Team working: the key to implementing guidelines?

Team working: the key to implementing guidelines?

The role of a specialist team in implementing continuing health care guidelines in hospitalized patients.

BACKGROUND Assessment of continuing health care needs is unstandardized and often undertaken by professionals not trained in the management of complex disability. METHODS A 6 month prospective study to evaluate the role of a specialist team in implementing continuing care guidelines in hospitalized patients. The team was responsible for assessment and facilitation of access to continuing heal...

Examining the Feasibility of Implementing IFLA Guidelines in the Iranian Public Libraries

Purpose: IFLAchr('39')s approach is to move towards developing qualitative guidelines and examining the feasibility of implementing these guidelines in the countries using them. The present research has been conducted with a view to formulating the related qualitative guidelines and surveying the feasibility of their implementation in the context of Iranchr('39')s public libraries. Method: The...

Team Approaches: Working Together to Improve Quality

The team approach is not unique or new to the discipline of human communication sciences and disorders. Models for teaming and the dimensions for team effectiveness have been in place for many years; they derive from the human relations model of management. This article presents two perspectives on team approaches; one from health care, the other from education. Team approaches are defined, ben...

Obstacles to implementing evidence-based guidelines.

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