BACKGROUND The START and SAPROF are newly developed fourth generation structured professional judgement instruments assessing strengths and protective factors. The DUNDRUM-3 and DUNDRUM-4 also measure positive factors, programme completion and recovery in forensic settings. METHODS We compared these instruments with other validated risk instruments (HCR-20, S-RAMM), a measure of psychopatholo...

We describe a 65-year-old man who presented to the emergency department with acute cerebral air embolism after receiving computed tomography guided lung biopsy. The patient presented with muscle strengths of 0/5 in left arm and 3/5 in left leg, aphasia, and a right pneumothorax. Our concern was to improve the patient’s neurological function, while ensuring stability in a patient who possibly ha...

Abstract The teaching profession is characterized by high demands and teachers who thrive are better able to navigate their demanding context than survive. Based on theories strengths use we propose that interventions which help identify, use, develop can enhance thriving (vitality learning) enables them perform better. In addition, based the socioemotional selective theory especially beneficia...

The study of outcomes has become essential for guiding quality of-care assessment and for clinical research. In this article, the properties and process of patient outcomes measurement are described. The limitations of traditional outcomes are discussed and contrasted with the emerging concept of "patient-centered"outcomes, measured by validated instruments to assess the effects of surgical int...

emergency departments (eds) are the most challenging ward with respect to patient delay. the goal of this study is to present strategies that have proven to reduce delay and overcrowding in eds. in this review article, initial electronic database search resulted in a total of 1006 articles. thirty articles were included after reviewing full texts. inclusion criteria were assessments of real pat...