Healthcare provider perceptions of clinical prediction rules

Healthcare provider perceptions of clinical prediction rules

OBJECTIVES To examine internal medicine and emergency medicine healthcare provider perceptions of usefulness of specific clinical prediction rules. SETTING The study took place in two academic medical centres. A web-based survey was distributed and completed by participants between 1 January and 31 May 2013. PARTICIPANTS Medical doctors, doctors of osteopathy or nurse practitioners employed...

Clinical prediction rules.

In many ways much of the art of medicine boils down to playing the percentages and predicting outcomes. For example, when clinicians take a history from a patient they ask the questions that they think are the most likely to provide them with the information they need to make a diagnosis. They might then order the tests that they think are the most likely to support or refute their various diff...

Clinical prediction rules.

Provider perceptions of child deaths.

BACKGROUND The quality and context of end-of-life care for children are not as well studied as they are for adults. The components of quality care are less clear, and differences between providers' perception of the quality of death are also not well understood. OBJECTIVE To compare nurse and physician perceptions of the quality of care and events of death of the same children. DESIGN Self-...

Potential pitfalls of clinical prediction rules.