BACKGROUND Health care professions faculty/practitioners/students are at risk for stress and burnout, impacting well-being, and optimal patient care. AIMS We conducted a unique intervention: an interprofessional, experiential, skills-based workshop (IESW) combining two approaches: mind-body medicine skills and interactive reflective writing (RW) fostering self-awareness, self-discovery, refle...

BACKGROUND The 2009 World Health Organisation (WHO) surgical safety checklist significantly reduces surgical mortality and morbidity (up to 47%). Yet in 2016, only 25% of East African anesthetists regularly use the checklist. Nationwide implementation of the checklist is reported in high-income countries, but in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) reports of successful implementations are ...

INTRODUCTION Transport of critically ill patients from the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) to other departments for diagnostic or therapeutic procedures is often a necessary part of the critical care process. Transport of critically ill patients is potentially dangerous with up to 70% adverse events occurring. The aim of this study was to develop a checklist to increase safety of intra-hospital trans...

BACKGROUND Surgical checklists has been shown to improve patient safety and teamwork in the operating theatre. However, despite the known benefits of the use of checklists in surgery, in some cases the practical implementation has been found to be less than universal. A questionnaire methodology was used to quantitatively evaluate the attitudes of theatre staff towards a modified version of the...

OBJECTIVES To assess the diagnostic value of the screening instrument SPUTOVAMO-R2 (checklist, 5 questions) for child abuse at Out-of-hours Primary Care locations (OPC), by comparing the test outcome with information from Child Protection Services (CPS). Secondary, to determine whether reducing the length of the checklist compromises diagnostic value. METHODS All children (<18 years) attendin...

Writing is a way for students to develop and use their critical thinking skills as well as to demonstrate learning. The links below provide ways that writing can be used both informally and formally throughout the college curriculum and include specific methods for handling all aspects of the writing process from assignment-making to responding and grading. The final link for faculty is a mega-...

introduction:the aim of this study was to evaluate a review article published in the ketabmah: kolliat based on brem.materials and methods: the study method was applied and bibliometric and data gathering tool is the standard checklist. population included all book review articles published in the ketabmah: kolliat in 1390. statistical methods in descriptive and inferential statistics ( indepen...

introduction: despite achievements in treating acute lymphoblastic leukemia (all) in children, its burden on the psychosocial status of patients is not well defined yet. this study aims to determine the impact of childhood all on emotional and behavioral pattern of the patients compared to healthy peers as assessed by the child behavior checklist (cbcl). methods: we studied 100 children with al...

In this study we evaluated the practical performance of 70 general practitioners in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) before and after instruction and compared checklist-based scores to mechanical recording scores in order to investigate which scoring method is preferable. Both checklist and recording strip-based scores showed significant improvement after instruction, but only 37% were judge...

BACKGROUND Despite the rapid proliferation of health interventions that employ digital tools, the evidence on the effectiveness of such approaches remains insufficient and of variable quality. To address gaps in the comprehensiveness and quality of reporting on the effectiveness of digital programs, the mHealth Technical Evidence Review Group (mTERG), convened by the World Health Organization, ...