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Open AccessMap** implementation strategies to reach community-dwelling older adults in Northwest Switzerland
In Northwestern Switzerland, recent legislation tackles the needs of community-dwelling older adults by creating Information and Advice Centers (IACs). IACs are a new service in the community that aims to asse...
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Open AccessHow external and agency characteristics are related to coordination in homecare – findings of the national multicenter, cross-sectional SPOTnat study
Homecare client services are often distributed across several interdependent healthcare providers, making proper care coordination essential. However, as studies exploring care coordination in the homecare set...
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Open AccessExploring medication safety structures and processes in nursing homes: a cross-sectional study
Medication safety is important to limit adverse events for nursing home residents. Several factors, such as interprofessional collaboration with pharmacists and medication reviews, have been shown in the liter...
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Open AccessAdministrative burden in Swiss nursing homes and its association with care workers’ outcomes—a multicenter cross-sectional study
Care workers in nursing homes often perform tasks that are rather related to organizational or management activities than ‘direct patient care’. ‘Indirect care activities’, such as documentation or other admin...
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Open AccessThe Interaction Between Leadership, the Patient-to-Nurse Ratio and Nurses’ Work-Life Balance in the Psychiatric Inpatient Setting in Switzerland: A Secondary Data Analysis of Cross-Sectional Data
Psychiatric nurses’ work environment factors, including long hours, heavy workloads and leadership issues, can serve as barriers to achieving a healthy work-life balance. However, for both individuals and orga...
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Open AccessEvaluating the implementation fidelity to a successful nurse-led model (INTERCARE) which reduced nursing home unplanned hospitalisations
Implementation fidelity assesses the degree to which an intervention is delivered as it should be. Fidelity helps to determine if the outcome(s) of an intervention are attributed to the intervention itself or ...
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Open AccessDaily practices of advanced practice nurses within a multi-professional primary care practice in Switzerland: a qualitative analysis
The rising global population of older persons with chronic conditions demands new primary care models. Advanced practice nurses (APNs) can help meet that need. In Switzerland, APNs have only recently been intr...
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Open AccessFactors associated with health-related quality of life among home-dwelling older adults aged 75 or older in Switzerland: a cross-sectional study
HRQoL is an indicator of individuals’ perception of their overall health, including social and environmental aspects. As a multidimensional concept, HRQoL can be influenced by a multitude of factors. Studies o...
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Open AccessMethodological approaches to study context in intervention implementation studies: an evidence gap map
Within implementation science studies, contextual analysis is increasingly recognized as foundational to interventions' successful and sustainable implementation. However, inconsistencies between methodologica...
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Open AccessExploring resident experiences of person-centred care at mealtimes in long-term residential care: a rapid ethnography
Poor nutrition is a common ongoing problem in long-term residential care, often resulting in reduced quality of life. Previous research has concluded that the content of the meal, dining environment, service s...
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Open AccessEvidence for publicly reported quality indicators in residential long-term care: a systematic review
An increasing number of countries are using or planning to use quality indicators (QIs) in residential long-term care. Knowledge regarding the current state of evidence on usage and methodological soundness of...
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Open AccessHealth and social care of home-dwelling frail older adults in Switzerland: a mixed methods study
Home-dwelling frail older adults are often faced with multimorbidity and complex care needs, requiring health and social care systems that support frail older adults to age in place. The objective of this pape...
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Open AccessUnraveling implementation context: the Basel Approach for coNtextual ANAlysis (BANANA) in implementation science and its application in the SMILe project
Designing intervention and implementation strategies with careful consideration of context is essential for successful implementation science projects. Although the importance of context has been emphasized an...
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Open AccessInappropriate and potentially avoidable emergency department visits of Swiss nursing home residents and their resource use: a retrospective chart-review
Emergency department (ED) visits for nursing home residents lead to higher morbidity and mortality. Therefore, inappropriate visits (for conditions treatable elsewhere) or potentially avoidable visits (those a...
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Open AccessDetecting delirium in nursing home residents using the Informant Assessment of Geriatric Delirium (I-AGeD): a validation pilot study
The aims of this study were to record the prevalence of delirium in residents with the DSM-5, to investigate the feasibility of the I-AGeD in a Swiss nursing home and to compare the results of the I-AGeD with ...
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Open AccessDelirium detection in hospitalized adults: the performance of the 4 'A's Test and the modified Confusion Assessment Method for the Emergency Department. A comparison study
Early detection of delirium through systematic screening is essential to mitigate and prevent possible consequences. The 4 'A's Test (4AT) is a new tool that can be used for delirium detection easily and witho...
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Open AccessHealth economic evaluation of a nurse-led care model from the nursing home perspective focusing on residents’ hospitalisations
Health economic evaluations of the implementation of evidence-based interventions (EBIs) into practice provide vital information but are rarely conducted. We evaluated the health economic impact associated wit...
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Open AccessImplementation of a complex intervention to reduce hospitalizations from nursing homes: a mixed-method evaluation of implementation processes and outcomes
To evaluate the implementation of three intervention elements to reduce hospitalizations in nursing home residents.
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Open AccessQuality of care is what we make of it: a qualitative study of managers’ perspectives on quality of care in high-performing nursing homes
Leadership has a vital role regarding quality of care in nursing homes. However, few studies have explored upper-level managers’ views on how to assure that residents receive high quality of care. Therefore, t...
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Open AccessRegional variation of potentially avoidable hospitalisations in Switzerland: an observational study
Primary health care is subject to regional variation, which may be due to unequal and inefficient distribution of services. One key measure of such variation are potentially avoidable hospitalisations, i.e., h...
