Articles: checklist.
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GMS Health Technol Assess · Jan 2010
Comparison of tools for assessing the methodological quality of primary and secondary studies in health technology assessment reports in Germany.
HEALTH CARE POLICY BACKGROUND: Findings from scientific studies form the basis for evidence-based health policy decisions. ⋯ There are different, design-specific tools available which can be preferred for quality assessment, because of its wider coverage of substantive elements of internal validity. To minimise the subjectivity of the assessment, tools with a detailed and precise operationalisation of the individual elements should be applied. For health economic studies, tools should be developed and complemented with instructions, which define the appropriateness of the criteria. Further research is needed to identify study characteristics that influence the internal validity of studies.
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This study was conducted to provide Intensive Care Units and Emergency Departments with a set of practical procedures (check-lists) for managing critically-ill adult patients in order to avoid complications during intra-hospital transport (IHT). ⋯ Despite improvements in IHT practices, significant risks are still involved. Basic training, good clinical sense and a risk-benefit analysis are currently the only deciding factors. A critically ill patient, prepared and accompanied by an inexperienced team, is a risky combination. The development of adapted equipment and the widespread use of check-lists and proper training programmes would increase the safety of IHT and reduce the risks in the long-term. Further investigation is required in order to evaluate the protective role of such preventive measures.
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Journal of allied health · Jan 2010
The path to simulated learning: developing a valid and reliable tool to evaluate performance of radiological technology students in patient interactions.
Simulation-enhanced education is being used in many health care curricula as an answer to an increasing demand for allied health professionals and a paucity of clinical sites crucial to providing requisite clinical education. The effective use of simulation may reduce and provide better use of the time required in clinical environments. If the use of simulation is to become a valuable addition to traditional clinical experiential learning, a reliable and valid measurement tool designed to measure a radiological technologist's performance in a practice environment is vital. ⋯ Overall, this tool was shown to be a reliable, valid, feasible, and usable methodology to assess communication skills with clinical students. Further investigation of the tool is required to examine the tool's ability to reliably identify borderline or mixed skill level students under cultural and non-culture-based scenarios.
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Swiss medical weekly · Jan 2010
Emergency physician intershift handover - can a dINAMO checklist speed it up and improve quality?
Physician intershift handover has been identified as an area of high risk for adverse events, representing a critical step in patient care transition. Due to frequent shift changes and high patient numbers, emergency departments offer an ideal study setting. ⋯ An intervention consisting of a simple checklist of five items (dINAMO) and an immediate feedback on quality not only contributes to a significant shortening of time needed for physician intershift handover in a university hospital emergency department, but simultaneously helps to improve quality of information and therefore patient management.
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Bmc Health Serv Res · Jan 2010
Checklists in the operating room: Help or hurdle? A qualitative study on health workers' experiences.
Checklists have been used extensively as a cognitive aid in aviation; now, they are being introduced in many areas of medicine. Although few would dispute the positive effects of checklists, little is known about the process of introducing this tool into the health care environment. In 2008, a pre-induction checklist was implemented in our anaesthetic department; in this study, we explored the nurses' and physicians' acceptance and experiences with this checklist. ⋯ Our findings suggest several issues and actions that may be important to consider during checklist use and implementation.