MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'inquiry'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:25:58 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4544971&cid=t_227320_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fcancer-and-science-based-medicine-skepticism-vs-nihilism%2F2011.03.03 Last Friday, Mark Crislip posted an excellent deconstruction of a very disappointing article that appeared in the most recent issue of Skeptical Inquirer (SI), the flagship publication of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI). I say “disappointing,” because I was disappointed to see SI publish such a biased, poorly thought out article, apparently for the sake of controversy. I’m a subscriber myself, and in general enjoy reading the magazine, although of late I must admit that I don’t always read each issue cover to cover the way I used to do. Between work, grant writing, blogging, and other activities, my outside reading, even of publications I like, has declined. Perhaps SI will soon find itself off my reading list. Be that as it may, I couldn’t miss the article that so irr... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4544971 Thu, 03 Mar 2011 14:00:03 +0100 4544971 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4501586&cid=t_227320_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fpostoperative-care-and-the-black-swan%2F2011.02.20 This is a guest post by J. Paul Curry, M.D. I was inspired when I lost my best friend 15 years ago to a common medical-error phenomenon: The lack of monitoring patients in the hospital. Losing Mark altered my entire career in medicine and started me on a long journey of trying to understand how this particular problem happens. The journey has been eye-opening for me for many reasons, and probably most importantly by striving to learn and understand how the human brain can deceive itself into believing that thoughtful, rational, goal-directed tactics are always the solution to finding the answers to highly-complex enigmas. Actually, the blockbusting solutions that change the course of our culture — how we do things — are most often totally unpredictable and discovered by a... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4501586 Sun, 20 Feb 2011 20:00:51 +0100 4501586 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4433135&cid=t_227320_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F02%2F03%2Fnidal-hasan-exactly-the-man-many-knew-him-to-be%2F Army Maj. Nidal Hasan was exactly the kind of man many people knew him to be. And that’s why they continually promoted him and sent him some place else. Because nobody, apparently, was willing to intervene despite many warning signs about his behavior. Those are the findings from the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs. They found that the massacre allegedly carried out by Nidal Hasan could have have been prevented. Had just one person acted on the information many different people had, the tragedy that occurred at Fort Hood on November 5, 2009 may have been prevented. “The officers who kept Hasan in the military and moved him steadily along knew full well of his problematic behavior,” the report found. “As the officer who assigned Has... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4433135 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 02:00:13 +0100 4433135 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3954308&cid=t_227320_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2010%2F09%2F09%2Fan-emotional-timeline-of-911%2F As we approach the ninth anniversary of 9/11, researchers writing in Psychological Science this week analyzed 85,000 text pages sent through pagers during the 2 hours before and 18 hours after 9/11 took place. (You do remember what a pager is, don’t you?) WikiLeaks, the website in the news lately for other reasons, has made the 573,000 lines consisting of 6.4 million words freely available on its website for the past year. What would these 85,000 pages tell us about the human emotion that people were expressing during those 20 hours? Researchers’ favorite tool when it comes to text analysis is the good ole Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC). So it’s no surprise that’s what these researchers also turned to to analyze the word content of these communications for... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3954308 Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:30:44 +0100 3954308 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3629583&cid=t_227320_86_f&fid=36669&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffadelibrary.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F06%2F03%2Fbritish-journal-of-healthcare-management-2010-volume-16-issue-4%2F British Journal of Healthcare Management 2010 (Volume 16 Issue 4) Contents Page Fade Fave: Appreciative inquiry in health care Fade Skinny: Literature review covering 1990 to 2009 describing the application of appreciative inquiry in health care. Offers a brief description of the theoretical foundations and the process of appreciative inquiry, the studies and projects uncovered in the review are presented. The limits and advantages of using appreciative inquiry to promote organisational change in health care are discussed. (NHS Athens is required to access this article online) Filed under: Athens Password, Current Awareness, E-Journals, NHS, Quality Tagged: Appreciative Inquiry, Athens Password, Current Awareness, E-Journals, Management, Performance Management (Source: Fade Library) Fade Library blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3629583 Thu, 03 Jun 2010 15:42:31 +0100 3629583 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3625447&cid=t_227320_86_f&fid=36669&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffadelibrary.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F06%2F03%2Fbritish-journal-of-healthcare-management-2010-volume-16-issue-3%2F British Journal of Healthcare Management 2010 (Volume 16 Issue 3) Contents Page Fade Fave: Appreciative inquiry: more than just a fad? Fade Skinny: Anecdotal data on the benefits of appreciative inquiry as a performance management tool suggest that future empirical investigation is warranted. Without such data gathering, appreciative inquiry risks becoming another management fad that promises much, but ultimately fails to deliver. (NHS Athens is required to access this article online) Filed under: Athens Password, Change, Current Awareness, E-Journals, Journals, Management, NHS Tagged: Appreciative Inquiry, Athens Password, Current Awareness, E-Journals, Management, Performance Management (Source: Fade Library) Fade Library blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3625447 Thu, 03 Jun 2010 14:46:31 +0100 3625447 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3588935&cid=t_227320_111_f&fid=34834&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FMentalNurse%2F%7E3%2FnqEq6jj3QKo%2F [Guest post by Rasselas, Prince of Dysthymia] Firstly, my personal motto: I’m not anti-psychiatry, I’m anti-bullshit. So whether you’re talking about so-called laissez-faire economics, the madness of Chavez, or the corrective utility of Seroquel, to me it makes no difference. Bullshit is bullshit, no matter the shape, size and texture, no matter what arsehole it’s extruded from. All bullshit stinks. I have a question. I’m hoping some of you will be willing to give it serious consideration. In the subcultures of criminalised psychoactive drug taking there are many wisdoms. One of them is that you will get the best deals from trusted, established, peer-reviewed dealers who, by and large, will be users themselves. Coleridge knew this, and so did de Quincey, Baude... Mental Nurse blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3588935 Fri, 21 May 2010 17:08:10 +0100 3588935 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3075479&cid=t_227320_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FmhO10FsBKMQ%2F By Mark A. CalabriaA recent policy forum here at Cato discussed the role of the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) in the financial crisis.  While the forum focused on the federal push for ever expanding homeownership to marginal borrowers, the analysis did not touch directly upon the question of whether CRA lending undermines bank safety. Fortunately this is a question that one economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas bothered to ask.  While his research findings were available before the crisis, they were clearly ignored. In a peer-reviewed published article, appearing in the journal Economic Inquiry, economist Jeff Gunther concludes that there is “evidence to suggest that a greater focus on lending in low-income neighborhoods helps CRA ratings but comes at the expense of s... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3075479 Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:53:35 +0100 3075479 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2511161&cid=t_227320_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2009%2F06%2F18%2Fputting-cool-ahead-of-science-tweetpsych%2F A new service launched this week by a web developer named Dan Zarrella called TweetPsych. Zarrella is also a marketing manager for HubSpot, an online marketing firm. Zarrella calls himself a “scientist,” because I guess it sounds sexier than “web developer” or “marketing manager,” but he doesn’t list any academic credentials. (I wouldn’t mention the scientist or credentials part except that Zarrella makes specific scientific claims about his new service.) The interesting new service is marketed as offering “psychological profiling” based upon what you post to Twitter. But it’s really just a content analysis service, using two psychological dictionaries and your past 1,000 tweets. Zarrella claims this analysis “builds a... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2511161 Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:03:49 +0100 2511161 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1186490&cid=t_227320_165_f&fid=36771&url=http%3A%2F%2Foccupationaltherapyotago.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F10%2F26%2Fharrys-finally-made-it%2F Sometime ago I was talking about mastering technology and had to confess that I couldn’t figure out how to get my photo’s from the camera to my blog, and that if you ever saw Harry (the cat) you would know I had finally sorted the problem. I have been reduced to bribing Merrolee (Occupational Therapy Education Issues) with a glass of wine and a browse and borrow from my book shelf in exchange for some “looking over the shoulder” learning - and hey it’s sorted. However now I am on a roll and in the belief that the only way to cement my knowledge is to practice I have changed all the photo’s on the blog to photo’s I have taken this winter. I have left the Banner but perhaps one day it too will change. When it all comes together technology is a wonde... Occupational Therapy Otago blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1186490 Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:11:34 +0100 1186490