Keeping vulnerable elderly patients free from pressure ulcer is associated with high caregiver burden in informal caregivers.

abstract：RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:It has been proposed that delivery should be accomplished within 30 minutes after diagnosis of fetal distress. The objective of this study was to determine the decision-to-delivery interval (DDI) in emergency caesarean delivery for non-reassuring fetal heart rate (FHR). METHODS:A total o...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Boriboonhirunsarn D,Watananirun K,Sompagdee N

更新日期：2016-12-01 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：RATIONALE, AIMS, AND OBJECTIVES:The patient-centred medical home (PCMH) is an innovative approach to health care reform. Despite a well-established process for recognizing PCMH practices, fidelity to, and/or adaptation of, the PCMH model can limit health care and population health improvements. This study explored the ...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Sklar M,Seijo C,Goldman RE,Eaton CB

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For over 30 years, "evidence-based" clinical guidelines remained entrenched in an oversimplified, design-based, framework for rating the strength of evidence supporting clinical recommendations. The approach frequently equated the rating of evidence with that of the recommendations themselves. "Grading Recommendations...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Wyer PC

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In modern philosophy, the concept of truth has been problematized from different angles, yet in evidence-based health care (EBHC), it continues to operate hidden and almost undisputed through the linked concept of "bias." To prevent unwarranted relativism and make better inferences in clinical practice, clinicians may...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Wieringa S,Engebretsen E,Heggen K,Greenhalgh T

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Development of chronic disease risk prediction models has become a growing area of research in recent years. The internal validity of such models is sometimes lower than estimated from the development sample. Overfitting or overoptimism of the developed model and/or differences between the samples are likely...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Mannan HR,McNeil JJ

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Self-efficacy - the confidence to carry out certain behaviour in order to achieve a specific goal - has increasingly been recognized as an essential prerequisite of effective self-management of chronic diseases. Therefore, valid and reliable measures are needed to evaluate self-efficacy in both research and c...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Freund T,Gensichen J,Goetz K,Szecsenyi J,Mahler C

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Results of renal transplantation have improved steadily over the years. This article reviews the current status of patient and graft survival and discusses major causes of mortality and renal allograft failure. Review of recent literature demonstrates that the traditional enemies of transplantation, acute rejection an...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Jurewicz WA,Miles A

更新日期：2004-02-01 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：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：: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:Patients can play an important role in reducing health care harm. Finding strategies to encourage patients to take on an active role in issues related to the quality and safety of their care is therefore essential. The aim of this study was to examine patients' and health care professiona...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Davis RE,Pinto A,Sevdalis N,Vincent C,Massey R,Darzi A

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:Adverse events (AEs) among hospitalized patients occur frequently and result in significant sequelae. Federal policy is incentivizing health information technology (HIT) use, although research demonstrating safety benefits from HIT is mixed. Our objective was to evaluate the potential eff...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Abramson EL,Kern LM,Brenner S,Hufstader M,Patel V,Kaushal R

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:In Canada, Aboriginal people, particularly First Nations experience significant health disparities and a lower health status compared with the non-Aboriginal population. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:The purpose of this study was to examine the demographic and clinical characteristics of First Nations patients admitte...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Lafond G,Haver CR,McLeod V,Clarke S,Horsburgh B,McLeod KM

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:Despite increasing dissemination efforts, many psychotherapists still do not use treatments that are supported by research. Some have claimed that psychotherapists rely more on their clinical intuition than scientific evidence when making treatment decisions, but there is a paucity of res...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Gaudiano BA,Brown LA,Miller IW

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In clinical medicine, a balance needs to be struck between reductionism (the view that a system can be fully understood in terms of its isolated parts) and holistic complexity appreciation (the view that the whole may not be discernible from knowledge of its parts). Reductionism, which currently is associated with ren...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Welsby PD

更新日期：1999-05-01 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：BACKGROUND:Trauma prevention starts with to find out the extent of the problem and who it affects. Insight into morbidity figures is therefore necessary. AIM:To explore sex differences in traumatology and secondary medical care utilization in primary care related to age and socio-economic status (SES). METHODS:Data w...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Lagro-Janssen T,Grosicar J

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Models for the structured delivery of care rely on organizational attributes of practice teams. The Survey of Organizational Attributes for Primary Care (SOAPC) is known to be a valid instrument to measure this aspect in the primary care setting. The aim of this study was to determine the validity of a transl...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Ose D,Freund T,Kunz CU,Szecsenyi J,Natanzon I,Trieschmann J,Wensing M,Miksch A

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:We developed a novel Internet-based blended learning programme that allows busy health care professionals to attain core competency in clinical research. This study details the educational strategies and learning outcomes of the programme. METHOD:This study was conducted at Kyoto Univers...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Tsugihashi Y,Kakudate N,Yokoyama Y,Yamamoto Y,Mishina H,Fukumori N,Nakamura F,Takegami M,Ohno S,Wakita T,Watanabe K,Yamaguchi T,Fukuhara S

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:Chronic disorders of consciousness (CDoC) pose significant problems of understanding for both medical professionals and the relatives and friends of the patient. This paper explores the tensions between the different interpretative resources that are drawn upon by lay people and professio...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Edgar A,Kitzinger C,Kitzinger J

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE, AIMS, AND OBJECTIVES:Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) are significant tools for evidence-based health care quality improvement. The CPG program at King Saud University was launched as a quality improvement program to fulfil the international accreditation standards. This program was a collaboration betwee...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Amer YS,Wahabi HA,Abou Elkheir MM,Bawazeer GA,Iqbal SM,Titi MA,Ekhzaimy A,Alswat KA,Alzeidan RA,Al-Ansary LA

更新日期：2019-08-01 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：AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:Musculoskeletal system has been found to be involved in genesis and perpetuation of chronic pelvic pain (CPP) and has strong evidences that up to 80% of women with CPP present dysfunction of the musculoskeletal system. In this study, we report a series of women with CPP caused by tenderness of pelvi...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Montenegro ML,Mateus-Vasconcelos EC,Candido dos Reis FJ,Rosa e Silva JC,Nogueira AA,Poli Neto OB

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONAL, AIMS, AND OBJECTIVES:Registries are a powerful tool to assess specific performance measurements and quality of care in acute coronary syndromes (ACSs). In Portugal, ProACS is a nationwide registry of ACS that has been active for the past 15 years, and our objective was to assess specific quality indicators fo...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Timóteo AT,Mimoso J,ProACS Investigators.

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:Health-care professions have long been considered prone to work-related stress, yet recent research in Bulgaria indicates alarmingly high levels of burnout. Cloninger's inventory is used to analyse and evaluate correlation between personality characteristics and degree of burnout syndrome...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Tilov B,Dimitrova D,Stoykova M,Tornjova B,Foreva G,Stoyanov D

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Often, when conducting programme evaluations or studying the effects of policy changes, researchers may only have access to aggregated time series data, presented as observations spanning both the pre- and post-intervention periods. The most basic analytic model using these data requires only a single group and models...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Linden A,Adams JL

更新日期：2011-12-01 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:Monash Watch (MW) aims to reduce potentially preventable hospitalisations in a cohort above a risk "threshold" identified by Health Links Chronic Care (HLCC) algorithms using personal, diagnostic, and service data. MW conducted regular patient monitoring through outbound phone calls usin...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Martin C,Hinkley N,Stockman K,Campbell D

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RATIONALE, AIMS, AND OBJECTIVES: "Implementation science," the scientific study of methods translating research findings into practical, useful outcomes, is contested and complex, with unpredictable use of results from routine clinical practice and different levels of continuing assessment of implementable interventio...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Rapport F,Clay-Williams R,Churruca K,Shih P,Hogden A,Braithwaite J

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00