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Port access needle evaluation – Full Text

"We have shown significant differences regarding product characteristics of safety mechanisms of port access needles. Our evaluation approach provides specific data for both, technical (e.g., single-handed activation) and personal device selection criteria (e.g., preference of the safety mechanism)” Gabler et al (2025).

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OPAT services for people who use drugs – Full Text

"OPTIONS-DC is a multidisciplinary care conference developed in 2018 that utilizes a standardized conference tool led by outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT) registered nurses (RNs) to guide treatment and discharge planning while focusing on harm reduction, ethical principles, and patient preferences” Douglass et al (2025).

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PICC self management by patients – Full Text

"Construct a home-based self-management program for patients with indwelling PICC based on the information-motivation-behavioral skills (IMB) model to improve patient self-management” Fu et al (2025).

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Peripheral venous catheter fixation

"The study was carried out to compare the effect of transparent covers and elastic fixation bands used in peripheral venous catheter fixation on microbiological colonisation in patients in intensive care” Orhan and Goktas (2025).

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Staphylococcus aureus infection in hospitalized infants

"Historically, Staphylococcus aureus has been a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). The current incidence and attributable mortality of late-onset invasive S aureus infection in hospitalized infants is unknown” Jennings et al (2025).

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Comparison of peripheral intravenous catheterization sites – Full Text

"PIVC's applied at different anatomical sites were similar in terms of the risk of phlebitis and infiltration, but pain intensity was much higher upper hand. It has been determined that various factors related to the patient, nurse and other variables affecting the level of phlebitis, infiltration and pain are effective" Kaplan et al (2025).

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