Checklist for a successful clinical communication overhaul

Developing a Critical Checklist for Textbook Evaluation

This study has been carried out to develop a critical checklist for global/commercial textbooks which play a crucial role in language teaching/learning. For this aim, a number of items have been developed based on a comprehensive review of the related literature and experts’ opinions. The tentative checklist was administered to the targeted population, yet 326 checklists were deemed appropriate...

Patient safety checklist: keys to successful implementation.

Development of a Fire Safety Checklist for Dormitories

Background;Despite advances in technology, people are still exposed to fire hazard. Students can be one of the most important exposed groups. Therefore, fire safety inspection should be established in dormitories. The aim of this study was to develop a fire safety checklist for fire safety inspection in dormitories. Methods; This study was as a tool development followed by a cross-sectional st...

Calculated overhaul versus cultivating the status quo in clinical education.

In an era of rapid healthcare evolution, complex challenges abound from changes in patient demographics, diseases, demand and delivery; to cost, technology, and setting.1 Such transformations, bound by political, socioeconomic, cultural, and countless other hurdles, cannot be systematically and strategically met by a workforce whose pedagogy and preparation was intended for a different breed an...

Overhaul of NCI Clinical Trial System Still in Progress.

A decades-long initiative to improve the National Cancer Institute's Cooperative Group Program has recently made substantial progress. Many credit the April 2010 report from the Institute of Medicine's (IOM) Consensus Committee as instrumental in focusing NCI on reforms essential to create a clinical trial system to meet the challenges of the 21st century. The report recommended that NCI improv...