Making it happen: Strategies to incorporate vaccinations into community pharmacy practice

Field Studies in Practice: Making it Happen

Field studies and user requirements analysis are highly valued practices in the human-computer interaction community. However, in companies, field study methods are not widely used and they still encounter resistance. In this paper, we describe a longitudinal research effort conducted in two companies to introduce field studies and make them a part of the product development process. A strategy...

Strategies to incorporate left atrial appendage occlusion into clinical practice.

The left atrial appendage (LAA) has been identified as a predominant source of thrombus formation leading to significant thromboembolic events in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation. Medical therapy to eliminate thrombus formation in the LAA has been the standard of care for several decades, but mechanical approaches designed to exclude the LAA from the circulation have recently been ...

Evidence-based practice: making it happen in your clinical setting.

The Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing column “From Research to Clinical Practice” will be undergoing some changes. Beginning with the next issue, the column will shift from a review of research with patient-care applications to a focus on evidence-based practice (EBP). Rising costs of health care and limited healthcare resources have created a demand for costeffective, beneficial patient car...

Gender Mainstreaming: Making It Happen

Making it happen, level 2

F yson Kasenga (1) describes the detrimental effect HIV has had on public health in Malawi. This was recently highlighted particularly for maternal mortality (2). Malawi is one of the countries where the impact of the HIV epidemic is clearly visible on the maternal mortality rate (MMR) (Fig. 1). Only after the year 2000 it is possible to see some positive trend in the MMR in Malawi, supposedly ...