BACKGROUND Checklists are common in some medical fields, including surgery, intensive care and emergency medicine. They can be an effective tool to improve care processes and reduce mortality and morbidity. Despite the seemingly rapid acceptance and dissemination of the checklist, there are few studies describing the actual process of developing and implementing such tools in health care. The a...

Disasters are often caused by insuffi cient preventive care. We argue that there is a problem of prevention in that this lack of care often stems from agents’rational calculations. Positive experiences lead agents to underestimate the risks of disasters; technological improvements and redundancies designed for safety induce agents to reduce their care. While lower care increases the chances of ...

METHODS: Twenty-five patients were selected for PRP therapy for facial rejuvenation. All patients completed the following FACE-Q scales preprocedure: appearance appraisal, quality of life, adverse effect checklists for treatment, and process of care. PRP was prepared using a standardized protocol. At 6 weeks posttreatment, another FACE-Q was completed, and 2 blinded observers (1 plastic surgeon...

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OBJECTIVE In healthcare, checklists help to ensure patients receive evidence-based, safe care. Since 2007, we have used a bedside checklist in our PICU to facilitate daily discussion of care-related questions at each bedside. The primary objective of this study was to assess compliance with checklist use and to assess how often individual checklist elements affected patient management. A second...

Multiple attributes are expected of postgraduate research supervisors. Provision of timely and effective face-to-face feedback is one such skill that carries enormous significance in supervisee's professional development. Feedback allows the supervisees to improve upon their performances. Unfortunately, both supervisors and supervisees have contrasting approaches towards the ongoing feedback pr...

Checklists are common tools used in many industries. Unfortunately, their adoption in the field of medicine has been limited to equipment operations or part of specific algorithms. Yet they have tremendous potential to improve patient outcomes by democratizing knowledge and helping ensure that all patients receive evidence-based best practices and safe high-quality care. Checklist adoption has ...

This chapter outlines the principles of critical appraisal for different types of research study. It introduces generic schemes and discipline-specific checklists for use with information research. Outputs from the Critical Skills Training in Appraisal for Librarians (CriSTAL) programme are introduced and reviewed. Teaching scenarios from the CriSTAL programme are presented. Resources to assist...