Background: The continual rise of health workforce unemployment in the country indicates the need to explore policy and planning of the physician and nurse requirements in Serbia. The study aimed to identify variables that were significantly related to physicians and nurses’ employment in the public healthcare sector of Serbia from 1961 to 2008 and to forecast the physicians and nurse’ requirem...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the association between the time taken to make a decision to go to surgery and gender, ethnicity, years in profession, experience of trauma team training, experience of structured trauma courses and trauma in the trauma team, as well as use of closed-loop communication and leadership styles during trauma team training. DESIGN In situ trauma team training. The patient...

Abstract Background To understand the implications of switching from paliperidone palmitate 1-monthly (PP1M) to 3-monthly (PP3M) treatment schizophrenia perspective four key stakeholders: patients, physicians, nurses and carers. Methods This was a cross-sectional, retrospective, non-interventional study comprising one-time questionnaire (PINC-Q) for adult patients (aged ≥18 years) with (Interna...

Participant observation, focus group and oral history techniques were used to collect data from four distinctly different sites across the U.S. Data were examined initially to identify success factors for computerized physician order entry (CPOE) implementation. These data, reexamined for communication issues, revealed significant impacts on communication channels and relationships unanticipate...

background and objectives: mthe emergency severity index (esi) triage is commonly used in clinical settings to determine the patients’ emergency severity. however, the reliability of this index is not sufficiently explored. the present study examines the inter-rater reliability of esi by comparing triage ratings as performed by nurses and physicians. methods: this prospective cross-sectional st...

Abstract Background To understand the implications of switching from paliperidone palmitate 1-monthly (PP1M) to 3-monthly (PP3M) treatment schizophrenia perspective four key stakeholders: patients, physicians, nurses and carers. Methods This was a cross-sectional, retrospective, non-interventional study comprising one-time questionnaire (PINC-Q) for adult patients (aged ?18 years) with (Interna...

Effective communication is a hallmark of safe patient care. Challenges to effective interprofessional communication in maternity care include differing professional perspectives on clinical management, steep hierarchies, and lack of administrative support for change. We review principles of high reliability as they apply to communication in clinical care and discuss principles of effective comm...

We developed a novel system consisting of two modules, statistics-based synthesis and nonphotorealistic rendering (NPR), to synthesize caricatures of exaggerative facial features and other particular characteristics, such as beards or nevus. The statistics-based synthesis module can exaggerate shapes and positions of facial features based on non-linear exaggerative rates determined automaticall...

http://ajcc.aacnjournals.org • BACKGROUND Attempts to improve end-of-life care increasingly focus on family-centered care, but few validated assessment tools exist. • OBJECTIVES To evaluate 3 new short questionnaires measuring nurses’ perspectives on family-centered end-of-life care in the intensive care unit and to show the usefulness of the questionnaires. • METHODS Principal components analy...