This study investigated the impact of introducing the Klein-Bell ADL Scale into a rehabilitation medicine service. A pretest and a posttest questionnaire of rehabilitation team members and a pretest and a posttest audit of occupational therapy documentation were completed. Results of the questionnaire suggested that the ADL scale influenced rehabilitation team members' observations in the combi...

OBJECTIVE To synthesise the evidence on implementing family involvement in the treatment of patients with psychosis with a focus on barriers, problems and facilitating factors. DESIGN Systematic review of studies evaluating the involvement of families in tripartite communication between health professionals, 'families' (or other unpaid carers) and adult patients, in a single-family context. A...

The process of information systems planning is critically dependent on the users of the system. The involvement and participation of these users and its impact on the effectiveness of IS planning has not been studied in the literature. In this article we address the effect of user involvement and participation on the quality of IS planning projects. This was done through an exploratory quasi-ex...

BACKGROUND To date, patient involvement in the development of clinical research work has been limited. In 2011, the Telescot research team commenced work on a feasibility trial to investigate home telemonitoring of blood pressure for people who have experienced stroke or transient ischaemic attack (TIA). The team decided to involve patients in the development of the research. OBJECTIVES To im...

BACKGROUND The Affordable Care Act of 2010 allows for the adjustment of reimbursement to health care centers based on 30-day readmission rates. High readmission rates may be explained by multiple events at discharge, including medication errors that occur during the transition of care from inpatient to outpatient. Pharmacist involvement at discharge has been shown to improve health outcomes in ...

The tool developed by Hallinger (PIMRS) has been widely used to identify the level of involvement a school principal and his/her management team in instructional leadership. PIMRS unfolds domains which principals delegate their team, that are priority for leadership when drawing up school’s profile. However, no studies have conducted aimed at identifying models based on profiles obtained applyi...

In an attempt to move the research forward on the use of interdisciplinary teams to improve health care, a group of physicians, Nazir et al,1 did a systematic review of interdisciplinary interventions in nursing home settings. The team defined interdisciplinary care as entailing at least 2 disciplines that rely on each other, participate in team activities, and share leadership to accomplish te...

This study examines the effect of the performance of the Notre Dame football team on American Catholic church attendance. Using data taken from the General Social Survey across eleven recent years and the statistical package STATA, I regressed a myriad of variables on Catholic church attendance to explore the effect of Notre Dame football. After determining the relevance of a broad spectrum of ...

this article engages with debates about the conceptualisation and practical challenges of patient and public involvement (ppi) in health and social care services. policy in this area in england has shifted numerous times but increasingly a consumerist discourse seems to override more democratic ideas concerning the relationship between citizens and public services. recent policy change in engla...

introduction: the wilson disease is an autosomal recessive disease in which the liver, central nervous system, eyes, blood and other parts of the body involved. timely diagnosis and appropriate treatment of the disease requires awareness of the clinical presentations of this disease in children.methods: this case series study included 62 patients with wilson disease who admitted to children&apo...