This study evaluated 2 ELT textbooks (Four Corners, Book 2 and Four CornersBook 3) drawing on Bloom’s revised taxonomy (BRT); it examined the extent towhich these ELT textbooks could demonstrate the 6 cognitive categories of the BRT(i.e., remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, and creating) intheir activities. To this end, content analysis was done to obtain the frequency ...

INTRODUCTION For maintaining the continuity of care and improving the quality of care, effective inter-shift information communication is necessary. Any handover error can endanger patient safety. Despite the importance of shift handover, there is no standard handover protocol in our healthcare settings. METHODS In this one-group pretest-posttest quasi-experimental study conducted in spring a...

Coordinated action through partnerships is a core approach in community health promotion to deal with the multidimensionality of today's health and societal issues. The number of partnerships is increasing. However, facilitation and evaluation of partnerships is hampered by the lack and/or nonuse of feasible tools. As a consequence, health promotion through partnerships is not optimally facilit...

BACKGROUND Interventional cardiology and electrophysiology are disciplines with a growing number of complex procedures, which are exposed to the occurrence of many complications. AIM To assess efficacy and legitimacy of the periprocedural checklist in prevention of cardiovascular adverse events, in elective patients undergoing invasive diagnostic and treatment. METHODS A total of 2064 patie...

OBJECTIVE To determine a) if a checklist covering a diverse group of intensive care unit protocols and objectives would improve clinician consideration of these domains and b) if improved consideration would change practice patterns. DESIGN Pre- and post observational study. SETTING A 24-bed surgical/burn/trauma intensive care unit in a teaching hospital. PATIENTS A total of 1399 patients...

This study aims to evaluate an English textbook in a private school example Sinop. Although schools and public follow the same curriculum, there are differences preference. In this study, as external evaluation, was examined terms of design elements; and, internal book instructional elements. The research qualitative process carried out by two different researchers. Results showed that although...

The Pediatric Symptom Checklist (PSC) is a brief screening questionnaire designed to help pediatricians in busy office practice select children who are likely to have psychosocial difficulties and thus could benefit from further evaluation. We report two preliminary validation studies that indicate that PSC correlates well with the Childhood Behavior Checklist, a longer, well-validated question...

BACKGROUND The availability of mobile health apps for self-care continues to increase. While little evidence of their clinical impact has been published, there is general agreement among health authorities and authors that consumers' use of health apps assist in self-management and potentially clinical decision making. A consumer's sustained engagement with a health app is dependent on the usab...

This study investigated the extent to which first-year secondary school Saudi ELT textbooks integrate ecological education content. books various themes trigger language learners' interest. However, there is a dire need include related global issues or troubled state of Mother nature. Hence focused on two environmental themes: knowledge and awareness, attitudes behaviors, their sub-theme. The u...