study aims to translate the Quick-EBP-VIK into Chinese, which is an instrument for the assessment of nurses' value, knowledge, and implementation of EBP, and to evaluate the metric characteristics of the Chinese version. ⋯ The Chinese version of the Quick-EBP-VIK has evidence of acceptable reliability and validity and can be used to measure value, knowledge, and implementation of EBP for Chinese nurses.
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This article aims to examine global population ageing and to evaluate the likely risks and dilemmas of demographic ageing within the context of the health and well-being of individuals. ⋯ It is apparent that older people will face numerous risks in later life and those in developing countries are likely to face more challenges than those in developed countries. The findings may be useful to policymakers for formulating future plans and policy implementation. Further research is required to identify the number of health care workers needed to tackle the challenges of an ageing societies across the globe.
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Pulmonary aspiration is a feared complication of anaesthesia that is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Within the small existing body of literature on medical malpractice claims related to periprocedural aspiration, very little information is available regarding the case-specific factors that were alleged to contribute to each aspiration event. ⋯ These findings are generalizable to clinical practice improvement on a broader scale. They demonstrate the need to develop reliable, high-sensitivity tests for detecting elevated risk before clinicians can be expected to take special steps to protect susceptible patients, and they also show that medical malpractice can be alleged because of failure to uphold currently accepted standards of care even when the published evidence for those standards is weak. This study demonstrates that careful review of medical malpractice litigation can elucidate common contributory factors and facilitate improvements in clinical practice and decision-making.