Evaluation of drug therapy and risk factors in diabetic hypertensives: a study of the quality of care provided in diabetic clinics in Bahrain.

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To describe the practices of physicians on the diagnosis and treatment of antituberculosis drug-induced hepatotoxicity (ATH), and to evaluate the concordance between these practices and the American Thoracic Society (ATS) 2006 guidelines. METHODS:Information was reviewed on 670 new cases of tuberculosis pat...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Thongraung W,Sittidach M,Khwansuwan P,Sariyasuntorn K,Wongsampan S

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:Predictors of intimate partner violence (IPV) include husband, wife and relational characteristics. However, we know little about the proximal, day-to-day triggering of abusive events. The purpose of the study was to analyse the daily temporal relationships among environmental, relational...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Katerndahl D,Burge S,Ferrer R,Becho J,Wood R

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE, AIMS, AND OBJECTIVES:Little attention has been given to perceptions of pharmacist availability and role in the community setting following policy changes. The Pakistani model is particularly interesting as it encompasses three different pharmacy practice licensure types with major differences in credentials,...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Qadeer G,Amin MEK

更新日期：2020-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Health care purchasers are facing increasing pressure to make the best use of their limited resources and to purchase only those services known to be clinically effective. This paper describes one health authority's experience of promoting clinical effectiveness through clinical audit and clinical guidelines. It highl...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Auplish S

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Unattended home sleep studies have been implemented to minimize the cost and delay in establishing obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome (OSAS) diagnosis and therapy. However, their accuracy and validity remain disputed. The purpose of our study is to assess their effectiveness (i.e. their technical reliability ...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Domingo C,Vigil L

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:A national guideline was proposed to enable shared care in hearing complaints and therefore to change patient flows. In this study the effect of this guideline is evaluated. METHODS:From a total of 3500 patients with hearing complaints, consulting the Ear Nose and Throat Department of a ...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Duijvestijn JA,Grutters JP,Chenault MN,Joore MA,Manni JJ,Anteunis LJ

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:There is growing interest in validating tools aimed at supporting the clinical decision-making process and research. However, an increased bureaucratization of clinical practice and redundancies in the measures collected have been reported by clinicians. Redundancies in clinical assessments affect negatively ...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Palese A,Marini E,Guarnier A,Barelli P,Zambiasi P,Allegrini E,Bazoli L,Casson P,Marin M,Padovan M,Picogna M,Taddia P,Chiari P,Salmaso D,Marognolli O,Canzan F,Ambrosi E,Saiani L,Grassetti L

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:The goal is to fully automate the calculation of a breast ptosis measure from clinical photographs through automatic localization of fiducial points relevant to the measure. METHODS:Sixty-eight women (97 clinical photographs) who underwent or were scheduled for breast reconstruction were...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Lee J,Kim E,Reece GP,Crosby MA,Beahm EK,Markey MK

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experience of knowledge management initiatives in non-health care organizations can offer useful insights, and strategies, to implement evidence-based practice in health care. Knowledge management offers a structured process for the generation, storage, distribution and application of knowledge in organizations. This ...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Sandars J,Heller R

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to determine whether a brief Internet-based education programme could improve physicians' abilities to manage pigmented skin lesions. A pre-test-post-test assessment was used of subjects' knowledge of skin cancer, confidence in their management abilities and actual ability to recommend approp...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Harris JM Jr,Salasche SJ,Harris RB

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tough but constructive criticisms of evidence-based medicine (EBM) have without doubt informed the evolution and serial reconstitutions of this approach to clinical decision making and behaviour. Yet, concerns about EBM persist and as EBM changes in response to reflection and criticism, so too do the criticisms themse...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Buetow S,Upshur R,Miles A,Loughlin M

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:A positive and strong safety culture underpins effective learning from patient safety incidents in health care, including the community pharmacy (CP) setting. To build this culture, perceptions of safety climate must be measured with context-specific and reliable instruments. No pre-exist...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Newham R,Bennie M,Maxwell D,Watson A,de Wet C,Bowie P

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is important to improve our understanding about what might be the specific characteristics of mental disorders to strengthen the scientific credibility of psychiatry and to clarify its position among other medical and nonmedical sciences. On the other hand, this issue has diagnostic, research, therapeutic, legal, f...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Telles Correia D

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:Hospital discharge notes can be used to identify rates of revisions in hip and knee arthroplasty surgeries if such administrative codes are accurate. In order to trust the data taken from the hospital discharge abstracts it is important to assess their reliability. The purpose of this stu...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Daneshvar P,Forster AJ,Dervin GF

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:To describe the first phase of a global evaluation framework for the National Prescribing Service (NPS), with a focus on services for health professionals, and in particular highlight the lessons learnt from evaluation around the establishment and implementation of this national program. METHODS:The agreed e...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Beilby J,Wutzke SE,Bowman J,Mackson JM,Weekes LM

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:Individual comparisons of the performance of risk-adjustment indices have been widely conducted. Few reviews have been conducted to summarize the performance of different risk-adjustment indices. A 30-day mortality rate is widely used to evaluate the quality of care in hospitals by federa...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Yang M,Mehta HB,Bali V,Gupta P,Wang X,Johnson ML,Aparasu RR

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the commonest primary hepatic malignancy and the third most common cause of cancer-related death worldwide. Incidence remains highest in the developing world and is steadily increasing across the developed world. The majority of HCC occurs on a background of cirrhosis, principally cau...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Patel M,Shariff MI,Ladep NG,Thillainayagam AV,Thomas HC,Khan SA,Taylor-Robinson SD

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES:Quality of life has emerged as a crucial concept for the assessment of health and the planning of health care. Desirable features for the evaluation of quality of life include comprehensiveness, self-ratedness, cultural sensitivity, practicality and psychometric soundness. An attempt to meet th...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Mezzich JE,Cohen NL,Ruiperez MA,Banzato CE,Zapata-Vega MI

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strand and Parkkinen criticize our dispositional account of causation in evidence-based medicine for failing to provide a proper epistemology of causal knowledge. In particular, they claim that we do not explain how causal inferences should be drawn. In response, we point out that dispositionalism does indeed have an ...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Kerry R,Eriksen TE,Noer Lie SA,Mumford S,Anjum RL

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:Annual national prevalence surveys have been conducted in the Netherlands over the past 10 years and have revealed high prevalence rates in Dutch nursing homes. Pressure ulcer guideline implementation is one of the factors that can influence prevalence rates. Previous research has shown t...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Meesterberends E,Halfens RJ,Lohrmann C,Schols JM,de Wit R

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:This paper is the third of three related papers exploring the ways in which the principles of Learning Organizations (LOs) could be applied in Primary Care settings at the point of service delivery. METHODS:Here we provide a systematic literature review of contextual factors that either ...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Rushmer R,Kelly D,Lough M,Wilkinson JE,Davies HT

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Statistical tests of heterogeneity and bias, in particular publication bias, are very popular in meta-analyses. These tests use statistical approaches whose limitations are often not recognized. Moreover, it is often implied with inappropriate confidence that these tests can provide reliable answers to questions that ...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Ioannidis JP

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although disease management (DM) has been in existence for over a decade, there is still much uncertainty as to its effectiveness in improving health status and reducing medical cost. The main reason is that most programme evaluations typically follow weak observational study designs that are subject to bias, most not...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Linden A,Adams JL,Roberts N

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:Existing literature suggests that doctors' poor adherence with guidelines is one of the major contributing factors to suboptimal control of hypertension. This study aims to evaluate doctors' adherence with Malaysian clinical practice guideline (CPG 2008) in a tertiary care hospital, and f...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Ahmad N,Hassan Y,Tangiisuran B,Meng OL,Abd Aziz N,Ahmad FU,Atif M

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:Handovers within and between health care settings are known to affect quality of care. Health care organizations, struggle how to guarantee best care during handovers. The aim of this paper is to evaluate handover practices in Dutch birth centres from a process perspective, to identify ob...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Hitzert M,Boesveld IC,Hermus MAA,de Graaf JP,Wiegers TA,Steegers EAP,Meijboom BR,Akkermans HA

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:Guidelines for patients with knee osteoarthritis (OA) are suboptimally implemented in clinical care. To improve guideline adherence, patients' perceived barriers and facilitators in current care were investigated. METHODS:Eleven patients with knee OA were extensively interviewed using a ...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Spitaels D,Vankrunkelsven P,Desfosses J,Luyten F,Verschueren S,Van Assche D,Aertgeerts B,Hermens R

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE, AIMS, AND OBJECTIVES:Clinical studies show equivalent health outcomes from interventional procedures and treatment with medication only for stable angina patients. However, patients may be subject to overuse or access barriers for interventional procedures and may exhibit suboptimal adherence to medications....

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Savitz ST,Bailey SC,Dusetzina SB,Jones WS,Trogdon JG,Stearns SC

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim was to determine whether there are differences among family physicians (FPs) and general practitioners (GPs) in terms of their preference for different classes of antihypertensives, either alone or in combinations, in uncomplicated cases of hypertension and to determine the extent of adherence to WHO/ISH guide...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Sequeira RP,Jassim KA,Damanhori AH,Mathur VS

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:The spontaneous reporting of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) through the yellow card and made concrete by the knowledge and attitudes of doctors, has been rousing a great deal of bibliographical interest in recent years. However, there does not seem to be any actual revision in the theme on...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Herdeiro MT,Polonia J,Gestal-Otero JJ,Figueiras A

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:Explicit criteria have been used worldwide to identify suboptimal prescribing such as potentially inappropriate prescriptions (PIPs). The objective of our study was to determine prevalence, types and factors associated with PIPs in older people discharged from an Albanian hospital. METHO...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Hudhra K,Beçi E,Petrela E,Xhafaj D,García-Caballos M,Bueno-Cavanillas A

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00