In this paper, the action research driven design of a context relevant, developmental peer review of teaching model, its implementation strategy and its impact at an Australian university is presented. PRO-Teaching realizes an innovative process that triangulates contemporaneous teaching quality data from a range of stakeholders including students, discipline academics, learning and teaching ex...

This paper explores the nature of the relationship between IT and a student-centred quality-teaching environment. It argues that given the need to graduate students with knowledge, skills and capabilities for the extent of change required in a knowledge economy, universities must give more attention to the development of student-centred teaching opportunities in which students learn from experi...

Teachers are considered to be principal actors in the teaching process as well as one of its major constituents when quality is concerned. Over the last decade a lot of papers have been published that deal with the quality of the teaching process and teachers. Most of them focus on students as the main subjects in evaluation of the teaching process and teachers. In this paper we analyze freshme...

BACKGROUND Quality of life (QoL) is now established as an important outcome for evaluating the impact of disease, and for assessing the efficacy of treatments. However, individuals change with time and the basis on which they make a QoL judgement may also change, a phenomenon increasingly referred to as response shift. Here, the individual may change his or her internal standards, values, and/o...

This is a collaborative study comparing the quality of life (QoL) and its predictors between outpatients of university teaching hospitals in southwest China and southern Thailand in terms of different domains of QoL as well as whether socio-economic variables affect the QoL of the two groups of patients to the same extent. Two hundred sixty-one and two hundred forty-eight randomly chosen outpat...

OBJECTIVE Antimicrobials are used interchangeably in medical practice, contributing to the emergence of resistant microbial strains. METHODS This study describes the antimicrobial audit performed by forecasting analysis of medical records of 846 patients at the Hospital Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz do Sul - Rio Grande do Sul - Brazil. RESULTS Of the patients studied, 134 (15.8%) received antimicr...

BACKGROUND Evidence for the effectiveness of the morbidity and mortality conferences in improving patient safety is lacking. The aim of this survey was to assess the opinion of participants concerning the benefits and the functioning of morbidity and mortality conferences, according to their organizational characteristics. METHODS We conducted a survey of professionals involved in a morbidity...