Introducing Assessment Practice

Introducing “Evidence for clinical practice”

Combining alternative medicine and conventional medicine approaches into an integral whole is called integrative medicine [1]. Combining the best research evidence with clinical expertise and patient values into an integral whole is called evidence-based medicine [2]. Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is neither alternative medicine nor conventional medicine (though the expectation for evidence-bas...

Introducing COPD Research and Practice

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is now the fourth leading cause of death globally, and the World Health Organization (WHO) has predicted that it will become the third most common cause of death in the world by 2030 [1]. In developed countries, current information estimates a prevalence of 8 % to 10 % among adults 40 years of age and older, whereas in developing countries, prevalenc...

I-7: Introducing Blastocyst Culture and Transfer into Clinical Practice

Introducing the Learning Practice--II. Becoming a Learning Practice.

RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES This paper is the second of three related papers exploring the ways in which the principles of Learning Organizations (LOs) could be applied in Primary Care settings at the point of service delivery. METHODS Based on a theoretical and empirical review of available evidence, here we introduce the process by which a Practice can start to become a Learning Practice...

Capability Assessment for Introducing Component Reuse

Despite initial technical barriers having been overcome, organizational wide component reuse has not enjoyed universal acceptance. Research has identified social and organizational factors as probable causes. This paper describes the Social Factors for Reuse Model (SFR Model), a predictive capability model based on Keidel’s triadic model of the organization. It determines an organization’s read...