The purpose of this study was to examine the similarities and differences in what students and instructors perceive to be the importance, and instructor use of, representative effective clinical teaching skills noted in the literature. Teaching staff members (n = 74) and students (n = 96) in three successive quarters in a required clerkship in paediatrics completed parallel forms of a clinical ...

The aim of this paper is to describe a novel approach to the analysis of data obtained from card-sorting experiments. These experiments were performed as a part of the initial phase of a project, called NEONATE. One of the aims of the project is to develop decision support tools for the neonatal intensive care environment. Physical card-sorts were performed using clinical "action" and patient "...

Although medical error reporting has been studied, underreporting remains pervasive. The study aims were to identify the organizational factors with the greatest perceived effect on error reporting and to determine whether associations differ for management and clinical staff. A total of 515 637 respondents from 1052 hospitals completed the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture. Nine organi...

BACKGROUND The implementation of multidisciplinary stroke rehabilitation interventions is challenging, even when the intervention is evidence-based. Very little is known about the implementation of complex interventions in rehabilitation clinical trials. The aim of study was to better understand how the implementation of a rehabilitation intervention in a clinical trial within acute stroke unit...

In developing countries, similar to other parts of the world, smartphones and social networks are highly popular. there are many challenges in use of social networks by the health system staff. Clinical photography plays an important role in the medical practice to determine the state, treatment and progression of a patient’s condition. ethical education is needed on how to take and share clini...

OBJECTIVES Current literature emphasises that clinical leaders are in a position to enable a culture of safety, and that the safety culture is a performance mediator with the potential to influence patient outcomes. This paper aims to investigate staff's perceptions of patient safety culture in a Danish psychiatric department before and after a leadership intervention. METHODS A repeated cros...

Stress is a common problem that affects most people with dementia and their caregivers. Stress symptoms for people with dementia are often measured by answering a checklist of questions by the clinical staff who work closely with the person with the dementia. This process requires a lot of effort with continuous observation of the person with dementia over the long term. This article investigat...