Collaborative international multidisciplinary teams are developing, assessing, and refining systems for evaluating and reporting research. This tutorial identifies the leading tools, their purpose, and how to access current versions and learn more about them (e.g., names of developers, evaluations and other publications, translations). The checklists and related resources can help producers str...

OBJECTIVE The goal of this project was to create an easy-to-administer and inexpensive tool that can help identify usability issues in a patient room bathroom during the design process so improvements can be made before the final product is constructed and put into operation. BACKGROUND The bathroom is an essential part of any hospital patient room, yet it is associated with nurse dissatisfac...

In many health care systems globally, cancer care is driven by multidisciplinary cancer teams (MDTs). A large number of studies in the past few years and across different literature have been performed to better understand how these teams work and how they manage patient care. The aim of our literature review is to synthesize current scientific and clinical understanding on cancer MDTs and thei...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES There are multiple procedural skills common to all residency programs. This study had two main objectives: (1) Use an interdisciplinary team to develop a procedural competency checklist for adult endotracheal intubation that could be shared across specialty programs and levels of training and (2) Evaluate the validity and reliability of the checklist. METHODS Clinica...

BACKGROUND Patient survival and quality of life depend on each haemodialysis session being performed without fault. Monthly assessments of dialysis dose adequacy often fall short of this. This study reports the results of a feasibility study for the achievement of improved safety and quality in a haemodialysis session with the implementation of a 15-point checklist. METHODS Fifteen quality in...

This article reports on an experimental evaluation of a unified checklist for case study and experimental research. The checklist aims at exhibiting the underlying, shared, structure of observational and experimental research, and is based on several published checklist in software engineering and other disciplines. We asked a small sample of subjects to apply it to two papers, one reporting on...

This paper reports on an analysis of the change caused by an e-textbook implementation in a school in South Africa. The PSIC model, a change model from ICT enabled change in organisations, was considered because it affirms existing educational research, but also extends it by recognising the episodic nature of change. On a vertical level the model allowed the researchers to identify and disting...

<p>The textbooks play an important role in teaching and learning activity language program. Because of the various provided, textbook analysis is seen as thing to be conducted order find out how components are served. This study was aimed investigate what extent English entitled “Bahasa Inggris: When Rings a Bell” for eighth grade students meet criteria BSNP (linguistic features presentat...