The objective of this study was to implement a brief intervention in asthma within a UK national pharmacy chain, and through the use of mystery customers, measure the extent of delivery of the intervention over a 4-month period.
Thirty care homes in Wales are implementing a brief web-based mindfulness training course, starting in random sequence.
The trial was pragmatic in the sense that the aim was to test the usefulness of implementing a brief intervention with limited demands on costs and clinician qualifications in a standard setting, community substance abuse treatment [ 57], in a way that is similar to a number of recent studies [ 17, 54].
One trial (Maio et al. 2005) implemented a universal brief intervention aimed at both preventing and reducing use in adolescents with minor injuries.
As shown in Listing 1, the essential part of the procedure can be easily implemented in a brief script.
This supports the need for a more structured approach to be implemented as a brief first step to identify those with suspected delirium who would then be assessed using diagnostic tools such as the CAM.
We implemented a pre-operative team briefing that used a checklist as a guide and included members from all three professions in the operating room: nursing, anesthesia and surgery.
Michael Cheatham, a surgeon with Orlando Health, told the press briefing local hospitals had implemented a "mass casualty plan" and spent the morning operating on a number of victims, "many of them critically ill as a result of their injuries".
The costs associated with implementing a screening and brief intervention programme were separated into the cost of briefing materials provided to the patient and the cost of the GP's time.
None of these studies implemented an event-related design with brief presentation times of around one second.
