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Health Promotion Model - Frequent Questions
(2011)
Questions often asked about the Health Promotion Model are addressed.
Environment for Scholarship and Journal Impact Factor in Thailand
(2009)
An increasing number of institutions, internationally, are requiring their faculties publish in journals with high impact factors (IF), and providing various types of rewards to motivate scholars to do so. The literature ...
Identity Impairment and the Eating Disorders: Content and Organization of the Self-Concept in Women with Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa
(Wiley InterScience, 2006-08-14)
Objective: The cognitive model of the self-concept was used to
test the theoretical proposition that disturbances in overall
identity development are a core vulnerability that lead to
formation of a fat body weight ...
Putting evidence into practice (PEP): Prevention of infection
(2006-12)
The prevention of infection is an important outcome to measure in patients with cancer because infectious complications are a significant cause of morbidity and mortality. Nurses play a vital role in the prevention of ...
Hospital nurse staffing: Choice of measure matters
(2011-08)
BACKGROUND:
Researchers frequently use nurse staffing measures to examine hospital quality of care. Measure choices include nurse-reported perception of staffing adequacy, nurse-reported patient workloads, and empirically ...
Does it matter where you go for breast surger? Attending surgeon's influence on variation in receipt of mastectomy for breast cancer
(2010-10)
BACKGROUND:
Concerns about the use of mastectomy and breast reconstruction for breast cancer have motivated interest in surgeon's influence on the variation in receipt of these procedures.
OBJECTIVES:
To evaluate ...
Variations in nursing practice environments: Relation to staffing and hospital characteristics
(2006-01)
BACKGROUND:
While improvements in nursing practice environments are considered essential to address the nursing shortage, relatively little is known about the nursing practice environments in most hospitals.
OBJECTIVES:
The ...
Urinary incontinence symptoms during and after pregnancy in continent and incontinent primiparas
(Springer Verlag; International Urogynecology Journal, 2006-04-20)
Examine patterns of urinary incontinence during and after pregnancy, as recalled by incontinent and continent primiparas.