background: clinical training has an important section in medical students’ education. creating a favorable learning environment plays an essential role in medical education. since clinical teachers involve to clinical problem, clinical education environment evaluation can help to identify the negative and positive factors. this study was conducted to compare medical students’ and residents&apo...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To explore whether and how spatial aspects of children's hospital wards (single and shared rooms) impact upon family-centred care. BACKGROUND Family-centred care has been widely adopted in paediatric hospitals internationally. Recent hospital building programmes in many countries have prioritised the provision of single rooms over shared rooms. Limited attention has, howev...

OBJECTIVES To compare discrepancies in drug histories among patients acutely admitted to different hospital wards, classify the discrepancies according to their potential clinical impact and identify appropriate selection criteria for patients that should be subject to a detailed drug history at admission. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Two gastrointestinal surgery wards and one geri...

BACKGROUND Numeric pagers are commonly used communication devices in healthcare, but cannot convey important information such as the reason for or urgency of the page. Alphanumeric pagers can display both numbers and text, and may address some of these communication problems. OBJECTIVE Our primary aim was to implement an alphanumeric paging system. DESIGN Continuous quality improvement stud...

This study aimed to investigate the perceptions of nursing students trained in a new model teaching ward in Malawi. A total of 90students from five nursing colleges were randomly assigned to one model ward and two ordinary wards in a single teaching hospital. The students were administered a revised version of the Student Evaluation of Clinical Education Environment questionnaire. Significant d...

Introduction. One of the major problems in clinical teaching wards is the relationship between students and patients of these wards. We often look that patients refuse of admission in these wards in spite of presence of skilled physicians and better instruments. The aim of the study is survey of attitude of bed rid patients in teaching wards about miscellaneous aspects of presence of students i...

A clinical audit of ward practice for diagnosing and treating urinary tract infection was carried out to assess the impact on clinical practice four years after publication of a working protocol. Data were collected from all medical, surgical, gynaecology and geriatric wards in 25 hospitals in Northern Ireland. All wards made use of urinary dipsticks for ward testing, as recommended by the prot...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the medical decisions at end-of-life of patients admitted at HU/UFSC and to compare these decisions and the profile of patients who died in the intensive care unit (ICU) to those who died in medical (MW) and surgical wards (SW). METHODS This is a retrospective and observational study. Demographic data, clinical features, treatment and the end-of-life care decisions of a...