The background information and clinical evidence included in the PtDA was based on the needs of the patients and the healthcare professionals; availability and quality of the evidence; and the relevance to the local population.
26 Five themes emerged from our analysis related to effective or ineffective handovers: (1) lack of adequate information; (2) healthcare professionals' availability and opportunity for personal contact; (3) feedback, teaching and protocols related to handovers; (4) IT facilitated communication solutions; and, (5) the role and responsibility of the patient.
Five themes that contributed to effective or ineffective handovers emerged from our analysis: (1) lack of adequate information; (2) healthcare professionals' availability and opportunity for personal contact; (3) feedback, teaching and protocols related to handovers; (4) information technology facilitated communication solutions; and (5) the role and responsibility of patients.
Alternate sources for electricity, emergency transportation, and additional health professional availability are necessary during storm and flood seasons (28, 34).
The CHW outreach approach was particularly useful in this resource-poor setting with limited health professional availability (9) and limited access, because even modest copays for health care visits and medications are difficult for many people with low incomes (17).
Factors which may vary in different settings are: unit costs of resources, geographical variations in demography or epidemiology of disease, clinical practice patterns, incentives to health care professionals and availability of resources.
To assess feasibility, we used a validated grid of 19 items exploring 5 dimensions: acceptability by the institution and by health professionals, staff availability, understanding of indicator implementation, workload, and the IT system and organizational capacity to collect data [ 17].
To explore how people decided where to do a postdoc, the survey added several additional factors: quality of the faculty and the research infrastructure, ability to expand one's professional network, availability of research funding, salary, quality of life, working conditions, and fringe benefits.
At the start of the programme, our study evidenced significant association between patient satisfaction levels and professional nurse availability.
They perceived their motivation to be due to a better salary compared to their colleagues in the teaching profession, better chances for professional development, availability of in-service training, better job security than in the private sector and access to loans and good teamwork.
Domains 1 (competence of health professionals) and 10 (availability of health professionals) were combined because the availability of caregivers is regarded to be only valuable in combination with their competence; for example, the presence of midwives or doctors in training might not always be perceived as positive by women in labor.
