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Clinical effectiveness and evidence-based practice

17 September 1997

Nursing Standard

Research

Many nurses and other practising health professionals want to know more about clinical effectiveness but are deterred by the apparent confusion surrounding the...

Making sense of clinical guidelines

24 September 1997

Nursing Standard

Research

Practising health professionals want to know more about clinical guidelines. However, as with clinical effectiveness, the apparent confusion surrounding the...

Evaluating health care using goal attainment scaling

08 July 1998

Nursing Standard

Learning disabilities

As the costs of health care grow and public expectations rise, there has been increasing scrutiny of the effectiveness of treatment and care. The value of...

Making sense of clinical guidelines

24 September 1997

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

In a companion article to their paper on clinical effectiveness (McClarey and Duff 1997), the authors discuss the issues surrounding clinical guidelines. How they...

Auditing standards in electroconvulsive therapy

01 November 2010

Mental Health Practice

Feature

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a valid treatment option for mental health service users with severe depression and other life-threatening mental disorders. The...

Clinical effectiveness and evidence-based practice

17 September 1997

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

In the first of two articles, the authors address some of the most common questions asked by practitioners about clinical effectiveness. The second article, on...

Audit of follow-up hospital visits for patients with ovarian cancer

09 March 2011

Cancer Nursing Practice

Feature

This article discusses findings from an audit conducted to examine the frequency and nature of patient contacts with the hospital after initial treatment for ovarian...

A day surgery post-operative telephone call line

18 November 1998

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

The surgical day case unit (SDCU) at Burnley General Hospital recently piloted a post-operative telephone service. All patients are called by a registered nurse the...

Opioid consumption and bowel dysfunction in adolescents after spinal surgery

08 July 2016

Nursing Children and Young People

Evidence & practice

The study, outlined in this article, aimed to ascertain the effect of length of surgery and opioid consumption on length of stay and bowel dysfunction, and to review...

Introducing students to clinical audit

28 October 2015

Nursing Management

Art & Science

It is more than a decade since the UK Central Council for Nursing Midwifery and Health Visiting said that engaging with clinical audit is ‘the business of every...