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This letter comments on the recent prospective study by Kitisin et al. regarding the utility of the urine albumin-to-creatinine ratio (uACR) for acute kidney injury (AKI) risk stratification in critically ill patients. While commending the study's pragmatic approach, we propose three methodological refinements to optim…

PURPOSE: Services organizations highly value proactive employees. Managers are interested in promoting frontline employees' proactive behavior because proactivity is crucial for organizational success. The mechanism of negative workplace gossip on workplace prosocial behavior is unclear. This research investigates the…

BACKGROUND: People with intellectual disabilities are rarely involved in research on quality of life. The study sought to answer the question: what do people with intellectual disabilities believe improves or hinders their quality of life? METHOD: Using an inclusive, accessible research design, 18 participants met in…

The novel coronavirus, COVID-19, first identified in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, rapidly spread across the globe and resulted in significant public concern. In response, numerous countries have implemented guidelines aimed at promoting social distancing, limiting movement and gatherings, instituting lockdowns and c…

Very few empirical evaluations have been conducted on the impact of furniture on the lives of those who have transitioned from homelessness into permanent housing, especially within the United States. Our study contributes to this limited body of research by exploring the impact of furniture on the lives of 20 recently…

This is an ethnographic study that examines the experiences of peer counsellors in the Thinking Healthy Programme Peer-delivered (THPP), a randomized controlled trial of a psychological intervention for perinatal depression in Goa, India. Based on nine months of fieldwork from 2015 to 2017 and through caregiving theori…

OBJECTIVE: Healthcare systems are challenged by the rapidly increasing number of older adults requiring services to maintain at-home independence. Technology, such as ambient sensing, has been identified as one potential solution to address these issues. This study's aim is twofold: (1) to explore the general perceptio…

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to wreak havoc across the globe. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, limiting face-to-face interaction is the best strategy for reducing the spread of COVID-19. We investigate the impact of social distancing on social connection and well-being, while also conside…

We refined and replicated an efficacious brief intervention to reduce internalized homonegativity (IH) with a sample of gay and exclusively same-sex attracted men recruited from outside of LGBT community networks using Amazon Mechanical Turk. We sought to 1) determine if levels of IH differed between the original study…

As frontline caregivers, nurses play a central role in the coordination and delivery of family-centered care (FCC) in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). Nurses see first-hand the fear, uncertainty, and anxiety parents experience due to unfamiliar and intimidating elements of neonatal care and the NICU environment.…

Polyaxial locking plate fixation is a widely performed treatment for femoral shaft, periprosthetic, and peri-implant fractures in elderly patients. This study's purpose was to compare patient outcomes following the open technique (OT) and less invasive techniques (LIT). Data were gathered from 44 patients with 46 fract…

BACKGROUND: The investigation of medication errors in nursing includes both methodological and ethical considerations because it is a sensitive field of research. PURPOSE: To present an original research protocol for the investigation of nurses' experiences of medication errors with interpretative phenomenological ana…

Many older adults have experienced the death of a significant other. Understanding their perspectives from this past experience may heighten nursing insights about the type of care they desire at the end of their lives. The aim of this secondary analysis was to describe how the death of a significant other influenced o…

U.S. News & World Report's annual Best Hospital Rankings are determined by an index of quality based on objective and subjective measures. This study investigates relationships between U.S. News score and its individual subjective and objective components that ultimately determine the relative ranking of the top 50 hos…

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: Discharge prediction is designed to streamline inpatient flow and reduce hospital overcrowding without adding capacity. This study's objective was to describe the literature on discharge prediction and assess its usefulness in evaluating the implementation and outcomes of discharge prediction proje…

Existing literature examining the relation between social networking sites and mental health is primarily based on correlational methods and presents mixed findings. Many researchers neglect to examine the cognitive and behavioral processes used while online. This study's qualitative approach strives to understand how…

Lebanon is a middle-income country with a market-maximized healthcare system that provides limited social protection for its citizens. Estimates reveal that half of the population lacks sufficient health coverage and resorts to out-of-pocket payments. This study triangulated data from a comprehensive review of health p…

Despite the frequent occurrence of head and neck cancer (HNC) disfigurement, little is known about its psychosocial impact on patients. This study aimed to understand the lived experience of disfigurement in HNC and explore what patients considered to be its influences. Fourteen disfigured HNC patients participated in…

BACKGROUND: Psychosis following childbirth affects 1-2 mothers per 1000 deliveries. Onset is rapid and functioning is severely affected. Although prognosis in terms of symptom remission is generally good, long-term disability can persist. The study's aim was to develop a theoretical understanding of recovery from psych…

This study examined disparities in lifetime substance misuse by sexual orientation among 2,653 patients engaged in care at an urban community health center in Boston, MA, as well as the potential mediating roles of childhood abuse <age 15 (CA) and intimate partner violence (IPV). Violence indicators were highly associa…