Assessing studentsâ clinical competencies using a competency assessment tool (CAT) is an essential part of nursing education. Assessors need to use CATs effectively to facilitate learning and students ...

The Rapid Geriatric Assessment (RGA) is a screening tool developed by the Geriatrics Division of Saint Louis University. The RGA includes assessment of frailty, nutrition, loss of muscle mass ...

Long-term use of sustained-release cytarabine for symptomatic management and treatment of meningeosis neoplastica. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2012 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This abstract ...

NORTHFIELD, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Medline, a global medical supplier, and Providigm, the creator of the leading quality management system, abaqis, today announced the launch of a new CMS Facility ...

A new fracture risk assessment tool for older adults living in a nursing home may be effective for predicting characteristics of those at increased risk for hip fracture, study data show. Sarah D.

Background: Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust had no common instrument to assess function throughout the trust. Aim: To compare three functional assessment tools, and provide evidence of ...

Hiroshima University researchers developed a three-factor, 12-item, questionnaire-based scale to systematically assess ...