Scientists, process engineers, metallurgists and related practitioners wishing to optimize the handling/processing of colloidal suspension in the processes employed by their industries may find the experimental and theoretical knowledge, and fundamental principles established in this review paper very beneficial.
Human factors professionals, pilots, and operational personnel in air traffic management and related practitioners who know about "systems" only as a general and often vague term for something complex can benefit from knowing a bit of the history, the people, and the quantitative substance that underlies the terminology.
Surveys on the implementation of guidelines have categorised some of the major barriers to guideline adherence which can be related to practitioner, patient, organisational or guideline factors [ 9- 11], although the practitioner appears to be the key actor.
Some of the major barriers to guideline adherence can be related to practitioner, patient, organisational or guideline factors, [ 5- 7] although practitioners appear to be a key factor.
This was echoed in a recent systematic review in relation to upper gastrointestinal cancers where the main factors related to practitioner delay were reported to be misdiagnosis, application and interpretation of tests, and the confounding effect of existing disease [ 13].
One item (E1) related to practitioner background was significantly better reported in Cochrane reviews.
Finally, it seems that reporting harm was more likely to be related to practitioner dependent treatments, although the number of instances was too small to validate this conclusion.
The main factors related to practitioner delay were misdiagnosis, application and interpretation of tests, and the confounding effect of existing disease.
