BACKGROUND Short-term structured risk assessment is presumed to reduce incidents of aggression and seclusion on acute psychiatric wards. Controlled studies of this approach are scarce. AIMS To evaluate the effect of risk assessment on the number of aggression incidents and time in seclusion for patients admitted to acute psychiatric wards. METHOD A cluster randomised controlled trial was co...

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introduction. tb is one of the oldest known diseases in history that has been reappeared as a severe problem for public health and suggest whether the students of medicine in their clinical training period face the patients with tb to the extent that helps them to diagnose and cure these patients in future. methods. this study was descriptive, retrospective, and cross-sectional that carried out...

The research presented in this paper investigates how observation of informationand communication-intensive work in hospital wards can be used to produce requirements for mobile clinical information systems. Over a number of years, we have explored how important properties of clinical situations can be captured through structured observations of actors, processes, and systems. In the paper, we ...

BACKGROUND On South African public hospital wards, observation charts do not incorporate early warning scoring (EWS) systems to inform nurses when to summon assistance. The aim of this trial was to test the impact of a new chart incorporating a modified EWS (MEWS) system and a linked training program on nurses' responses to clinical deterioration (primary outcome). Secondary outcomes were: numb...