Exploring the continuum: medical information to effective clinical practice. Paper I: the translation of knowledge into clinical practice.

abstract：RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:Appropriate indications for colonoscopy (C) are essential for a rational use of resources. The aim of this study is to evaluate the appropriateness of indication for C according to the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) guidelines and to evaluate whether appropriate us...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Suriani R,Rizzetto M,Mazzucco D,Grosso S,Gastaldi P,Marino M,Sanseverinati S,Venturini I,Borghi A,Zeneroli ML

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Diagnostic reasoning is a critical aspect of clinical performance, having a high impact on quality and safety of care. Although diagnosis is fundamental in medicine, we still have a poor understanding of the factors that determine its course. According to traditional understanding, all information used in dia...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Lucchiari C,Pravettoni G

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The study aims to identify key enablers fostering clinical risk management (CRM) in hospitals to guide health care in this vital area of patient safety. METHOD:A cross-sectional survey was conducted at the national level in 324 Swiss hospitals in 2007-2008 to assess the relationship between key elements and ...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Briner M,Manser T,Kessler O

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The study aims to support decision making on how best to redesign diabetes care by investigating three potential sources of heterogeneity in effectiveness across trials of diabetes care management. METHODS:Medline, CINAHL and PsycInfo were searched for systematic reviews and empirical studies focusing on: (1) ...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Elissen AM,Steuten LM,Lemmens LC,Drewes HW,Lemmens KM,Meeuwissen JA,Baan CA,Vrijhoef HJ

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:Diagnostic reasoning and treatment decisions are a key competence of doctors. A model based on values and probability provides a conceptual framework for clinical judgments and decisions, and also facilitates the integration of clinical and biomedical knowledge into a diagnostic decision....

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Ortendahl M

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:Surgical site infections are the most common healthcare-associated infections. Appropriate surgical antimicrobial prophylaxis (SAP), which is an integral part of surgical site infection SSI prevention, is one of the major preventable risks to surgical patient safety. Several clinical prac...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Altokhais TI,Al-Obaid OA,Kattan AE,Amer YS,CPG Collaborative Groups.

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:To evaluate asthma management and control in primary care clinics so as to design improvements based on guideline-directed outcomes. METHODS:In this study, all medical records of asthma-diagnosed patients (children as well as adults, entire lifespan, asthma-related visits or not) were re...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： du Plessis JM,Gerber JJ,Brand L

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:RATIONAL AND AIMS: In recent years, guidelines for treatment of patients with chronic heart failure (CHF) have been updated. Insight in current pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment of CHF in primary care, which was non-optimal in earlier studies, is limited. We aim to describe current pharmacolo...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Bosch M,Wensing M,Bakx JC,van der Weijden T,Hoes AW,Grol RP

更新日期：2010-06-01 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：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：RATIONALE:Recent reports indicate that approximately 10% of in-patients in UK hospitals are involved in an adverse event (these reports also state that 50% of these events are preventable). This is indeed a worrying finding, and indicates the need to look at how these incidents are handled or indeed, what is done to mi...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Arfanis K,Smith A

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent research indicates that allied health clinicians have difficulty articulating client needs and priorities into specific and measurable goals. As a result, a number of strategies to facilitate improvement in allied health clinicians' goal-setting skills have been recommended in the literature. In order...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Marsland E,Bowman J

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess the evidence for tai chi in reducing resting blood pressure (BP) in the elderly. METHODS:Databases were searched up to February 2009. All randomized clinical trials (RCTs) testing the effects of tai chi on resting BP in the elderly were considered. The selection of studies, data extraction and val...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Lee MS,Lee EN,Kim JI,Ernst E

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:According to Sackett, evidence-based medicine is the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of the individual patient. In this article, clinical reasoning is depicted as multilayered processes of evidence construction by means of social interaction and hum...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Malterud K

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:Errors in hospitals during the preparation and administration of intravenous drugs to infants and children have been reported to a rate of 13% to 84%. This study aimed to investigate the potential for hazardous events that may lead to an accident for preparation and administration of drug...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Hfaiedh N,Kabiche S,Delescluse C,Balde IB,Merlin S,Carret S,de Pontual L,Fontan JE,Schlatter J

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:The purpose of this study is to systematically evaluate the quality of methodological guidelines for androgenetic alopecia (AGA) using the Appraisal of Guidelines for Research and Evaluation (AGREE) II instrument by searching and analysing the available worldwide guidelines. This could pr...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Huang M,Zhou X

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Although patient safety has improved steadily, harm remains a substantial global challenge. Additionally, safety needs to be ensured not only in hospitals but also across the continuum of care. Better understanding of the complex cognitive factors influencing health care-related decisions and organizationa...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Seshia SS,Bryan Young G,Makhinson M,Smith PA,Stobart K,Croskerry P

更新日期：2018-02-01 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：RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:Patient involvement is increasingly recognized as a key component on the international health care agenda. This attention has brought a need for developing generic and standardized open-source methods, tools, and guidelines on how to systematically implement patient involvement initiative...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Jørgensen MJ,Pedersen CG,Martin HM,Lomborg K

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:Consistent links exist between male alcohol intake and male-perpetrated intimate partner violence (IPV) as well as female alcohol intake and female-perpetrated IPV. However, the nature of the relationship remains unclear. This study attempted to identify unique alcohol-violence patterns w...

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: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：:Over the past two decades, the majority of medical schools in the USA have embarked upon curricular initiatives to enhance the teaching of ambulatory or office-based primary care. Identifying characteristics of these primary care experiences that make for the most effective learning is a top priority in medical educat...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Kurth RJ,Irigoyen MM,Schmidt HJ

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several philosophers of medicine have attempted to answer the question "what is disease?" In current clinical practice, an umbrella term "chronic kidney disease" (CKD) encompasses a wide range of kidney health states from commonly prevalent subclinical, asymptomatic disease to rare end-stage renal disease requiring tr...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Smart BTH,Stevens RJ,Verbakel JY

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is common for primary care providers (PCPs) to manage complex multimorbidity. When caring for patients with multimorbidity, PCPs face challenges to tackle several issues within a short consultation in order to address patients' complex needs. Furthermore, some PCPs may lack access to a multidisciplinary team and ne...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Ng CJ,Lee YK,Abdullah A,Abu Bakar AI,Tun Firzara AM,Tiew HW

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I discuss the lack of precision in the term 'clinical reasoning' and its relationship to evidence-based medicine and critical thinking. I examine critical thinking skills, their underemphasis in medical education and successful attempts to remediate them. Evidence-based medicine (and evidence-based psychiatry) offer m...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Wells LA

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of process measures in the assessment of the quality of care has been neglected of late. The outcomes movement has gathered momentum and process measurement appears to have been left trailing in the wake. Yet process measures can be sensitive indicators of the quality of care and have many advantages over outc...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Crombie IK,Davies HT

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:We report findings from a qualitative study to identify patient views of community hospital care. We consider how far these were in accord with the hospital staffs' views. This constituted part of a wider randomized controlled trial (RCT). The methodological challenges in seeking to identify patient...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Small N,Green J,Spink J,Forster A,Lowson K,Young J

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Given the growing concern for the safety, cost and adequacy of blood supply, there is an increasing need for appropriate blood product utilization. Despite a number of consensus guidelines for the transfusion of allogeneic blood products, inappropriate blood transfusion continues. We discuss the quality assurance proc...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Joshi GP,Landers DF

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Evidence-based practice (EBP) is a worldwide approach to improving health care. There is, however, a shortage of studies examining whether or not newly graduated health care professionals are actually applying EBP in their daily work. OBJECTIVES:To examine the application of EBP in clinical practice by regi...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Boström AM,Ehrenberg A,Gustavsson JP,Wallin L

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Central Research and Development Committee is seeking to involve lay perspectives in the NHS R&D Programme. This paper describes some recent examples of lay involvement in each step of the research process from setting the agenda to making use of research findings. Innovative approaches have involved lay people in...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Oliver S

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00