Resultados: 14

Cohort study of institutionalized elderly people: fall risk factors from the nursing diagnosis

Objective: to determine the incidence of falls in elderly residents of long-stay institutions of the Federal District, to identify the aspects involved in the falls, in terms of risk factors, from the application of scales and the Taxonomy II of NANDA-I, and to define the level of accuracy with its sensi...

Construction and validation of indicators and respective definitions for the nursing outcome Swallowing Status

OBJECTIVE:

to develop indicators for the nursing outcome Swallowing Status and the respective conceptual and operational definitions validated by experts and in a clinical setting among patients after having experienced a stroke.

METHOD:

methodologic...

Clinical factors predicting risk for aspiration and respiratory aspiration among patients with Stroke

Rev. latinoam. enferm; 23 (2), 2015
Objective: to investigate the association of risk factors with the Risk for aspiration nursing diagnosis and respiratory aspiration. Method: cross-sectional study assessing 105 patients with stroke. The instrument used to collect data addressing sociodemographic information, clinical variables and risk f...