Safety resources for perioperative clinicians

Resources for Clinicians Becoming Clinician-Educators.

E arly in my career I was lucky to work with terrific mentors and mentees. I am not always sure they were fortunate to work with me. With no formal training in education—other than as a learn-as-you-go piano and ballet teacher and teaching assistant in my youth—I might have benefited greatly from a crash course in educational theory and basic teaching skills. Forty years ago, medical teachers d...

Vaccine Safety Resources for Nurses.

Online resources on 2009 pandemic influenza for clinicians.

Numerous resources relevant to the 2009 pandemic influenza are available on-line . A casual search in google using the phrase "swine flu resources" yields 9,180,000 items making a time-bound search less fruitful for an average health care professional. This review has summarized the contents useful to practicing clinician available in 12 websites which were selected based on their relevance to ...

Bioterrorism web site resources for infectious disease clinicians and epidemiologists.

Finding bioterrorism-related information on the World Wide Web can be laborious. We hope to help readers find such information more easily by summarizing essential information in a consistent framework. A panel of 7 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reviewers identified Web sites and evaluated them for sponsorship, mission, content usefulness, online ease of use, and adherence to commo...

Implementing digital resources for clinicians' and patients' varying needs.

This paper presents an overview of several evidence-based medicine and patient information studies conducted across the UK health service over a 4 year period, investigating clinicians', managers', and patients' perceptions of digital resources (primarily digital libraries) in hospitals, Primary Care Trusts, NHS Direct (patient call centre) and patient groups. In-depth interviews and focus grou...