Clinical guidelines: acceptance and promotion.

Clinical guidelines: acceptance and promotion.

Development and promotion of Malaysian Dietary Guidelines.

Development and promotion of dietary guidelines is one of the key activities outlined in the National Plan of Action for Nutrition of Malaysia for the prevention of nutrition-related disorders. The first official Malaysian Dietary Guidelines (MDG) was published in 1999 and was thoroughly reviewed and launched on 25 March 2010. The new MDG 2010 is a compilation of science-based nutrition and phy...

Automated Promotion of Technology Acceptance by Clinicians Using Relational Agents

Professionals are often resistant to the introduction of technology and can feel threatened if they perceive the technology as replacing some aspect of their jobs. We anticipated some of these problems in the process of introducing a bedside patient education system to a hospital, especially given that the system presents itself as a “virtual discharge nurse” in which an animated nurse agent in...

Clinical guidelines: potential benefits, limitations, and harms of clinical guidelines.

a Department of Family Practice, Virginia Commonwealth University, Fairfax, Virginia 22033, USA, b Center for Quality of Care Research, University of Nijmegen, PO Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen, Netherlands, c School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S1 4DA, d Centre for Health Services Research, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4AA, e Heal...

Ship Evacuation – Guidelines, Simulation, Validation, and Acceptance Criteria

This paper deals with various aspects of ship evacuation: Guidelines, Simulation, Validation, and Acceptance Criteria. The paper is structured along those aspects. The first chapter deals with general aspects of ship evacuation, like environmental influences, ship motion, the special procedures on board ships, etc. The second chapter covers the guidelines applicable to evacuation analyses for p...