Recuperando evidencias en pacientes oncohematológicos (1ª parte):mucositis, dolor y satisfacción

Abstract

: Evidence Based Practice (EBP) is used as a tool to update nursing knowledge. It increases nurses´critical appraisal skills, to use the best available investigations and improve quality care in the medium to long term. In order to evaluate the repercussion of the EBP on quality daily cares, it is necessary to asses the impact on patients’ health; in regards to oncohematological nursing, some health outcomes would be: secondary effects, psychosocial factors influence on the admission time and patients satisfaction with nursing carers. Oral Mucositis, and pain associated to it, is one of main secondary effects of treatments for cancer. This complication appears in approximately 40% of the cases. There are countless studies on the subject of Oral Mucositis. However, not much has been published about Nurse Care Patient Satisfaction and Psychosocial Impact. As a consequence, our objective has been: to find and summarize the evidences about Mucositis, Pain associated, and Satisfaction; in order to encourage the spread of knowledge and promote changes in practice. Databases as CINAHL, MEDLINE, Cochrane Library, EMBASE, Pascal Biomed, LILACS, CUIDEN, CUIDEN qualitative y CUIDATGE were revised in Spanish, French and English. No time restrictions were applied.