Articles: checklist.
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To describe updates to the Preventive Care Checklist Form© to help family physicians stay up to date with current preventive health care recommendations. ⋯ The Preventive Care Checklist Form has been updated with current recommendations to enable family physicians to provide comprehensive, evidence-based care to patients during periodic health examinations.
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The aim of this study was to improve the postoperative handover process and immediate postoperative patient outcomes. The objective was to implement a postoperative handover protocol in the neurosurgical intensive care unit of a tertiary teaching hospital. ⋯ This clinically based research highlights the need for policy makers and administrators to create unit-specific protocols for improving postoperative handovers.
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An expert opinion. ⋯ 5.
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Scand J Trauma Resus · Mar 2016
Non-technical skills evaluation in the critical care air ambulance environment: introduction of an adapted rating instrument - an observational study.
In the isolated and dynamic health-care setting of critical care air ambulance transport, the quality of clinical care is strongly influenced by non-technical skills such as anticipating, recognising and understanding, decision making, and teamwork. However there are no published reports identifying or applying a non-technical skills framework specific to an intensive care air ambulance setting. The objective of this study was to adapt and evaluate a non-technical skills rating framework for the air ambulance clinical environment. ⋯ The AeroNOTS framework could be used to facilitate education and training in non-technical skills for air ambulance clinicians, and further evaluation of this rating system is merited.