Few parents of overweight and AROW children recognized their child as overweight or were worried. Recognition of physical activity limitations and physicians' concerns may heighten the parent's level of concern. Sketches may be a useful tool to identify overweight children when measurements are not available.
Purpose
This paper describes how two academic health science librarians exposed graduate students to health literacy concepts in a graduate-level nutrition course. This paper aims to present an easy method for librarians to expose students in the health professions to concepts of health literacy.
Design/methodology/approach
The Information and Health Literacy course is an online course co-taught by nutrition faculty and librarians at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science. The librarian-led one-week health literacy module begins with readings that define health literacy and continues with two online discussion board activities. One activity is identifying an example of low health literacy in their personal or professional lives, and the other is using criteria from the readings in their analysis of a consumer health website.
Findings
Students often comment that prior to taking this course, they had not considered how patients might think about and understand their own health care, but they will now take it into account going forward. Many students also felt that the assignment made them view Web resources for patients differently and with a more critical eye.
Originality/value
Those in allied health professions like registered dietitians often have direct contact with patients and have the ability to make a significant impact. If students are exposed to health literacy concepts through online activities within the curriculum, they may be more aware of this important concept when working with patients in the future.
Objective:
The objective of this systematic review is to synthesize the best available evidence related to the effectiveness of deep general anesthesia on acute postoperative pain and patient safety in adult patients.
Introduction:
Acute postoperative pain is a common physiological side effect of surgery that should be alleviated as soon as possible to reduce suffering and other detrimental effects. Given the adverse effects related to the use of opioids for pain management, and in the current opioid epidemic, evidence-based clinical practice recommendations are needed to reduce the use of opioids in the treatment of acute postoperative pain.
Inclusion criteria:
This review will include studies of adult patients that incorporate the intervention of deep general anesthesia (bispectral index values of 45 or less), compared to the provision of a standard depth of general anesthesia (bispectral index values 45–60). Included studies will report acute postoperative pain (within the first 48 hours after surgery) as a primary outcome variable. Secondary outcomes of interest include opioid consumption and any reported adverse outcomes.
Methods:
A three-step search strategy will be used to locate studies published in English from 1992 (advent of electroencephalography index monitoring technology) in Ovid MEDLINE, Embase and CINAHL databases. Two independent reviewers will assess retrieved studies against inclusion criteria, complete critical appraisal for methodological quality and extract data using a standardized tool. Data will be synthesized using statistical meta-analysis, where possible.
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