Zalewski, Bartosz Walkiewicz, Maciej Guziak, Mateusz
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BMC Medical Education
BackgroundThe goal of this exploratory study is to analyse which psychological characteristics of students are related to the effectiveness of learning clinical interview skills with the use of a virtual patient (VP).MethodsThe sample consisted of 29 final-year clinical psychology students. The authors’ VP tool was used for measuring and teaching c...
Yuen, Jeanette Fung, Si Ming Sia, Chin Leong Venkatramani, Mallika Shaw, Tarryn Courtney, Eliza Li, Shao-Tzu Chiang, Jianbang Tan, Veronique Kiak-Mien Tan, Benita Kiat-Tee
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Hereditary Cancer in Clinical Practice
IntroductionIdentification of one’s status as a BRCA1/2 pathogenic variant carrier often marks the start of navigating challenging decisions related to cancer risk management and result disclosure. Carriers report unmet informational needs, but studies have yet to explore the specific aspects of and how best to fulfill these needs. This study aims ...
Wangdi, Kinley Sarma, Haribondu Leaburi, John McBryde, Emma Clements, Archie C. A.
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Malaria Journal
BackgroundDistrict Health Information Systems 2 (DHIS2) is used for supporting health information management in 67 countries, including Solomon Islands. However, there have been few published evaluations of the performance of DHIS2-enhanced disease reporting systems, in particular for monitoring infectious diseases such as malaria. The aim of this ...
Pethybridge, Ruth Teleni, Laisa Chan, Raymond Javan
Purpose : The family-caregiver role is of critical importance to the success of symptom-related self-management of patients with advanced cancer. This study examined the perspectives of patients and family-caregivers regarding the role of the family-caregiver in symptom-related self-management support ( SMS). Methods : Semi-structured interviews we...
Schaaf, Jannik Prokosch, Hans-Ulrich Boeker, Martin Schaefer, Johanna Vasseur, Jessica Storf, Holger Sedlmayr, Martin
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BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
BackgroundPatients with rare diseases (RDs) are often diagnosed too late or not at all. Clinical decision support systems (CDSSs) could support the diagnosis in RDs. The MIRACUM (Medical Informatics in Research and Medicine) consortium, which is one of four funded consortia in the German Medical Informatics Initiative, will develop a CDSS for RDs b...
Schröder, Casper (author)
Code quality of software products often degrades while they grow. Counteracting the degradation of code quality or improving it requires immense effort. Tools that reduce this effort are a hot topic in software engineering research. Software Modularization in particular aims to aid in the process of improving the quality of code structure, by findi...
Mbama Bybanhou, Breynev Gildas
Les ASL sont des lieux de référence en matière d’enseignement/apprentissage de la langue-culture à visée d’insertion pour le public migrant. Cet apprentissage linguistique nécessite parfois d’utiliser plusieurs démarches didactiques dans une perspective actionnelle ou communic’actionnelle. Tel est l’objectif de ce travail qui vise à faciliter l’app...
Vikström, Sofia Grönstedt, Helena K. Cederholm, Tommy Franzén, Erika Seiger, Åke Faxén-Irving, Gerd Boström, Anne-Marie
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BMC Geriatrics
BackgroundA qualitative, interview-based study was embedded in a randomized intervention trial, the Older People Exercise and Nutrition (OPEN) study. Participants in the OPEN study were encouraged to conduct sessions of sit-to-stand (STS) exercises combined with Oral Nutritional Supplements (ONS) intake. The aim was to describe the older persons’ p...
Neininger, Martina Patrizia Woltermann, Sarah Jeschke, Sarah Herziger, Birthe Müller, Ruth Melinda Kiess, Wieland Bertsche, Thilo Bertsche, Astrid
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European journal of pediatrics
Anticonvulsant drugs have a high risk of adverse drug events. Little is known about the perception of those events by pediatric patients. We performed a survey in the neuropediatric departments of two university hospitals. Using a questionnaire, we interviewed patients aged 6-18 years with current anticonvulsant treatment regarding (i) their fears ...
Langer, Tessa Ruiz, Colby Tsai, Perry Adams, Ursula Powierza, Camilla Vijay, Ammu Alvarez, Paul Beck Dallahan, Gary Rahangdale, Lisa
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Perspectives on Medical Education
Introduction The multiple mini interview (MMI) has been incorporated into the holistic review process in the selection of students to US medical schools. The MMI has been used to evaluate interpersonal and intrapersonal attributes which are deemed as necessary for future physicians. We hypothesized that there would be little difference in overall M...
