Keeping the Patient in View

Keeping the patient in view: defining the appropriateness of percutaneous coronary interventions.

Since the original report by Andreas Gruentzig and colleagues,1 the obvious esthetic and symptomatic benefit of opening narrowed coronary arteries to improve epicardial blood flow has led to remarkable growth in interventional cardiology. This growth has been fueled in part by advances in our understanding of the biology of atherosclerosis and clinical trials demonstrating that percutaneous cor...

An Untapped Resource: Patient and Public Involvement in Implementation; Comment on “Knowledge Mobilization in Healthcare Organizations: A View From the Resource-Based View of the Firm”

This commentary considers the potential role of patient and public involvement in implementation. Developing an analytical thread from the resource-based view of the Firm, we argue that this involvement may create unique resources that have the capacity to enhance the impact of implementation activity for healthcare organisations.

Keeping Children’s Secrets: Confidentiality in the Physician- Patient Relationship

Optimal water quality for keeping ornamental fish in the aquarium

      Ornamental fish keeping is the second most popular hobby in the world, and its popularity is growing every day. The ornamental fish farming industry provides entrepreneurship and income generation opportunities, so it is important to focus on various aspects of ornamental fish farming. Several physical and chemical parameters of water are discussed in this study, including pH, hardness, a...

Keeping it real! Enhancing realism in standardised patient OSCE stations.

BACKGROUND Objective structured clinical examinations (OSCEs) are a commonly used method of assessing clinical competency in health care education. They can provide an opportunity to observe candidates interacting with patients. There are many challenges in using real patients in OSCEs, and increasingly standardised patients are being used as a preference. However, by using standardised patient...