BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Community hospitals often lack tertiary care support such as pediatric intensivists and anesthesiologists. Resuscitation of critically ill and injured children in community hospitals requires a well-coordinated team effort, because good team performance improves quality of care. The lack of subspecialty support makes team coordination and communication more imperative y...

OBJECTIVE To demonstrate how the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) can be used to create coded functional status indicators specific for stroke from a simple stroke-specific functional index, the Stroke Impact Scale-16 (SIS-16). SUBJECTS Nineteen professionals for the mapping portion and 8 persons with stroke for the cognitive debriefing portion. METHO...

various psychotherapies for post-traumatic stress disorder and disturbances associated with it are used. the purpose of this review was to introduce of traditional and modern psychotherapy in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder. the data was collected by searching of online databases, english articles selected from science direct, pubmed, proquest, and persian articles from medlib, ...

This paper explores the impact of debriefing in online English as a second language (ESL) classrooms an urban national primary school. Self-evaluation is essential to enhance teaching and learning. pursues strategy using exit ticket assist successful learning ESL classrooms. Fifty Year 5 students eleven teachers participated this study. A mixed methods approach was implemented investigate gauge...

The Patient-Reported Outcomes Meaurement Information System (PROMIS®) measures have been translated into many languages and shown to strong measurement properties across a wide range of clinical conditions. However, Nepali translations the PROMIS short forms are not yet available. aim this study was translate cross-culturally adapt Pain Intensity, Interference, Behavior, Depression, Sleep Distu...

The article by Rudolph and colleagues1 addresses a subject that is important to many involved in simulation in healthcare, but is not a traditional part of the training or experience of healthcare personnel. The topic is “facilitated debriefing,” but what exactly is this and why should we care? A little background may help explain. In the 1970s, several airliners piloted by highly skilled pilot...

There has never been published a randomised controlled trial of group debriefing. In this study we employed an analogue study with students to conduct the first such trial. Sixty-four participants were shown a stressful video of paramedics attending to injured and dead victims of a road traffic accident. Half the participants were subsequently debriefed and half were provided with tea and biscu...

OBJECTIVE To test whether critical incident stress debriefing after childbirth reduces the incidence of postnatal psychological disorders. DESIGN Randomised single-blind controlled trial stratified for parity and delivery mode. SETTING Two large maternity hospitals in Perth. PARTICIPANTS 1745 women who delivered healthy term infants between April 1996 and December 1997 (875 allocated to i...

BACKGROUND Recent investigations have documented poor cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) performance in clinical practice. We hypothesized that a debriefing intervention using CPR quality data from actual in-hospital cardiac arrests (resuscitation with actual performance integrated debriefing [RAPID]) would improve CPR performance and initial patient survival. METHODS Internal medicine resid...