Hospital Articles

Prostate cancer (PC) treatment leads to impairment of sexual function. The Prostate Cancer Supportive Care (PCSC) Program's Sexual Rehabilitation clinic (SRC) assists patients and their partners with sexual recovery using a biopsychosocial approach to rehabilitation.

Numerous evidence-based practices for preventing device-associated infections are available, yet the extent to which these practices are regularly used in acute care hospitals across different countries has not been compared, to our knowledge.

Abiraterone and enzalutamide are two oral novel androgen receptor axis-targeted agents approved for the treatment of castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). Despite the availability of multiple treatments, there is a need to improve the knowledge and management of these drugs in the real-world setting, especially in patient groups under-represented in clinical trials.

Background Nephrolithiasis (renal stones) is the most common urological disease. Its prevalence is high in every part of the world. Several factors lead to renal stone formation. In Pakistan, nephrolithiasis prevalence is also high as Pakistan is located in a region which is known as the salt belt.

Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) impact patients' lives through prolonged hospitalization, morbidity, and death, resulting in significant costs to both health systems and society. Central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) and catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) are two of the most preventable HAIs.

This study aimed to describe the characteristics of nocturia in older hospitalised patients and to explore knowledge, beliefs, and experiences associated with night toileting while in hospital in order to identify unmet care needs.

Despite focused initiatives to reduce device-associated infection among hospitalised patients, the practices US hospitals are currently using are unknown. We thus used a national survey to ascertain the use of several established and novel practices to prevent device-associated infections.