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Developing guidelines for clinical practice

01 February 1996

Nurse Researcher

Dissemination and implementation

Healthcare literature contains a plethora of reports related to clinical practice guidelines. This paper presents a historical perspective from which these...

Dissemination and implementation: the wider picture

01 September 1996

Nurse Researcher

Dissemination and implementation

The current trend towards the adoption of evidence or knowledge- based practice in nursing provides the opportunity to reassess what has historically been referred...

Psycho-educational care for adults with cancer

20 November 1996

Nursing Standard

Reports

As part of our series featuring reviews from the NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, this paper reports the key findings of a systematic review carried out by...

Why novel treatments require changes in disease management

11 October 2012

Cancer Nursing Practice

A&S Science

This article discusses the implications of introducing novel treatments into clinical practice. It uses, as an example, immunotherapy with ipilimumab for the...

Literature searching for systematic reviews

02 July 1997

Nursing Standard

Professional development

Literature reviews play an important role in summarising current knowledge and informing clinical practice and future research. Historically, nurses have conducted...

Non-pharmacological interventions for acute pain

25 September 1996

Nursing Standard

Reports

Pain management is a critical component of the delivery of nursing care. Recent evidence has shown that at least 40 per cent of post-operative patients report...

Guidelines need systematic research

03 July 1996

Nursing Standard

Network

Clinical practice guidelines are increasingly being seen as a way to improve quality of care, reduce unjustified variations in practice and contain costs. In order...

Use of nasogastric tubes for elective laparotomy

03 July 1996

Nursing Standard

Reports

In the ongoing programme of assisting nurses to translate research into practice, researchers from the University of York present a critical appraisal of a...

The prevention and treatment of pressure sores

20 March 1996

Nursing Standard

Reports

Research questions The review sought to answer two questions:

Pre-operative patient instruction: is it effective?

22 May 1996

Nursing Standard

Reports

Research question The review sought to establish the effects of psycho-educational care on the recovery, post-surgical pain and psychological distress of adult...