Background Nurses are vital in identifying and preventive pressure injuries (PIs) in
hospitalized patients undergoing open heart surgery. Interventions to prevent PIs are crucial …

Mixed methods is an innovative research approach that can be applied to understand
complex cardiovascular phenomena. A mixed methods study involves collecting both …

Background Frailty is a risk factor for mortality, morbidity, and prolonged length of stay after
cardiac surgery, all of which are major drivers of hospitalization costs. The incremental …

Background: The identification of frailty before complex and invasive procedures may have
relevance for prognostic and recovery purposes, to optimally inform patients, caregivers and …

Objective: The objective of this scoping review was to identify and map existing preoperative
interventions, referred to as prehabilitation, in adult patients at home awaiting elective …

Background Resistance exercises have been shown to prevent and reverse frailty but their
application in clinical practice is low. We wished to test the feasibility of an optimised …

Objective To investigate whether depression, anxiety and stress increase the risk for
delirium and poor quality of life (QOL) after coronary artery bypass (CABG) surgery. Methods …

Background Nursing care addresses several complex interventions and international
research into complex interventions is growing. The Medical Research Council framework …

Background Stepped-wedge cluster randomised trials (SW-CRTs) are a pragmatic trial
design, providing an unprecedented opportunity to increase the robustness of evidence …

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