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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 ...
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.
Developmental changes in taste responses from glossopharyngeal nerve in sheep and comparisons with chorda tympani responses
(Elsevier, 1983-12)
To learn whether there are developmental changes in salt and acid taste responses from the posterior tongue, we recorded from the glossopharyngeal nerve, which innervates taste buds in circumvallate papillae, in sheep ...
Studying Adolescent Male Sexuality: Where Are We?
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Springer Science + Business Media, Inc., 2005-08)
This article critically reviews the literature about adolescent males’ sexuality in order to describe the state of the science and to identify promising concepts and research designs that have the potential to guide the ...
Sexual Trauma, Substance Abuse, and Treatment Success in a Sample of African American Women Who Smoke Crack Cocaine
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Association for Medical Education and Research in Substance Abuse ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2000-03)
The purpose of this descriptive study was to examine the relationship among sexual trauma, severity of substance use, and treatment success for African American women who smoke crack cocaine. Using a convenience sample of ...