Background Hypoglycemia is associated with transient cognitive deficits and can result in cardiac arrhythmia, neurological damage, falls or aspiration. Among critical and noncritical inpatients, hypoglycemia increases the risk of death. Since 2012, we had kept the rate of hypoglycemia (proportion of capillary glucose episodes bellow 60 mg/dL per 100 glucose measurements) well controlled. During...

OBJECTIVE A multidisciplinary support team for general practice was established in April 2014 by a local National Health Service (NHS) England management team. This work evaluates the team's effectiveness in supporting and promoting change in its first 2 years, using realist methodology. SETTING Primary care in one area of England. PARTICIPANTS Semistructured interviews were conducted with ...

Virtual spaces based on the metaphor of "shared network places" are becoming a well accepted implementation approach for multiuser, multimedia, distributed cooperative work environments to support the work activities and interactions of goal oriented business teams. Similar to real-life physical team rooms, which provide a permanent shared space used by a work group, TEAMWORKPLACE, the virtual ...

Background It is estimated that 21% of boys and 16% of girls in England meet recommended physical activity guidelines. Team sport has the potential to increase physical activity levels; however, studies show that gender-based factors can influence girls' participation in team sport. Furthermore, evidence for the effectiveness of interventions promoting team sport among girls is limited. This sy...

Human cognition and work processes are two inseparable parts of human problem solving, however, the cognitive process is neglected in most research on knowledge-intensive team Cooperation. This paper presents an approach for modelling these two parts of the process for use by a distributed co-operative team. We define a new notion of cognitive flow to reflect the dynamic cognition processes of ...

August 30, 2016 DRAFT To help learners foster the competencies of collaboration and communication in practice, there has been interest in incorporating a collaborative team-based learning component in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) ever since the beginning. Most researchers agree that simply placing students in small groups does not guarantee that learning will occur. In previous work, tea...

The adoption of a patient-centric approach to healthcare delivery in the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK has led to changing requirements for information systems supporting the work of health and care practitioners. In particular, the patient-centric approach emphasises teamwork and cross-boundary coordination and collaboration. Although a great deal of both time and money has been inve...

Council on Social Work Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 383 HISTORICALLY, the field of social work has been committed to work toward a “just society” (Reamer, 1993). This means that social work has often rejected mainstream institutional views and has offered or supported alternative viewpoints furthering its goal of a just society. In addition, evidence-based practice suggests that profess...