Pilot projects in eastern Canada that use personal computers and telephone lines to link patients and rural physicians with specialists in urban centres indicate that telemedicine may be a cost-effective adjunct to clinical medicine. Dermatology, radiology, cardiology and oncology are among the areas that have been tested in Nova Scotia. Although physicians say telemedicine may have many useful...

BACKGROUND Residents are expected to have transition of care (ToC) skills upon entering graduate medical education. It is unclear whether experience and training during medical school is adequate. OBJECTIVE The aim of the project was to assess: 1) graduating medical students' ability to perform ToC in a crisis situation, and 2) whether using a cognitive aid improves the ToC quality. METHODS...

OBJECTIVE To describe and apply a process evaluation model (PEM) for patient education programs for pregnant smokers. METHODS The preparation of a process evaluation plan required each program to define its essential "new" patient assessment and intervention procedures for each episode (visit) of patient-staff contact. Following specification of these core implementation procedures (p) by eac...

AIM The present study developed and evaluated a patient-centred, patient-directed, group-based education program for the management of type 2 diabetes mellitus. METHODS Two frameworks, the Medical Research Council (MRC) framework for developing and evaluating complex interventions and the RE-AIM framework were followed. Data to develop the intervention were sourced from scoping of the literat...

Since the release of the Institute of Medicine's report on resident hours and patient safety, there have been calls for enhanced institutional oversight of duty hour limits and of efforts to enhance the quality and safety of care in teaching hospitals. The ACGME has established the Clinical Learning Environment Review (CLER) program as a key component of the Next Accreditation System with the a...

Describe what is meant by patient-centered care. Patient-centered care is a patient care experience designed to meet the individual patient’s and family members’ needs at each step in the care process. It should take into account the patient and his or her social circumstances because it may dictate differences in aspects of the care to be delivered. Using total joint replacement as an example,...

objective: in this trial, we intend to assess the effect of simulation-based education approach on advanced cardiovascular life support skills among medical students. methods: through convenient sampling method, 40 interns of mashhad university of medical sciences in their emergency medicine rotation (from september to december 2012) participated in this study. advanced cardiovascular life supp...

4 Katja Heikkinen COGNITIVELY EMPOWERING INTERNET-BASED PATIENT EDUCATION FOR AMBULATORY ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY PATIENTS Department of Nursing Science, Faculty of Medicine, University of Turku, Finland Annales Universitatis Turkuensis Turku 2011 ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to create and evaluate an Internet-based patient education programme aiming to cognitively empower ambulatory orthopaed...