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Continuing education in medicine: A useful tool for nurses' empowerment in renal transplantation

Transplantation Proceedings, 2004
Continuing Education in Medicine (CEM) underlines the importance of updates and information for the health care team. Our aim was to describe the organization and results of a CEM course "educate to organ donation" that involved the nursing team in an educational experience with high school students.
DELL'OLIO R, MEZZA E, ROSSETTI M, SORAGNA G, PUTAGGIO S, BURDESE M, GAI M, MOTTA D, VESPERTINO E, BIANCHI V, CONSIGLIO V, TATTOLI F, BONETTO A, SEGOLONI, Giuseppe, PICCOLI, Giorgina Barbara   +14 more
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Why Surinamese migrants in the Netherlands continue to use medicinal herbs from their home country

Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 2010
When people migrate, they tend to bring along their medicinal plants. In order to improve migrant health, we need information on their traditional health beliefs and practices. This paper investigates medicinal plant use among Surinamese migrants in the Netherlands.Data from 210 semi-structured interviews among 1st and 2nd generation Surinamese ...
Tinde, van Andel, Paul, Westers
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Using Learning Analytics to Examine Differences in Assessment Forms From Continuous Versus Episodic Supervisors of Family Medicine Residents

Journal of Graduate Medical Education, 2022
ABSTRACT Background It is assumed that there is a need for continuity of supervision within competency-based medical education, despite most evidence coming from the undergraduate medical education rather than the graduate medical education (GME) context.
Ann S. O. Lee, Christopher Donoff, Shelley Ross   +2 more
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Continual Screening of Patients Using mHealth: The Rolling Score Concept Applied to Sleep Medicine

2016
Continual monitoring of patients utilizing mHealth-based telemonitoring applications are more and more used for individual management of patients. A new approach in risk assessment called Rolling Score Concept uses standardized questionnaires for continual scoring of individuals' health state through electronic patient reported outcome (ePRO).
Claudio, Zluga, Robert, Modre-Osprian, Peter, Kastner, Günter, Schreier   +3 more
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828-P: Inpatient Provider Experience with Diabetes Technology Use on General Medicine Wards: Continuous Subcutaneous Insulin Infusion (CSII) and Continuous Glucose Monitors (CGM)

Diabetes, 2021
In the advent of increased use of technology in diabetes care, the management of CSII and CGM devices in the inpatient setting has not been well described. We conducted a non-incentivized survey among inpatient licensed independent practitioners (LIP) at 4 large US hospital systems to assess their knowledge, comfort, and behaviors related to the use of
NABIL Z. MADHUN, RODOLFO J. GALINDO, JESSICA DONATO, PATRICIA HWANG, HASAN F. SHABBIR, MICHAEL FOWLER, ETHAN MOLITCH-HOU, GUILLERMO E. UMPIERREZ, M. CECILIA LANSANG   +8 more
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Psychosocial factors that predict why people use complementary and alternative medicine and continue with its use: A population based study

Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice, 2014
Studies have explored the predictors of CAM use but fewer data explain the psychosocial factors associated with this and why people continue with CAM.To examine the psychosocial factors that predict CAM use; to explore the predictors of continuing with CAM.A cross sectional survey.1256 adults were interviewed as part of 2012 Queensland Social Survey ...
P. Thomson, J. Jones, M. Browne, S.J. Leslie   +3 more
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[Intensive treatment in family medicine : use of pumps and continuous glucose measurement systems].

Revue medicale suisse, 2020
New technologic devices are presented: insulin pumps and continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) devices as well as morphine pumps to help general practitioners to deal different intensive situations. Insulin pumps and CGM devices are revolutionary for the management of diabetes.
Giacomo, Gastaldi, Sophie, Pautex, Laurence, Jelk-Morales, Fabrice, Léocadie, Christian, Sierro, Johanna, Sommer   +5 more
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The use of continuous arteriovenous hemofiltration in intensive care medicine.

Acta anaesthesiologica Belgica, 1984
Acute renal failure still remains an important and challenging problem in the ICU. Hemodialysis is not always feasible because of hemodynamic instability in critically ill patients. In this circumstances continuous arteriovenous hemofiltration (CAVH) can be an efficient alternative as this method has less detrimental hemodynamic effects.
M, Schetz, P, Lauwers, P, Ferdinande, J, Van de Walle   +3 more
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Use of flawed multiple-choice items by theNew England Journal of Medicinefor continuing medical education

Medical Teacher, 2006
Physicians in the United States are required to complete a minimum number of continuing medical education (CME) credits annually. The goal of CME is to ensure that physicians maintain their knowledge and skills throughout their medical career. The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) provides its readers with the opportunity to obtain weekly CME ...
Alex S, Stagnaro-Green, Steven M, Downing   +1 more
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Grave injustice: the continuing use of unclaimed bodies in American medicine

Journal of Medical Ethics
Despite a growing sensitivity to the ethics of whole body donation in the field of clinical anatomy, the remains of unclaimed individuals continue to be used in healthcare teaching and research throughout the USA. I argue that this practice is unethical because of its disregard for autonomy and consent, its potential harm to various individuals and ...
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