This guidance represents the view of NICE, arrived at after careful consideration of the evidence available. When exercising their judgement, healthcare professionals are expected to take this guidance fully into account. However, the guidance does not override the individual responsibility of healthcare professionals to make decisions appropriate to the circumstances of the individual patient,...

Title: Risk perception of blood transfusions A comparison of patients and allied healthcare professionals Authors: Jan Graw ([email protected]) Katja Eymann ([email protected]) Felix Kork ([email protected]) Martin Zoremba ([email protected]) Rene Burchard ([email protected]) Version: 1 Date: 01 Dec 2017 Author’s response to reviews: BHSR-D-17-01028 Risk perception of blood transf...

Healthcare professionals, whether as providers or consumers of health care, are affected by DTCA. This article will provide an overview of DTCA, a review of related literature, and a discussion of the strengths and limitations of the process. Ultimately, healthcare professionals can use the information when educating patients and be aware of the impact of marketing strategies in their personal ...

Very little real therapeutic progress was made in 2015, while a large number of unsafe or poorly evaluated drugs were authorised. The exorbitant prices for some drugs endanger universal healthcare, sometimes obliging health professionals to choose riskier options for their patients. Health professionals, health authorities and drug companies are jointly responsible for guaranteeing access to qu...

Nowadays, there are many healthcare systems focused on the opti‐ mization and improvement of processes such as the generation of medical records and medical test reports. The interaction with this kind of systems is mainly done through user interfaces that demand the use of a keyboard or a mouse, which reduces the productivity of healthcare professionals. For example, pathological anatomy profe...

BACKGROUND Care for patients with chronic diseases is challenging and requires multifaceted interventions to appropriately coordinate the entire treatment process. The effect of such interventions on clinical outcomes has been assessed, but evidence of the effect on organization of care is scarce.The aim is to assess the effect of structured diabetes care on organization of care from the perspe...

As information technology has evolved and branched into Electronic Medical Records (EMR), the adoption of EMRs in healthcare has yet to permeate even half of hospitals. One factor in this lack of adoption is an insufficient supply of knowledgeable information technology professionals in the healthcare environment. To help resolve this shortage of professionals, an undergraduate degree to addres...

T he debate on whether healthcare professionals should be tested for the human immunodef ic iency virus J (HIV) has fired up recently, especially since the case of the Florida dentist who infected five patients. Until then most patients and healthcare professionals perceived the risk of patient infection as theoretical at best. Hut repeated questions have arisen recently about the mandatory tes...

The review included three RCTs, with a total of 347 healthcare professionals. All studies needed to assess the professionals before and after communication skills training, measuring changes in behavior and skills using objective and validated scales. The RCTs included administration of communication skills training where the control group received usual or alternative training to the intervent...

background: the manner in which healthcare professionals deliver bad news affects the way it is received, interpreted, understood, and dealt with. despite the fact that clinicians are responsible for breaking bad news, it has been shown that they lack skills necessary to perform this task. objectives: the purpose of this study was to explore iranian mothers’ experiences to receive bad news abou...