Shorter-Term Follow-Up of School-Based Programs 65 Project Towards No Tobacco Use 65 Know Your Body 65 Project SHOUT 68 Longer-Term Follow-Up of School-Based Programs 69 Life Skills Training Program 69 Minnesota Smoking Prevention Program 70 Waterloo Smoking Projects 70 Project ALERT 71 Summary of Recent School-Based Research Studies 72 Research on Multifaceted Programs 73 Minnesota Heart Healt...

Questions related to job skills and the teaching situations that best promote skill development are investigated by specialists in various fields, notably among them, ergonomists. This paper presents the findings of an ergonomic intervention study whose aim was to develop a meat-deboning training program by taking into account both the training content to be constructed and the working conditio...

background and objectives: non-ergonomic computer work has emerged as a significant cause of musculoskeletal disorders among employees of health care organizations.  given the negative impact of such disorders on quality of work life, safety, and performance of hospital staff, there is a need to evaluate the exposure of this staff to the ergonomic risks associated with the computer-based jobs. ...

OBJECTIVES To test whether Stepping On, a multifaceted community-based program using a small-group learning environment, is effective in reducing falls in at-risk people living at home. DESIGN A randomized trial with subjects followed for 14 months. SETTING The interventions were conducted in community venues, with a follow-up home visit. PARTICIPANTS Three hundred ten community residents...

Objective To assess whether a multifaceted intervention can reduce the number of prescriptions for antimicrobials for suspected urinary tract infections in residents of nursing homes. Design Cluster randomised controlled trial. Setting 24 nursing homes in Ontario, Canada, and Idaho, United States. Participants 12 nursing homes allocated to a multifaceted intervention and 12 allocated to usual c...

OBJECTIVE We evaluated the effectiveness of a virtually delivered quality improvement (QI) program designed to improve primary care management for children with asthma. METHODS Thirty-six physicians, nurses, and medical assistants from 14 primary care pediatric practices (7 matched practice pairs) participated in a cluster randomized trial from October 2007 to September 2008. All practices re...

BACKGROUND A national clinical practice guideline for pediatric palliative care was published in 2013. So far there are only few reports available on whether an educational program fosters compliance with such a guideline implementation. We aimed to test the effect of the education program on actual compliance as well as documentation of compliance to the guideline. METHODS We performed a pro...

The evaluation of low-back disorder risk associated with materials handling tasks can be performed using a variety of assessment tools. Most of these tools vary greatly in their underlying logic, yet few have been assessed for their predictive ability. It is important to document how well an assessment tool realistically reflects the job's injury risk, since only valid and accurate tools can re...

To the Editor—The Children's Cardiology Up-to-Date Online Resources for Education (CUORE) project was a pilot collaborative initiative between clinicians in the cardiac intensive care unit (ICU) at Children's Hospital Boston and the pediatric ICU of the Catholic University Hospital in Santiago, Chile. The primary aim of this pilot study was to evaluate the feasibility of a remote education prog...