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American Journal of Nursing May 2012 Benson et al.	Original Research: The Effects of Active Warming on Patient Temperature and Pain After Total Knee Arthroplasty Total knee arthroplasty is a procedure with associated risks of inadvertent perioperative hypothermia and significant postoperative pain. Hypothermia may affect patients' experience of postoperative pain, although the link is not well understood.
American Journal of Nursing September 2011 Adams & Tolich	Original Research: Blood Transfusion: The Patient's Experience This study therefore sought to identify how well patients understand the role of blood transfusion in their treatment and whether it causes them discomfort.
American Journal of Nursing March 2011 O'Lynn & Krautscheid	Original Research: 'How Should I Touch You?': A Qualitative Study of Attitudes on Intimate Touch in Nursing Care This study sought to elicit the attitudes of laypersons on intimate touch provided by nurses in general and male nurses in particular.
Nurse Practitioner December 2011	Managing pain in obese patients Obesity-related pain conditions can limit the patient's efforts at increasing activity and limit quality of life. This article will offer information on these conditions and treatment options.
Nursing Management March 2012 Yvonne D'Arcy	Pain and obesity It can be a challenge to provide effective pain management for obese patients; however, a multimodal pain management regimen that combines medications and complementary techniques can help increase pain relief.
American Journal of Nursing April 2010 Mary Curry Narayan	Culture's Effects on Pain Assessment and Management When patients belong to a culture or speak a language that's different from that of their health care provider, the provider faces additional challenges in successfully assessing and managing the patients' pain.
Nursing December 2011 Judith A. Nagle	Getting "hip" to hip hemiarthroplasty This article discusses arthroplasty, the surgery used to restore motion to a joint and function to the muscles, ligaments, and other soft tissues that control the joint.
Nursing October 2009 Yvonne D'Arcy	Overturning barriers to pain relief in older adults This article will describe how to lower the barriers to effective pain control in older patients and provide practical tips for helping them receive the full benefit from pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic therapies.
Nursing Management November 2010 Penprase et al.	Preoperative communication to improve safety: A literature review Nurses should take the lead in championing the introduction and assessment of preoperative briefings, and in supporting other perioperative personnel who may be tasked with implementing them.
American Journal of Nursing April 2009	Understanding and Managing Burn Pain: Part 1 Despite advances in topical wound care and pharmacology, and a growing emphasis on palliative care, wound care is the main source of the pain associated with burn injury.
American Journal of Nursing March 2011 Jablonski et al.	The Use of Algorithms in Assessing and Managing Persistent Pain in Older Adults This article introduces readers to the use of algorithms in guiding the assessment and management of persistent pain in older adults, and provides an illustrative case study.
Nursing June 2008 Yvonne D'arcy	Nursing2008 Pain Management Survey Report See how your responses to this survey compare with those of nursing colleagues across the country and beyond.
BusinessWeek August 2, 2004 Michael Arndt	New Knees, No Big Deal Minimally invasive surgery uses smaller incisions, spares muscles and tendons, requires less medication, and gets patients up and out fast.
American Family Physician May 15, 2001	Pain Relief After Surgery How will my pain be managed?...How are pain medicines given after surgery?... What should I do to make sure I receive the best possible pain relief?...
Nursing March 2009 Kate J. Morse	Focusing on the Surgical Patient with Cardiac Problems Learn about the latest guidelines for assessing cardiac risk and protecting his heart during noncardiac surgery.
American Family Physician July 15, 2000 Mitchell S. King	Preoperative Evaluation The purpose of a preoperative evaluation is not to "clear" patients for elective surgery, but rather to evaluate and, if necessary, implement measures to prepare higher risk patients for surgery...
Managed Care October 2003 Martin Sipkoff	Pain Management: Health Plans Need to Take Control Insurers have not focused much on chronic pain. They should. It presents a humanitarian and business opportunity.
American Journal of Nursing May 2009 Patricia Connor-Ballard	Understanding and Managing Burn Pain: Part 2 Despite advances in treatment of burn injuries and their consequent pain, wound care is the main source of the pain associated with burn injury.
Nursing January 2009 Susan Gallagher Camden	Shedding Health Risks with Bariatric Weight Loss Surgery More obese patients are turning to bariatric weight loss surgery, which is proving its worth by decreasing or eliminating dangerous comorbidities of obesity. Here's how to help prepare your patient for surgery and care for her afterward.
American Family Physician May 15, 2001 Allan Gottschalk & David S. Smith	New Concepts in Acute Pain Therapy: Preemptive Analgesia Preemptive analgesia, an evolving clinical concept, involves the introduction of an analgesic regimen before the onset of noxious stimuli, with the goal of preventing sensitization of the nervous system to subsequent stimuli that could amplify pain...
Nursing Management May 2011 Kirsten Drake	SCIP core measures: Deep impact In August 2005, the SIP project grew to become a multiyear, national quality partnership of organizations called the Surgical Care Improvement Project, or SCIP, with the goal of decreasing surgical complication by 25% by 2010.
American Journal of Nursing December 2010 Baldridge & Andrasek	Pain Assessment in People with Intellectual or Developmental Disabilities Nurses in all settings need to be knowledgeable about alternate pain assessment methods.
Nursing August 2011 Sandra C. Voda	Bad breaks: A nurse's guide to distal radius fractures The most common upper extremity fracture, distal radius fracture accounts for an estimated 17% of fractures treated in the United States emergency departments and 16% of all fractures treated by orthopedic surgeons.
American Family Physician January 15, 2007 Dixit et al.	Management of Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome Patellofemoral pain syndrome is the most common cause of knee pain in the outpatient setting. It is caused by imbalances in the forces controlling patellar tracking during knee flexion and extension, particularly with overloading of the joint.
American Journal of Nursing June 2007 Baugh et al.	Wounds in Surgical Patients Who Are Obese Surgery, whether bariatric or not, puts this population at risk. Review the basics of prevention and care.
American Family Physician June 15, 2006 Rao & Cherukuri	Management of Hip Fracture: The Family Physician's Role One in five persons dies in the first year after sustaining a hip fracture, and those who survive past one year may have significant functional limitation. Although surgery is the main treatment for hip fracture, family physicians play a key role as patients' medical consultants.
American Family Physician January 15, 2007	Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome A patient guide: What are the symptoms of PFPS?... How is it treated?... Will I need surgery?... Will the pain come back?...
Nurse Practitioner May 2009 Yvonne D'Arcy	Is Low Back Pain Getting on Your Nerves? The pain and disability of low back pain are the most common reasons patients seek healthcare. Here are tools for diagnosis and treatment options.
The Motley Fool July 17, 2006 Querna & Fischman	Good Medical Help Close to Home Your local hospital might be just as good as any glittery big-name center. Finding out if your local hospital is up to snuff requires some homework. Here are the major factors in judging the quality of care, courtesy of U.S. News & World Report's annual "America's Best Hospitals" issue.
American Journal of Nursing October 2011 Jeannette D. Crenshaw	Preoperative Fasting: Will the Evidence Ever Be Put into Practice? Decades of research support the safety and health benefits of consuming clear liquids, including those that are carbohydrate rich, until a few hours before elective surgery or other procedures requiring sedation or anesthesia.
American Journal of Nursing June 2008 Ellen Flaherty	How to Try This: Using Pain-Rating Scales with Older Adults Pain is often undertreated and underdiagnosed in older adults. Regular use of short, simple, reliable pain-rating scales provides nurses and physicians with measurable information to establish and modify a pain management plan.
American Family Physician August 1, 2000 Dennis Y. Wen	Intra-articular Hyaluronic Acid Injections for Knee Osteoarthritis ...Osteoarthritis is characterized by a loss of articular cartilage, which has a highly limited capacity to heal itself. Viscosupplementation is a newly available option for patients with symptomatic knee osteoarthritis that involves a series of intra-articular injections of hyaluronic acid....
American Family Physician August 1, 2004 Snyder, Doggett & Turkelson	Treatment of Degenerative Lumbar Spinal Stenosis This article reviews the evidence for conservative and surgical treatments for the disease that causes leg pain and difficulty walking, usually in elderly patients.
American Journal of Nursing July 2008 Horgas & Miller	Pain Assessment in People with Dementia The Pain Assessment in Advanced Dementia (PAINAD) scale has been designed to assess pain in this population by looking at five specific indicators.
Managed Care January 2006 Catherine M. Murphy-Barron	Can We Design a Fair Benefit For Bariatric Surgery? Insurers need a coverage strategy that focuses on reducing post-surgical complications and avoiding adverse selection.
Inc. October 1, 2009 Adam Bluestein	The Future of the Human Body Ten innovations that will improve quality of life - and bring down health care costs.
Nurse Practitioner April 2012 Firestone et al.	Optimizing fibromyalgia management This article summarizes current information regarding the etiology, pathophysiology, clinical presentation, diagnostic standards, and pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatments necessary to successfully manage FM.
Nursing Management March 2010 Becker & Schmidtke	All along the watchtower: Suicide risk screening, a pilot study Patients will continue to die if healthcare organizations don't take action and appropriately assess patients at risk for suicide in general hospitals.
American Family Physician November 15, 2002 Bernard M. Karnath	Preoperative Cardiac Risk Assessment Heart disease is the leading cause of mortality in the United States. An important subset of heart disease is perioperative myocardial infarction, which affects approximately 50,000 persons each year.
Salon.com March 2, 2001 Dawn MacKeen	Your heart has been recalled In the brave new world of body-part implants, what happens when you get a lemon of a ticker?
Nurse Practitioner February 2012 Jennifer M. Belavic	Annual drug update 2011 in review Many new medications were approved throughout 2011. This article will cover a variety of drugs that will be useful in nurse practitioner practice
American Family Physician October 15, 2002 Thomas J. Zuber	Knee Joint Aspiration and Injection Knee joint aspiration and injection are performed to aid in diagnosis and treatment of knee joint diseases. The knee joint is the most common and the easiest joint for the physician to aspirate.
Health July 2007 Curt Pesmen	Surgery to Avoid #5: Lower-Back Surgery Endoscopic or the traditional lumbar-disc repair surgeries relieve lower-back pain in 85 to 90 percent of cases, but there may be easier solutions.
American Family Physician August 1, 2000	Treating Knee Osteoarthritis with Injections Osteoarthritis is a painful knee problem. It is also called degenerative arthritis or wear-and-tear arthritis. What causes osteoarthritis? How can my doctor tell if I have osteoarthritis? How will my doctor treat my osteoarthritis?
Managed Care April 2004 Martin Sipkoff	Plans Go Directly to Patients, Describing Treatment Options HMOs are developing programs that encourage patients to question their physicians about their treatment options. Doctors are wary.
Nurse Practitioner May 2012 Hammersla & Kapustin	Peripheral Neuropathy: Evidence-based treatment of a complex disorder Peripheral neuropathy is a common and often progressive condition frequently seen in primary care. The chronic pain associated with PN, or neuropathic pain, can significantly diminish patients' quality of life and be challenging to treat.
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2015 Chern Li Liew	Collaborative Construction of Digital Cultural Heritage: A Synthesis of Research on Online Sociability Determinants What does the literature tell us about online sociability that could inform how participation in collaborative construction of digital cultural heritage can be supported, motivated and sustained?
Nursing Management June 2011 LaRocco & Pinchera	The emerging trend of medical tourism Although it's difficult to find accurate data, there's general agreement that the number of Americans seeking medical care abroad is growing.
Managed Care June 2005 Thomas Morrow	Spinal Disc Technology Seeks To Replace Body's Engineering Marvel Vertebral fusion and disc replacement are comparable, but shorter recovery time for disc replacement makes it attractive.
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2015 Linek & Baessler	The Role of Libraries in Science 2.0: Focus on Economics The presented empirical study explores the role of modern libraries in Science 2.0. The main focus lies on the researchers' needs for an optimized use of Web 2.0 for scientific work.