The role of deliberate practice in the acquisition of clinical skills.

Background: The role of deliberate practice in medical students' development from novice to expert was examined for preclinical skill training.

Methods: Students in years 1-3 completed 34 Likert type items, adapted from a questionnaire about the use of deliberate practice in cognitive learning. Exploratory factor analysis and reliability analysis were used to validate the questionnaire.

Determinants of quality of life in survivors of cardiac arrest.

Objective: To study factors related to quality of life after a hypoxic period due to cardiac arrest.

Design: Retrospective cohort study.

Subjects: Eighty-eight survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, admitted to a Dutch academic hospital between 2001 and 2006.

Cognitive impairments in survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: a systematic review.

Objective: To describe the current evidence on the frequency and nature of cognitive impairments in survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.

Design: Systematic review.

Data Sources: Pubmed, Embase, PsychInfo and Cinahl (1980-2006).

Activity and Life After Survival of a Cardiac Arrest (ALASCA) and the effectiveness of an early intervention service: design of a randomised controlled trial.

Background: Cardiac arrest survivors may experience hypoxic brain injury that results in cognitive impairments which frequently remain unrecognised. This may lead to limitations in daily activities and participation in society, a decreased quality of life for the patient, and a high strain for the caregiver. Publications about interventions directed at improving quality of life after survival of a cardiac arrest are scarce.