Biomedical subjects

L Moody

Publications and source records attributed to L Moody.

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Severity of illness and resource allocation in DNR patients in ICU.

This study examined the differences in severity of illness and resource allocation between patients with do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders and non-DNR patients in intensive care units. Severely ill intensive care patients with DNR orders continued receiving aggressive medical care following cardiac or respiratory arrest. The continued use of advanced therapies for DNR patients raises important questions about the use of costly intensive care resources.

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A meta-analysis of critical outcome variables in nonnutritive sucking in preterm infants.

The advantages and limitations of meta-analysis in clinical nursing research are explained and illustrated with five studies of nonnutritive sucking (NNS) in preterm infants. This article addresses steps of locating studies, systematic comparison of studies for like variables, and qualitative decisions needed before quantitative methods are applied to cumulate findings across studies. Several approaches of calculating effect size and confidence intervals were used to interpret the power of the treatment effect of NNS. On average, across the five NNS studies, NNS intervention reduced time to first bottle feeding by 2.9 days and days of hospitalization by 6.3 days.

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Hospital provider satisfaction with a new documentation system.

Nursing documentation is an important component of clinical nursing practice. It is estimated that 15%-20% of work time is spent documenting patient information and that documentation is the most common cause for overtime. An evaluation of hospital staff satisfaction with a recently implemented documentation system showed that 70% are satisfied with the new system; 75% agree that consistency of nursing documentation has improved; 72% agree that availability of records has improved; 78% agree the placement of the nursing documentation at the point of service facilitates location of data; and 65% agree there has been a decrease in the number of forms they have to review in order to locate nursing information.

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