OBJECTIVE To establish the current level of awareness and investigate the use of timelines within clinical computing systems as an organized display of the electronic patient record (EPR). DESIGN Multicentre survey conducted using questionnaires and interview. SETTING Seven UK hospitals and several general practice surgeries. PARTICIPANTS A total of 120 healthcare professionals completed ...

Role is very crucial in our daily life. People play different roles at different places and times. Their role can change from being staffs at the office, customers at shop, and parents at home. Moreover, people’s role influences their motivation level, job satisfaction, peace of mind and security to resources or belongings. Role is vital in networked collaborative virtual environment (NCVE) as ...

Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data Machmer, Marlene M. The ecological roles of wildlife tree users in forest ecosystems (Land management handbook ; 35) " This handbook prepared by Pandion Ecological Includes bibliographical references: p. Research Ltd. "-Verso of t.p.

Abstract. Users in online social networks often have very different structural positions which may be attributed to a latent factor: roles. In this paper, we analyze dynamic networks from two datasets (Facebook and Scratch) to find roles which define users’ structural positions. Each dynamic network is partitioned into snapshots and we independently find roles for each network snapshot. We pres...

A usability evaluation model is a visual or behavioral representation to help users better understand and evaluate real world systems. Several usability models are used by medical and usability experts in evaluation of healthcare systems. Most of these models are not specific to healthcare domain and may exclude the complexity of healthcare system. As there is no appropriate evaluation model av...

BACKGROUND Operational research (OR) is the discipline of using models, either quantitative or qualitative, to aid decision-making in complex implementation problems. The methods of OR have been used in healthcare since the 1950s in diverse areas such as emergency medicine and the interface between acute and community care; hospital performance; scheduling and management of patient home visits;...

Health workforce shortages in Sub-Saharan Africa are widely recognized, particularly of physicians, leading the training and deployment of Non-physician clinicians (NPCs). The paper by Eyal et al provides interesting and legitimate viewpoints on evolving role of physicians in context of decisive increase of NPCss in Sub-Saharan Africa. Certainly, in short or mid-term, NPCs will continue to be a...

BACKGROUND The philosophy of primary healthcare forms the basis of South Africa's health policy and provides guidance for healthcare service delivery in South Africa. Healthcare service provision in South Africa has shown improvement in the past five years. However, it is uncertain as to whether the changes have reached rural areas and if primary healthcare is implemented successfully in these ...

Clinical laboratory consultants (M.D.s and Ph.D.s) must add value and medical relevance to the healthcare system to earn and maintain their roles in an era of managed care. Service opportunities include new and expanded roles in system-wide (a) managing of point-of-care testing, (b) informatics and information systems, (c) clinical consultation, (d) resource management, (e) management of utiliz...

BACKGROUND Healthcare professionals' person-centered communication skills are pivotal for successful group-based diabetes education. However, healthcare professionals are often insufficiently equipped to facilitate person-centeredness and many have never received post-graduate training. Currently, assessing professionals' skills in conducting group-based, person-centered diabetes education prim...