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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Improving chronic care of type 2 diabetes using teams of interprofessional learners.

30 Oct 2009 PURPOSE: To improve the care and outcomes of adult patients with type 2 diabetes by teaching interprofessional teams of learners the principles and practices of the Improving Chronic Illness Care Model. METHOD: The study population consisted of 384 ... Read more...

Telemedicine using smartphones for oral and maxillofacial surgery consultation, communication, and treatment planning.

30 Oct 2009 Telemedicine is the specialty of medicine that uses the evolving telecommunications industry combined with medical information technology to provide remote medical services. The use of smartphone telemedicine is an efficient and effective way for ... Read more...

Immediate reconstruction with an expander/implant following ablatio mammae because of breast cancer : side effects and cosmetic results after adjuvant chest wall radiotherapy.

4 Oct 2009 BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Timing and sequencing of radiotherapy in the context of allogenous breast reconstruction have not been standardized. The aim of the present study was to assess the influence of adjuvant radiotherapy on morbidity and patient ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Interdisciplinary Communication'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Improving chronic care of type 2 diabetes using teams of interprofessional learners. 30 Oct 2009
• Telemedicine using smartphones for oral and maxillofacial surgery consultation, communication, and treatment planning. 30 Oct 2009
• The art of translation. 7 Oct 2009
• Immediate reconstruction with an expander/implant following ablatio mammae because of breast cancer : side effects and cosmetic results after adjuvant chest wall radiotherapy. 4 Oct 2009
• Critical care of the burn patient: the first 48 hours. 29 Sep 2009
• Life sciences. A new biology to mend society's woes. 23 Sep 2009
• [Adequate analgesia in the elderly patients. Good pain control cannot be a coincidence] 22 Sep 2009
• [Quality of referrals from general practitioners to medical polyclinics] 22 Sep 2009
• [Psychologists' participation in psychiatric rounds] 12 Sep 2009
• [Skin manifestations, treatment and rehabilitation in overweight and obesity] 11 Sep 2009
• [The German interdisciplinary taskforce for clinical hemotherapy IAKH and its national critical incident reporting system specifically for blood transfusion] 9 Sep 2009
• [Clinical pharmacist in a multidisciplinary team in a paediatric department] 8 Sep 2009
• [Psychologists' participation in psychiatric rounds] 5 Sep 2009
• Science-savvy physicians. 2 Sep 2009
• [National practice guideline for diabetic foot syndrome. Treatment methods to forestall amputation] Sep 2009
• Assessment of the capacity to consent to treatment in patients admitted to acute medical wards. 31 Aug 2009
• Interview with director John E. Niederhuber, M.D.: National Cancer Institute stakes out new directions with stimulus funds. 31 Aug 2009
• Life-science research within US academic medical centers. 31 Aug 2009
• Interdisciplinary curriculum to train internal medicine and obstetrics-gynecology residents in ambulatory women's health: adapting problem-based learning to residency education. 30 Aug 2009
• Turning laboratory findings into therapy: a marathon goal that has to be reached. 30 Aug 2009

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Technical information about 'Interdisciplinary Communication'

Definition: Communication, in the sense of cross-fertilization of ideas, involving two or more academic disciplines (such as the disciplines that comprise the cross-disciplinary field of bioethics, including the health and biological sciences, the humanities, and the social sciences and law). Also includes problems in communication stemming from differences in patterns of language usage in different academic or medical disciplines.

Descriptor UI: D033183

Alternative terms: Interdisciplinary Communication; Communication, Interdisciplinary; Communications, Interdisciplinary; Interdisciplinary Communications; Multidisciplinary Communication; Communication, Multidisciplinary; Communications, Multidisciplinary; Multidisciplinary Communications; Cross-Disciplinary Communication; Communication, Cross-Disciplinary; Communications, Cross-Disciplinary; Cross Disciplinary Communication; Cross-Disciplinary Communications;

Related Mesh Headings: Interprofessional Relations;

Tree Number: F01.145.209.381; F01.829.401.205.249; L01.143.474;

History Note: 2003; use INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS 1992-2002

Technical Notes: use only for communication across disciplines; for relations between individuals in different disciplines, use instead INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; coord IM with specific disciplines (IM)