What is the prevalence of physical restraint use in medical and geriatric psychiatry units?

PubMed search:  restraint AND prevalence AND (hospitals OR wards OR units) AND psychiatric

restraint AND prevalence AND (hospitals OR wards OR units) AND (geriatric OR elderly) AND acute care

Riv Psichiatr. 2013 Jan-Feb;48(1):10-22. doi: 10.1708/1228.13611.
Prevalence and risk factors for the use of restraint in psychiatry: a systematic review.
Beghi M, et al.

Clin Nurs Res. 2013. DOI: 10.1177/1054773813493112. Physical Restraint Usage at a Teaching Hospital: A Pilot Study. Barton-Gooden A, et al.

Psychiatry Res. 2013 Aug 30;209(1):91-7. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2012.11.017. Epub 2012 Dec 6.  Mechanical and pharmacological restraints in acute psychiatric wards–why and how are they used?  Knutzen M, et al.

 

 

What are the most recent guidelines for preventing catheter associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI)?

The Catheter-associated urinary tract infection topic in DynaMed identifies these US guidelines:

 

Reactions during blood transfusions

Sapatnekar, Suneeti 1; Sharma, Girish 2; Downes, Katharine A. 2; Wiersma, Susan 3; McGrath, Claire 1; Yomtovian, Roslyn 2, Acute Hemolytic Transfusion Reaction in a Pediatric Patient Following Transfusion of Apheresis Platelets. Journal of Clinical Apheresis. 20(4):225-229, December 2005.

Barnes, H M Febrile transfusion reaction following initial transfusion in a man with immunoblastic lymphadenopathy and granulocyte autoantibodies. American journal of hematology 1983 vol:14 iss:1 pg:97 -100

Thompson CL; Edwards C; Stout LBlood transfusions 1: how to monitor for adverse reactions.
Transfusion Liaison Nurse, National Blood Service, Leeds and Newcastle
Nursing Times, 2008 Jan 15-21; 104 (2): 32-3.

Sacks DA; Nelson JM Transfusion reactions. Physician Assistant (PHYSICIAN ASSIST), 1992 May; 16 (5): 35-6, 38, 40 passim.

What is the rationale for consenting to blood transfusions?

Bielby, L J; Stevenson, L; Perillo, J; Glazebrook, B; Beard, P; Hennessy, C; Borosak, M. CONSENT FOR BLOOD TRANSFUSION – ARE WE INFORMING PATIENTS?: P-050. Vox Sanguinis. 105 Supplement 1:82, p. 82. June 2013.

Mahapatra, P; Neffendorf, J E; Wilson, S. <a href="” target=”_blank”>CONSENT FOR BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS – ARE WE MAKING PROGRESS?: 4A-S35-06. Vox Sanguinis. 105 Supplement 1:62-63, p. 62. June 2013.

Davis, R.; Vincent, C.; Sud, A.; Noel, S.; Moss, R.; Asgheddi, M.; Abdur-Rahman, I.; Murphy, M. Consent to transfusion: patients’ and healthcare professionals’ attitudes towards the provision of blood transfusion information. Transfusion Medicine. 2012 Jun;22(3):167-72. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3148.2012.01148.x. Epub 2012 Apr 23.

Howell, C. A. 1; Forsythe, J. L. R. 2* Patient consent for blood transfusion – recommendations from SaBTO+. Transfusion Medicine. 21(6):359-362, December 2011.

Ohto H; Yonemura Y; Takeda J; Inada E; Hanada R; Hayakawa S; Miyano T; Kai K; Iwashi W; Muto K; Asai FGuidelines for managing conscientious objection to blood transfusion. Japanese Joint Committee on Refusal of Blood Transfusion on Religious Grounds, Waseda Law School, Waseda University, Japan. hit-ohto@fmu.ac.jp Transfusion Medicine Reviews (TRANSFUS MED REV), 2009 Jul; 23 (3): 221-8.

Desborough, Michael J.; Murphy, Michael F.Legal and ethical issues in blood transfusion. British Journal of Hospital Medicine (17508460) (BR J HOSP MED (LOND)), 2013 Jan; 74 (1): C2-4.

Wehrli G; Sazama KUniversal donor education and consent: what we know and where we should go. Department of Pathology, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908-0286, USA. GWMD@virginia.edu Transfusion, 2010 Nov; 50 (11): 2499-502.

Does immediate reading of mammograms have a different call back rate than batch read screenings?

Stewart, Kate A, et al. “The effect of immediate reading of screening mammograms on medical care utilization and costs after false-positive mammograms.” Health services research 42.4 (2007):1464-1482.
Case-control study of women with false-positives v. normal mammograms. Included an analysis of rates of each for type of reading.

Ghate SV, et al. Comparison of recall and cancer detection rates for immediate versus batch interpretation of screening mammograms. Radiology. 2005 Apr;235(1):31-5.
Retrospective analysis of false positives and false negatives for mammograms. Does not identify how patients were assigned to immediate or batch reading group.

Burnside, Elizabeth S, et al. “The use of batch reading to improve the performance of screening mammography.” AJR, American journal of roentgenology 185.3 (2005):790-796.
This before-and-after study examined the effect on quality by uninterrupted time for batch reading versus the previous method which was nonbatch but not conducted while the patient waited.

Searched PubMed and AHRQ. Keywords: batch, mammograms, false positives, recall, call back

Updated 4/18/2014 AA

What are the criteria for career mobility in nursing such as clinical ladders?

I did a search in PubMed with these search terms (career mobility OR clinical ladders) AND (nursing staff hospital) and retrieved these references:

Adeniran RK, Bhattacharya A, Adeniran AA. Professional excellence and career advancement in nursing: a conceptual framework for clinical leadership development. Nurs Adm Q. 2012 Jan-Mar;36(1):41-51. doi:

Beglinger JE, Hauge B, Krause S, Ziebarth L. Shaping future nurse leaders through shared governance. Nurs Clin North Am. 2011 Mar;46(1):129-35. doi: 10.1016/j.cnur.2010.10.003. Epub 2010 Dec. 17.

Adeniran RK1, Bhattacharya A, Adeniran AA. Professional excellence and career advancement in nursing: a conceptual framework for clinical leadership development. Nurs Adm Q. 2012 Jan-Mar;36(1):41-51. doi: 10.1097/NAQ.0b013e31823b0fec.