ADAPTIVE STRATEGIES USED BY SURGICAL TEAMS UNDER PRESSURE: AN INTERVIEW STUDY AMONG SENIOR HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS IN FOUR MAJOR HOSPITALS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM

Adaptive strategies used by surgical teams under pressure: an interview study among senior healthcare professionals in four major hospitals in the United Kingdom

Abstract Background Healthcare systems are operating under substantial pressures, and often simply cannot provide the standard of care they aspire to within the available resources.Organisations, managers, and individual clinicians make constant adaptations in response to these pressures, which are typically improvised, highly variable and not coor

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Robot-assisted assessment of muscle strength

Abstract Impairment of neuromuscular function in neurological disorders leads to reductions in muscle force, which may lower Shirts Women’s quality of life.Rehabilitation robots that are equipped with sensors are able to quantify the extent of muscle force impairment and to monitor a patient during the process of neurorehabilitation with sensitiv

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Bacterial endogenous endophthalmitis in Vietnam: a randomized controlled trial comparing vitrectomy with silicone oil versus vitrectomy alone

Tan Do,1 Do N Hon,1 Tin Aung,2 Nguyen DTN Hien,1 Claude L Cowan Jr3 1Vietnam National Institute of Ophthalmology, Hanoi, Vietnam; 2Singapore National Eye Center, Singapore; 3Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA Background/aims: To compare treatment outcomes with and without silicone oil tamponade in patients undergoing pars pla

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