background: there is controversy surrounding the impact of workplace interventions aimed at improving social support and supervisory quality on absenteeism, productivity and financial outcomes. objective: to determine the value of social support interventions for work outcomes. methods: databases were searched for systematic reviews between 2000 and 2012 to complete a synthesis of systematic re...

BACKGROUND to our knowledge no research has investigated the effect of home visiting nurse (HVN) interventions on individual instrumental activities of daily living (IADL). OBJECTIVE to investigate the effects of an HVN intervention on the difficulty or dependence in six individual IADLs. DESIGN a secondary analysis of a randomised controlled study comparing an HVN intervention (n = 237) wi...

Functioning can be defined as the ability to perform daily activities, and to maintain interpersonal relationships and work capacity/productivity. Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is associated with substantial impairment in functioning. The study examined associations between various measures of functioning (patient assessment) and MDD symptoms (clinician assessment). A major challenge was to e...

OBJECTIVE Routine outcome assessment in adult mental health services involves the on-going assessment of patient-level outcomes. Use of outcomes to inform treatment is widely recommended, but seldom implemented. The goals of this review were (i) to identify principles that have been proposed for implementing routine outcome assessment, (ii) to identify the full range of outcome domains that hav...

introduction: global patient safety is the concern of all areas of the health care. in addition to the human suffering in those inflicted unsafe care and services, it has a heavy economic cost. due to the sensitive patient safety in the operation rooms, the present study aimed to assess patient safety in the operating rooms. methods: this was a descriptive cross-sectional study that was conduct...