Back to some nursing basics and evidence that cheaper resources are sometimes better for patients as well as health budgets
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Pressure ulcers: evidence and uncertainty
A look at some Cochrane evidence on preventing and managing pressure ulcers and reflections on nursing practice
Nurses under pressure: do risk assessment tools help prevent pressure ulcers?
With no good evidence that using risk assessment tools helps prevent pressure ulcers, should we be using them?
Silver, napkins and some choice morsels of Cochrane evidence
Last week I gave you jellyfish, so don’t let it be said that I only go for the big health issues here! There’s a feast of new evidence in The Cochrane Library and this week, from an extensive menu, I’ve picked out a few tidbits on some more common health problems, plus some great dementia […]
A mystery, missing evidence and some answers!
Contrary to what you might expect, you’ll have to wait until the end for the mystery, though in truth missing dataData is the information collected through research. and important questions that remain unanswered could also be labelled as that, and this is where I start. I begin this blog with an offering about asthma from […]