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A new reliable tool (PVC assess) for assessment of peripheral venous cathetersEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions The PVC assess instrument shows satisfactory inter-rater and test-retest reliability. Reliability tests on reviewing documentation remain to be performed. (Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice)
Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice - November 19, 2009 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Margary Ahlqvist, Britta Berglund, Gun Nordstrom, Birgitta Klang, Mikael Wirén, Eva Johansson Source Type: journals

The evaluation of self-care and self-efficacy in patients undergoing hemodialysisEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions Hemodialysis application affects patients' self-care ability and self-efficacy levels. There is a positive correlation between self-care ability and self-efficacy. In view of this study's results, it is recommended to organize education programmes to increase self-care ability and self-efficacy levels of HD patients and prepare comprehensive plans including patients' families. (Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice)
Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice - October 28, 2009 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Eylem Bağ, Mukadder Mollaoğlu Source Type: journals

Strengthening conflict-of-interest policies in medicineEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusion Taking the position that a more adequate system of checks and balances is needed, the authors offer specific recommendations for improving current policies and for addressing the issue of indirect support. (Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice)
Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice - October 27, 2009 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Lisa Cosgrove, Harold J. Bursztajn Source Type: journals

Trial-generated profiles for implantation of electrical devices in outpatients with heart failure: real-world prevalence and 1-year outcomeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions As many as half the IN-CHF outpatients fulfilled current criteria for device implantation. Various subgroups had higher 1-year mortality than patients in trial control arms [ndash] a finding that may not be entirely attributable to differences in drug therapy (especially beta blockers). (Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice)
Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice - October 27, 2009 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Giuseppe Boriani, Claudio Rapezzi, Igor Diemberger, Lucio Gonzini, Marco Gorini, Donata Lucci, Gianfranco Sinagra, Robin M. T. Cooke, Giuseppe Di Pasquale, Luigi Tavazzi, Aldo P. Maggioni Source Type: journals

Psychometric validation of the Taiwan Chinese version of the 25-Item National Eye Institute Visual Functioning QuestionnaireEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusion This study revealed that the Taiwan Chinese version of the NEI-VFQ 25 is a valid and reliable instrument to measure vision-related quality of life in patients with visual impairment. (Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice)
Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice - August 27, 2009 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Jen-Chieh Lin, Wei-Chu Chie Source Type: journals

Improving geriatric transitional care through inter-professional care teamsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusion This study provides empirical evidence of the impact of an inter-professional care model in providing cost-effective transitional care in a nursing home setting. Evidence of shorter lengths of stay, shorter patient days and lower charges suggests benefit in the development and financing of inter-professional care teams for transitional care services. (Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice)
Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice - July 29, 2009 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Lynn A. Blewett, Kelli Johnson, Teresa McCarthy, Thomas Lackner, Barbara Brandt Source Type: journals

Correlation of visual function with health-related quality of life in glaucoma patientsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions A combination of demographic data, clinical examination and QOL questionnaires may help clinicians better ascertain the impact of disease severity on glaucoma patients' QOL. This information may help in patient education, treatment compliance and selection of treatment options. (Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice)
Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice - June 24, 2009 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Jen-Chieh Lin, Ming-Chin Yang Source Type: journals

Quantification and examination of depression-related mental health literacyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions Tracking mental health literacy within populations is important as it has been shown to be related to individual help-seeking as well as provision of support for those with a mental disorder. The method devised in this study allows for comparisons of literacy levels to be made across populations and time. It also offers increased capacity for statistical application. (Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice)
Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice - June 11, 2009 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Kirsten I. Dunn, Robert D. Goldney, Eleonora Dal Grande, Anne Taylor Source Type: journals

Potentially inappropriate urinary catheter indwelling among long-term care facilities residentsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusion The prevalence of long-term UC indwelling among Taiwanese LTCF residents was high and a high proportion of their UC may be removable. A national audit and introducing a practice guideline for continence care in LTCFs may help to promote quality of care for institutionalized older people in Taiwan. (Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice)
Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice - June 10, 2009 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Yi-Tsun Chen, Ming-Hsien Lin, Hsiu-Yun Lai, Shinn-Jang Hwang, Liang-Kung Chen Source Type: journals

Brief assessment of adult cancer patients' perceived needs: development and validation of the 34-item Supportive Care Needs Survey (SCNS-SF34)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions The SCNS-SF34 is a valid instrument for measuring cancer patients' perceived needs across a range of domains, and could be utilized as part of routine cancer care. (Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice)
Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice - June 10, 2009 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Allison Boyes, Afaf Girgis, Christophe Lecathelinais Source Type: journals

Clinical diagnosis of acute bacterial rhinosinusitis, typical of expertsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Background Clinical diagnosis of acute bacterial sinusitis (ABS) is a concern when a patient presents with nasal discharge of recent onset together with facial pain or pressure. Given this presentation, the doctor would benefit from having access to software that specifies, first, what diagnostic indicators experts typically use in that diagnosis and then, upon entry of those facts, what experts' typical probability of ABS is in such a case.Methods We specified a set of 23 hypothetical presentations of this type by patients 20[ndash]75 years of age, involving a comprehensive set of clinical-diagnostic indicators. Members o...
Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice - June 10, 2009 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Johann Steurer, Ulrike Held, Lucas M. Bachmann, David Holzmann, Peter Ott, Olli S. Miettinen Source Type: journals

Overuse of mammography during the first round of an organized breast cancer screening programmeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions Opportunistic mammography screening in excess of recommendation is common, and persists despite explicit advice about recommended screening frequency. (Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice)
Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice - June 10, 2009 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Eric Chamot, Agathe Charvet, Thomas V. Perneger Source Type: journals

Development and analysis of a nationwide cost database of acute-care hospitals in JapanEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions After designing a costing framework, a nationwide database comprised of individual case-level costs with components for acute-care hospitals in Japan was successfully developed. We hope this study contributes to appropriate decision making and helps motivate further research geared towards efficient hospital management and a rational payment system in Japan. (Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice)
Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice - June 10, 2009 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Kenshi Hayashida, Yuichi Imanaka, Tetsuya Otsubo, Kazuaki Kuwabara, Kohicih B Ishikawa, Kiyohide Fushimi, Hideki Hashimoto, Hideo Yasunaga, Hiromasa Horiguchi, Makoto Anan, Kenji Fujimori, Shunya Ikeda, Shinya Matsuda Source Type: journals

Degree and correlates of patient trust in their cardiologistEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions The significance of education is corroborated by findings of lower satisfaction with cardiac care among those of higher socio-economic status, despite having generally greater access to care in Ontario. Moreover, the relationship between hypertension and greater trust may suggest that such perceptions are not based on doctor competence. Future studies should further investigate the correlates of trust, as well as the impact of trust on cardiac health outcomes. (Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice)
Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice - June 10, 2009 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Sheena Kayaniyil, Shannon Gravely-Witte, Donna E. Stewart, Lyall Higginson, Neville Suskin, David Alter, Sherry L. Grace Source Type: journals

The impact of electronic medical records on patient–doctor communication during consultation: a narrative literature reviewEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusion The use of EMR exerts both positive and negative impacts on physician[ndash]patient relationships. The negative impacts can be overcome by some simple means as well as better designs of EMR systems and medical education interventions. Physicians' everyday practices of integrating EMR use into the clinical encounter as well as better design of EMR systems and EMR and communication training may facilitate PDC in computerized settings. (Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice)
Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice - June 10, 2009 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Aviv Shachak, Shmuel Reis Source Type: journals

Complexity in medicine and healthcare: people and systems, theory and practiceEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice - May 28, 2009 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Andrew Miles Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLES Source Type: journals

The social construction of chronicity – a key to understanding chronic care transformationsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions Health care systems cannot afford to avoid, and should actively embrace the critiques of social theory and analyses in the transformations of health systems to improve chronic care. Creative tensions between empirical and intellectual critique, and a synthetic middle ground are likely to lead to more realistic and innovative approaches spanning the nature of chronicity and the transformation of Primary Care. (Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice)
Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice - May 26, 2009 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Carmel M. Martin, Chris Peterson Tags: FORUM ON SYSTEMS AND COMPLEXITY IN MEDICINE AND HEALTHCARE Joint Editors: Dr Carmel M. Martin and Dr Joachim P. Sturmberg Source Type: journals

Complex adaptive chronic careEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Discussion Chronic care reform from within a complex adaptive system framework is bottom up and emergent and stands in stark contrast to (but has to co-exist with) the prevailing protocol based disease care rewarding selective surrogate indicators of disease control. Frameworks such as the Chronic Care Model provide guidance, but do not replace individual experience, local adaptive leadership and responsiveness. The awareness of complexity means opening up problems to a different reality demanding different set of questions and approaches to answer them. (Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice)
Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice - May 26, 2009 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Carmel Martin, Joachim Sturmberg Tags: FORUM ON SYSTEMS AND COMPLEXITY IN MEDICINE AND HEALTHCARE Joint Editors: Dr Carmel M. Martin and Dr Joachim P. Sturmberg Source Type: journals

Power laws in covariability of anxiety and depression among newly diagnosed patients with major depressive episode, panic disorder and controlsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions First, power laws suggest a scale-free relationship; the differences seen in transition from symptom level to change level may reflect that complex events at the level of mood assessment affect change in mood. Second, this covariation may be due to external factors acting on the patient or multiple internal interrelated factors. Third, different factors and populations can yield different slopes. Future research is needed to confirm these preliminary findings and to understand the origin of these dynamics. (Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice)
Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice - May 26, 2009 Category: Journals (General) Authors: David A. Katerndahl Tags: FORUM ON SYSTEMS AND COMPLEXITY IN MEDICINE AND HEALTHCARE Joint Editors: Dr Carmel M. Martin and Dr Joachim P. Sturmberg Source Type: journals

Identifying patterns in primary care consultations: a cluster analysisEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions The study identified seven subgroups within the study population uniquely defined by variables from the health system, individual doctor and patient, consultation and consultation outcomes domains. A systems approach provides a framework in which to track and consider the important variables and their known and/or expected workings and thus offer a contextual framework to guide primary care reform. (Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice)
Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice - May 26, 2009 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Joachim P. Sturmberg, Eu-gene Siew, Leonid Churilov, Kate Smith-Miles Tags: FORUM ON SYSTEMS AND COMPLEXITY IN MEDICINE AND HEALTHCARE Joint Editors: Dr Carmel M. Martin and Dr Joachim P. Sturmberg Source Type: journals

Knowledge transfer and the complex story of scurvyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice - May 26, 2009 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Sholom Glouberman Tags: FORUM ON SYSTEMS AND COMPLEXITY IN MEDICINE AND HEALTHCARE Joint Editors: Dr Carmel M. Martin and Dr Joachim P. Sturmberg Source Type: journals

Perturbing ongoing conversations about systems and complexity in health services and systemsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice - May 26, 2009 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Carmel M. Martin, Joachim P. Sturmberg Tags: FORUM ON SYSTEMS AND COMPLEXITY IN MEDICINE AND HEALTHCARE Joint Editors: Dr Carmel M. Martin and Dr Joachim P. Sturmberg Source Type: journals

Complexity and health – yesterday's traditions, tomorrow's futureEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice - May 26, 2009 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Joachim P. Sturmberg, Carmel M. Martin Tags: FORUM ON SYSTEMS AND COMPLEXITY IN MEDICINE AND HEALTHCARE Joint Editors: Dr Carmel M. Martin and Dr Joachim P. Sturmberg Source Type: journals

Perceptions of the impact of a large-scale collaborative improvement programme: experience in the UK Safer Patients InitiativeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions Study findings support the view that programmes such as SPI have considerable impact upon the cultural, inter-professional, strategic and organizational aspects of care delivery, in addition to clinical working practices. The specific implications for understanding the effects of complex organization-level interventions and future research design are discussed. (Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice)
Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice - May 26, 2009 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Jonathan Benn, Susan Burnett, Anam Parand, Anna Pinto, Sandra Iskander, Charles Vincent Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLES Source Type: journals

Are (the log-odds of) hospital mortality rates normally distributed? Implications for studying variations in outcomes of medical careEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions These findings have important consequences for those who use hierarchical models to examine variations in outcomes of medical care across providers since the mixture of three normal distributions model indicated that variations in outcomes across providers was greater than indicated by the logistic-normal model. (Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice)
Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice - May 26, 2009 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Peter C. Austin Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLES Source Type: journals

Monitoring the performance of intensive care units using the variable life-adjusted display: a simulation study to explore its applicability and efficiencyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions Variable life-adjusted display ability to signal is mild and strictly correlated with the institution volume of activity. Therefore, the use of VLAD seems to be not always advisable, and an integration between VLAD and other well-documented tools as CUSUM charts could be preferable. (Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice)
Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice - May 26, 2009 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Francesca Foltran, Ileana Baldi, Guido Bertolini, Franco Merletti, Dario Gregori Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLES Source Type: journals

Smoking-cessation therapy using varenicline: the cost-utility of an additional 12-week course of varenicline for the maintenance of smoking abstinenceEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions An additional 12-week course of varenicline treatment, provided to abstainers after an initial 12-week treatment, produces relatively low incremental cost-utility ratios in the spectrum of life-saving medical treatments. (Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice)
Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice - April 8, 2009 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Kristian Bolin, Ann-Christin Mörk, Koo Wilson Source Type: journals

Development of a questionnaire to measure patient-reported postoperative recovery: content validity and intra-patient reliabilityEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusion Based on a theoretical framework and empirical data, we developed a short and easy-to-use tentative questionnaire to measure patient-reported postoperative recovery. Initial support for content validity was established. The vast majority of items showed a high level of test[ndash]retest reliability. (Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice)
Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice - April 2, 2009 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Renée Allvin, Margareta Ehnfors, Narinder Rawal, Elisabeth Svensson, Ewa Idvall Source Type: journals

Professional attitudes toward oral lichen planus: need for national and international guidelinesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice - April 2, 2009 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Pía López-Jornet, Yolanda Martínez-Beneyto, Antonio Velandrino Nicolás, Vicente Jornet García Source Type: journals

Monitoring surgical performance: an application to total hip replacementEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusion This study has demonstrated that implementing a dedicated system to monitor surgical performance in a teaching hospital improves the quality of implantation of total hip replacements. Nonetheless, the target of ninety percent of adequate primary total hip replacement could not be reached and efforts should be continued. (Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice)
Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice - April 2, 2009 Category: Journals (General) Authors: David J. Biau, Alexandre Milet, Fabrice Thévenin, Philippe Anract, Raphaël Porcher Source Type: journals

Long-term survival of intensive care and hospital patient cohorts compared with the general Australian population: a relative survival approachEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions Adverse long-term survival of intensive care and hospital patients was demonstrated. For hospital patients there was additional infection-related mortality risk, not evident for ICU patients after case mix control. (Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice)
Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice - April 2, 2009 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Dhaval Ghelani, John L. Moran, Andy Sloggett, Richard J. Leeson, Sandra L. Peake Source Type: journals

Causal diagrams for encoding and evaluation of information biasEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions Common types of information bias, just like confounding and selection bias, have a clear and helpful representation within the framework of causal diagrams. (Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice)
Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice - April 2, 2009 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Eyal Shahar Source Type: journals

Impact of audit and feedback on antipsychotic prescribing in schizophreniaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions This study found audit and feedback to be an effective intervention in closing the gap between recommended and routine clinical practice for antipsychotic prescribing in schizophrenia. (Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice)
Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice - April 2, 2009 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Amanda Wheeler, Verity Humberstone, Elizabeth Robinson, Janie Sheridan, Peter Joyce Source Type: journals

Assessment of transparency of cost estimates in economic evaluations of patient safety programmesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions Even if a cost study was conducted in accordance with existing techniques of economic evaluation which mostly paid attention to internal validity of cost estimates, without adequate explanation of the process of costing, reproducibility cannot be assured and the study may lose its value as scientific information. This study found that there is tremendous room for improvement. (Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice)
Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice - April 2, 2009 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Haruhisa Fukuda, Yuichi Imanaka Source Type: journals

The factor structure of the SF-36 in Parkinson's diseaseEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions The use of the SF-36 in individuals with PD can be recommended when eight subscales are used and reported. Evidence to support the use of the instrument as a two-subscale measure of physical health and mental health components was not found. (Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice)
Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice - April 2, 2009 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Pauline Banks, Colin R. Martin Source Type: journals

How do Dutch general practitioners diagnose children's urinary tract infections?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions The diagnostic procedures for UTIs in children in general practices could be improved, with focus on the importance of an accurate UTI diagnosis in all children, and explaining which tests should be performed and what the test results mean. (Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice)
Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice - April 2, 2009 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Mirjam Harmsen, René J. Wolters, Johannes C. van der Wouden, Richard P. T. M. Grol, Michel Wensing Source Type: journals

Drug-adherence questionnaires not valid for patients taking blood-pressure-lowering drugs in a primary health care settingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusion The Morisky Scale and the MARS-5 cannot be recommended for measuring the adherence to antihypertensive drugs in a general practice setting in Germany at this point. These results emphasize the necessity to validate questionnaires in a specific setting before using them as instruments within a trial different from the original setting(s) of validation. (Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice)
Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice - April 2, 2009 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Nina van de Steeg, Martin Sielk, Michael Pentzek, Carel Bakx, Attila Altiner Source Type: journals

The research questions and methodological adequacy of clinical studies of the voice and larynx published in Brazilian and international journalsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusion The studies published in both national journals, indexed for the MEDLINE® database, and international journals, indexed for the ISI® Web, demonstrate weak methodology, with research poorly designed to meet the proposed objectives. There is much scientific work to be done in order to decrease uncertainty in the field analysed. (Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice)
Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice - April 2, 2009 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Vanessa Pedrosa Vieira, Noemi De Biase, Maria Stella Peccin, Álvaro Nagib Atallah Source Type: journals

Satisfaction of osteoarthritis patients with provided care is not related to the disease-specific quality of lifeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Discussion The finding that depression and social factors are more important for patient satisfaction with provided care than disease-related aspects suggests that these factors need to be considered carefully in treatment. This represents a big challenge within an increasingly specialized health care system. The General Practitioner as the regular and first-choice provider of health care seems to be the most appropriate instance who can accomplish this. (Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice)
Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice - April 2, 2009 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Thomas Rosemann, Michel Wensing, Joachim Szecsenyi, Richard Grol Source Type: journals

Clinician's use of the Statin Choice decision aid in patients with diabetes: a videographic study nested in a randomized trialEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions Unintended decision aid use in the context of videotaped encounters in a practical randomized trial was common. These instances offer insights to researchers seeking to design and implement effective decision aids for use during the clinical visit, particularly when clinicians may prefer to proceed in ways that the decision aid apparently contradicts. (Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice)
Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice - April 2, 2009 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Roberto Abadie, Audrey J. Weymiller, Jon Tilburt, Nilay D. Shah, Cathy Charles, Amiram Gafni, Victor M. Montori Source Type: journals

Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery patients in a clinical pathway gained less in health-related quality of life as compared with patients who undergo CABG in a conventional-care planEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Aims and objectives The aim of this study is to determine the difference between clinical pathway (CP) and conventional care in terms of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) domains, depression and anxiety, as well as to determine the relative contribution of CP towards an improved HRQoL after coronary artery bypass graft (CABG).Method A longitudinal quasi-experimental pre-test/post-test design was used to study and compare clinical outcome, HRQoL depression and anxiety for CP versus conventional-care patients after CABG. HRQoL was measured by using Sf-36, while depression and anxiety were measured by using hospital anxi...
Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice - April 2, 2009 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Noha El Baz, Berrie Middel, Jitse P. van Dijk, Piet W. Boonstra, Sijmen A. Reijneveld Source Type: journals

Fast laboratory test results alone cannot deliver the benefits of near patient testing: a follow-up study after 3 years of extended laboratory service at a primary health care centreEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions The clinical logistics concerning TATi did not correspond to the patients' wishes. When the consultation was completed within 1 day, the majority of the laboratory analyses were from the menu available before ELS. An ELS alone cannot deliver all the desired benefits of POCT. (Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice)
Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice - March 21, 2009 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Sofie Haglund, Bente Transö, Lars-Göran Persson, Tamara Zafirova, Ewa Grodzinsky Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLES Source Type: journals

ErratumEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice - March 19, 2009 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Erratum Source Type: journals

CorrigendumEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice - March 19, 2009 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Corrigendum Source Type: journals

Patients' preference for the timing and location of follow-up following day case arthroscopic knee surgery – The results of a questionnaireEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice - March 19, 2009 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Peter Hull, Ganaps Perianayagam, Muhammad Korim, Charlie Lewis, Stuart Brooks Tags: RESEARCH LETTERS Source Type: journals

A randomized controlled trial of an at-home preparation programme for Japanese preschool children: effects on children's and caregivers' anxiety associated with surgeryEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusion A specially designed at-home preparation programme as an outpatient care is effective to encourage parent[ndash]child verbal interaction concerning surgery and reduce both children and caregivers' anxiety associated with surgery. (Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice)
Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice - March 19, 2009 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Rie Wakimizu, Shoichiro Kamagata, Teruyo Kuwabara, Kiyoko Kamibeppu Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLES Source Type: journals

Legal concerns trigger prostate-specific antigen testingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions Defensive medicine is not a phenomenon particular to the USA, but is also observable in Switzerland. This result is surprising, given that in Switzerland and other European countries, a physician who does not recommend a test or treatment whose effectiveness is controversial need not fear litigation. (Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice)
Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice - March 19, 2009 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Johan Steurer, Ulrike Held, Mathias Schmidt, Gerd Gigerenzer, Brigitte Tag, Lucas M. Bachmann Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLES Source Type: journals

Factors influencing acute stroke guideline compliance: a peek inside the 'black box' for allied health staffEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions A number of factors influenced AH staff compliance with acute stroke guidelines. These findings are a platform upon which further implementation research can be launched for AH professionals. (Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice)
Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice - March 19, 2009 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Julie Luker, Karen Grimmer-Somers Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLES Source Type: journals

Using hospital administrative data to evaluate the knowledge-to-action gap in pressure ulcer preventive careEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions These results demonstrate that this approach can indeed be successfully used to bridge the knowledge-to-action gap in medical practice, by implementing an innovative method to assess underuse and overuse in hospital care. The integrative use of administrative data and clinical applications should be replicated in other patient groups, other datasets and other countries. (Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice)
Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice - March 19, 2009 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Pieter Van Herck, Walter Sermeus, Virpi Jylha, Dominik Michiels, Koen Van den Heede Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLES Source Type: journals

Pressure ulcer prevention in intensive care patients: guidelines and practiceEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions The use of pressure reducing devices and nursing interventions in intensive care patients are in line with international pressure ulcer guidelines. Only massage, which is also being used, should be avoided according to the recommendation of national and international guidelines. (Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice)
Source: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice - March 19, 2009 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Eman S. M. Shahin, Theo Dassen, Ruud J. G. Halfens Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLES Source Type: journals