Manufacturers might therefore be more likely to design their medical machine vision systems to actively engage the physician not only because they believe it will increase the likelihood of physician and hospital adoption, but also because it may provide the manufacturer shelter from liability by enabling them to use the learned intermediary defense.
Stakeholders in primary care should be actively engaged by family physicians to develop revised PHC service packages, PHC team models and evidence-based human resource policy proposals for integrated PHC teamwork (inclusive of family physicians) under universal health coverage [ 23].
Continuing medical education (CME) providers and others interested in improving the quality of health care have had difficulty actively engaging practicing physicians in secondary strategies that may lead to guideline adoption [ 2], since CME courses and other educational interventions must compete with the physician learner's multiple priorities [ 3].
Participants expressed appreciation for a physician who actively engaged family members during EOL conversations.
In other cases, the Medical Board may restrict and monitor the practice of a physician who is actively engaged in a rehabilitation program.
Guided by the standardized six-phase protocol described in the preceding section, physicians have been actively engaged in defining care process quality measures and integrating those measures into clinical practice in an effort to improve patient outcomes (Wenger, Shekelle, & ACOVE Investigators, 2001).
Physician and nurse leadership actively engaged in the data review and shared ideas in every hospital for improvement and closely tracked progress against those goals and interventions.
The eligible population was made up of all GPs in the Spanish NHS in Galicia, actively engaged in health care during these months (∼3200 physicians).
Many of our residents and clinical fellows are actively engaged in research and many go on to participate in our Physician Scientist training program.
This qualitative study sought to identify and understand the characteristics and organizational cultures of physicians working in smaller practices who are actively engaged in measurement and quality improvement initiatives.
Although we performed the study prior to closure of the hospital, while the staff were still actively engaged in the outbreak investigation, we failed to achieve full staff participation, particularly among physicians and certain categories of nurses.
