Electronic risk assessment for venous thromboembolism: investigating physicians' rationale for bypassing clinical decision support recommendations.

Objective: The underutilisation of venous thromboembolism (VTE) prophylaxis is still a problem in the UK despite the emergence of national guidelines and incentives to increase the number of patients undergoing VTE risk assessments. Our objective was to examine the reasons doctors gave for not prescribing enoxaparin when recommended by an electronic VTE risk assessment alert.

Design: We used a qualitative research design to conduct a thematic analysis of free text entered into an electronic prescribing system.

ExPeKT--Exploring prevention and knowledge of venous thromboembolism: a two-stage, mixed-method study protocol.

Introduction: There is little awareness of venous thromboembolism (VTE) in the public arena. Most commonly known causes are-travellers' thrombosis and thrombosis associated with oral contraception, both frequently referred to in the media. However, VTE is a substantial healthcare problem, resulting in mortality, morbidity and economic cost.

"Understanding where you're coming from": discovering an [inter]professional identity through becoming a peer facilitator.

Peer facilitation offers an innovative and effective means of promoting interprofessional learning (IPL) between health and social care students. This paper highlights the benefits that peer facilitators themselves experience from involvement in assisting junior colleagues to engage with IPL in an online context. The setting for the inquiry is an online interprofessional learning pathway shared by two higher education institutions in the UK.

Why patients take part in the Royal College of Physicians Practical Assessment of Clinical Examination Skills (MRCP PACES).

The aim of this study was to examine patients' motivation to participate in the Royal College of Physicians Practical Assessment of Clinical Examination Skills (PACES). An exploratory cross-sectional study was performed with data collected via telephone interviews. All patients aged 18+ who participated in PACES at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire in the last two years were invited to take part; 28 patients were interviewed.

Understanding metaphor to facilitate emotional expression during a chronic disease self-management course.

Objective: This study was designed to understand emotional expression as an element of the chronic disease self-management course (CDSMC).

Methods: Interpretive phenomenological analysis (IPA) was used to analyse a qualitative interview data set in which 10 lay-tutors described their perceptions of emotional expression during a CDSMC. The accounts were used to develop an interpretive phenomenological account.