Surveys on PT, performed in different European countries, have shown the presence of a shared clinical practice [ 4].
Table 1 shows shared clinical practice for PT from an analysis of seven national surveys performed in France (where 152 intensive care units participated in the survey), Germany (505), Italy (130), The Netherlands (63), Spain (100), Switzerland (48), and the UK (197).
Values of interprofessional consensus and trust, and shared clinical practices toward the same clientele with respect to professional competencies appear to be supported only by the nurses; the physicians were too busy to stop and think about their practices, or found it difficult or uninteresting to do so.
Hence, she tried to strongly support the emergence of new values of interprofessional dialogue and shared clinical practices, facilitating the joint presence of physicians and nurses in different internal forums as of April 2005 - i.e. regular FMG group meetings and case clinical discussions, and a one-day colloquium for discussing what their FMG "is and wants to be" scheduled in the fall of 2005.
We were particularly interested in the way professionals and parents used tools and artefacts (e.g. written information/documents and shared concepts/language) in the 'practice' of negotiating shared clinical caring, therefore, we adopted an analytical framework based on concepts drawn from Communities of Practice and Activity Theory.
Moreover, to ensure competency among both data sharers and requestors, training curriculums can be developed to teach best practices for preparing and using shared clinical trial data.
With few exceptions, the current stage of medical practice emphasizes disease classification based on shared clinical features which together are representative of a syndrome.
Although it is now widely shared that clinical practice should be, wherever possible, evidence-based, programs to improve the quality of care are often implemented without an evaluation of their effectiveness [ 27].
The awards were held in 2009, aiming to share clinical experience and best practice in headache-related disease management.
The Almirall European Headache Awards (AEHA) were organized in 2009 with the goal of sharing clinical experiences and improving best practices in headache-related disease management [1].
Supposedly, registries can provide healthcare performance information, motivate change, spur quality improvement activities, and enable health professionals' engagement in continuous learning through identifying and sharing best clinical practices [ 2, 3].
