Services for children: Training needed to tackle complexity of new labour's joined-up approach
Making New Labour's multi-agency teamwork approach to modernising government effective is a ...rofessionals involved in implementing multi-agency teamwork in terms of their need to rethink their roles and switch to different kinds of activities and workin...Chronic care medicine: Physicians say 'help!'
...onic pain management, nutrition, interdisciplinary teamwork with non-physician providers for the chronically ill, and assessment of developmental milestones in chronically ill children. Family practitioners were less likely than other physicians to report that their training was inadequate. This may be becau...New research to address early lung cancer detection
..."The Medicsight Foundation recognizes the need for teamwork in lung cancer. We know that primarily lung cancer...ays, "but we also know that smokers need help and teamwork if they are to succeed in breaking their damaging addiction. When you go it alone, you have a one ...NYU Child Study Center and The Bear Stearns Charitable Foundation launch outreach campaign
.... The campaign reflects the passion, interest and teamwork that went into the cause 'giving children back their childhood.'" The NYU Child Study Center and Bear Stearns plan to follow the television PSAs with print and radio public service announcements. As the sole corporate sponsor, The Bear Stearns...UCSF physicians publish groundbreaking book on medical mistakes
...els drawn from the aviation industry, to emphasize teamwork and create opportunities for learning after errors and near-misses. The authors also include a checklist of questions that patients should ask their hospital, doctor, or health plan to be sure their providers are focusing on patient safety (available...Mayo Clinic to host clinical research conference
...eporting requirements Demonstrate the mechanics of teamwork in clinical research Appreciate the Federal Department of Agriculture's growing role in clinical research oversight Examine emerging future trends in research, including certification requirements for investigators and coordinators Guest faculty sch...OSU cancer researchers win $9.5 to study immunity
...d is the recognition of several years of sustained teamwork among many colleagues that have already led to new and critical understanding about how the innate immune system works. The grant will support activities across four fully integrated projects, with many aspects of the research already under way. Spe...New journal series will educate physicians about medical errors
...y a combination of breakdowns in communication and teamwork and faulty information systems. Industries such as aerospace have invested enormous resources to develop systems that minimize such breakdowns. By adapting these systems to health care, we believe that we can decrease error rates and do a much better...Teaching human side of patient care is best done at the bedside, say medical educators
...dical with psychosocial aspects of care, emphasize teamwork and provide timely feedback, the authors suggested. "One of the most effective ways to learn any skill is through actual practice," Dr. Branch said. "This principle also applies to positive physician-patient interactions. We believe that physici......that those emphasizing organizational learning and teamwork learn faster than others with equivalent levels of experience, according to a study published in a journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). In fact, the authors write, "An organization with less cumulati...Wilmington chemist wins national award for drug development
...ck human immunodeficiency virus, each required the teamwork of over 100 experts, Anderson said from his Wilmington, Del., office. "Both discovery processes were incredibly frustrating. Some molecules we made weren't soluble enough, others not potent enough, broke down too rapidly or couldn't get blood level...U.S., British scientific societies honor penicillin as International Chemical Landmark
...ns and pharmaceutical company labs. The resulting teamwork was carried forward when, after the U.S. entry into World War II, the government recruited more than 20 chemical companies to mass-produce the drug. The result: Deaths from infected wounds during the war were virtually eliminated, as 95 percent of t......arch and willcompare two intervention methods -- a teamwork approach and an individualizedapproach. "We know what behaviors keep you healthy. The challenge is learning how to makethose behaviors part of our lifestyle," says Elliot. "Although we are comparing two approaches for helping firefighters to reducet...