BACKGROUND THE USE OF DIRECT OBSERVATION TO MONITOR TUBERCULOSIS TREATMENT IS CONTROVERSIAL: cost, practical difficulties, and lack of patient acceptability limit effectiveness. Telehealth is a promising alternative delivery method for improving implementation. This study aimed to evaluate the clinical and cost-effectiveness of a telehealth service delivering direct observation, compared to an ...

Background. Nursing home (NH) residents often experience burdensome and unnecessary care transitions, especially towards the end of life. This paper explores provider perspectives on the role that families play in the decision to transfer NH residents to the emergency department (ED). Methods. Multiple stakeholder focus groups (n = 35 participants) were conducted with NH nurses, NH physicians, ...

why depending on the rationality of the market will never work well for quality of care (box). Sensible policy for providing nursing home care requires a larger welfare state, a larger regulatory state, and encouragement of public, non-profit providers. Australia’s recent experience shows that to head in the opposite direction is medically, economically, and politically irrational. Competing in...

Introduction: Some students attribute their academic failure to such factorsas low aptitude, unavailability of resources, and bad luck. However, we candare to say that the most important factor playing a role in academic successis students’ little acquaintance with learning and study skills. This study aimedat examining the quality of study skills in newly-admitted students of FasaMedical Unive...

I am delighted to announce completion of the second issue of the new journal of “Geopersia”, a product of the new era of replacing the Persian language journals with specific English-language ones. Our purpose is to provide a journal that offers a multi-disciplinary analysis of issues concerning Geology subjects (i.e. sedimentology, stratigraphy, paleontology, Petroleum Geology, Engineering Geo...

INTRODUCTION To ensure continuity of care, it is important to effectively communicate the health status of older patients who are transferred between health care organizations. The objectives of this study were to: (1) evaluate the prevalence of nursing transfer documents, and (2) identify patient and transfer characteristics associated with the presence of nursing transfer documents for older ...

<b>Introduction.</b> <i>Note-taking</i> is a learning strategy that requires tremendous importance in the teaching/learning process. It therefore allows for better information processing and deeper encoding (long-term memory) of information. Its adoption mastery can improve students’ performance. Nevertheless, it has been poorly explored academic environment, particularl...

OBJECTIVE To develop a collaborative, person-centred model of clinical pharmacy support for community nurses and their medication management clients. DESIGN Co-creation and participatory action research, based on reflection, data collection, interaction and feedback from participants and other stakeholders. SETTING A large, non-profit home nursing service in Melbourne, Australia. PARTICIP...

BACKGROUND Most people with advanced dementia die in nursing homes where families may have to make decisions as death approaches. Discussions about end-of-life care between families and nursing home staff are uncommon, despite a range of potential benefits. In this study we aimed to examine practices relating to end-of-life discussions with family members of people with advanced dementia residi...

OBJECTIVE This study sought to explore the relationship of workarounds related to the implementation of an electronic medication administration record and medication safety practices in five Midwestern nursing homes. DESIGN As a part of a larger study, this qualitative evaluation was conducted to identify workarounds associated with the implementation of an electronic medication administratio...