Background: A disease impacts patients’ participation level in their individual and social life through impacting their physical and mental performance. Due to the increasing prevalence of diabetes mellitus (DM), and the importance of patients’ participation and quality of life (QOL) and the determination of the most important aspects affected by the disease in the participation and...

Given the increasing emphasis on measuring quality indicators such as adherence to practice guidelines, we sought to determine the factors and address the barriers affecting guideline adherence on an academic inpatient hepatology service. We performed a single-center, prospective observational study. Physicians were given a handheld checklist to complete daily. We first measured the adherence r...

Handoffs represent a critical transition point in patient care that play a key role in patient safety. Our quality improvement project was a descriptive observational study aimed at standardizing pediatric hospitalist handoffs via implementation of a handoff checklist, with the goal of improving handoff quality and physician satisfaction within six months. The handoff checklist was quickly adap...

BACKGROUND Measures reflecting quality of life (QoL) or symptom control should be included as major endpoints in most phase III trials for patients with advanced cancer. Here we review the use of such endpoints. METHODS We evaluated methodological aspects relating to QoL or symptom control in randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that included >or=150 patients, published from 1994 to 2004, usin...

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A 3 copies of the manuscript A please indicate the corresponding author's details on the manuscript (tel/fax/e-mail) A 3 sets of figures A electronic version of the manuscript (Label the floppy disk with the type of computer and word processing package used, your name and the name of the file on the disk.) A electronic version of the figures For Review Papers: A 3 copies of the manuscript A ple...