Jason Phua, Gavin M. Joynt, Masaji Nishimura, Yiyun Deng et al.
IMPORTANCE: Little data exist on end-of-life care practices in intensive care units (ICUs) in Asia. OBJECTIVE: To describe physicians' attitudes toward withholding and withdrawal of life-sustaining treatments in end-of-life care and to evaluate factors associated with observed attitudes. DESIGN, SET...
Elizabeth Goodburn, Rukhsana Gazi, Mushtaque Chowdhury
Most maternal deaths occur in the puerperium and most maternal morbidities probably also arise at that time. Maternal morbidities occur much more frequently than maternal deaths, but very little is known about their magnitude or causes. This study uses focus-group discussions to explore the experien...
Mosiur Rahman, Syed Emdadul Haque, Md. Sarwar Zahan
This article addresses the hypothesis that predisposing, enabling and need factors of households influence utilisation of postpartum care among the young mothers according to the timing and type of providers. To reach our goal Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey of 2007 data (n = 2376) were use...
Jason Phua, Gavin M. Joynt, Masaji Nishimura, Yiyun Deng et al.
Purpose To compare the attitudes of physicians towards withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining treatments in intensive care units (ICUs) in low-middle-income Asian countries and regions with those in high-income ones, and to explore differences in the role of families and surrogates, legal risks...
Md Saiful Islam, Stephen P. Luby, Rebeca Sultana, Nadia Ali Rimi et al.
Background Family caregivers are integral to patient care in Bangladeshi public hospitals. This study explored family caregivers’ activities and their perceptions and practices related to disease transmission and prevention in public hospitals. Methods Trained qualitative researchers conducted a tot...
Sarah Barnes, Merryn Gott, Sheila Payne, Chris Parker et al.
AIMS: to explore the characteristics and views of the family carers of older people with heart failure. METHOD: 213 family carers of heart failure patients >60 years were recruited from UK general practitioner (GP) practices. Carer strain, quality of life (QOL) and service satisfaction questionnaire...
M Hadley, A Roques
In the past decade concern has been raised through independent channels that nurses in Bangladesh do not provide active hands on care directly to patients as envisioned when the British nursing model was first introduced decades ago. The objective of the study was to observe the activities nurses en...
Kirsten Corazzini, Ruth A. Anderson, Carla Gene Rapp, Christine Mueller et al.
This study is a qualitative, descriptive study of how registered nurses (RNs) (N=33) in leadership roles in institutionalized long-term care settings delegate care, including their strategies and processes for delegating care, and their perceptions of barriers to effective delegation and potential b...
Jasneet Parmar, Tanya L’Heureux, Sharon Anderson, Wendy Austin et al.
BACKGROUND: While family caregivers provide 70-90% of care for people living in the community and assist with 10-30% of the care in congregate living, most healthcare providers do not meaningfully involve family caregivers as partners in care. Recent research recommends that the healthcare workforce...
Sabina Faiz Rashid, Sally Theobald, Kim Ozano
Summary box \nResponsive and timely research is needed to better understand the challenges faced by poor and vulnerable populations to inform immediate interventions and policies to address this unprecedented COVID-19 modern-day pandemic. \n \nThere is a need to research changes through ...
Habib Md Reazaul Karim, Karen E. A. Burns, Laura Ciobanu, Mohamad F. El‐Khatib et al.
Noninvasive ventilation (NIV) is an increasingly used method of respiratory support. The use of NIV is expanding over the time and if properly applied, it can save patients' lives and improve long-term prognosis. However, both knowledge and skills of its proper use as life support are paramount. Thi...
Anne Grant, Melinda Goodyear, Darryl Maybery, Andrea Reupert
Psychiatric nurses' practice with parents who have mental illness, their children and families is an important issue internationally. This study provides a comparison of Irish and Australian psychiatric nurses' family-focused practices in adult mental health services. Three hundred and forty three n...
Ashraful Islam Khan, Jasmine A. Mack, M. Salim Uzzaman, Mazharul Islam Zion et al.
Background Acute diarrhoeal disease management often requires rehydration alone without antibiotics. However, non-indicated antibiotics are frequently ordered and this is an important driver of antimicrobial resistance. The mHealth Diarrhoea Management (mHDM) trial aimed to establish whether electro...
Ji Yeon Park, Jerico Franciscus Pardosi, Holly Seale
Highlights • Only 6 acknowledged the provision of care to hospitalised patients by family members.• Only 1 advised the same level of IPC training as HCW for family members who provide inpatient care.• No IPC policies and guidelines from target countries note the involvement of family members.
Moustaq Karim Khan Rony, Kanika Islam, Hasnat M. Alamgir
BACKGROUND: The world faced a great health crisis during the COVID-19 pandemic. Consequently, the health care providers struggled and faced tremendous difficulties in treating high-load critical patients. This was particularly true in low- and middle-income countries where the work and patient loads...