ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSIONALS

Effects of visitation among allied health professionals.

OBJECTIVE Visitation is a method for external peer review. The goal is to improve the quality of patient care by giving feedback on quality of competence and performance of a professional during a practice visit. Feedback is offered as recommendations for improvement. This study aims to evaluate the effects of visitation and to determine which factors are related to the effectiveness of visitat...

Allied respiratory professionals.

n celebrating 20 years of the European Respiratory Society (ERS), we have to include, since 1992, the development of the Allied Respiratory Professionals' Assembly (Assembly 9). The Allied Respiratory Professionals' Assembly originated from the need of this growing group of healthcare providers to engage in the ERS as a visible group for its stakeholders (including patients, research bodies and...

Effectiveness of Clinical Supervision of Allied Health Professionals: A Survey.

UNLABELLED The practice of clinical supervision (CS) is recommended for allied health professionals. Preliminary evidence suggests that CS can be effective, but it is unknown for which allied health professions it is most effective. METHOD The effectiveness of CS was measured using the allied health-specific modified Manchester Clinical Supervision Scale (MCSS-26). Subscales of the MCSS-26 we...

Predictors of Job Satisfaction of Nurses and Allied Health Professionals

Diffusion of a quality improvement programme among allied health professionals.

OBJECTIVE To assess the diffusion of a quality improvement (QI) programme among allied health professions in The Netherlands. DESIGN Descriptive study, based on a questionnaire distributed to allied health professionals; response rate, 63%. SETTINGS AND PARTICIPANTS All subsectors in health care were covered, including primary care and institutional care. The participants were either salari...