Nursing and Health Care Gateway

Mobile CGA improves mortality outcomes

According to a meta-analysis, comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) by mobile teams improves patient mortality rate, but has limited impact on functional status and length of hospital stay, so further research is needed to understand which patients should be targeted.  

Patient satisfaction with primary care nurses

Patients in New Zealand are pleased with the quality of care they receive from general practice nurses, but are still uncertain about what tasks such nurses are qualified to perform

Glucose-based diagnosis superior for diabetes

The predictive ability of a screening tool for diabetes is reduced when the proposed new hemoglobin-based criteria are used for diagnosis instead of glucose, suggesting that glucose should be measured to assess diabetes risk using this score.

 

Encouraging students towards family practice

A short general practice based elective significantly increases medical students opinion of family medicine as a future career option, suggesting this could be a way to increase recruitment to the field

RAMESES: new publication standards

Geoff Wong, Trish Greenhalgh et al. propose new publication guidelines for realist synthesis and meta-narrative reviews. The ‘RAMESES’ (Realist and Meta-review Evidence Synthesis: Evolving Standards) statement provides researchers, institutes and journals with guidance on how to conduct these new forms of literature analysis, and adherence to the guidelines will lead to quality assurance and uniform reporting of studies.