Clinical specialists as digital leaders

Scale to Assess Leaders' Perceptions about their Workers' Digital Addiction

Background: With the evolution of technologies and the mobility factor, new digital devices have emerged, influencing human behavior and provoking diverse dependencies due to their abusive use. Collective environments begin to exhibit the symptoms of such dependencies, compromising people's quality of life (QOL). The objective of the present study was to valida...

Pharmacists as Interprofessional Collaborators and Leaders through Clinical Pathways

Pharmacists possess pivotal competencies and expertise in developing clinical pathways (CPs). We present a tertiary care facility experience of pharmacists vis-a-vis interprofessional collaboration for designing and implementing CPs. We participated in the development of CPs as leading members of a collaborative team of healthcare professionals. We reviewed literature, aligning it with hospital...

As leaders shuttle

NEWARK, N .J. [A.P.] — Got a cold? Dr. John T. Connell will pay you $30 to $50 a day to sit in his office and sneeze. Connell, a specialist in nose problems and allergies, is one of dozens of experts throughout the country who test cold remedies for drug companies trying to find out how well their products work. “ I’m an independent investi­ gator,” he said. “ They come to me. 1 design an exper...

Task force #5--the role of cardiovascular specialists as leaders in prevention: from training to champion. 33rd Bethesda Conference.

Three driving forces call for an intensive effort focused on cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention: 1) the dominant risk factors for CVD are known; 2) effective interventions are available; 3) CVD remains the leading cause of death. The previous four task forces have outlined the magnitude of the CVD problem, and documented the cost-utility, intervention efficacy, and adherence strategies ava...

Women as Leaders: Leadership Style Versus Leaders’ Values and Attitudes