OBJECTIVE To developed and validate a form for Documentation of Occupational Therapy Session during Intervention (D.O.T.S.I) based on the OTPF. This form may fill the need for more consistent and detailed documentation of the intervention process. METHOD Fifty five pediatric OT's documented 2-3 treatment sessions. A total of 120 treatment sessions were recorded. Construct validity was assesse...

Objective: To discuss the experience of developing approaches to measuring the quality of nursing documentation in residential aged care homes. Methods: Three information sources were reviewed to explore approaches in auditing nursing documentation: the current literature, relevant Australian legislative and professional requirements, and organizational nursing documentation practice. Results: ...

This paper deals with studies of fixed design, where comparability is feasible either for culture or for time and culture. For the time dimension, studies are divided into cross-sectional and longitudinal, and for the cultural dimension they are divided into monocultural and cross-cultural. Since modern societies are mainly organised into nation-states, cross-cultural studies are carried out mo...

PURPOSE The adoption of electronic medical record (EMR) system is gradually increasing. However, various time-motion studies reveal conflicting data regarding time effectiveness on workflow due to computerization. One of the major issues for physicians is their uncertainty with EMRs' potential impact of time on workflow. A tertiary eye hospital in south India was in the process of implementing ...

Application Of Operational Art-The German 8th Army at the Battles at Tannenberg 1914, by LTC Kim 0. Frerichs, 57 pages. Operational art is a doctrinal term used by the United States (US) Army to describe the effort of military leaders to arrange military actions in pursuit of strategic objectives. Inl 914, the German gth Army in Eastern Prussia pursued the strategic goal of defending Prussia in...

OBJECTIVE assess the safety of medication dispensing processes through the dispensing error rate. METHOD Cross-sectional study carried out at a pharmaceutical service of a pediatric hospital in Espírito Santo, Brazil. Data collection was performed between August and September 2006, totaling 2620 prescribed medication doses. Any deviation from the medical prescription in dispensing medication ...