Objective. To synthesize the evidence of studies with educational interventions for adults with type-2 diabetes mellitus (DM2) in primary health care settings. Methods. A scoping review was conducted following the recommendations by the Joanna Briggs Institute and by the...
Introduction: Hypertensive disorders during pregnancy are a global health problem. Health education is a strategy that provides pregnant women with knowledge and skills for self-care. Objective: evaluate the effect of health education interventions on pregnant women's knowledge and self-care practices fo...
Nursing interventions constitute an essential component in the discipline and play a central role in the distinction of the nursing practice with regards to other health professionals. In light of the theory, authors like Burns and Grove,(1) define nursing interventions as deliberate cognitive, physical ...
Systematic reviews and meta-analyses are helpful methodological alternatives that combine, discuss, and assess the quality of the best available evidence through adequate and exhaustive searches of the literature. In the last decade, there has been an increase in systematic reviews and meta-analyses in n...
Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of care transition strategies from hospital-to-community compared to usual care for patients with colorectal cancer to reduce hospital stay, 30-day readmissions, and emergency room visits up to 30 days. Methods: Systematic review and meta‐analysis protocol that ...
Introduction: To the care plan, the nurses must use the nursing process and adopt their perspectives, cognitive and documentary, considering the human responses of each chronic kidney disease patient, to define the nursing diagnoses, results, and interventions. This study is aimed to analyze the nursing ...
Objective. To estimate the combined effect of educational interventions (EI) on decreased readmissions and time of hospital stay in adults with heart failure, compared with usual care. Methods. Systematic review (SR) and meta-analysis (MA) of randomized controlled trials that followed the recommendations...
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has dominated almost every aspect of human life on planet Earth since it was first discovered in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, in December 20191. A quick google search of the expression COVID-19 reveals more than 3.22 billion results.
In order to understand the import...
Abstract Introduction Hospital settings involve several risk factors related to healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). A method that contributes to prevention and control is identification of risks to enable implementation of preventative measures. It is believed that this identification can be accom...
