Sentence examples for acute practice from inspiring English sources

To consider the relationship between experience and preparedness, a single item, drawn directly from the Tomorrow's Doctors outcomes was selected as a key indicator of preparedness for acute practice, namely 'How prepared do you feel to diagnose and manage acute medical emergencies?'.

The weakness inherent in using unskilled teachers could become more acute as Practice Makes Perfect enrolls more of the lower- performing students who must show gains on their state test scores or be left back.

Both technical skills (TS) and non-technical skills (NTS) are key to ensuring patient safety in acute care practice and effective crisis management.

Critical event risk assessment is an element of acute care practice which lends itself well to simulation and in which more clinical experience is often assumed to lead to better quality judgements.

The importance of individual interpretation in acute medical practice is normally acknowledged in official guidelines for how procedures should be applied [ 8, 9, 11, 12].

However, critical care is a distillation of acute hospital practice, and any health care technology that has an impact on diagnosis, monitoring, and management of acute conditions will be of heightened importance in the clinical pressure cooker of intensive care.

As implementation strategies tailored to specific barriers to change seem to be more effective as general strategies [ 22], the identification of these barriers provide valuable insight for acute care practice and the field of implementation science.

As the need for nursing personnel increases and where service delivery is disrupted due to the inability of a health authority to hire sufficient numbers of nurses, an inevitable desired response is to shorten nursing programmes, focus the curricula increasingly on skill development for acute care practice and dismiss the principles of primary health care as irrelevant in the current context.

Choice of variables was based on medical complications reported in the literature and/or encountered in clinical acute rehabilitation practice and is summarised in table 1. Certain features were considered to be markers of impaired function (eg, the presence of a tracheostomy tube) and as such were included in the broad definition of medical complications.

The PROSAIC system was chosen: (1) as it had been successfully used previously to solve similar problems of classifying acute general practice presentations from clinical narrative; and (2) as the research team had expertise with this software; and also, (3) because it had been developed by the local PHO involved in the research, it was able to be further developed and refined for this study.

Characterizing the magnitude and profile of cardiac and noncardiac conditions in patients hospitalized with AMI may help explain differences in acute treatment practices and inform the design of clinical guidelines and disease management practices that are beneficial to these complex and often frail patients.