i040 Patient activation: what is it?

health communication what it is and what is not

Patient safety: what is it all about?

Patient safety is a major concern in health care systems worldwide. Patients with serious conditions, multimorbidity, and with intense and fragmented health care utilization, like end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients, are at increased risk for suffering adverse events. In this chapter, the fundamental terms and concepts of patient safety are introduced. Essential epidemiological data relatin...

Patient Safety Behavior in Physicians: How is it Predicted?

Background: Patient safety is a serious global public health issue. Estimates show that every day many patients are harmed while receiving hospital care. Health care staff plays a key role in providing quality and safe patient care, especially physicians who are main members of the medical team and a critical element in patient safety efforts. Objective: ...

SOAP: What Is It and What Is It Good For?

Patrick Thompson is Director of Architecture at Rogue Wave Software, where he has been involved with SOAP bridging products and in exploring the uses of SOAP and XML protocols for the past year and a half. He is on the W3C XML Protocols working group and is involved in the OMG ́s CORBA/SOAP mapping work. He regularly speaks at industry conferences and is coauthor of the popular book The Elements...

Understanding Heritability: What it is and What it is Not

Copy Abstract: Commentators generally found our exposition of the concept of heritability helpful for psychologists, suggesting that we largely accomplished our primary goal. Many provided supplemental and helpful perspectives on concepts we addressed. A few of the comments indicated that we may not have been completely successful in making clear our secondary goal, which was to outline how her...