Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) has a heterogenous clinical phenotype with manifestations in a number of different organs and systems. Whilst PsA is typified by enthesitis, synovitis and psoriasis (skin and nail); innate and adaptive immune system dysfunction often results in concomitant conditions. These include inflammatory bowel disease, uveitis, meta...
Initial child welfare screening decisions, traditionally made by an individual worker, determine if a family will receive further intervention by child protective services. A multi-disciplinary team (MDT) decision-making approach for child welfare referrals aims to provide a more thorough assessment of needs and strengths and to connect families to...
Funder: National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) / Funder: Wellcome Trust / BACKGROUND: Multidisciplinary teams (MDTs) are widely used in cancer care. Recent research points to logistical challenges impeding MDT decision-making and dissatisfaction among members. This study sought to identify different types of logistical issues and how they im...
Published in Lupus Science & Medicine
Objective There is a pressing need for high-quality, comprehensive research to describe the natural history, best treatments, access to care and disparities in care for patients with childhood-onset SLE (cSLE). Building on a previously published survey study of cSLE clinicians and researchers to describe research priorities in cSLE, the primary obj...
Objective: to describe the consensus of the content of an instrument for assessing interdisciplinary health care of the elderly population. Methods: consensus study conducted among physicians, nurses, and social workers, contemplating the construction of instrument and the pre-test for selection of scales for use in practice. Questionnaire consisti...
Published in Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM
Primary care is well-poised to address unmet social needs that affect health. Integrated primary care is increasingly common and can be leveraged to facilitate identification of practice and clinician-level modifiable characteristics and assist practices to address unmet social needs for patients and families. A recent National Academies of Science...
BackgroundMany previous studies of health care teamwork have taken place in clinical teams with high staffing ratios (i.e., high ratios of staff to patients).PurposeThe aim of this study was to identify clinicians' viewpoints of foundational resources necessary to support good team functioning in the context of low staffing ratios.MethodologyWe use...
Published in Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery
Introduction The current coronavirus pandemic has greatly strained the limited resources that had previously maintained the sustainability of the high-cost cardiothoracic surgeries in low-income countries like Egypt. Methods Hospital databases and patients’ records were reviewed to evaluate the impact of the pandemic on the workflow and waiting lis...
Objective: to know how the preparation of caregivers of technology-dependent patients is conducted from the perspective of professionals from the Home Care Service. Methods: a qualitative study, conducted with nine professionals from the Home Care Service teams. The data was collected through semi-structured interviews and submitted to Content Anal...
Background: Teamwork skills are essential to the quality of care and patient safety; nevertheless, team training is limited in Bachelor of Nursing degree programs in Norway. Objectives: The objective of this study was to explore the impact of implementing a TeamSTEPPS® team training intervention on Bachelor of Nursing students' attitudes toward tea...
