recent disclosures of failures of care in the national health service (nhs) in england have led to debates about compassion deficits disallowing health professionals to provide high quality responsive care. while the link between high quality care and compassion is often taken for granted, it is less obvious how compassion – often originating in the individual’s emotional response – can become ...

Qualitative methodologies have multiple contributions to health research, including improving baseline understanding in new areas of enquiry; questioning existing assumptions; viewpoints specific subgroups; and offering complex, contextual information. While the role qualitative research within mixed methods approaches is well documented, contribution clinical trial design conduct less recogniz...

Modern matrons were introduced to the NHS in 2001 to take a lead in improving aspects of patient care. They have since grown rapidly in number, as both acute and primary care trusts have recognised the benefits of having in place a senior nurse who is able to take a strategic role in improving patient care and giving clinical staff the support they need to achieve improvements. Tackling problem...

background: improvement of medical education is necessary for meeting health care demands. participation of private practice physicians in ambulatory care training is an effective method for enhancing medical students' skills. purpose: this study was undertaken to determine clinical professors' views about participation of physicians with private office in ambulatory care training. methods: par...

compiling clinical guidelines is one of the requirements of family physician plan and classification of health care services.1 the high prevalence of type 2 diabetes can easily be seen in general practice so that 2.5% of referrals to general practitioners are due to diabetes. more than half of the patients with type 2 diabetes are left undiagnosed and most of them suffer from its complications ...

patients and methods a questionnaire was developed by a departmental checklist focus group, which aimed to identify the perception of health care checklists in general as well as specific checklists for routine and crisis situations in anesthesia. furthermore participants were asked regarding their perception of performing routine anesthesia and managing crisis situations without any cognitive ...

Background and Objectives: The religious needs of hospitalized patients are reportedly not appropriately met. The purpose of this study was to explain the experiences of nurses about the barriers to providing religious care for hospitalized patients. Methods: This qualitative study was conducted on 21 nurses working in a hospital affiliated with Qom University of Medical Sciences, Qom, Iran, i...