Addiction research is challenged to disseminate evidence-based practices into routine clinical settings. The successful adoption of innovation must consider issues of fit, such as the characteristics, readiness, and attitudes of clinicians in the community. We constructed a survey to assess clinical practices and readiness to adopt certain evidence-based practices in addiction treatment program...

A representative sample of 115 training directors of American Psychological Association-accredited internship programs was surveyed. In a two-part survey, they ranked the criteria used in selecting interns for the 1994-1995 training year and elucidated characteristics of the selection process. Clinical experience, the interview, and letters of recommendation were identified as the top three sel...

As THE Burgholzli Hospital in Zurich approaches its centenary, it seems an opportune occasion to review briefly its historical development, and to compare it with its closest counterpart in England, the Maudsley Hospital. The outstanding contribution of this famous Swiss centre and its directors have created for it an almost unique place amongst the teaching centres of the Western psychiatric w...

Resumen La tasa de recaída en el consumo al alta de una Unidad de Desintoxicación Hospitalaria es elevada. El objetivo de este estudio piloto es valorar los factores sociodemográficos, clínicos y terapéuticos asociados al mantenimiento de la abstinencia de pacientes que han participado en un grupo psicoterapéutico breve de corte motivacional durante su ingreso para la desintoxicación. Un total ...

introduction: aim of current study is determination of optimal number of nurses in the emergency department of shiraz ali asghar hospital. method: current study is an applied study and belongs to operational research (or) studies. the population has been studied in this research, includes records of referred patients to the emergency department of hospital in 2008. sampling was performed in the...

We surveyed directors of medical technology (MT) and postdoctoral clinical chemistry (CC) training programs and of clinical pathology (CP) and combined anatomic/clinical pathology (AP/CP) residency programs regarding the number, quality, training emphasis, and job-placement experience of trainees for 1985-95 as well as the directors' opinions on the impact of "healthcare reform." Responses were...

The author discusses the role hospital security directors should play in assuring parents to be ever vigilant in protecting their children from child predators. Become an advocate for child safety, he advises.

The activities of community pharmacies include collecting and sharing information about patients' hospitalization histories by checking medication registers, interviewing patients their families, providing from other medical institutions. In 2020, an additional fee was established to provide with in a document form at the time discharge hospital. This study aimed verify use documents handbooks ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Family medicine clerkship directors review students' patient encounter logs. Encounter data can be used to alter students' learning experiences. Our purpose was to determine if students record different types of patient encounters before and after reviewing log data with clerkship directors. METHODS Clerkship directors met with each student at clerkship midpoint, rev...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Little is known about the impact of laborists (which we defined as "clinicians dedicated to providing L&D care services in the hospital environment for pregnant patients, regardless of who provided the prenatal care" for this survey) on family medicine residency training. We surveyed family medicine residency directors to assess characteristics about laborist services ...