BACKGROUND One of the pressing concerns in health care today is the slow rate at which promising interventions, supported by research evidence, move into clinical practice. One potential way to speed this process is to conduct hybrid studies that simultaneously combine the collection of effectiveness and implementation relevant data. This paper presents implementation relevant data collected du...

BACKGROUND Careful hand hygiene (HH) is the single most important factor in preventing the transmission of infections to patients, but compliance is difficult to achieve and maintain. A lack of understanding of the processes involved in changing staff behaviour may contribute to the failure to achieve success. The purpose of this study was to identify nurses' and administrators' perceived barri...

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY We examined how organizational culture in nursing homes affects staff turnover, because culture is a first step to creating satisfactory work environments. DESIGN AND METHODS Nursing home administrators were asked in 2009 to report on facility culture and staff turnover. We received responses from 419 of 1,056 administrators contacted. Respondents reported the strength of...

Objective: To identify barriers towards resident autonomy as perceived through four groups; surgical residents, staff, administrators, and patients.Materials Methods: Anonymous surveys were distributed to these groups. Data thematically analyzed.Results: 401 responses collected including 231 patients. The response rate of administrators was 62.2% (119), 44.8% (26), 43.1% (25) respectively. Pati...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The Pennsylvania Academy of Family Physicians (PAFP) developed a statewide Residency Program Collaborative (RPC) to facilitate family medicine residency practices in Pennsylvania becoming recognized patient-centered medical homes (PCMHs). This report outlines the methods and a brief evaluation of the RPC, which included 20 residency practices. Participants attended tri...

Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic exposed sports administrators’ lack of crisis management preparedness and athletes, coaches, support staff’s mental for a pandemic. Sports administrators were in the unenviable position having to protect health their staff, wider population by preventing spread disease with restrictive policies, such as bio-bubbles quarantines, while at same time not restricting a...