Presentation Quality Improvement Research (QIR) is any systematic inquiry that generates actionable knowledge, enables practitioners and patients to improve care and health, and reduces bias to maximize the validity and reliability of the knowledge gained. Some QIR evaluates complex healthcare innovations, such as bundled interventions to reduce infections. Such innovations often involve multip...

Background: Parents of children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), particularly mothers, experience a unique caregiving demand. Although benefits do exist, caregivers often report a burden due to children’s lack of social interaction and ability to self-care. Development of motor skills employed in these activities is often delayed in children with ASD; however, possible links between motor ...

Several landmark studies have provided strong support for the position that vigorous treatment of diabetes in the majority of individuals has the potential to reduce the morbidity and mortality of the disease by decreasing its chronic complications (1,2). In response, many advances have been made that include the introduction of highly successful therapies and tools such as more effective medic...

2004 www.thelancet.com Vol 377 June 11, 2011 According to Antonio Dans, lack of workforce and infra structure is one of the limitations to management of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in southeast Asia. We agree that the health-care delivery system was designed mainly to manage acute infectious diseases in resourcelimited southeast Asian countries. However, many of these countries have also e...

The dynamic health care environment of today is being driven by market and community forces that are impacting the way health care is delivered, paid for and used. New technologies and managed care are facilitating the transfer of acute care services to outpatient, home and other nontraditional settings of care. National perspectives on health and disease are also changing.1 A significant shift...

INTRODUCTION: The MUPS®* tablet formulation of omeprazole magnesium is now in widespread use as a consumer medicine in Europe and the United States (US). On December 8th 2010 a panel of experts was assembled in Zurich to review the accumulated evidence on omeprazole MUPS® and the contribution of the pharmaceutical, pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic features of this formulation to clinical eff...

During recent years, the American Diabetes Association (ADA) has published detailed guidelines and recommendations for the management of diabetes in the form of technical reviews, position statements, and consensus statements. Recommendations regarding children and adolescents have generally been included as only a minor portion of these documents. For example, the most recent ADA position stat...

Dorothea Orem, RN, MSN, Ed, FAAN, began to develop foundations for the selfcare deficit theory of nursing in the 1950s, when the curriculums of most nursing education programs were based on conceptual models from medicine, psychology, and sociology. Thus, Orem is a pioneer in the development of distinctive nursing knowledge. The development of the self-care deficit theory of nursing has been de...

tional, and institutional factors [3]. Despite the recognized role of the educational environment in creating student stress, however, most interventions have been aimed at the individual student. Educators are encouraged to foster resilience, teach coping strategies, and ingrain habits of selfcare [4]. But, as Dyrbye has noted, medical schools have a responsibility that extends beyond promotin...