BACKGROUND Education programmes for adults with asthma vary widely. Such variability suggests a lack of consensus on what works and what does not. The objectives of this paper are to describe asthma education programmes and assess their variability. METHODS A systematic review of reports published between 1979 and 1998 was conducted. Medline, the CINAHL database, the PsycINFO database, the Co...

This paper reports the results of an analysis English as a Medium Instruction (EMI) lecturers’ training needs at Spanish state university. In order to carry out this analysis, participants were asked complete quantitative questionnaire and participate in survey with open questions adapted from Pérez-Cañado 2020). Both tools explored relation specific areas: linguistic competence, methodology, m...

In present scenarios, employee training is widely considered as the source of gaining competitive advantage. However, the effect of employee training on organisational performance in the print-media industry remains largely unexamined in the African context. This paper investigates the effect of employee training on organisational performance using Graphic Communication Group Limited as a case ...

BACKGROUND Most patients with congenital heart disease (ConHD) do not perform regular physical exercise. Consensus reports have stated that exercise should be encouraged and regularly performed in these patients, but this is not common practise. We reviewed the literature on actual evidence for either negative or positive effects of physical exercise training programmes in children and young ad...

Confidential enquiries into poor perinatal outcomes have identified deficiencies in team working as a common factor and have recommended team training in the management of obstetric emergencies. Isolated aviation-based team training programmes have not been associated with improved perinatal outcomes when applied to labour ward settings, whereas obstetric-specific training interventions with in...