How empathic is your healthcare practitioner? A systematic review and meta-analysis of patient surveys: A growing body of
How empathic is your healthcare practitioner? A systematic review and meta-analysis of patient surveys: A growing body of evidence suggests that healthcare practitioners who enhance how they express empathy can improve patient health, and reduce medico-legal risk. However we do not know how consistently...
Source: biomedcentral.com
Festival-goer George Zographou contracts meningitis and dies - BBC News: George Zographou, 18, was taken to hospital after
Festival-goer George Zographou contracts meningitis and dies - BBC News: George Zographou, 18, was taken to hospital after becoming unwell at a music festival in Newquay.
Source: bbc.co.uk
Longitudinal evaluation of a pilot e-portfolio-based supervision programme for final year medical students: views of students,
Longitudinal evaluation of a pilot e-portfolio-based supervision programme for final year medical students: views of students, supervisors and new graduates: Little is known about how best to implement portfolio-based learning in medical school. We evaluated the introduction of a formative e-portfolio-based...
Source: biomedcentral.com
Evaluation of large-group lectures in medicine - development of the SETMED-L (Student Evaluation of Teaching in MEDical
Evaluation of large-group lectures in medicine - development of the SETMED-L (Student Evaluation of Teaching in MEDical Lectures) questionnaire: The seven categories of the Stanford Faculty Development Program (SFDP) represent a framework for planning and assessing medical teaching. Nevertheless, so...
Source: biomedcentral.com
Netflix vegan hit What the Health serves up lots of bad science: Campaigning vegans will change nothing if they embrace
Netflix vegan hit What the Health serves up lots of bad science: Campaigning vegans will change nothing if they embrace bad science and conspiracy theories when making the health case for their diet, says Anthony Warner
Source: newscientist.com
Effect of Malaria Initiative: Launched in 2005 by President George W. Bush and expanded by President Barack Obama, the US
Effect of Malaria Initiative: Launched in 2005 by President George W. Bush and expanded by President Barack Obama, the US President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) has been one of the main sources of funding for malaria prevention interventions in sub-Saharan Africa. A new report in PLoS Medicine shows...
Source: jamanetwork.com
Chrome will start marking HTTP sites in Incognito mode as non-secure in October 2017: Google today announced the second
Chrome will start marking HTTP sites in Incognito mode as non-secure in October 2017: Google today announced the second step in its plan to mark all HTTP sites as non-secure in Chrome. Starting in October 2017, Chrome will mark HTTP sites with entered data and HTTP sites in Incognito mode as non-secure.
Source: venturebeat.com
Newcastle hospitals chief sacked for gross misconduct: Sir Leonard Fenwick, longest-serving NHS chief executive, dismissed
Newcastle hospitals chief sacked for gross misconduct: Sir Leonard Fenwick, longest-serving NHS chief executive, dismissed after inquiry into claims of inappropriate behaviour
Source: theguardian.com
Prospect of losing new GPs so early in their careers could be disastrous for the NHS, says RCGP
Prospect of losing new GPs so early in their careers could be disastrous for the NHS, says RCGP
Source: rcgp.org.uk
Treatment for hypertension in adults aged 18 to 59 years | Cochrane "Antihypertensive drugs used to treat predominantly
Treatment for hypertension in adults aged 18 to 59 years | Cochrane "Antihypertensive drugs used to treat predominantly healthy adults aged 18 to 59 years with mild to moderate primary hypertension have a small absolute effect to reduce cardiovascular mortality and morbidity primarily due to reduction...
Source: cochrane.org
The burden of triumph: meeting health and social care needs. Andrew Dilnot, Lancet 15 August 2017. "Life is getting longer.
The burden of triumph: meeting health and social care needs. Andrew Dilnot, Lancet 15 August 2017. "Life is getting longer. Death is not defeated, but it takes longer to win than it used to. The increases seen for most people in life expectancy are surely a matter for great rejoicing. References to...
Source: thelancet.com
Day 1127 - #thecrapartist - Tuscan skyline Watercolour ... interrupted ... but a small masterpiece in itself.
Day 1127 - #thecrapartist - Tuscan skyline
Watercolour ... interrupted ... but a small masterpiece in itself.
Assessment of a Tele-education System to Enhance Retinopathy of Prematurity Training by International Ophthalmologists-in-Training
Assessment of a Tele-education System to Enhance Retinopathy of Prematurity Training by International Ophthalmologists-in-Training in Mexico. - PubMed - NCBI
Source: nih.gov
Using a videogame to facilitate nursing and medical students' first visit to the operating theatre. A randomized controlled
Using a videogame to facilitate nursing and medical students' first visit to the operating theatre. A randomized controlled trial. - PubMed - NCBI
"A videogame was developed, combining pictures and short videos, by which students are interactively instructed on acting at the surgical block. Moreover,...
Source: nih.gov
Revisiting: Is Access to the Research Paper the Same Thing as Access to the Research "Results"? - The Scholarly Kitchen:
Revisiting: Is Access to the Research Paper the Same Thing as Access to the Research "Results"? - The Scholarly Kitchen: Is access to the research paper really the same thing as access to the research results themselves? What about patents on publicly funded research? Revisiting a 2013 post to re-examine...
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Scientists discover new plant in Shetland: Scientists at the University of Stirling have discovered a new type of plant
Scientists discover new plant in Shetland: Scientists at the University of Stirling have discovered a new type of plant growing in Shetland - with its evolution only having occurred in the last 200 years.
Source: phys.org
Shared Decision Making and Improving Health Care: The Answer Is Not In: Achieving health care of higher quality at lower
Shared Decision Making and Improving Health Care: The Answer Is Not In: Achieving health care of higher quality at lower cost has fueled policy interest in shared decision making (SDM).1 In SDM, clinicians and patients work together to understand the patient’s situation and determine how best to address...
Source: jamanetwork.com
The biggest global cholera outbreak is happening in Yemen and, disgracefully, it's manmade: This week Yemen reaches a grim
The biggest global cholera outbreak is happening in Yemen and, disgracefully, it's manmade: This week Yemen reaches a grim milestone: half a million people are sick with suspected cholera this year, almost 2,000 of whom have died. It’s the world’s worst cholera outbreak in the midst of the world’s...
Source: independent.co.uk
England will need over 71,000 extra care home places by 2025: The number of older people who will need substantial care
England will need over 71,000 extra care home places by 2025: The number of older people who will need substantial care is set to rise by 85.7 per cent, as increases in “healthspan” continue to lag behind longer lifespans
Source: newscientist.com
Understanding Smartphone Separation Anxiety and What Smartphones Mean to People "What factors determine nomophobia, otherwise
Understanding Smartphone Separation Anxiety and What Smartphones Mean to People "What factors determine nomophobia, otherwise known as smartphone separation anxiety, and what behaviors and descriptors can help identify people with high nomophobia who tend to perceive smartphones as their extended selves?...
Source: liebertpub.com
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