Interpreting chronic disorders of consciousness: medical science and family experience.

abstract：:Independent qualitative evaluation of a project designed to ensure that clinical policy in specific areas of care in three obstetric units within one English health district was based on authoritative evidence. Data from nonparticipant observation, interviews, questionnaires and documents were combined to generate a d...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Humphrey C,Berrow D

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:Disparities in haemodialysis outcomes among centres have been well-documented. Besides, attempts to assess haemodialysis results have been based on non-comprehensive methodologies. This study aimed to develop a comprehensive methodology for assessing haemodialysis centres, based on the va...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Parra E,Arenas MD,Alonso M,Martínez MF,Gamen Á,Aguarón J,Escobar MT,Moreno-Jiménez JM,Alvarez-Ude F

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE, AIMS, AND OBJECTIVES:Heterogeneity is a critical issue in meta-analysis, because it implies the appropriateness of combining the collected studies and impacts the reliability of the synthesized results. The Q test is a traditional method to assess heterogeneity; however, because it does not have an intuitive...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Lin L

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS AND OBJECTIVE:To identify factors important in determining whether an obese child achieves significant reductions in Body Mass Index Standard Deviation Score (BMI SDS) within a UK, hospital-based paediatric obesity service aimed at lifestyle modification. DESIGN:Observational Study. SUBJECTS:137 obese children (...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Sabin MA,Ford A,Hunt L,Jamal R,Crowne EC,Shield JP

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:Loss of situation awareness (SA) by health professionals during handover is a major threat to patient safety in perinatal care. SA refers to knowing what is going on around. Adequate handover communication and process may support situation assessment, a precursor of SA. This study describ...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Poot EP,de Bruijne MC,Wouters MG,de Groot CJ,Wagner C

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The whole spectrum of medicine consists of complex non-linear systems that are balanced and interact with each other. How non-linearity confers stability on a system and explains variation and uncertainty in clinical medicine is discussed. A major theme is that a small alteration in initial conditions may have a major...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Petros P

更新日期：2003-05-01 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:Single-group interrupted time series analysis (ITSA) is a popular evaluation methodology in which a single unit of observation is studied; the outcome variable is serially ordered as a time series, and the intervention is expected to "interrupt" the level and/or trend of the time series, ...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Linden A

更新日期：2017-04-01 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：:Outcomes assessment holds great promise to improve the quality and efficiency of health care. By subjecting practices to rigorous and systematic analysis, we should be in a position to make judgments about what does and does not work in clinical practice. However, the outcomes of outcomes assessment themselves should ...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Gunderman R

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence-based health care (EBHC), previously evidence-based medicine (EBM), is considered by many to have modernized health care and brought it from an authority-based past to a more rationalist, scientific grounding. But recent concerns and criticisms pose serious challenges and urge us to look at the fundamentals o...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

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

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the variation in prescribing by primary care doctors during the morning and the evening clinics and to determine whether these prescribing patterns are influenced by doctors' training background. METHODS:A retrospective prescription-based study was carried out in 17 out of 20...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Damanhori AH,Al Khaja KA,Sequeira RP,Al-Ansari TM

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The foundationalist and anti-foundationalist conceptions of medical knowledge have been at loggerheads for decades. Evidence-based medicine (EBM), the most prominent form of foundationalism, has attained wide appeal and acceptance among authorities. It proposes that evidence is the "base" upon which all clinical decis...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Ghinea N

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sturmberg et al write about multimorbidity as "several diagnosable diseases within the same individual." They posit that this syndrome is the result of multiple interconnected disturbances reflecting scale-free, fractal signs of pathology ranging from biochemical/hormonal alterations at one end of a spectrum to commun...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Cohn J

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE, AIMS, AND OBJECTIVES:National policy, guided by research, suggests several patient and service benefits achieved by providing 7-day health care. Therefore, a 7-day inpatient neurophysiotherapy service was introduced at a large teaching hospital in London. The study's aim was to evaluate the effect of the 7-d...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： McGlinchey MP,Buttery C

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The efficiency of a hospital's operating room (OR) management can affect its overall profitability. However, existing indicators that assess OR management efficiency do not take into account differences in hospital size, manpower and functional characteristics, thereby rendering them unsuitable for multi-ins...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Tanaka M,Lee J,Ikai H,Imanaka Y

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE, AIMS, AND OBJECTIVES:Neonates with life-threatening conditions face complex clinical circumstances that confront parents and professionals with ethical decisions. Parents' participation in decision making has not gained sufficient attention in practice. Understanding factors affecting parents' participation ...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Banazadeh M,Khanjari S,Naddaf A,Oskouie F

更新日期：2020-10-25 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:The prevailing view on implementation interventions to improve the organization and management of health care is that the interventions should be tailored to potential barriers. Ideally, possible barriers are analysed before the quality improvement interventions are developed to influence...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Bosch M,van der Weijden T,Wensing M,Grol R

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:The London Health Sciences Centre found that its emergency room (ER) mental health services were affected by people presenting with problems that did not require psychiatric intervention. Consequently, a second triage using a crisis worker (CW) was introduced in the ER to identify those p...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Coristine RW,Hartford K,Vingilis E,White D

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medical malpractice claims can be analysed to gain insights aimed at improving quality of care. However, using medical malpractice claims in medical research raises epistemological and methodological concerns related to certain features of the litigation process. Medical research should therefore approach medical malp...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Garon-Sayegh P

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE, AIMS, AND OBJECTIVES:Focusing on the implementation of clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) for the management of adult cancers, the objectives of this study were to (a) describe the intrinsic elements known to influence CPG use; (b) identify the ways in which CPGs are implemented; and (c) explore how CPG cha...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Urquhart R,Woodside H,Kendell C,Porter GA

更新日期：2019-08-01 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：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：BACKGROUND:Geographical inequalities in lung cancer treatment and patient survival have been described. We hypothesized that lung cancer patients' access to treatment may be influenced by deprivation and the pathway to care. METHODS:Case notes were reviewed for patients resident in south-east London who were registere...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Jack RH,Gulliford MC,Ferguson J,Møller H

更新日期：2006-10-01 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：BACKGROUND:Few randomized clinical trials focus on patients' symptoms of the first post-operative week following outpatient (OPS) versus inpatient (IPS) laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC). The objective was to compare these treatment modalities with regard to patients' perceptions of pain and other post-operative sympto...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Barthelsson C,Anderberg B,Ramel S,Björvell C,Giesecke K,Nordström G

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate control of blood pressure (BP) and diabetes and the associated risk factors in diabetic hypertensives treated by diabetic clinic primary care physicians. METHODS:A retrospective analysis of the medical records of diabetic hypertensives from six primary care diabetic clinics in Bahrain. RESULTS:T...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Al Khaja KA,P Sequeira R,Damanhori AH

更新日期：2005-04-01 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:In 2011 the module cardiometabolic risk of the Prevention Consultation guideline was introduced in the Netherlands in order to prevent cardiometabolic diseases. We aimed to compare attitudes and working methods of Dutch general practitioners (GPs) towards selective prevention of cardiomet...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Vos HM,Van Delft DH,De Kleijn MJ,Nielen MM,Schellevis FG,Lagro-Janssen AL

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00