BACKGROUND Clinical practice guidelines aim to enhance patient safety by reducing inappropriate variations in practice. Despite considerable efforts to enhance the use of clinical practice guidelines, adherence is often suboptimal. We investigated to what extent workplace affiliation explains variation of self-reported adherence to venous blood specimen collection regarding patient identificati...

Background and Objectives: Working in hospital is stressful, and this may result in deviant behaviors of clinical staff and thus irreparable damages to the patients’ health. It is, therefore, crucial to empower hospital workers in managing job stress to ensure high quality of healthcare. Psychological and social capitals have been shown to influence organizational behaviors of the employees. Th...

The name Albuca caudata Jacq. has been widely misunderstood or even ignored since its description in 1791. After studying herbarium specimens and living populations in South Africa, plants fitting Jacquin´s concept of that species are found to be widely distributed in the Eastern Cape, mainly in the Albany centre of Endemism. Furthermore, some divergent specimens matching Baker´s concept of Alb...

CORRECTION After publication of this work [1] it was noticed the author - Jie Wang's name was in the wrong order. The original article was corrected. The publisher apologises for this error.

Prof. Schmieden's name alone should vouch for the high standard of the book under review. From its perusal we can strongly recommend it to all desirous of possessing a thoroughly upto-date and useful book on operative surgery. The book containing, as it does, practically an account of the practice of Prof. Bier's clinic in Berlin, is what it is named " A Course of Operative Surgery" and does no...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the impact of Schwartz Center Rounds, a multi-disciplinary forum to reflect on the emotional consequences of working in healthcare, on the staff of a large acute general hospital over a three-year period. DESIGN Evaluation data following each Round were collected routinely from all staff attending over this period and analysed quantitatively and qualitatively. SETTING ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate how introducing early child-development specialists (Healthy Steps Specialists) and enhanced developmental services into routine pediatric care affects perspectives of clinicians and staff. METHODS Self-administered questionnaires were completed at baseline and at 30 months by clinicians, clinical staff, and nonclinical staff at pediatric sites participating in the ev...

UNLABELLED Prior studies by the authors identified that clinical staff who reported that their treatment unit had lower levels of organizational readiness to change experienced higher levels of barriers in implementing an evidence-based practice (EBP). The current study examined whether clinical staff perceptions of their treatment unit's organizational readiness to change were also associated ...