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Educational Effectiveness of Telementoring as a Continuing Professional Development Intervention for Surgeons in Practice:

"Moderate-level evidence demonstrates the use of telementoring as effective in changing surgeons’ knowledge and competence in both educational and workplace-based settings. Its use is also associated with changes in patient outcomes."
Source: lww.com

Development of a statistical analysis software for determining effectiveness of a comprehensive fall risk management protocol

"This quality improvement project resulted in the development of a computer application that allows clinicians and medical professionals to conduct data analysis in an in-clinic setting without the help of external statistical teams, and with minimal prior training in coding or mathematics."
Source: bmj.com

The effectiveness of team-based learning in nursing education: A systematic review - PubMed Nurse education today.

Overall, TBL was found to be effective in achieving undergraduate nursing students' learning outcomes, but evidence was not sufficiently strong to warrant that it is more effective than other teaching methods. The results of this review are in favour of the implementation of TBL in nursing education...
Source: nih.gov

The Impact of Mask Distribution and Promotion on Mask Uptake and COVID-19 in Bangladesh

A growing body of scientific evidence suggests that face masks can protect against COVID-19. There is, however, limited rigorous evidence on the extent to which mask-wearing is effective in reducing COVID-19 in a real-life situation with imperfect and inconsistent mask use. In Bangladesh, researchers...
Source: poverty-action.org

Effectiveness of a serious game addressing guideline adherence: cohort study with 1.5-year follow-up Tobias Raupach. Insa

Background Patients presenting with acute shortness of breath and chest pain should be managed according to guideline recommendations. Serious games can be used to train clinical reasoning. However, only few studies have used outcomes beyond student satisfaction, and most of the published evidence is...
Source: biomedcentral.com

The role of motivational profiles in learning problem-solving and self-assessment skills with video modeling examples Lisette

In the current study, we examine the role of situation-specific motivational profiles in the effectiveness of video modeling examples for learning problem-solving and self-assessment accuracy in the domain of biology. A sample of 342 secondary school students participated in our study. Latent profile...
Source: springer.com

UK rollout data on AstraZeneca shot should guide other countries: vaccine chief

Natural experiments can be a really useful source of data. "Data from Britain's vaccine rollout on the effectiveness of the AstraZeneca/Oxford University COVID-19 shot in older people should help other countries reassess their use of it, the head of the university's vaccine research group said on Tuesday."
Source: reuters.com

The Unmet Need for Clinical Guidelines on the Management of Patients with Plaque Psoriasis in Africa and the Middle East

The Unmet Need for Clinical Guidelines on the Management of Patients with Plaque Psoriasis in Africa and the Middle East - PubMed: There is an urgent unmet need for comprehensive clinical guidelines on the management of patients with plaque psoriasis in Africa and the Middle East. Region-specific studies...
Source: nih.gov

A comparison between the effectiveness of a gamified approach with the conventional approach in point-of-care ultrasonographic

A comparison between the effectiveness of a gamified approach with the conventional approach in point-of-care ultrasonographic training: Although gamification increases user engagement, its effectiveness in point-of-care ultrasonographic training has yet to be fully established. This study was conducted...
Source: biomedcentral.com

Effectiveness and feasibility of a mindful leadership course for medical specialists: a pilot study: Medical specialists

Effectiveness and feasibility of a mindful leadership course for medical specialists: a pilot study: Medical specialists experience high levels of stress. This has an impact on their well-being, but also on quality of their leadership. In the current mixed method study, the feasibility and effectiveness...
Source: biomedcentral.com

Effects of a quasi-experimental study of using flipped classroom approach to teach evidence-based medicine to medical technology

Effects of a quasi-experimental study of using flipped classroom approach to teach evidence-based medicine to medical technology students: Flipped classroom is known to improve learning efficiency and to develop one’s ability to apply high-level knowledge. To investigate the effect of flipped classroom...
Source: biomedcentral.com

Virtual reality technology for teaching neurosurgery of skull base tumor

Virtual reality technology for teaching neurosurgery of skull base tumor: Neurosurgery represents one of the most challenging and delicate of any surgical procedure. Skull base tumors in particular oftentimes present as a very technically difficult procedures in the setting of neurosurgical teaching....
Source: biomedcentral.com

AI Evidence Mapping. Developing a fully automated evidence synthesis tool for identifying, assessing and collating the evidence.

AI Evidence Mapping. Developing a fully automated evidence synthesis tool for identifying, assessing and collating the evidence. “Here, we describe a fully automated evidence synthesis system for intervention studies, one that identifies all the relevant evidence, assesses the evidence for reliability...
Source: bmj.com

Associations Between American Board of Internal Medicine Maintenance of Certification Status and Performance on a Set of

Associations Between American Board of Internal Medicine Maintenance of Certification Status and Performance on a Set of Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set Process Measures Bradley Gray. Jonathan Vandergrift. Bruce Landon. James Reschovsky. Rebecca Lipner. Annals of Internal Medicine.
Source: annals.org

Unnecessarily difficult: Physical activity resources for adults are loaded with jargon: Web page articles and other written

Unnecessarily difficult: Physical activity resources for adults are loaded with jargon: Web page articles and other written materials designed to encourage physical activity are often too difficult to be easily read and understood by most US adults, limiting their effectiveness.
Source: eurekalert.org

Oral anticoagulants for prevention of stroke in atrial fibrillation: systematic review, network meta-analysis, and cost

Oral anticoagulants for prevention of stroke in atrial fibrillation: systematic review, network meta-analysis, and cost effectiveness analysis: Objective To compare the efficacy, safety, and cost effectiveness of direct acting oral anticoagulants (DOACs) for patients with atrial fibrillation. Design...
Source: bmj.com

Dr. W. Edwards Deming offered 14 key principles for management to follow to significantly improve the effectiveness of a

Dr. W. Edwards Deming offered 14 key principles for management to follow to significantly improve the effectiveness of a business or organization. Many of the principles are philosophical. Others are more programmatic. All are transformative in nature. The principles (points) were first presented in...
Source: deming.org

Cost Effectiveness of Support for People Starting a New Medication for a Long-Term Condition Through Community Pharmacies:

Cost Effectiveness of Support for People Starting a New Medication for a Long-Term Condition Through Community Pharmacies: An Economic Evaluation of the New Medicine Service (NMS) Compared with Normal Practice Rachel A. Elliott. Lukasz Tanajewski. Georgios Gkountouras. Anthony J. Avery. Nick Barber....
Source: springer.com

CCGs spend millions on referral management schemes of questionable effectiveness - Hospital Dr

CCGs spend millions on referral management schemes of questionable effectiveness - Hospital Dr
Source: hospitaldr.co.uk

Efficacy and effectiveness of screen and treat policies in prevention of type 2 diabetes: systematic review and meta-analysis

Efficacy and effectiveness of screen and treat policies in prevention of type 2 diabetes: systematic review and meta-analysis of screening tests and interventions: Objectives  To assess diagnostic accuracy of screening tests for pre-diabetes and efficacy of interventions (lifestyle or metformin) in...
Source: bmj.com