At-home monitoring after surgery/anaesthesia - a challenge.

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：:A small percentage of emergency department (ED) visitors account for a disproportionate portion of ED visits. Little is known about their relationships with their primary care providers (PCPs). This study compares frequent and infrequent ED visitors' primary care utilization and perceptions of primary care access, con...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Cunningham A,Mautner D,Ku B,Scott K,LaNoue M

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:Individual comparisons of the performance of risk-adjustment indices have been widely conducted. Few reviews have been conducted to summarize the performance of different risk-adjustment indices. A 30-day mortality rate is widely used to evaluate the quality of care in hospitals by federa...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Yang M,Mehta HB,Bali V,Gupta P,Wang X,Johnson ML,Aparasu RR

更新日期：2015-04-01 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: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：:The aim of this study was to determine whether a brief Internet-based education programme could improve physicians' abilities to manage pigmented skin lesions. A pre-test-post-test assessment was used of subjects' knowledge of skin cancer, confidence in their management abilities and actual ability to recommend approp...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Harris JM Jr,Salasche SJ,Harris RB

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE, AIMS, AND OBJECTIVES:Current meta-analysis was conducted aiming to assess the efficacy and safety of recombinant human interleukin-11 (rhIL-11) in the treatment of acute leukaemia (AL) patients with chemotherapy-induced thrombocytopenia (CIT). METHODS:We searched PubMed, Embase, Chinese National Knowledge I...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Liu Z,Wang Y,Yan J,Liu J,Chen B,Zhang L,Cheng L

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Quality of life (QoL) is an important consideration in the care of patients with chronic neuromuscular disorder (NMD). The current study sought to determine the factor structure of the Medical Outcomes Study Short-Form 36 (SF-36) version 2 in patients with NMD to determine the appropriateness of using this in...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Banks P,Martin CR,Petty RK

更新日期：2012-02-01 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：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：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：: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：: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：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：: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：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：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：: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：: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：RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:Artificial intelligence and big data are more and more used in medicine, either in prevention, diagnosis or treatment, and are clearly modifying the way medicine is thought and practiced. Some authors argue that the use of artificial intelligence techniques to analyze big data would even ...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Brault N,Saxena M

更新日期：2020-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) and laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (LRYGB) are widely performed to cure obesity and obesity-related diseases. Our aim was to compare these two procedures. MATERIALS AND METHODS:An electronic literature search was performed from inception to December 2018. The cli...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Zhao K,Liu J,Wang M,Yang H,Wu A

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Therapist self-disclosure is one of the most controversial topics in the history of psychotherapy. The controversies reflect some basic discussions regarding the nature of psychotherapy practice. In psychotherapy practice, a particular concern is the interaction between the psychotherapist and the patient. The expert-...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Berg H,Bjornestad J,Våpenstad EV,Davidson L,Binder PE

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:Traditional continuing medical education programmes that offer passive learning have been shown to be poorly effective at changing doctors' clinical behaviour. A multifaceted evidence-based medicine (EBM) intervention was conducted at the largest health maintenance organization (HMO) in I...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Shuval K,Berkovits E,Netzer D,Hekselman I,Linn S,Brezis M,Reis S

更新日期：2007-08-01 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:Virtues are an important component in the practice of clinical medicine. Prudence or wisdom and charity or love are often viewed as crucial for virtuous practice. Generally, the two virtues are discussed separately, with no connection between them; however, a synergy exists between the two virtues as a compou...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Marcum JA

更新日期：2011-10-01 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：:The objectives of this study were to present a short history of the Critical Care Research Network (CCR-Net), describe its approach to health services research and to summarize completed and current research projects. In doing this, we explored the question is this research network accomplishing its goals? We reviewed...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Keenan SP,Martin CM,Kossuth JD,Eberhard J,Sibbald WJ

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The final years of life present challenges for care. In middle-/high-income countries, the percentage of people of advanced age in the population is growing, and the dying process continues to become more complex and protracted. We propose that a new understanding of care, 'teleological care', be considered as an impo...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Cellarius V,Upshur R

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:A valid tool to measure clinical competency early in medical school could identify students who may require special educational attention. The overall aim is to assess the relationship between students' scores on an objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) given in the second year...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Simon SR,Bui A,Day S,Berti D,Volkan K

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Health management programmes are generally evaluated as point treatment studies in which only a baseline and outcome measurement are used in the analysis, even when multiple observations for each individual are available. By summarizing observations into two distinct measurements the evaluator loses any ability to dis...

journal_title：Journal of evaluation in clinical practice

authors： Linden A,Adams JL

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00