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Safe-T expanding services and improving patient outcomes
(2023)
"Sexual assault is a serious public health issue affecting men, women and children statewide. In 2021 there were 3,262 reports of sexual assault in Missouri (Missouri State Highway Patrol, 2023). 12% of reported sexual assaults in Missouri occurred...
Behavioral emergency response team (BERT) implementation
(2023)
"Violence is on the rise among healthcare workers. The Joint Commission recommends de-escalation training. De-escalation is the efforts to utilize communication with a patient to reduce agitation or aggression or to allow ...
What treatment is best for hypertrophic scars and keloids?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2011)
No one treatment is best (strength of recommendation [SOR]: C, meta-analysis of heterogenous studies); no good evidence exists comparing treatments with each other. Triamcinolone injections, triamcinolone injections combined with excision...
Does evidence support the use of supplements to aid in BP control?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2020)
Q: Does evidence support the use of supplements to aid in BP control? Evidence-based answer: Yes. A number of well-tolerated natural therapies have been shown to reduce systolic and diastolic blood pressure (BP). (See TABLE1-8 for summary.) However...
Evidence-based design utilized in hospital architecture and changing the design process: a hospital case study
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
As a new paradigm in healthcare design in the 21st century, evidence-based design (EBD) has played a critical role in the changing hospital architectural design process and shaping new images of hospital architecture. Evidence-based design...
Improving pediatric nursing practice utilizing electronic K-cards
(2023)
-cards as an educational and quality metric to reinforce compliance with evidence-based policies and nursing processes (Kamityet al., 2021; Lehaneet al., 2022; McVey et al., 2022; Salinas et al., 2021; Shea et al., 2019; Stewart, 2021; Wu et al., 2022). Nurses complete K...
Does using e-cigarettes cigarette smoking in adolescents?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2019)
Q: Does using e-cigarettes cigarette smoking in adolescents? Evidence-based answer: Probably. Electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) use by adolescents is associated with a 2- to 4-fold increase in cigarette smoking over the next year (strength...
How effective are complementary/alternative medicine (CAM) therapies for fibromyalgia?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2001)
Acupuncture, biofeedback, and S-adenosyl methionine (SAMe) have been shown to have some efficacy in the treatment of fibromyalgia in randomized controlled trials. Spa treatments, hypnotherapy, massage, and meditation may ...
Nurse resident job satisfaction with a formal mentorship program
(2023)
"This quality improvement (QI) project aims to evaluate the impact of a new mentoring program on the job satisfaction of nurse residents as part of their participation in the nurse residency program between January 2023 ...
What's the best secondary treatment for patients who fail initial triple therapy for H pylori?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2018)
Q: What's the best secondary treatment for patients who fail initial triple therapy for H pylori? Evidence-based answer: treating patients with Helicobacter pylori infection who have failed clarithromycin-based triple therapy with either...
Hip Pain in Preschool-Age Children
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2009)
Evidence is lacking on the most common causes of hip pain in children because most data come from cohort studies and include referred patients. Based on these studies, transient synovitis is the most common cause of hip pain in preschool...
A therapist survey of evidence-based practices in publicly funded youth mental health
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
sizes in controlled clinical trials for evidence-based treatments (EBTs) for youth MH problems (Weisz, Jensen-Doss & Hawley, 2006). One potential reason for this discrepancy may be that therapists within TAU contexts are not implementing EBTs. To date...
Chronic urticaria: What diagnostic evaluation is best?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2011)
(strength of recommendation: B, inconsistent or limited-quality evidence)....
Do cinnamon supplements improve glycemic control in adults with T2DM?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2020)
Q: Do cinnamon supplements improve glycemic control in adults with T2DM? Evidence-based answer: the answer isn't clear. Cinnamon supplements for adults with type 2 diabetes haven't been shown to decrease hemoglobin A1C (strength of recommendation...
Does screening by primary care providers effectively detect melanoma and other skin cancers?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2020)
Q: Does screening by primary care providers effectively detect melanoma and other skin cancers? Evidence-based answer: possibly. No trials have directly assessed detection of melanoma and other skin cancers by primary care providers. Training a...
How does pentoxifylline affect survival of patients with alcoholic hepatitis?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2008)
Pentoxifylline improves short-term survival in patients admitted to the hospital with severe alcoholic hepatitis (strength of recommendation [SOR]: B, a single published randomized controlled trial [RCT]). Pentoxifylline ...
Does early introduction of peanuts to an infant's diet reduce the risk for peanut allergy?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2020)
Q: Does early introduction of peanuts to an infant's diet reduce the risk for peanut allergy? Evidence-based answer: Probably not, unless the child has severe eczema or egg allergy. In a general pediatric population, introducing peanuts early (at...
What is the best treatment for chronic constipation in the elderly?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2007)
There is no one best evidence-based treatment for chronic constipation in the elderly. While the most common first-line treatments are dietary fiber and exercise, the evidence is insufficient to support this approach in the geriatric population...
First- or second-generation antihistamines: which are more effective at controlling pruritus?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2004)
, antihistamines are no better than placebo (SOR: B, small RCTs and other studies). Other categories of pruritus are best treated with non-antihistamine agents (SOR: C, based on expert opinion and disease-oriented research)....
How can you help prevent a recurrence of diverticulitis?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2009)
A high-fiber diet is often prescribed after recovery from acute diverticulitis, based on extrapolation from epidemiologic data showing an association between low-fiber diets and diverticulosis (strength of recommendation [SOR]: C, expert opinion...