Bittman, Jesse Tam, Penny Little, Chris Khan, Nadia
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Postgraduate medical journal
Handover of patients between care providers is a critical event in patient care. There is, however, little evidence to guide the handover process, including determining which patients to handover. Compare the ability of gestalt-based handover with two structured scores, the modified early warning score (MEWS) and our novel iHAND clinical decision s...
Holbrook, Anne Bowen, James M Patel, Harsit O'Brien, Chris You, John J Tahavori, Roshan Doleweerd, Jeff Berezny, Tim Perri, Dan Nieuwstraten, Carmine
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BMJ open
Medication reconciliation (MedRec) has been a mandated or recommended activity in Canada, the USA and the UK for nearly 10 years. Accreditation bodies in North America will soon require MedRec for every admission, transfer and discharge of every patient. Studies of MedRec have revealed unintentional discrepancies in prescriptions but no clear evide...
Keng, Li-Ta Tsou, Ping-Hsien
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Postgraduate medical journal
Fawcett, Nicola Jk Jones, Nicola Quan, T Phuong Mistry, Vikash Crook, Derrick Peto, Tim Walker, A Sarah
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BMJ open
To assess the magnitude of difference in antibiotic use between clinical teams in the acute setting and assess evidence for any adverse consequences to patient safety or healthcare delivery. Prospective cohort study (1 week) and analysis of linked electronic health records (3 years). UK tertiary care centre. All patients admitted sequentially to th...
Mayer, Martin
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Evidence-based medicine
Burton, Amy M Brezausek, Carl M Agne, April A Hankins, Shirley L Willett, Lisa L Cherrington, Andrea L
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Postgraduate medical journal
Primary care physicians are being asked to counsel their patients on obesity and weight management. Few physicians conduct weight loss counselling citing barriers, among them a lack of training and confidence. Our objective was to pilot test the effectiveness of a 3-h interactive obesity-counselling workshop for resident physicians based on motivat...
Etkind, S N Koffman, J
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Postgraduate medical journal
Patients with any major illness can expect to experience uncertainty about the nature of their illness, its treatment and their prognosis. Prognostic uncertainty is a particular source of patient distress among those living with life-limiting disease. Uncertainty also affects professionals and it has been argued that the level of professional toler...
Marion, Dennis Charlebois, P B Kao, R
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Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps
Since December 2013, the Zaire Ebola virus disease (EVD) epidemic has ravaged West Africa. In collaboration with the Public Health Agency of Canada, healthcare workers (HCWs) and support staff from the Royal Canadian Medical Services (RCMS) of the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) were deployed to Kerry Town, Sierra Leone. A total of 79 RCMS personnel de...
Geijer, Håkan Udumyan, Ruzan Lohse, Georg Nilsagård, Ylva
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BMJ open
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Tang, Karen L Rashid, Ruksana Godley, Jenny Ghali, William A
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BMJ open
To determine the association between subjective social status (SSS), or the individual's perception of his or her position in the social hierarchy, and the odds of coronary artery disease (CAD), hypertension, diabetes, obesity and dyslipidaemia. Systematic review and meta-analysis. We searched PubMed, MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, PsycINFO, SocINDEX, We...
