The study captures the views of the key healthcare professionals involved in antibiotic prescribing in LTCFs, general practitioners, consultants, nurses and pharmacists.
Although practitioners, consultants, and experts have written a great deal about the value of synergy [ 19, 24- 28], health services researchers have only recently begun theorizing about, developing measures of, and empirically assessing synergy in collaborative partnerships to improve health [ 29- 33].
Total direct costs in today's terms that include general practitioner, consultant physician and administrative time brought each visit to between AU$290 and AU$435.
Accountability for DNACPR decisions rested with consultants at all acute Trusts and the most senior clinician who may be a general practitioner, consultant or nurse depending on circumstances at community Trusts.
The studied population of 14 foresight practitioners included consultants and employees at for-profit American corporations or American divisions of European corporations that use foresight.
The most typical user categories are decision makers, policy makers, practitioners, scientists, consultants, auditors, trained evaluators, programme and project managers, project participants, economic analysts, NGOs and consumer groups [8, 11, 23, 24].
ISM used the collective wisdom of the team members which includes Lean practitioners and consultants to convert mental model into a structural model by considering the interrelationship of variables involved in the process or system.
The interventions included risk stratification and a multi-disciplinary team led by general practitioners or consultants [ 15].
Interviews were conducted with 37 healthcare professionals who work in LTCFs (10 general practitioners, 4 consultants, 14 nurses, 9 pharmacists) between December 2012 and March 2013.
It compiles, based on accounting information of Bavarian physicians, the patient characteristics, diagnoses of both general practitioners and consultants, all performed medical services, and drug utilization of all outpatients.
We invited a total of 97 participants for semi-structured interviews via their referring doctors (general practitioners or consultant haematologists).
