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Uptake Of A Team Briefing In The Operating Theatre: A Burkean Dramatistic Analysis, Sarah Whyte, Carrie Cartmill, Fauzia Gardezi, Richard Reznick, Beverley Orser, Diane Doran, Lorelei Lingard
Uptake Of A Team Briefing In The Operating Theatre: A Burkean Dramatistic Analysis, Sarah Whyte, Carrie Cartmill, Fauzia Gardezi, Richard Reznick, Beverley Orser, Diane Doran, Lorelei Lingard
Lorelei Lingard
Communication among healthcare professionals is a focus for research and policy interventions designed to improve patient safety, but the challenges of changing interprofessional communication patterns are rarely described. We present an analysis of 756 preoperative briefings conducted by general surgery teams (anesthesiologists, nurses, and surgeons) at four urban Canadian hospitals in the context of two research studies conducted between August 2004 and December 2007. We ask the questions: how and why did briefings succeed, how and why did they fail, and what did they mean for different participants? Ethnographic fieldnotes documenting the coordination and performance of team briefings were analyzed …
Priority Setting: What Constitutes Success? A Conceptual Framework For Successful Priority Setting, Shannon Sibbald, Peter Singer, Ross Upshur, Douglas Martin
Priority Setting: What Constitutes Success? A Conceptual Framework For Successful Priority Setting, Shannon Sibbald, Peter Singer, Ross Upshur, Douglas Martin
Shannon L. Sibbald
BACKGROUND: The sustainability of healthcare systems worldwide is threatened by a growing demand for services and expensive innovative technologies. Decision makers struggle in this environment to set priorities appropriately, particularly because they lack consensus about which values should guide their decisions. One way to approach this problem is to determine what all relevant stakeholders understand successful priority setting to mean. The goal of this research was to develop a conceptual framework for successful priority setting. METHODS: Three separate empirical studies were completed using qualitative data collection methods (one-on-one interviews with healthcare decision makers from across Canada; focus groups with representation …
Stroke In The Very Elderly: Hospital Care, Case Fatality And Disposition., Gustavo Saposnik
Stroke In The Very Elderly: Hospital Care, Case Fatality And Disposition., Gustavo Saposnik
Gustavo Saposnik
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