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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Body-Weight Self-Schema: Determinant of Mood and Behavior in Women With an Eating Disorder
(V.H. Winstron & Son, Inc., 2005)
The schema approach to self-concept was used to investigate the association between
body-weight self-conception and self-esteem, negative affect states, and disordered eating
behavior in women with anorexia nervosa (n = ...
Intervention Research, Establishing Fidelity of the Independent Variable in Nursing Clinical Trials
(2007-01)
Background: Internal validity of a randomized clinical trial
of a nursing intervention is dependent on intervention
fidelity. Although several methods have been developed,
evaluating audio or audiovisual tapes for ...
Failure to rescue in the surgical oncology population: Implications for nursing and quality improvement
(2008-09)
PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES:
To analyze the frequency, type, and correlates of postoperative complications for surgical patients with cancer to illustrate practical application of the failure to rescue concept in oncology nursing ...
Diagnostic delay and complications for older adults with multiple myeloma
(2009-03)
Increased attention to timely diagnosis motivated us to study 5483 patients diagnosed with multiple myeloma using Medicare claims linked to tumor registries in the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results programme. We ...