BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Currently available tools to measure teamwork, an essential component of primary care, are generally very resource intensive and thus cannot be administered frequently. To explore the possibility of developing a brief teamwork-assessment instrument, we first administered 29 questions about teamwork from the Practice Environment Checklist (PEC) to all members of six cli...

technical principles to concrete research problems that appear in a wide variety of forms and with a myriad of obscuring features, details, and idiosyncracies. This article is based on a different approach: examination of a series of concrete research scenarios that we have encountered in our work as researchers, advisors to researchers, or reviewers. This article examines 26 real-world "case s...

Objetivo: evaluar las propiedades psicométricas de la Escala Satisfacción con el Apoyo Social en personas tuberculosis pulmonar. Método: estudio metodológico desarrollado dos etapas: validación del contenido los ítems; y evaluación Escala. Los datos se recogieron entre octubre 2020 enero 2021 una muestra 204 individuos pulmonar centros diagnóstico norte Portugal. Resultados: La escala validada ...

Objective: this study aimed to carry of the cultural adaptation and to evaluate the reliability of the Compliance with Standard Precautions Scale (CSPS) for nurses in Brazil. Method: the adaptation process entailed translation, consensus among judges, back-translation, semantic validation and pretest. The reliability was evaluated by internal consistency (Cronbach alpha) and stability (test-r...

This study provided preliminary evidence for internal consistency reliability (Cronbach alpha = .94) of the newly developed Healing Touch Comfort Questionnaire. Fifty-six Healing Touch (HT) recipients (51 women and 5 men with a mean age of 51) completed the questionnaire. Participants with more than 4 HT treatments had higher comfort levels than those with fewer than 4.

Objetivo: avaliar as propriedades psicométricas da Escala de Satisfação com o Suporte Social em pessoas tuberculose pulmonar. Método: estudo metodológico desenvolvido duas etapas: validação conteúdo dos itens; e avaliação das Escala. A colheita dados decorreu entre período outubro 2020 janeiro 2021 numa amostra 204 pulmonar, Centros Diagnóstico Pneumológico no Norte Portugal. Resultados: a vali...

BACKGROUND A need for improved patient safety, quality of care, and accountability has prompted the development of competency-based educational processes. Assessment tools related to bronchoscopy training, however, have not yet been developed or validated. PURPOSES To determine whether 25 multiple-choice questions (MCQs) extracted from the free, Web-based Essential Bronchoscopist (EB) learnin...