Articles: checklist.
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Observational Study
A clinical tool to predict adverse behaviour in children at the induction of anesthesia.
To develop and validate a parent questionnaire to aid in predicting which children are likely to exhibit significant adverse behaviour at anesthetic induction. ⋯ Adverse behaviour at anesthesia induction is significantly predicted by our new parent questionnaire. Further refinement may improve predictive power beyond the observed medium effect size.
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La Tunisie médicale · Jun 2014
[Implementation of the safe surgery checklist of the World Health Organization at the University Hospital of Monastir (Tunisia)].
To evaluate the impact of introduction of the WHO safe surgery checklist in the university hospital of Monastir over a period of five months. ⋯ The surgical checklist control contributes to the development of a safety culture in the operating room. Maintaining its use should be supported by incentives such as certification and accreditation.
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Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol · May 2014
Identifying children with autism spectrum disorder at 18 months in a general population sample.
Previous research on clinical and high-risk samples suggests that signs of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) can be detected between 1 and 2 years of age. We investigated signs of ASD at 18 months in a population-based sample and the association with later ASD diagnosis. ⋯ Even though one-third of the children who later received an ASD diagnosis were identified through M-CHAT items, the majority scored below cut-off on the screening criteria at 18 months. The results imply that it might not be possible to detect all children with ASD at this age.
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Radial arterial line placement is an invasive procedure that may result in complications. Validated checklists are central to teaching and assessing procedural skills and may result in improved health care quality. The results of the first step of the validation of a radial arterial line placement checklist are described. ⋯ The internal consistency coefficient using Cronbach α was .99. Developing a 22-item checklist for teaching and assessing radial arterial line placement is the first step in the validation process. For this checklist to become further validated, it should be implemented and studied in the simulation and clinical environments.