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PubMed2006

Daily pain coping among patients with chronic temporomandibular disorder pain: an electronic diary study.

AIMS: To describe patients' daily coping with the pain of chronic temporomandibular disorders (TMD), the conservative treatment received, and the self-care strategies used, and to examine the relationships between these strategies and daily pain intensity, activity interference, and jaw use limitations. METHODS: TMD clinic patients (n = 137, 88% women) completed electronic diary measures of pain, interference, jaw use limitations, and use of 20 strategies 3 times daily for 2 weeks. RESULTS: Reliability and validity were demonstrated for 4 scales of related coping items: cognitive coping, relaxation, activity reduction, and emotional support. Average scores were higher on the relaxation and activity reduction scales than on the cognitive coping and emotional support scales. Among the coping items not included in the scales, "did something to try to reduce pain" (direct action) was endorsed most frequently (reported in a median of 74% of interviews). Heat, cold, and seeking spiritual support were used least (< or = 5%). At times of increased pain, patients were more likely to use almost all types of strategies. Pain intensity was associated strongly with concurrent activity interference and jaw use limitations. When the design controlled for pain intensity, activity reduction and seeking emotional support were associated positively within-subjects with interference and jaw use limitations. CONCLUSION: TMD clinic patients use a variety of treatment, self-care, and coping strategies to contend with daily pain. Inquiring about a broad range of strategies might help clinicians better understand how individual patients approach pain management. Research is needed to examine whether decreasing activity reduction and emotional support coping results in improved outcomes.

Activities of Daily Living↗
PubMed2005

Patient safety with blood products administration using wireless and bar-code technology.

Supported by a grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, a University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics interdisciplinary research team created an online data-capture-response tool utilizing wireless mobile devices and bar code technology to track and improve blood products administration process. The tool captures 1) sample collection, 2) sample arrival in the blood bank, 3) blood product dispense from blood bank, and 4) administration. At each step, the scanned patient wristband ID bar code is automatically compared to scanned identification barcode on requisition, sample, and/or product, and the system presents either a confirmation or an error message to the user. Following an eight-month, 5 unit, staged pilot, a 'big bang,' hospital-wide implementation occurred on February 7, 2005. Preliminary results from pilot data indicate that the new barcode process captures errors 3 to 10 times better than the old manual process.

Blood Banks↗
PubMed2005

PDA application for collecting patient encounter data for Advanced Practice nursing students in a clinical setting.

UNLABELLED: Three years ago we developed a web-based clinical log for Advanced Practice nursing students to record patient encounters. Although it solved many problems, students complained about the time it would take to complete each encounter since they actually entered the data twice, once immediately after seeing the patient and later on the web. THE SOLUTION: Create a PDA version that students populate with data during the day and upload to the main database at night.

Computers, Handheld↗
PubMed2005

The development of a Patient-Identification-Oriented Nursing Shift Exchange Support System using wireless RFID PDA techniques.

The objectives of this study were to technically testing the feasibility of combining RFID and PDA technologies in nursing care and to develop a support system for the nursing shift exchange, which featured with "Positive Patient Identification" and "Point of Care" for patient's safety and security. The most challenging part for the future work would be to embed the system into the real workflow. Future study would be to examine the practical effectiveness of the system.

Computers, Handheld↗
PubMed2005

Communication software using pictures for use with Pocket PCs.

Autism spectrum disorder has become one of the most prevalent developmental disorders. A difficulty with communication is one of the main impairments. We are developing a digital library of images that will be used to help children with autism communicate without the need for reading or writing skills. Images will be displayed on Pocket PCs to convey messages. We are currently developing and evaluating the first prototype.

Audiovisual Aids↗
PubMed2005

Providing PDA-based clinical trial listings to oncologists.

Sub-optimal accrual rates to adult oncology clinical trials have been reported. One potential accrual barrier has been the step of identifying potential clinical trials for patients. In order to partially address this barrier, a clinical trial listing was developed for oncologists to use on their personal digital assistants (PDAs). Preliminary feedback was gathered from an initial group of physicians who accessed this resource. Benefits of this approach as well as future enhancements are discussed.

Adult↗
PubMed2005

PubMed Informer: monitoring MEDLINE/PubMed through e-mail alerts, SMS, PDA downloads and RSS feeds.

PubMed Informer is a Web-based monitoring tool for topics of interest from MEDLINE/PubMed primarily designed for healthcare professionals. Five tracking methods are available: Web access, e-mail, Short Message Service (SMS), PDA downloads and RSS feeds. PubMed Informer delivers focused search updates and specific information to users with varying information-seeking practices.

Cell Phone↗
PubMed2005

Preliminary comparison of the Essie and PubMed search engines for answering clinical questions using MD on Tap, a PDA-based program for accessing biomedical literature.

MD on Tap, a PDA application that searches and retrieves biomedical literature, is specifically designed for use by mobile healthcare professionals. With the goal of improving the usability of the application, a preliminary comparison was made of two search engines (PubMed and Essie) to determine which provided most efficient path to the desired clinically-relevant information.

Computers, Handheld↗
PubMed2005

Acute pain service management system. The successful experience of the hospital computerization and utilization of personal digital assistant.

Personal digital assistants (PDA) are increasingly being used in many medical fields. The object of this study is to introduce how the hospital computerization and the utilization of PDA can help to reduce the time of data processing for Acute Pain Service. After this study completed, we found that the use of PDA can dramatically reduce the time of data management and improve the quality of medical records.

Acute Disease↗