University of Groningen Effect of clinical pathway implementation and patients' characteristics on outcomes of coronary artery bypass graft surgery El-Baz, Noha IMPORTANT NOTE: You are advised to consult the publisher's version (publisher's PDF) if you wish to cite from it. Please check the document version below. Document Version Publisher's PDF, also known as Version of record Publication date: 2009 Link to publication in University of Groningen/UMCG research database Citation for published version (APA): El-Baz, N. E-S. H. (2009). Effect of clinical pathway implementation and patients' characteristics on outcomes of coronary artery bypass graft surgery s.n. Copyright Other than for strictly personal use, it is not permitted to download or to forward/distribute the text or part of it without the consent of the author(s) and/or copyright holder(s), unless the work is under an open content license (like Creative Commons). Take-down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. Downloaded from the University of Groningen/UMCG research database (Pure): http://www.rug.nl/research/portal. For technical reasons the number of authors shown on this cover page is limited to 10 maximum. Download date: 10-10-2018
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About the author About the author Noha El Baz was born in the cosmopolitan Mediterranean city of Alexandria on 10th of November 1973. She was educated at the Scottish school, currently known as El Manar English school for girls, from 1977 till 1991. In 1991, she joined the Faculty of Nursing at the Alexandria University, where she obtained a bachelor degree with Honors in 1995 and did a one-year internship in the Intensive Care Units of the Alexandria University hospitals. In 1996, she volunteered as clinical demonstrator at the Critical Care Nursing department of the Faculty of Nursing at the Alexandria University. In 1997, she was appointed as a full-time demonstrator and later, in June 2002, obtained her masters in Critical Care Nursing with a thesis titled The effect of two methods of intermittent enteral feeding on outcomes of critically ill patients. In August 2002, Noha was appointed assistant-lecturer in the same department, organized and participated in several training courses, workshops and international conferences, in addition to her participation in preparing and editing the Critical Care Cursing procedure manual at the Critical Care Nursing department. In 2004, Noha was awarded a full scholarship by the Egyptian government to pursue a PhD in the Netherlands. The project titled The effect of clinical pathways on outcomes of CABG was a collaboration between the Health Sciences department and the Thoracic Surgery department at the UMCG, Groningen, and the Thoracic Surgery department at HAGA hospital in The Hague. Her research interests are in Cardiovascular Research, Critical Care and General Clinical Research. 253
About the author Publications El Baz N, Middel B, van Dijk J, Oosterhof A, Boonstra P, Reijneveld S. Are the outcomes of clinical pathways evidence-based?a critical appraisal of clinical pathway evaluation research. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 2007; 13 (6):920-929. El Baz N, Middel B, Van Dijk J P, Wesselman D C M, Boonstra P W, Reijneveld S A. EuroSCORE predicts poor health-related physical functioning six month postcoronary artery bypass graft surgery. J Cardiovasc Surg 2008 ;49 (5):663-72 El Baz N, Middel B, van Dijk J, Boonstra P, Reijneveld S. Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery patients in a clinical pathway gained less in health-related quality of life as compared with patients who undergo CABG in a conventional-care plan. (Accepted for publication, July 2008, Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice) Pedersen, S.S, El Baz, N, Middel, B. Low Positive Affect Is Associated with More Health Complaints in Younger Bypass Patients. (Submitted). El Baz N, Middel B., Pedersen S.S, Van Dijk J.P, Reijneveld S.A. The impact of Type D personality on deterioration in health-related quality of life after coronary artery bypass graft surgery is mediated by changes in anxiety and depression. (Submitted) El-Baz N Reda NA, El Soussi A. Bolus versus slow gravity drip enteral feeding. 19th International Conference in Anesthesia and Intensive Care, ALEX AIC 2003 El-Baz, N. Clinical pathways, what, how and why? at the Cardio Alex 2003 Congress, June 25th-27th, Alexandria, Egypt El-Baz, N. Meta Analysis on nursing researches in cardiology at the DeltaCardio2004 annual international conference, February 24th 27th, Alexandria, Egypt. 254
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