Articles: checklist.
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J Pain Symptom Manage · Mar 2012
Validation of the Symptom and Problem Checklist of the German Hospice and Palliative Care Evaluation (HOPE).
The German Hospice and Palliative Care Evaluation (HOPE) is a national, long-term quality assurance project. Every year, German hospice and palliative care institutions document a core data set for their patients for a period of three months. ⋯ Analyses of reliability and validity of the HOPE-SP-CL showed satisfactory to good psychometric properties; therefore, the HOPE-SP-CL can be recommended for standard implementation in German hospice and palliative care institutions.
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Rev Bras Ter Intensiva · Mar 2012
The incidence of delirium in patients pretreated with statins who remain in an intensive care unit after cardiac surgery.
To determine the association between the preoperative administration of statins and postoperative delirium in a prospective cohort of patients undergoing cardiac surgery. ⋯ The use of preoperative statins is not correlated with postoperative delirium in patients undergoing cardiac surgery.
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To assess the level of implementation and the factors associated with the compliance to the surgical check list (SCL) proposed by the WHO, in surgery departments in public hospitals in the Murcia Region of Spain. ⋯ The SCL is used, but is not always complied with, and not homogeneously in all its sections. There is also significant variation between the public hospitals in the Murcia Region of Spain.