Using evidence about clinical effectiveness in everyday psychiatric practice

Clinical effectiveness and evidence-based practice.

An essential component of clinical governance is clinical effectiveness, which is achieved through evidence-based practice. This has enormous implications for the way nurses work, and the qualitative approach often taken by nurse researchers can be difficult to incorporate into the new systems. Clinical governance should have benefits for patients and NHS staff alike. If the goals are to be ach...

PM444. Effectiveness of Integrating Cognitive Remediation Program into Everyday Clinical Practice of Schizophrenia at Psychiatric Rehabilitation Settings

Cognitive deficits (CD) in schizophrenia are recalcitrant to treatment as usual. Whilst there has been considerable interest in recent years for evaluating the efficacy of cognitive remediation (CR) programs in schizophrenia at research settings, scant attention has been paid to evaluate the effectiveness of CR programs at everyday clinical practice settings. Method: We evaluated retrospectivel...

Iranian Physiotherapists’ Perceptions of the Ethical Issues in Everyday Practice

Objectives: Considering the significant role of physiotherapists in the process of rehabilitation, their ethical commitment is essential to successful interaction and care provision. However, investigations on the medical professional ethics ​​in Iran are limited. Generally, research in this regard is rare in Asia. Thus, such studies could improve the moral knowledge of the Iranian physiotherap...

Using socioeconomic evidence in clinical practice guidelines.

[Neuropsychological thinking at everyday clinical practice].

In this paper, at first I noted the way how to pick up the neuropsychological signs and symptoms during routine neurological examination, and their diagnostic power. Second, I presented the clinical approach for dementia. Medical history should be obtained from both patients themselves and their caregivers. Examination of daily living activities and behavioral and psychological symptoms are nec...