Learning from experience: Pharmacists adapt to improve patient care

Point-of-Care Ultrasonography in Orthopedics: A Helpful Tool to Improve Patient Care

An enormous technological improvement in Ultrasonography devices has occurred during last decade, providing excellent soft-tissue contrast and high spatial resolution images. Nowadays, musculoskeletal ultrasonography is going to be a stethoscope in the hand of orthopedic surgeons for the diagnosis of many musculoskeletal pathologies, as well as an accurate guide for therapeutic interventions. T...

Patient-centered Fertility Care: From Theory to Practice

Background & aim: Healthcare areas, especially fertility care (commonly accompanied with high emotions, as well as long-term and recurring treatment periods) could exclusively benefit from patient-centered care (PCC). Despite evident advantages of PCC, this approach has not been practiced as a routine procedure in current clinical environments yet, even in western developed countries. Therefore...

From pill-counting to patient care: pharmacists' standard of care in negligence law.

From the asylum to community care: learning from experience.

INTRODUCTION A review of research and policy on community care was carried out. METHODS The methods used included the following: (i) Medline search using terms: 'mental health' and 'community care and long-term conditions' and 'community care'; (ii) Searches of the Department of Health and the Royal College of Psychiatrists' websites using the term 'community care' and (iii) hand search of hi...

Learning from errors in radiology to improve patient safety.

OBJECTIVE To determine the views and practices of trainees and consultant radiologists about error reporting. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional survey. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Radiology trainees and consultant radiologists in four tertiary care hospitals in Karachi approached in the second quarter of 2011. METHODOLOGY Participants were enquired as to their grade, sub-specialty interest, wh...