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A Delphi study of district nursing research priorities in Australia

This study, using a Delphi approach, sought the opinion of a self-selected panel of 320 district nurses regarding research priorities for district nursing in Australia. Over three rounds of questionnaires, the 419 research clinical problem areas…

Tags: 2005, Annells M, Applied Nursing Research, Australia, Backlog, Delphi Technique, Deroche M, Evidence-based Medicine, Humans, Journal Article, Koch T, Lewin G, Lucke J, Non-U.S. Gov't, Nursing Research, Research, Research Support

A Dutch paediatric palliative care guideline: a systematic review and evidence-based recommendations for symptom treatment

BACKGROUND: Children with life-threatening and life-limiting conditions can experience high levels of suffering due to multiple distressing symptoms that result in poor quality of life and increase risk of long-term distress in their family members.…

A multidisciplinary review of nutrition considerations in the pediatric oncology population: a perspective from children's oncology group

Over the past few decades, great progress has been made in the survival rates of childhood cancer. As survival rates have improved, there has been an increased focus on supportive care. Nutrition is a supportive-care modality that has been associated…

An Evidence-based Infant Safe Sleep Program To Reduce Sudden Unexplained Infant Deaths

Objective: The purpose of this project was to design, implement, and evaluate a safe sleep program for expectant mothers and the families of infants discharged from our hospital's neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). It was prompted by the…

Tags: 2016, American Journal of Nursing, Chaney N, Evidence-based Medicine, Fulmer M, Humans, Infant Mortality, Infant Newborn, Intensive Care Units Neonatal, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, November 2016 List, Philadelphia, Safe Sleep, Sleep, Sudden Infant Death/prevention & Control, Zachritz W

Codeine phosphate in children: time for re-evaluation?

2001

Tags: 2001, Analgesics, Backlog, British Journal Of Anaesthesia, Child, Codeine/therapeutic use, Cunliffe M, Evidence-based Medicine, Human, Infant, Journal Article, Opioid/therapeutic use, Pain, Postoperative/drug therapy

Constipation in paediatric oncology

Constipation is a common problem encountered by many children during treatment for childhood cancer. It can be distressing and impact on the quality of life for the child. However, the advice and information they and their families receive can vary…

Deploying an Interactive Machine Learning System in an Evidence-based Practice Center: Abstrackr

Medical researchers looking for evidence pertinent to a specific clinical question must navigate an increasingly voluminous corpus of published literature. This data deluge has motivated the development of machine learning and data mining…

Tags: 2012, active learning, applications, Backlog, Brodley CE, Conference Paper, Evidence-based Medicine, Lau J, machine learning, Medical, Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGHIT International Health Informatics Symposium, Scoping Review 2015-2016, Small K, text classification, Trikalinos TA, Wallace BC

Developing the Liverpool Care Pathway for the dying child

In most western societies the death of a child is a rare occurrence. When it does occur, it typically takes place after a period of intensive and often prolonged treatment. In light of the relative infrequency of these events in clinical practice,…

Development of quality indicators for diagnosis and treatment of patients with non-small cell lung cancer: a first step toward implementing a multidisciplinary, evidence-based guideline

BACKGROUND: While developing and distributing clinical practice guidelines are important in optimising clinical healthcare, insight into actual care is necessary to achieve successful implementation. Developing quality indicators may be the first…

End of life in pediatric oncology: how clinical practice leads to research

In pediatric oncology nursing, and across practice disciplines in general, clinical research serves as the cornerstone for improving patient care. Historically, advances made in the care and cure of childhood cancer have stemmed directly from…

Tags: 2002, Biomedical Research, Child, Davies B, Evidence-based Medicine, Humans, Journal Of Pediatric Oncology Nursing, Oncology 2017 List, Oncology Nursing/td [trends], Pediatrics/td [trends], Pritchard M, Research Design

End-of-life care in the intensive care unit: a research agenda.

BACKGROUND: The intensive care unit (ICU) represents a unique clinical setting in which mortality is relatively high and the professional culture tends to be one of "rescue therapy" using technological and invasive interventions. For these reasons,…

End-of-life care in the pediatric intensive care unit: research review and recommendations

Improving the quality of end-of-life care has become a national health care priority. A necessary step in this process in the pediatric intensive care unit (ICU) is examining the knowledge, attitudes,and behaviors of pediatric critical care…

Enteral and parenteral nutrition in terminally ill cancer patients: a review of the literature

Many terminally ill patients who are able to eat appear to be eating less than they should, losing weight, and becoming malnourished, and many others develop difficulties with eating. These symptoms and signs are usually a marker of advanced cancer,…

Evidence based medicine

2004

Tags: 2004, Adaptation, Backlog, Baxter P, Capital Financing/economics, Cerebral Palsy/therapy, Child, Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, Epilepsy/drug therapy, Evidence-based Medicine, Gastrostomy/utilization, Health Personnel, Home Care Services/organization & administration, Humans, Journal Article, Melatonin/physiology, Muscular Dystrophies, Psychological, Q3 Scoping Review Results

Evidence for healing interventions with perinatal bereavement

The purpose of this article is to explore the concept of perinatal grief and evidence-based healing interventions for it. The loss of a pregnancy or death of an infant causes profound grief, yet society has long minimized or ignored this grief, which…

Evidence-based approach to the medical literature

GRADE guidelines: 15. Going from evidence to recommendation-determinants of a recommendation's direction and strength

In the GRADE approach, the strength of a recommendation reflects the extent to which we can be confident that the composite desirable effects of a management strategy outweigh the composite undesirable effects. This article addresses GRADE's approach…

Haloperidol as a palliative anti-emetic in a toddler: an evidence base challenge

2008

Tags: 2008, Antiemetics, Backlog, Evidence-based Medicine, Fatal Outcome, Haloperidol, Humans, Infant, Journal Article, Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, Male, Nausea, Palliative Care, Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma, Siden H

Individualizing treatment decisions. The likelihood of being helped or harmed

Clinical decision making cannot rely on evidence alone. Although significant advances have occurred in the development of high-quality evidence, similar efforts must be made to develop and evaluate tools that can be used at the bedside to…

Tags: 2002, Anticoagulants/therapeutic use, Backlog, Decision Making, Evaluation And The Health Professions, Evidence-based Medicine, Humans, Journal Article, Patient Participation, Pilot Projects, Risk Assessment, Straus SE, Stroke/prevention & control, Warfarin/therapeutic use

Is there any evidence to support the use of anti-depressants in painful rheumatological conditions? Systematic review of pharmacological and clinical studies

The aim of this study was to review the evidence supporting the use of anti-depressants in painful rheumatological conditions. A systematic review of papers published between 1966 and 2007, in five European languages, on anti-depressants in…

Ketamine in chronic pain management: an evidence-based review

Ketamine has diverse effects that may be of relevance to chronic pain including: N-methyl-D-aspartic acid, alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid, kainate, gamma-aminobutyric acid(A) receptors; inhibition of voltage gated Na(+) and…

Tags: 2003, Anesthesia & Analgesia, Backlog, Chronic Disease, Cousins MJ, Evidence-based Medicine, Excitatory Amino Acid Antagonists/therapeutic use, Hocking G, Humans, Journal Article, Ketamine/pharmacology/therapeutic use, Methadone, Pain/drug therapy/etiology

Optimising the process for conducting scoping reviews

Knowledge synthesis constitutes a key part of evidence-based medicine and a scoping review is a type of knowledge synthesis that maps the breadth of literature on a topic. Conducting a scoping review is resource intensive and, as a result, it can be…

Tags: 2021, BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine, Brown HL, Dewan T, Evidence-based Medicine, Grégoire MC, Hermansen AM, Humans, information science, Pawliuk C, Publications, Q3 Scoping Review, Research Design, Siden H, Steele R, Widger K

Paediatric palliative care: a lack of research-based evidence.

Providing the best possible care for the child and family is paramount to health professionals working in paediatric palliative care. However, there is little research which enables practitioners to question their current practice. There are concerns…

Tags: 2000, Adeodu S, Aldred H, Backlog, Beesley S, Child, Clinical Nursing Research, Cooley C, Evidence-based Medicine, Humans, International Journal of Palliative Nursing, Journal Article, Leung A, Longitudinal Studies, Palliative Care/standards, Pediatric Nursing/standards, Thacker L

Practice parameter: pharmacological treatment of migraine headache in children and adolescents: report of the American Academy of Neurology Quality Standards Subcommittee and the Practice Committee of the Child Neurology Society

OBJECTIVE: To review evidence on the pharmacologic treatment of the child with migraine headache. METHODS: The authors reviewed, abstracted, and classified relevant literature. Recommendations were based on a four-tiered scheme of evidence…

Rapid response in the COVID-19 pandemic: a Delphi study from the European Pediatric Dialysis Working Group

BACKGROUND: COVID-19 was declared a global health emergency. Since children are less than 1% of reported cases, there is limited information to develop evidence-based practice recommendations. The objective of this study was to rapidly gather expert…

Rayyan-a web and mobile app for systematic reviews

BACKGROUND: Synthesis of multiple randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in a systematic review can summarize the effects of individual outcomes and provide numerical answers about the effectiveness of interventions. Filtering of searches is time…

Tags: 2016, Automation, Backlog, Elmagarmid A, Evidence-based Medicine, Fedorowicz Z, Hammady H, Journal Article, Ouzzani M, Systematic reviews

Research methods used in developing and applying quality indicators in primary care

2003

Tags: 2003, Backlog, Bmj (clinical Research Ed.), Braspenning J, Campbell SM, Consensus, Evidence-based Medicine, Health Care, Health Services Research/methods, Humans, Hutchinson A, Journal Article, Marshall MN, Practice Guidelines, Primary Health Care/standards, Quality Indicators, Quality Of Health Care

The psychosocial well-being of children with chronic disease, their parents and siblings: an overview of the research evidence base.

BACKGROUND: Chronic disease of childhood may have implications for the psychosocial well-being of children and their families. The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the current literature regarding the psychosocial well-being of…

The quality of the evidence base for clinical pathway effectiveness: room for improvement in the design of evaluation trials.

BACKGROUND: The purpose of this article is to report on the quality of the existing evidence base regarding the effectiveness of clinical pathway (CPW) research in the hospital setting. The analysis is based on a recently published Cochrane review of…

The United Kingdom Sets Limits on Experimental Treatments: The Case of Charlie Gard

Towards evidence based medicine for paediatricians

2002

Tags: 2002, Archives of Disease in Childhood, Backlog, Evidence-based Medicine, Information Storage and Retrieval, Journal Article, Pediatrics, Periodicals, Phillips B

Using bisphosphonates to control the pain of bone metastases: evidence-based guidelines for palliative care

This work was undertaken by the Science Committee of the Association for Palliative Medicine of Great Britain and Ireland (APM) as a demonstration project in developing clinical guidelines relevant to palliative care from a pragmatic approach to…

Weaving for the future: using rulers and roses

2001

Tags: 2001, Administration, Backlog, Biomedical, Canadian Oncology Nursing Journal, Davies B, Evidence-based Medicine, Forecasting, Humans, Journal Article, Leadership, Models, Nurse's Role, Nursing, Nursing Process, Nursing Research/organization &, Oncologic Nursing/education/organization &, Organizational Objectives, Technology Assessment

What is the evidence that palliative care teams improve outcomes for cancer patients and their families?.

Patients with advanced cancer experience a complex web of problems, all of which interact. Specialist palliative care services have developed to meet these needs, but their effectiveness should be considered. We sought to determine whether specialist…

Tags: 2010, Backlog, Cancer Journal (Sudbury, Mass.), DNAR, Evans CJ, Evidence-based Medicine, Family, Higginson IJ, Humans, Journal Article, Neoplasms/th [therapy], Palliative Care/ma [manpower], Patient Care Team, Treatment Outcome

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