OBJECTIVE To assess the impact of a quality improvement project that used a multifaceted educational intervention on how to improve clinician's knowledge, confidence and awareness of acute kidney injury (AKI). SETTING 2 large acute teaching hospitals in England, serving a combined population of over 1.5 million people. PARTICIPANTS All secondary care clinicians working in the clinical areas...

OBJECTIVE To assess the relative effects and the impact of perinatal and sociodemographic risk factors on long-term morbidity within a total birth population in Florida. METHODS School records for 339 171 children entering kindergarten in Florida public schools in the 1992-1993, 1993-1994, or 1994-1995 academic years were matched with Florida birth records from 1985 to 1990. Effects on long-t...

background: acute poisoning is a major public health problem in bangladesh. it is a common method for suicide. a clear picture regarding clinical presentation, most commonly used toxic agents, background factors and outcome of poisoned patients is necessary in every region. the aim of this study was to investigate frequency and outcome of acute pharmaceutical and chemical poisoning cases in nor...

BACKGROUND Physicians often do not initiate or intensify treatments when clearly warranted, a phenomenon known as therapeutic inertia (TI). Limited information is available on educational interventions to ameliorate knowledge-to-action gaps in TI. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the feasibility and efficacy of an educational intervention compared to usual care among practicing neurologists caring for ...

Adaptive link annotation is a popular adaptive navigation support technology. Empirical studies of adaptive annotation in the educational context have demonstrated that it can help students to acquire knowledge faster, improve learning outcome, reduce navigation overhead, and encourage nonsequential navigation. In this paper we present our study of a rather unknown effect of adaptive annotation...