Recommendations c A patient-centered communication style that incorporates patient preferences, assesses literacy and numeracy, and addresses cultural barriers to care should be used. B c Treatment decisions should be timely and based on evidence-based guidelines that are tailored to individual patient preferences, prognoses, and comorbidities. B c Care should be aligned with components of the ...

The Operator System Interface (OSI) Integrated Product Team (IPT) is one of several IPTs on the Theater High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) Project. This team has been developing a User Interface that maximizes functional capability while ensuring soldier performance and accuracy by using a tried and true screen design process. Although much work remains to be done, the process is sound and resu...

Recommendations c Treatment decisions should be timely, rely on evidence-based guidelines, and be made collaboratively with patients based on individual preferences, prognoses, and comorbidities. B c Providers should consider the burden of treatment and self-efficacy of patients when recommending treatments. E c Treatment plans should align with the Chronic Care Model, emphasizing productive in...

For example, during a major industrial application of CODE to software requirements analysis, it took us many months to establish a substantial knowledge base and to convince project team members to use it as the central conceptual repository and documentation source (Skuce 1991b). Almost from the beginning of our involvement however, team members were able to benefit from the process of buildi...

The article deals with the issues concerning one of urgent tasks for a modern employer, who seeks to comply management trends — employee engagement. As effective tools used increase level engagement, it is proposed form team employees transmit values organization and have gained trust their colleagues, i.e. ambassadors. pays special attention description Ambassador activities, communications at...

Interprofessional care is joint working between health care professionals by pooling their skills, knowledge and expertise, to make joint decisions and learn from each other for the benefits of service users and healthcare professionals. Service users involvement is considered as one of the important aspects of planning, management and decision making process in the delivery of health care to s...

The importance of involving lay representatives in research is well-recognized but is not consistently meaningfully practiced or reported. Although the positive outcomes of lay representative involvement can include more relevant research questions and outcomes, challenges are also apparent, including tokenistic involvement by research teams. A Cancer Research UK-funded and National Cancer Rese...

Although patient and public involvement in research is a requirement for research funding in many countries, the knowledge base for how to effectively involve people-and evidence of the effectiveness of involvement-is weak. This article describes how methods used in participatory health research were used to involve patients, clients, providers and community health workers across all stages of ...

BACKGROUND The number of people with multiple chronic conditions increases as a result of ageing. To deal with the complex health-care needs of these patients, it is important that health-care professionals collaborate in interprofessional teams. To deliver patient-centred care, it is often recommended to include the patient as a member of the team. OBJECTIVE To gain more insight into how hea...

INTRODUCTION Conventionally standards for maternity care are developed by a panel of experts (usually obstetricians) and then implemented by a multidisciplinary team. The present study concerns the feasibility of involving health professionals of all grades in the establishment standards for obstructed labour in Malawi. METHODS Standards for obstructed labour were developed by a multidiscipli...