The impact of national accreditation reform on survey reliability: a 2-year investigation of survey coordinators' perspectives.

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：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：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：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:Self-assessed health (SAH) status is a very simple four-, or five-category self-reported measure of health status that has been shown to be a powerful predictor of mortality, service use and total cost of medical care treatment. It is therefore reasonable to suggest that pre-intervention SAH may influence the...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Long MJ,McQueen DA,Lescoe-Long M,Schurman JR 2nd

更新日期：2005-10-01 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 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：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：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:Little is known about the quality of occupational health care provided to National Health Service (NHS) staff. We designed the first national clinical audits of occupational health care in England. We chose to audit depression and back pain as health care workers have high levels of both ...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Williams S,Rogers C,Peel P,Harvey SB,Henderson M,Madan I,Smedley J,Grant R

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE, AIMS, AND OBJECTIVES:The Australian National Heart Foundation Guidelines have been developed to guide clinicians on how to best manage chronic heart failure (CHF) patients according to the current best available evidence. The primary aim of this study is to evaluate the proportion of patients prescribed evid...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Khalil V,Danninger M,Wang W,Khalil H

更新日期：2017-12-01 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：RATIONAL, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:Individual Placement and Support (IPS) is an evidence based strategy for facilitating employment among adults with severe mental illness (SMI) where staff may lead mock job interviews to prepare clients for real-world interviews (a method with limited scalability and cost effectiveness). A...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Smith MJ,Graham AK,Sax R,Spencer ES,Razzano LA,Smith JD,Jordan N

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:Peer review groups are considered helpful for quality improvement in primary care. An interactive educational programme for small peer groups was developed, focusing on the implementation of newly developed treatment guidelines. The aim is to evaluate the effect of the programme on adhere...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Kasje WN,Denig P,Stewart RE,de Graeff PA,Haaijer-Ruskamp FM

更新日期：2006-12-01 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：RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:This study aimed to apply the 'systems approach' to patient safety in order to identify causes for delays and errors in lung cancer diagnoses following an abnormal chest radiograph. METHODS:In the first part of this study, the systems approach to patient safety was comprehensively review...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Bhaludin BN,Shelmerdine SC,Arora S,Senbanjo T,Parthipun A

更新日期：2014-08-01 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：: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：: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：:The difference between the pth quantiles of 2 survival functions can be used to compare patients' survival between 2 therapies. Setting p = 0.5 yields the median survival time difference. Varying p between 0 and 1 defines the quantile survival time difference curve which can be straightforwardly estimated by the horiz...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Heinzl H,Mittlboeck M

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most clinicians take for granted a simple, reductionist understanding of medical knowledge that is at odds with how they actually practice medicine; routine medical decisions incorporate more complicated kinds of information than most standard accounts of medical reasoning suggest. A better understanding of the struct...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Henry SG

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:Knowledge in evidence-based medicine (EBM) is increasingly becoming a core competence in medical education. We evaluated the trainee doctors' attitudes and knowledge of EBM to obtain the basis required for developing appropriate teaching and learning opportunities. METHODS:Trainee physic...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Ahmadi-Abhari S,Soltani A,Hosseinpanah F

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Work on resilience in health and illness has been approached from a number of perspectives. These are the biological and psychosocial with a focus on the individual's responses to cope and adapt to changing circumstances wrought by changing physical health states. This we argue has a place but is far too narrow emphas...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Walker C,Peterson CL

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When the editorial to the first philosophy thematic edition of this journal was published in 2010, critical questioning of underlying assumptions, regarding such crucial issues as clinical decision making, practical reasoning, and the nature of evidence in health care, was still derided by some prominent contributors ...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Loughlin M,Bluhm R,Buetow S,Borgerson K,Fuller J

更新日期：2017-10-01 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：RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:The primary aim of this study is to gain an insight into hospital pharmacists' current practice and perceptions towards medicine reconciliation and to identify common challenges preventing pharmacists from providing this service. METHODS:A cross-sectional study was conducted over 2 month...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Hammour KA,Farha RA,Basheti I

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Nurses' work is inextricably linked to the evaluation of the quality of care provision in health care. Within this evaluation, individualized care is a topical theme in western countries. Currently, there is no suitable instrument to measure the level of individualized care from the nurses' point of view. AI...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Suhonen R,Gustafsson ML,Katajisto J,Välimäki M,Leino-Kilpi H

更新日期：2010-02-01 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：:A system approach termed P4 medicine has recently been proposed in the field of oncology. This approach has been advanced as an extension of what is usually called 'personalized' or 'genomic medicine'. P4 medicine creates effective predictive, personalized, preventive and participatory models to treat patients. In ord...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Pravettoni G,Gorini A

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, a court in Belgium awarded a sum of 400 000 euros to the parents of a child with disability who at that point had already died of Sanfilippo syndrome. Their charge was not that the baby was born with disability, but that the child was born. The charge was brought in the child's name, and so effectively, the ...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Devisch I

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00