OBJECTIVES To determine which of the two methods of case note review provide the most useful and reliable information for reviewing quality of care. DESIGN Retrospective, multiple reviews of 692 case notes were undertaken using both holistic (implicit) and criterion-based (explicit) review methods. Quality measures were evidence-based review criteria and a quality of care rating scale. SETT...

holistic educational approach was an educational movement which appeared in the domain of education in the mid- 1980s in north america. in fact it was a result of mental and cultural anxiety during the 60th and 70th centuries and was a reaction to the educational mainstream of the world. holistic educational approach is essentially an educational paradigm that tries to join educational theories...

This paper provides a preliminary report of a study of the thinking styles of mid-level and senior information technology executives from the United States. Contrary to popular belief, a significantly smaller proportion of these executives prefer analytic thinking, and a significantly larger proportion prefer holistic thinking, than would be expected. This reality, coupled with a common (mis)pe...

Evidence for a shift from analytical to holistic processing during hypnosis is presented as a basis for a new conceptualization of hypnosis in terms of Epstein’s integrative theory of personality, Cognitive-Experiential Self-Theory (CEST; e.g., Epstein, 1973, 1990, 1994). Support for this view comes from parallels between the hypnotic state and the experiential system as embodied in CEST and fr...

We propose a theory of how systems of thought arise on the basis of differing cultural practices and argue that the theory accounts for substantial differences in East Asian and Western thought processes. We find East Asians to be more holistic, attending to the entire field and assigning causality to it, making relatively little use of categories and formal logic, and relying on “dialectical” ...

Holistic processing (HP) is an expertise marker in visual perception; nevertheless, it can be modulated by writing experience (Tso, Au, & Hsiao, 2014). We have recently found that HP also indicates expertise in Cantonese speech perception (Liu & Hsiao, 2014). Nevertheless, Cantonese has a logographic writing system where one syllable corresponds to one character, whereas in alphabetic languages...

background: this study aimed to identify factors contributing to the creation of intellectual capital in the organization of education. the research method is a descriptive and exploratory factor analysis method. a sample: directors and deputies of the second period secondary education department of tehran province. based on stratified random sampling method and based on a sample of 500 was cal...