Objectives To explore the process of knowledge exchange in an informal email network for evidence based health care, to illuminate the value of the service and its critical success factors, and to identify areas for improvement. Design Illuminative evaluation. Setting Targeted email and networking service for UK healthcare practitioners and researchers. Participants 2800 members of a networking...

OBJECTIVES To explore the process of knowledge exchange in an informal email network for evidence based health care, to illuminate the value of the service and its critical success factors, and to identify areas for improvement. DESIGN Illuminative evaluation. SETTING Targeted email and networking service for UK healthcare practitioners and researchers. PARTICIPANTS 2800 members of a netw...

OBJECTIVE To engage the public to understand how to improve the care of critically ill patients. DESIGN A qualitative content analysis of an open community forum (Café Scientifique). SETTING Public venue in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. PARTICIPANTS Members of the general public including patients, families of patients, health care providers, and members of the community at large. METHODS A...

cal care practice. Members had practice expertise in medical, surgical, cardiovascular, neurosurgical, pedi-atric, and adult critical care nursing and represented hospital practice from across the United States. In addition, members were selected for participation in the panel on the basis of their expertise specifically relevant to sedation assessment, including pain management, anxiety/ fear,...

BACKGROUND No validated conceptual framework exists for understanding the outcomes of patient- and family-centered care in critical care. OBJECTIVE To explore the meaning of intensive care unit among patients and their families by using freelisting. METHODS The phrase intensive care unit was used to prompt freelisting among intensive care unit patients and patients' family members. Freelist...

Critical care is formulated and delivered by a team. Accordingly, behavioral scientific principles relevant to teams, namely psychological safety, transactive memory and leadership, apply to critical care teams. Two experts in behavioral sciences review the impact of psychological safety, transactive memory and leadership on medical team outcomes. A clinician then applies those principles to tw...

For the past year the University of Rhode Island's Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) Team has been working to develop an AUV capable of satisfying the mission requirements as stated by AUVSI and ONR's AUV 7 Annual Competition Rules. The vehicle, named Prowler V, is a continuation of the vehicle developed and modified over the past 4 years. The Prowler V offers increased processing and power e...

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and, more recently, its successor Transport Layer Security (TLS) are foundational technologies of secure communications on the Internet. Secure web browsing, Virtual Private Networks (VPN), and other secure protocols (such as SFTP and SSH) leverage TLS to ensure the privacy of their communications. To meet the needs of software developers, many libraries have been cre...

objective: this study assessed the effect of paradox in family therapy.paradox, as a therapeutic tool, has been developed by a number of therapists,especially mara selvini palazzoli. metho d: this study benefited from the milan systems approach to family. two clients (both females) were selected for this study. these two girls were the symptomatic members of their families. the families partici...