Tailor checklists to clinical teams

Getting surgical teams on board for OR checklists and briefings.

Antiplatelet therapy: to tailor or not to tailor?

We have all been witnessing the steep upward trend in mobile device usage and their increasing sophistication which will no doubt continue. We used to use our mobile phones to make calls and possibly to send a text message, but now we check our emails, reserve cinema tickets, and, of course, read the latest journal articles via our smartphones and tablets. At Oxford University Press, we launche...

Clinical review: Checklists - translating evidence into practice

Checklists are common tools used in many industries. Unfortunately, their adoption in the field of medicine has been limited to equipment operations or part of specific algorithms. Yet they have tremendous potential to improve patient outcomes by democratizing knowledge and helping ensure that all patients receive evidence-based best practices and safe high-quality care. Checklist adoption has ...

From Checklists to An

The exceptional botanical wealth of southern Africa has been known internationally since the early 17th century. However, it is only during the past 25 years that a succession of regional floristic checklists has been published, culminating in one for southern Africa (Namibia, Botswana, Swaziland, Lesotho, and South Africa) (Germishuizen & Meyer, 2003) and another enhanced with primary biologic...

Tailor to Fit It

This paper is a result of research activities within wearable communications carried out at the Ericsson Norway Applied research center in collaboration with the University of Oslo. The research activities are based on the conviction that the user and usability should be in focus. The research is grounded on a field study conducted to investigate a highly mobile activity, namely bike messenger ...