The spectrum of specialties included critical care medicine, internal medicine, emergency medicine, pediatrics, and surgery.
Convenience based purposive sampling was used to obtain a diverse spectrum of specialties, regions, group sizes, and improvement domains (e.g., disease management, open access scheduling, electronic medical records).
Our results suggest that competing priorities at the professional, hospital and provincial levels contribute, in part, to challenges in the delivery of spinal care, given the wide spectrum of specialties involved.
The current study involved an all-Canadian panel of experts from the whole spectrum of specialties (Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Neuroradiology, Neurology, Neurosurgery and Vascular Surgery) that are involved in the care of patients with carotid artery disease.
Each public HE consists of one to seven hospital units and covers a complete and comparable spectrum of specialties, except specialized units for transplantation, heart surgery, neurosurgery, burns and multitrauma that are established only at the university hospitals.
Those few studies of career preferences within the UK context have tended to focus on general practice/primary care intentions [ 30, 31], rather than looking across the spectrum of specialties.
Continuous practice involving medical simulations is linked with better-quality learner outcomes and this relates to diverse levels of learners from a broad spectrum of clinical specialties.
They are widely accepted because they are continually updated and the evidence is based on a full spectrum of multi-specialty scientific literature — not solely radiology.
Eleven participants (4 physicians, 3 nurses, 2 social workers, 1 psychologist, and 1 physiotherapist) were selected purposively and represented a broad spectrum of sub-specialties (cardiology, intensive care, neurology, and oncology).
Participants had no shared definition of "broad-spectrum antibiotic" or "narrow-spectrum antibiotic" regardless of specialty or number of years in practice.
We began with a list of all medical specialties represented across the Partners network, and selected a representative set of potential practices providing a broad spectrum of medical and surgical specialties, practice settings (hospital and community based, large and small, high and low socioeconomic patient status mix, rural and urban, etc).
