Home-care re-ablement or 'restorative' services are a cornerstone of preventive service initiatives in many countries. Many English local authorities are transforming their former in-house home-care services to provide intensive, short-term re-ablement instead. The focus of this paper is on the organisation and content of re-ablement services and the features of their organisation and delivery ...

The aim of the study was to examine doctor's attitude about topics in continuing medical education (CME) using anonymous questionnaire that was given to the members of the Croatian Medical Association in Rijeka. The questions concerned doctor's interest of certain medical fields, influence of CME to their everyday practice, and importance of getting credits for re-licensure as a motive to parti...

background the surgical informed consent (sic) is a comprehensive process that establishes an informationbased agreement between the patient and his doctor to undertake a clearly outlined medical or surgical intervention. it is neither a casual formality nor a casually signed piece of paper. the present study was designed to audit the current knowledge and attitudes of doctors towards sic at a ...

UNLABELLED AIMS OF MINAP: To audit the quality of care of patients with acute coronary syndrome and provide a resource for academic research. QUALITY OF CARE INTERVENTIONS Feedback to hospitals, ambulance services and cardiac networks regarding benchmarking of performance against national standards and targets. SETTING All 230 acute hospitals in England and Wales. Years: 2000-present. POP...

BACKGROUND Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the major communicable diseases afflicting mankind today. Its prevalence is increasing with increase in HIV infection. It is important that doctors be able to correctly diagnose and institute proper management of patients with TB. OBJECTIVES To determine the knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) of private medical practitioners in Eldoret on the mana...

The covid-19 pandemic exacerbated existing inequalities for refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants, who reported higher levels of bad health inadequate housing as well difficulties accessing services, a report from the University Birmingham has shown.1 The analysed data 750 migrants accessed services run by Doctors World—a non-governmental organisation that runs clinics provides support to exc...

Encapsulating explicit knowledge within large scale organisations is well understood and several commercial off the shelf applications exist that enable the implementation of efficient knowledge base management systems. This provides the organisation with added value and enables knowledge components to be re-used and freely transferred throughout the organisational enterprise, however a large a...

The European Union (EU) has powers and responsibilities in the area of public health, while the organisation of healthcare facilities remains the concern of member states. However, a series of directives has, since the late 1970s, sought to ensure the right of individual practitioners to travel freely throughout the EU, both to obtain specialist training and to practise in all member states on ...