PURPOSE The effectiveness of a multidisciplinary medication reconciliation process was studied in an inpatient family medicine unit of an academic hospital center. METHODS In phase 1 of this two-phase study, nurses, pharmacists, and physicians used an admission medication reconciliation form to reconcile patients' home medications on admission. The form was then reviewed by the pharmacist on ...

This study is concerned with proposing a suitable organizational memory framework for Faculty Memory Information System and the development of Faculty Memory Information System (FMIS) prototype for the Faculty of Computer Science & Information Technology, UM. The framework portrays interaction between components that support the institution memory and the information system components that supp...

BACKGROUND Formal research priority setting is a recognized way of identifying important clinical research questions and promoting these as topics for commissioned research. This paper describes a research priority setting exercise conducted by the National Institute of Academic Anaesthesia (NIAA). METHODS Possible research questions were identified from a questionnaire sent to holders of the...

It is arguable that the instinct for survival in animal species has evolved due to the evolutionary elimination of those individuals who did not have enough inclination nor desire to cluster in a team. Thus, the roots of ethical conduct in its many facets in today’s world, may be sought in this very primeval concern for the society that enabled communities, rather than individuals, to survive i...

this study reports on the findings of a genre teaching course for developing academic writing of a class of efl students in iran. the information report genre was taught in a cyclical way of teaching and learning, which was started from ‘setting the context’ and ‘deconstruction’ of prototype information report genre, and continued with ‘joint construction’, ‘independent construction’, and final...