Perhaps the largest operational change in nursing homes since the beginning of the prospective payment system is taking place today. Implementation of MDS 3.0, a resident assessment tool, starts.

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has released two new tools for use in healthcare facilities, the Sepsis Prevention Assessment Tool for Nursing Homes (SPAT) and the Targeted Assessment for ...

Long-term use of sustained-release cytarabine for symptomatic management and treatment of meningeosis neoplastica. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2012 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This abstract ...

The Rapid Geriatric Assessment (RGA) is a screening tool developed by the Geriatrics Division of Saint Louis University. The RGA includes assessment of frailty, nutrition, loss of muscle mass ...

Background: Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust had no common instrument to assess function throughout the trust. Aim: To compare three functional assessment tools, and provide evidence of ...

A tool that nurses can use to assess how well patients adjust psychologically after stoma surgery has been developed by UK nurse researchers Subscribe today for unlimited access to 6,000+ clinical ...

Created by Johns Hopkins School of Nursing Professor Jacquelyn Campbell in 1986, the Danger Assessment includes a calendar assessing the frequency and severity of battering in the past year and a ...

The existing wound assessment tools, which are based on modern medical theory, limit the clinical application of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) nursing. This research aimed to develop a scientific ...

Sussex Community NHS Trust has been trialling a suicide risk assessment tool. Andrea Richardson and Nessie Shia describe the system and look at the findings. Mental ill health is one of the main ...