What is knowledge and when should it be implemented?

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：INTRODUCTION:Non-routine events (NREs) are atypical or unusual occurrences in a pre-defined process. Although some NREs in high-risk clinical settings have no adverse effects on patient care, others can potentially cause serious patient harm. A unified strategy for identifying and describing NREs in these domains will ...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Alberto EC,Jagannath S,McCusker ME,Keller S,Marsic I,Sarcevic A,O'Connell KJ,Burd RS

更新日期：2020-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:This paper reports an initiative which promoted evidence-based practice in pressure risk assessment and management among home nursing clients in Melbourne, Australia. AIM AND OBJECTIVES:The aim of this study was to evaluate the introduction and uptake of the Australian Wound Management Association Guidelines...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Kapp S

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:How shared decision making (SDM) works with indigenous patient values and preferences is not well understood. Colonization has affected indigenous peoples' levels of trust with institutions, and their world view tends to be distinct from that of nonindigenous people. Building on a programme theory for SDM,...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Groot G,Waldron T,Barreno L,Cochran D,Carr T

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Data about health care organizations (HCOs) are not useful until they are interpreted. Such interpretations are influenced by the theoretical lenses used by the researcher. OBJECTIVE:Our purpose was to suggest the usefulness of theories of complex adaptive systems (CASs) in guiding research interpretation. S...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Jordon M,Lanham HJ,Anderson RA,McDaniel RR Jr

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medicine is predicated on a view of human nature that is highly positivist and atomistic. This is apparent in the way in which its students are taught, clinical consultations are structured and medical evidence is generated. The field of medical humanities originally emerged as a challenge to this overly narrow view, ...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Macnaughton J

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In many developed nations, the state of publicly administered health care is increasingly precarious as a result of escalating numbers of chronically ill patients, inadequate medical personnel and hospital facilities, as well as sparse funding for ongoing upgrades to state-of-the-art diagnostic and therapeutic technol...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Genuis SJ

更新日期：2008-02-01 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：BACKGROUND:Everyone wants a sustainable well-functioning health system. However, this notion has different meaning to policy makers and funders compared to clinicians and patients. The former perceive public policy and economic constraints, the latter clinical or patient-centred strategies as the means to achieving a d...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Sturmberg JP,O'Halloran DM,Martin CM

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE, AIM AND OBJECTIVE:Factors influencing doctors in prescribing of drugs have mostly been studied in primary care. Studies performed in hospital care have primarily focused on new drugs, not prescribing in general. An in-depth understanding of the prescribing process in the more specialized secondary care is no...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Ljungberg C,Lindblad AK,Tully MP

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:The role of pharmacists in chronic disease state management has been shown to significantly improve patient health outcomes and reduce overall health care costs. The current study is designed to assess the roles and attitudes of West Virginia (WV) pharmacists toward diabetes, evaluate services provi...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Shatnawi A,Latif DA

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To review the literature on the perceived benefits and disadvantages associated with significant event analysis (SEA) and identify reported barriers and facilitating factors. METHOD:A comprehensive search of electronic databases and peer reviewed journals was conducted during June 2006. Studies which explore...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Bowie P,Pope L,Lough M

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE, AIMS, AND OBJECTIVES:The way in which care providers describe incapacitated elderly people is not without implications. The different ways in which they describe their patients-client, patient, or a sick human being-have consequences for their relationships with these patients and the decision-making process...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： de Bock BA,Willems DL

更新日期：2020-04-01 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：:Pharmacoeconomic evaluations are often based on computer models which simulate the course of disease with and without medical interventions. The purpose of this study is to propose and illustrate a rigorous approach for validating such disease models. For illustrative purposes, we applied this approach to a computer-b...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Sendi PP,Craig BA,Pfluger D,Gafni A,Bucher HC

更新日期：1999-08-01 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：:This article reviews the methodological limitations identified in a recent authoritative US report by the Public Health Service, which provides the theoretical background to several other guidelines on cost effectiveness, such as those of the British Medical Journal. It places each limitation in context and discusses ...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Raftery J

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Time and timeliness are key issues in appraising and ensuring the clinical relevance of systematic reviews. Time considerations entering the systematic review process include the history of the clinical problem, disease, or treatment that is the target of the review, and the history of the research conducted to addres...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Barroso J,Sandelowski M,Voils CI

更新日期：2006-08-01 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：:The aim of this study was to utilize an evaluation tool based on Prochaska's model of change in order to assess behaviour change as part of an evaluation process for a research transfer training programme (RTTP). The RTTP was a training programme offered to scientists in a psychiatry department and research institute ...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Buckley LL,Goering P,Parikh SV,Butterill D,Foo EK

更新日期：2003-11-01 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：RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:The focus on the diagnosis is a pivotal aspect of medical practice since antiquity. Diagnostic taxonomy helped to categorize ailments to improve medical care, and in its social sense resulted in validation of the sick role for some, but marginalization or stigmatization for others. In the...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Sturmberg JP,Martin CM

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:The management of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) usually entails regular hospital reviews with a specialist often when the patient is well rather than during a period of exacerbation. An alternative approach where patients initiate appointments when they need them can improve patient satisfact...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Goodwin VA,Paudyal P,Perry MG,Day N,Hawton A,Gericke C,Ukoumunne OC,Byng R

更新日期：2016-06-01 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：:Progressive improvements in antihypertensive drug therapy over the past four decades have provided clear benefits in limiting cardiovascular complications. Unfortunately, and largely inexplicably, the inclusion in meta-analyses of defective trials plus the employment of inappropriate diagnostic criteria for adverse co...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Robertson JI

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:Little is known about which medical providers, other than neurologists, are involved in the care of neurologic conditions. We aimed to describe the current distribution of outpatient neurologic care by provider type. METHODS:We conducted a restrospective, cross-sectional analysis using a...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Lin CC,Hill CE,Burke JF,Kerber KA,Hartley SE,Callaghan BC,Skolarus LE

更新日期：2020-08-04 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：: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：RATIONALE, AIMS, AND OBJECTIVES:Local health administrators implemented chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and heart failure admission order sets to increase guideline adherence. We explored the impact of these order sets on workflows and guideline adherence in the internal medicine specialty in two Canadian teachin...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Lander B,Balka E

更新日期：2019-06-01 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