Published in Respiratory care
First health care professionals arriving at the bedside in tracheostomy-related emergencies are rarely the surgical subspecialists who placed the tracheostomy and are unfamiliar with the relevant anatomy and tracheostomy specifications for the individual patient. We hypothesized that implementing a bedside airway safety placard would increase careg...
Published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
The classic view holds that when “split-brain” patients are presented with an object in the right visual field, they will correctly identify it verbally and with the right hand. However, when the object is presented in the left visual field, the patient verbally states that he saw nothing but nevertheless identifies it accurately with the left hand...
Published in Frontiers in Clinical Diabetes and Healthcare
Introduction Community sport coaches in Western Australia lack an understanding, the confidence, and knowledge in supporting young people with Type 1 diabetes (T1D). This study aims to identify what T1D educational resources are required to upskill coaches in Western Australia. Methods Semi-structured online interviews were conducted with i) young ...
Published in Journal of perianesthesia nursing : official journal of the American Society of PeriAnesthesia Nurses
To evaluate the effectiveness of the American Society of Perianesthesia Nurses (ASPAN) pediatric competency-based orientation (PCBO) education program on knowledge, confidence, and early recognition of nursing expertise among perianesthesia nurses in an acute care setting. A quasi-experimental pre/post survey-intervention design. Sixty perianesthes...
Published in Cureus
The global increase in air travel has led to a rise in in-flight medical emergencies (IMEs), posing significant challenges to global public health. In a significant number of instances, physicians are often called upon to respond to IMEs during flights. These emergencies are unique due to the cabin environment's constraints, including confined spac...
Published in Journal of Neural Engineering
Objective. When making decisions, humans can evaluate how likely they are to be correct. If this subjective confidence could be reliably decoded from brain activity, it would be possible to build a brain–computer interface (BCI) that improves decision performance by automatically providing more information to the user if needed based on their confi...
Published in European journal of dental education : official journal of the Association for Dental Education in Europe
The aim was to assess the ability and confidence of UK undergraduate dental students in applying the Index of Orthodontic Treatment Need (IOTN) and determining appropriate orthodontic referral. This was a cross-sectional survey using a case-based online questionnaire. Fourth and fifth year undergraduate dental students were recruited from UK dental...
Published in Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences
Introduction Three-dimensional gait analysis is widely used for the clinical assessment of movement disorders. However, measurement error reduces the reliability of kinematic data and consequently assessment of gait deviations. The identification of high variability is associated with low reliability and those parameters should be ignored or exclud...
Published in Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006)
Contemporary dual-process models of reasoning maintain that there are two types of thinking -intuitive and deliberative -and that low confidence often leads to deliberation. Previous studies examining the confidence -deliberation relationship have been limited by (1) issues of endogeneity and between-subject comparisons, which we address in this st...
Published in Early intervention in psychiatry
Pharmacists are aptly positioned to provide first aid-level assistance to patients experiencing a mental health problem or crisis, yet often lack confidence or perceive barriers to intervention. One potential solution is Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) training-an evidence-based psycho-educational programme. This study evaluates MHFA training within...
