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Facilitating organisational development using a group-based formative assessment and benchmarking method: design and implementation of the International Family Practice Maturity Matrix.

Quality & safety in health care

Elwyn G, Bekkers MJ, Tapp L, Edwards A, Newcombe R, Eriksson T, Braspenning J, Kuch C, Adzic ZO, Ayankogbe O, Cvetko T, In 't Veld K, Karotsis A, Kersnik J, Lefebvre L, Mecini I, Petricek G, Pisco L, Thesen J, Turón JM, van Rossen E, Grol R.
PMID: 20511595
Qual Saf Health Care. 2010 Dec;19(6):e48. doi: 10.1136/qshc.2009.037580. Epub 2010 May 28.

INTRODUCTION: Well-organised practices deliver higher-quality care. Yet there has been very little effort so far to help primary care organisations achieve higher levels of team performance and to help them identify and prioritise areas where quality improvement efforts should...

Pilot study to determine the feasibility of training Army National Guard medics to perform focused cardiac ultrasonography.

Prehospital emergency care : official journal of the National Association of EMS Physicians and the National Association of State EMS Directors

Backlund BH, Bonnett CJ, Faragher JP, Haukoos JS, Kendall JL.
PMID: 19947876
Prehosp Emerg Care. 2010 Jan-Mar;14(1):118-23. doi: 10.3109/10903120903349770.

OBJECTIVE: To assess the ability of Army National Guard combat medics to perform a limited bedside echocardiography (BE) to determine cardiac activity after a brief training module.METHODS: Twelve Army National Guard health care specialists trained to the level of...

Introduction of a direct observation program into a pediatric resident continuity clinic: feasibility, acceptability, and effect on resident feedback.

Teaching and learning in medicine

Dattner L, Lopreiato JO.
PMID: 20936575
Teach Learn Med. 2010 Oct;22(4):280-6. doi: 10.1080/10401334.2010.512545.

BACKGROUND: Direct observations of trainee performance are essential to the evaluation of clinical skills, and are now required by the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).PURPOSE: We sought to describe the feasibility and acceptability of a direct observation...

Feasible and successful: genome-wide interaction analysis involving all 1.9 x 10(11) pair-wise interaction tests.

Human heredity

Steffens M, Becker T, Sander T, Fimmers R, Herold C, Holler DA, Leu C, Herms S, Cichon S, Bohn B, Gerstner T, Griebel M, Nöthen MM, Wienker TF, Baur MP.
PMID: 20357478
Hum Hered. 2010;69(4):268-84. doi: 10.1159/000295896. Epub 2010 Mar 31.

The Genome-Wide Association Study (GWAS) is the study design of choice for detecting common genetic risk factors for multifactorial diseases. The performance of full Genome-Wide Interaction Analyses (GWIA) has always been considered computationally challenging. Two-stage strategies to reduce the...

Feasibility of videoconferencing in lifestyle group counselling.

International journal of circumpolar health

Laitinen J, Korkiakangas E, Alahuhta M, Keinänen-Kiukaanniemi S, Rajala U, Timonen O, Jokelainen T, Keränen AM, Remes J, Ruokonen A, Hedberg P, Taanila A, Husman P, Olkkonen S.
PMID: 21062570
Int J Circumpolar Health. 2010 Dec;69(5):500-11. doi: 10.3402/ijch.v69i5.17688. Epub 2010 Nov 08.

OBJECTIVES: The rapid increase in the prevalence of type 2 diabetes (T2D) has created an urgent need to develop new practices to prevent and treat it. One possibility is to provide specialists services to remote areas through videoconferencing (VC)....

Online reprint requests and dermatology literature: a feasibility study.

Clinical and experimental dermatology

Kanthraj GR.
PMID: 19456786
Clin Exp Dermatol. 2010 Mar;35(2):196-7. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2230.2009.03262.x. Epub 2009 May 18.

No abstract available.

To be and to have a critical friend in medical teaching.

Medical education

Dahlgren LO, Eriksson BE, Gyllenhammar H, Korkeila M, Sääf-Rothoff A, Wernerson A, Seeberger A.
PMID: 16441326
Med Educ. 2006 Jan;40(1):72-8. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2929.2005.02349.x.

BACKGROUND: In order to stimulate reflection and continuous professional development, a model of critical friends evaluating each other was introduced in medical education.OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether the critical friend concept can serve as a pragmatic model for evaluation of...

Implementation and faculty assessment of an oral examination in a therapeutics course in a distance synchronous education pharmacy programme.

The International journal of pharmacy practice

Benavides S, Borja-Hart NL, Maniscalco-Feichtl M.
PMID: 22060241
Int J Pharm Pract. 2011 Dec;19(6):438-43. doi: 10.1111/j.2042-7174.2011.00137.x. Epub 2011 Jun 23.

OBJECTIVES: To describe the process and implementation of an oral exam in a large class with distance synchronous education technology and to evaluate the faculty's perspective of the development, administration, and assessment of the oral exam.METHODS: The Department of...

Use of evidence to support healthy public policy: a policy effectiveness-feasibility loop.

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Bowman S, Unwin N, Critchley J, Capewell S, Husseini A, Maziak W, Zaman S, Ben Romdhane H, Fouad F, Phillimore P, Unal B, Khatib R, Shoaibi A, Ahmad B.
PMID: 23226897
Bull World Health Organ. 2012 Nov 01;90(11):847-53. doi: 10.2471/BLT.12.104968. Epub 2012 Sep 14.

Public policy plays a key role in improving population health and in the control of diseases, including non-communicable diseases. However, an evidence-based approach to formulating healthy public policy has been difficult to implement, partly on account of barriers that...

The Imperial Paediatric Emergency Training Toolkit (IPETT) for use in paediatric emergency training: development and evaluation of feasibility and validity.

Resuscitation

Lambden S, DeMunter C, Dowson A, Cooper M, Gautama S, Sevdalis N.
PMID: 23228558
Resuscitation. 2013 Jun;84(6):831-6. doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2012.11.013. Epub 2012 Dec 07.

AIM: To develop and test the feasibility, reliability, and validity of a practical toolkit for the assessment and feedback of skills required to manage paediatric emergencies in critical care settings.METHODS: The Imperial Paediatric Emergency Training Toolkit (IPETT) was developed...

A framework for different levels of integration of computational models into web-based virtual patients.

Journal of medical Internet research

Kononowicz AA, Narracott AJ, Manini S, Bayley MJ, Lawford PV, McCormack K, Zary N.
PMID: 24463466
J Med Internet Res. 2014 Jan 23;16(1):e23. doi: 10.2196/jmir.2593.

BACKGROUND: Virtual patients are increasingly common tools used in health care education to foster learning of clinical reasoning skills. One potential way to expand their functionality is to augment virtual patients' interactivity by enriching them with computational models of...

Emergency preparedness in the 21st century: training and preparation modules in virtual environments.

Resuscitation

Cohen D, Sevdalis N, Taylor D, Kerr K, Heys M, Willett K, Batrick N, Darzi A.
PMID: 22659598
Resuscitation. 2013 Jan;84(1):78-84. doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2012.05.014. Epub 2012 May 29.

OBJECTIVES: To determine the feasibility of evidence-based design and use of low-cost virtual world environments for preparation and training in multi-agency, multi-site, major incident response.METHODS: A prospective cohort feasibility study was carried out. One pre-hospital, and two in-hospital major...

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