Objective To develop a hospice care attitude scale for medical workers and to test its reliability and validity. Methods The inital scale was formed by literature review, semi-structured interview and expert consultation. From September to December 2015, a total of 238 medical workers, from different departments from hospitals of different levels in Quanzhou, were selected hierarchically and randomly, and were investigated about their attitude towards hospice care, by which, reliability and validity of the scale were tested, and the final scale was formed. Results In the final scale of hospice care attitude for medi-cal workers, 7 dimensions with 26 items were included. By exploratory factor analysis, 7 common factors were extracted, with cumulative contribution of variance 62.238% . Content validity of the scale was 0.889, with Cronbach's alpha 0.891, split-half reliability 0.863 and test-retest Pearson correlation coefficient 0.867. Conclusions The hospice care attitude scale for medical workers has been proved to be reliable and valid, which can be used to assess hospice care attitude of the medical workers.

Jean Watson's caring science/caritas nursing model is the first of its kind which integrates "caring" and "science". He proposes to make caring decisions in a scientific way based on ten caring and nursing elements, and develops the caring science with reliable quantitative and qualitative research evidence. He also founds the Institute of caring science research, the International Union of Fraternity and the International Fraternity Comparison Database, which play a positive role in popularizing his evidence. It is an obvious example of Dr. Watson's emphasis on evidence to develop the International Energy Field Project for Nurses and promote the application and practice of his evidence-based caring science model with the research evidence from other disciplines.

Objective:To investigate the predictive value of YKL-40 at admission on stroke-associated pneumonia (SAP) and poor outcome in patients with acute ischemic stroke (AIS).Methods:Patients with AIS admitted to Taixing People’s Hospital from February 2020 to March 2021 were enrolled prospectively. The poor outcome was defined as 3-6 points on the modified Rankin Scale at 90 d after onset. Multivariate logistic regression analysis was used to determine the independent predictors of SAP and poor outcome, and the predictive value of serum YKL-40 on SAP and poor outcome was evaluated by receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve. Results:A total of 377 patients with AIS were enrolled. The median serum YKL-40 was 127.16 μg/L. One hundred and four patients (27.6%) had SAP, and 126 (33.4%) had poor outcomes at 90 d after onset. Multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that after adjusting for confounding factors, YKL-40 was the independent predictors of SAP (odds ratio [ OR] 1.005, 95% confidence interval [ CI] 1.003-1.008; P=0.001) and poor outcome at 90 d ( OR 1.009, 95% CI 1.006-1.011; P=0.001). The ROC curve analysis showed that the area under the curve of YKL-40 for predicting SAP was 0.769 (95% CI 0.713-0.824; P<0.001), the best cutoff value was 168.70 μg/L, and the sensitivity and specificity were 71.2% and 75.1% respectively; the area under the curve of YKL-40 for predicting poor outcome at 90 d was 0.787 (95% CI 0.735-0.840; P<0.001), the best cutoff value was 195.56 μg/L, and the sensitivity and specificity were 68.3% and 84.1% respectively. Conclusion:Higher serum YKL-40 at admission has a good predictive value for SAP and poor outcome at 90 d in patients with AIS.

The development of hospice care in China Taiwan has important significance for mainland's hospitalpice. This review presents the government participation of hospice development, establishment of fund foundation, service model and concept in Taiwan, in order to explore the way of hospice development in mainland and provide a reference for mainland hospitalpice development basing on its the current problems.