Working under constrained conditions can boost or kill creativity, depending on the nature of constraints (organizational, personal task-related). However, a design process without clearly identified constraints, which set project objectives, could lead to inefficiencies and unfruitful iterations. Some most acknowledged procedures support requirement definition are focused use specific checklis...

A short cut review was carried out to establish whether the use of preprocedural checklists prior to intubation of critically ill patients outside a theatre environment can reduce the incidence of adverse events. Four directly relevant papers were found using the reported search strategy and presented the best evidence to answer the clinical question. The author, date and country of publication...

There has been a burgeoning interest in studying daily events and experiences. This article discusses a variety of methodologic challenges that face daily event and experience researchers. The issues discussed include techniques for measuring events, the development of event checklists, sampling event content, specifying event appraisals, event validation procedures, and the creation of summary...

Introduction: The role of scrub in the prevention of post-surgery infections is well-known. This study aimed to investigate the inputs and process of surgical scrub in operating rooms of the largest heart hospital of northwest Iran. Methods: This study took place with a before-after design as a clinical audit in 2014. A check list developed based on national and international standards of surgi...

It is known that the role of principals is crucially important to school success. It is also known that their work is very demanding and stressful. Can anything be learned about principalship from studying how school leaders spend their time or from observing them at work? Research studies based on observation of principals as well as diaries and logs completed by school leaders themselves gene...