Steffen Fleischer

TL;DR: Empirical findings of nurse-patient communication research will be presented, and applied theories will be shown, and it is concluded that communication skills can be learned to a certain degree.

TL;DR: The RN4CAST project as mentioned in this paper collected data from more than 33,000 nurses and 11,000 patients in 500 hospitals from 12 European countries from 2009 until 2011 and found that an increase in nurses' workload by one patient increases the likelihood of an inpatient dying within 30 days of admission by 7%.

TL;DR: Proxy quality of life ratings from professional and informal carers appear to be lower than the self-ratings of those with dementia, and a proxy rating should be judged as a complementary perspective for a self-assessment of quality ofLife by those with Alzheimer's Disease, rather than as a valid substitute.

TL;DR: There is weak evidence that, compared with standard dietary advice, adding a nutritional supplement to usual diet for patients during the waiting time for liver transplantation had an effect on clinical outcomes after liver transplation.

TL;DR: The results indicate that a preventive home visiting program can be effective in reducing falls in community-dwelling older people.