Biomedical subjects

J Closs

Publications and source records attributed to J Closs.

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PubMed1996

Universities can do it better.

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Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate↗

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Discharge planning for elderly patients.

Discharge planning for older patients is gaining recognition as a process requiring improvement. Demographic changes have produced an increasing population of elderly patients in the acute hospital sector, many of whom need co-ordinated discharge planning and appropriate post-discharge support. This article discusses the accumulated research findings of the past 20 years, which have highlighted the need for health services research, policy and practice to improve the effectiveness of discharge planning for elderly people.

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Changing practice in pain management.

This article describes the formation of a multi-disciplinary group to improve the management of post-operative pain for orthopaedic patients. The three factors which precipitated the activities of the group are discussed, namely the presence of concerned professionals, local research, and a small number of complaints from patients. The article then describes the work of the pain management group, and how their decisions were both put into practice and monitored.

Analgesics↗

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