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How do health and allied health practitioners perceive excellence in residential aged care? An exploratory qualitative study
CONCLUSIONS: The diversity in issues to which participants drew attention highlights the importance of obtaining the perspectives of a broad range of practitioners providing services to RACF residents to achieving excellence in the sector. Commonalities in their responses indicate the potential for a greater level of collaboration among the health and allied health professions.PMID:35510528 | DOI:10.1111/ajag.13077
Source: Australasian Journal on Ageing - May 5, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Nadine Cameron Deirdre Fetherstonhaugh Jo-Anne Rayner Linda McAuliffe Source Type: research

Effect of the OPTIMAL programme on self-management of multimorbidity in primary care: a randomised controlled trial
CONCLUSION: OPTIMAL was found to be ineffective in improving health-related quality of life or activity participation at 6-month follow-up. Existing multimorbidity interventions tend to focus on older adults; preplanned subgroup analyses results in the present study suggest that future research should target younger adults (<65 years) with multimorbidity.PMID:33685920 | DOI:10.3399/bjgp20X714185
Source: The British Journal of General Practice - March 9, 2021 Category: Primary Care Authors: Lynn O'Toole Deidre Connolly Fiona Boland Susan M Smith Source Type: research

Clinical reasoning models: what ’ s wrong with them?
I’ve been interested in clinical reasoning and models used in clinical reasoning for quite some time. Occupational therapy has several models, including the “occupational therapy problem solving process” by Lela Llorens, the Model of Human Occupation by Gary Kielhofner, and the Canadian Model of Occupational Performance by Polatajko, Townsend and Craik in 2007. All of these models were designed to support occupational therapy clinical reasoning processes, and to capture the essence of what occupational therapy is about. When it comes to pain rehabilitation, I’ve found the occupational therapy mo...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - May 26, 2019 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Assessment Clinical reasoning Occupational therapy Pain Pain conditions Physiotherapy Professional topics Psychology Research Science in practice hypotheses models theory Source Type: blogs