Objective To determine the knowledge of patient safety among postgraduate residents (PGR) and nurses in a tertiary care hospital. Methods This casual comparative study was conducted among the postgraduate residents and nurses working at The Children's Hospital Lahore in the month of July, August 2017. Both PGR and nurses were asked to complete APSQ-IV questionnaire about patient safety on 7 p...

Scientific activity in Brazil has experienced an accelerated growth in the past decades, with an increase in productivity that greatly surpasses the international average. This growth has occurred mostly at the expense of centers of excellence in public universities, which account for the vast majority of the country's scientific output. The aim of this study was to evaluate the production of t...

Diagnostic laboratories are increasingly seen as no more than "factories" that generate fast, reliable test results. The dangers of complacency about the use of tests are highlighted by recent cases of unnecessary surgery and chemotherapy based solely on false-positive test results. There are many causes of misleading laboratory data that can potentially lead to clinical mismanagement. Re-empha...

BACKGROUND Modern medicine has created a need for innovative methods of training that create safe, proficient specialists with adequate experience, and who are fit for purpose in this new system. Patient safety and patient-focused care are central to current practice and promoted by the use of simulation, human factors, team-based, multidisciplinary and interspecialty training. An acknowledgeme...

I had the good fortune to be appointed in 1973 to the first Wolfson Foundation Visiting Professorship in General Practice. The appointment entitles the holder, who must be a Fellow or Member of the Royal College of General Practitioners in active practice in the United Kingdom or Eire, to spend four to six weeks in any part of the world. The terms of reference are wide and include consideration...

BACKGROUND The use of information and communication technology (ICT) in health professional education is increasing rapidly. Health professional educators need to be responsive to health professionals' information and communication technological needs; however, there is a paucity of information about educators' attitudes to, and capabilities with, ICT. METHODS Fifty-two health professional ed...

A comprehensive study was made of the value of necropsies carried out over a six month period in Peterborough Health Authority, using a modification of the format proposed by Schned et al in Vermont, United States of America. Cause of death, clinical correlation, clinical factors contributing to death and clinical evaluation of the necropsy were recorded. The principal diseases were cardiac (33...

The "Choosing Wisely" campaign seeks to reduce unnecessary care in the United States through self-published recommendations by professional societies. The research team sought to identify factors related to low-value care in the Department of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco, using a subset of clinical scenarios published by the American College of Physicians. The team fur...

Higher technological education graduates constitute one of the most important and promising newcomers at the labor market. A smooth and successful vocational socialization of this category of future workers is one of the primary targets of educational systems, and policy makers at both; a national and a European level. This article focuses on the incorporation process of graduates from Greek hi...