Patient assessment is the process an EMT or paramedic follows to evaluate an injured or ill patient. The process includes a scene size-up, which is the identification and mitigation of risks ...

Research questions The paper explores which type of quality aspects (structure, process, outcome) most strongly determines patients' overall assessment of healthcare, and whether there is a variation ...

Challenges persist, as the clinical research sector can be slow to adopt these innovations. Comprehensive evidence and ...

This article originally posted at Limmer Education and is reprinted with permission. The EMS1 Academy features the “Patient Assessment and Exam” course, a one-hour accredited course for ...

It is useful when assessing a patient with cognitive impairment in the clinic to ... What is the likely disease process responsible for the dementia? An understanding of cognitive function and its ...

About 40 percent of patient encounters in primary care offices involve some form of medical test. Studies of primary care offices consistently show that the process ...

Postdonation information events in the blood collection process account for the majority of errors reported to the US Food and Drug Administration. SP based assessment is an important patient safety ...

Multiple value assessments have been performed on rheumatoid arthritis (RA) drugs in recent years, prompting the Arthritis Foundation to publicly weigh in on the importance of patient engagement and ...

Objectives The objective was to assess the importance of different types of predictors for patient-reported outcome, both background factors at the patient level and healthcare predictors related to ...

We used visual-analogue, numeric, verbal and face scales to assess perceived pain associated with the procedure. The Visual Analogue Scale was used to ask the patient to make a mark on a segment of 10 ...

Immediately after implementation, auditing is critical to assess adoption ... audit gives insight to adoption and adherence to your defined process. The quality audit shows the impact on patient ...