Background: The aim of this review was to explore the quality assessment checklists development methods in previous researches using standardized patients (SPs), as well propose an evidence-based checklist procedure for common conditions primary health care (PHC) settings.

OBJECTIVE To develop a procedure for accrediting health informatics programs. METHODS Development of a procedure for accreditation. Test of the accreditation procedure via a trial including four or five health informatics programs. A site visit committee consisting of three members evaluates the program based on a self-assessment report written by the program and the experiences and observati...

Strings are an important part of most real application multivalued contexts. Their conceptual treatment requires the definition of substring scales, i.e., sets of relevant substrings, so as to form informative concepts. However these scales are either defined by hand, or derived in a context-unaware manner (e.g., all words occuring in string values). We present an efficient algorithm based on s...

background;despite advances in technology, people are still exposed to fire hazard. students can be one of the most important exposed groups. therefore, fire safety inspection should be established in dormitories. the aim of this study was to develop a fire safety checklist for fire safety inspection in dormitories. methods; this study was as a tool development followed by a cross-sectional stu...

BACKGROUND The aviation industry uses crew resource management (CRM) to address the human aspect of error. Dentistry can incorporate these concepts to reduce dental error. The authors provide a checklist to help clinicians mitigate error. METHODS Health care systems have begun to focus on medical error. During the past 30 years, the airline industry has developed mitigation strategies that ar...

OBJECTIVE To assess whether structured team briefings improve operating room communication. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS This 13-month prospective study used a preintervention/postintervention design. All staff and trainees in the division of general surgery at a Canadian academic tertiary care hospital were invited to participate. Participants included 11 general surgeons, 24 surgical t...

The number of potentially preventable medical errors that occur has been steadily increasing. These are a significant cause of patient morbidity, can lead to life-threatening complications and may result in a significant financial burden on health care. Effective communication and team working reduce errors and serious incidents. In particular the implementation of the World Health Organisation...

Gastrointestinal endoscopy is a widely used diagnostic and therapeutic procedure both within the United Kingdom and worldwide. With an increasingly older population the potential for complications is increased. The Wolfson Unit for Endoscopy at St. Mark's Hospital in London is a tertiary referral centre, which conducts over 14,000 endoscopic procedures annually. However, despite this high throu...

Background: Postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) prevention is the main stay and corner stone to achieve millennium developmental goal 5 (MDG5). Maternity nurses play a crucial role in maternal morbidity reduction resulting from PPH competency of maternity directly affects quality treatment health outcomes. Aim: was develop competences for maternity during labor immediate postpartum period reg...