A retrospective evaluation of attitudinal, behavioural and knowledge change among diverse stakeholder groups was conducted in Limpopo Province of South Africa to assess the effectiveness of a series of values clarification (VC) interventions. Telephone and face-to-face interview (193) results revealed that over two-thirds (70.2%) reported behavioural changes and 93.2% reported increased compass...

Primary hyperaldosteronism (PH) is the most common cause of secondary hypertension. Apart from hypertension, hypokalaemia was hitherto considered to be the classical cardinal symptom. Its presence was therefore also usually a prerequisite for further diagnostic clarification in respect of PH. However, numerous new studies in normokalaemic hypertension patients now show that serum potassium leve...

Role clarity is a crucial issue for effective interprofessional collaboration. Poorly defined roles can become a source of conflict in clinical teams and reduce the effectiveness of care and services delivered to the population. Our objective in this paper is to outline processes for clarifying professional roles when a new role is introduced into clinical teams, that of the primary healthcare ...

utilizing natural clay in the traditional production of the grape concentrates in the villages cause the input of large amounts of some metals (solutes) in the product which will be harmful for the consumers. to eliminate the natural clay from this procedure in non-industrial scale, bentonite was selected as an aid-clarifier and examined in treatments under these conditions: two levels of bento...

INTRODUCTION Prescription errors threaten patient safety and pharmacists often contact providers for prescription clarification. This study describes the principal reasons pharmacies call primary care practices to clarify prescriptions and subsequent implications for quality and patient safety improvement. METHODS A cross-sectional study of 22 primary care practices participating in a patient...