gestions that humane patient care may be either uninfluenced or perhaps even enhanced by scientific medicine and the accompanying new morality. However, a warning by Babbie should be emphasized: It may be that "the indicators of humane patient care used in these analyses are not adequate to the research problem." Inferences about faculty performance based on faculty views reported by and often ...

Alternating Treatments Designs (ATD) with random assignment of the treatments to the measurement times provide very powerful single-case experiments. However, complete randomization might cause too many consecutive administrations of the same treatment to occur in the design. In order to exclude these possibilities, an ATD with restricted randomization can be used. In this article we provide a ...

The objective of this study was to conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis of teamwork interventions that were carried out with the purpose of improving teamwork and team performance, using controlled experimental designs. A literature search returned 16,849 unique articles. The meta-analysis was ultimately conducted on 51 articles, comprising 72 (k) unique interventions, 194 effect sizes...

The choice of study design for guideline implementation studies will determine the confidence with which the observed effects can be attributed to the interventions under study. In general, cluster randomized trials, of which there are different types, provide the most robust design. However, the use of these designs has implications for the power, conduct and analysis of studies. Wherever poss...