Despite the increasing interest in clinical ethics, ethics consultation as a professional service is still rare in Europe. In this paper I refer to examples in the United States. In Germany, university hospitals and medical faculties are still hesitant about establishing yet another "committee". One of the reasons for this hesitation lies in the ignorance that exists here about how to provide m...

An electrocardiogram (ECG) signal is a test to measure the electrical activities of the heart by applying electrical impulses. This paper proposed a remote ECG simulation to assisting vital signs in healthcare, namely ECG Simulation using Fourier Series approximation. A single period of an ECG signal that contains P, Q, R, S, T and U waves is in sinusoidal/triangular shapes, periodic and satisf...

BACKGROUND The General Medical Council has recommended that medical students should gain more experience in general practice. AIM The study set out to determine patients' reactions to the presence of medical students in general practice consultations. METHOD Patients attending a random sample of general practice surgeries completed a questionnaire following consultation with and without a m...

BACKGROUND Many patients who require an interpreter have difficulty remembering information from their medical consultations. Memory aids such as consultation audio-recordings may be of benefit to these patients. However, there is no established means of measuring patients' memory of medical information. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to develop a method for eliciting and coding recall of medica...

The aim of this chapter is to share recent findings and understanding on how information systems can be better adopted to support new ways of work and improve productivity in public funded healthcare. The limits of transferring explicit and tacit knowledge are discussed and moreover, the chapter elaborates barriers to the widespread use of knowledge management tools among clinicians. The impact...