Patient safety education in undergraduate medical education through a global lens: a scoping review by Njoud Aldardeir, Qabirul Karan Abdullah, Linda Jones

“…Abstract Background Patient safety, an organizing framework to minimize risks and harm to patients in healthcare delivery, is broadly accepted as a crucial component of global undergraduate curricula. …”
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Behaviour change interventions addressing patient antibiotic treatment-seeking behaviour for respiratory tract infections in primary and community care settings: a scoping review by Andrew Murphy, Greg Sheaf, Cristin Ryan, Gerard J Molloy, Anthony Maher, Kevin Roche, Eimear Morrissey

“…Objectives This scoping review aimed to map studies on behaviour change interventions that address antibiotic treatment-seeking behaviour for respiratory tract infections in primary and community care settings.Design This review is based on the Joanna Briggs Institute guidelines for scoping reviews, guided by the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews.Data sources A literature search in January 2024 and May 2024 was performed across Medline, Embase, CINAHL, PsycINFO, Web of Science Core Collection, Scopus, EThOS and Google Scholar was performed.Eligibility criteria Eligible studies described behaviour change interventions in primary and community care settings, published from 2000 onward across all countries.Data extraction and synthesis Descriptive data relating to study details and intervention functions were gathered and organised according to the Capability, Opportunity, Motivation and Behaviour change framework in a predeveloped data extraction sheet. …”
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Out-of-hospital births and the experiences of emergency ambulance clinicians and birthing parents: a scoping review of the literature by Sara Hansen, Alecka Miles, Brennen Mills, Luke Hopper, Belinda Flanagan, Michella Hill

“…This scoping review explores emergency ambulance clinician involvement with OOHBs, and patient and clinician experiences with birthing in the out-of-hospital setting.Design Scoping review using the Joanna Briggs Institute framework and ‘participant, concept, context’ criteria.Data sources CINAHL, Embase, Medline, Web of Science and Wiley Online were searched until 20 February 2024.Eligibility criteria for selecting articles Articles discussing an unplanned OOHB, or a planned home birth with complications where an emergency ambulance was required, were included.Data extraction and synthesis Two reviewers independently determined inclusion using Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis extension for Scoping Reviews guidelines. …”
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Physical and psychological consequences on nurses affected by workplace violence: a scoping review protocol by Sergio Rovesti, Paola Ferri, Domenico Cannizzaro, Ilaria Saguatti, Dalia Caleffi

“…Data will be summarised in descriptive form and categorised according to the identified outcome variables, following an inductive approach. …”
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Key performance indicators in extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO): protocol for a systematic review by Sean M Bagshaw, Eddy Fan, Gurmeet Singh, Oleksa Rewa, Janice Y Kung, Manuel Tisminetzky, Roman Nepomuceno, Ken Kuljit Singh Parhar

“…The analysis will be primarily descriptive. Each KPI will be evaluated for importance, scientific acceptability, utility and feasibility using the four criteria proposed by the US Strategic Framework Board for a National Quality Measurement and Reporting System. …”
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Providing a customer satisfaction model of non-attendance services in the social security organization by Hossein Barzgar, Vahid Sanavi Garoosiyan, ali hossein zadeh

“…The current research is applicable-developmental in terms of purpose; and descriptive-analytical based on the method. The statistical population of the present study includes the customers of Khorasan Razavi Social Security Organization, which was considered to be 384 people by Cochran's formula, and simple random sampling method was used. …”
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Perceived effects of the hidden curriculum of return to entrepreneurship with the mediation of goal orientation by Ahmad KarimiDashtaki, Mohammadbagher Akbarpour Zangalani

“…This research is applicable in terms of purpose, and descriptive-correlative in terms of data collection method. …”
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Social Determinants of Health Screening Tools for Adults in Primary Care: Protocol for a Scoping Review by Julia Martínez-Alfonso, Fernando Sebastian-Valles, Vicente Martinez-Vizcaino, Nuria Jimenez-Olivas, Antonio Cabrera-Majada, Iván De los Mozos-Hernando, Shkelzen Cekrezi, Héctor Martínez-Martínez, Arthur Eumann Mesas

“…ConclusionsThis scoping review will provide a comprehensive and critical description of the available tools aimed at screening SDH in primary care settings. …”
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Assessment in education: Current trends, problems and contradictions (review of scientific publications) by I. B. Shmigirilova, A. S. Rvanova, O. V. Grigorenko

“…The scientific papers of the last thirty years, revealing the issues of the education process assessment, have been used in the research. Sources were selected through the methods of descriptive and bibliometric analysis. …”
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Conceptualizing the learning organization in nursing homes: a scoping review by Clariska van Biessum, Bellis van den Berg, Kim van Erp, Paulien Vermunt, Johannes Ket, Henk Nies, Bianca Beersma

“…Study aims, definitions, descriptions, key terms, theories, and operationalizations were mapped descriptively. …”
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EcoptiAI: E-Commerce Process Optimization and Operational Cost Minimization Through Task Automation Using Agentic AI by Olivia-Roxana Alecsoiu, Nuruzzaman Faruqui, Andreea Anamaria Panagoret, Ceausescu Aurelian Ionut, Dragos Mihai Panagoret, Rares-Vladimir Nitu, Miruna Angela Mutu

“…EcoptiAI minimizes manual effort, streamlines workflows, and optimizes procedural costs by handling tasks such as product description generation, catalog updates, personalized customer communication, and empathetic delivery status updates. …”
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The Impact of Social Capital on Sustainable Development of Agriculture in Rural Areas (Case Study: Kermanshah Province Villages) by Vakil Haidari Sareban, Sohyla Bakhtar, Mina Ziarati

“…The agriculture part is one of the main sources of employment providing income whose sustainability causes the rural economics and environmental sustainable within the agricultural systems and rural communities. …”
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Invisible Trap (1979): A Utopian Representation of the Surveillance Society in the Second Pahlavi government by Nastaran Doregiraei, alireza sayyad

“…The current research, which was carried out with a descriptive-analytical method and using library sources, raises the argument that through this work, SAVAK had tried to represent itself as a Panopticon institution that is able to secretly monitor and take care of all citizens in their daily affairs. …”
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Examining the effect of knowledge-based leadership on organizational innovation with the mediating role of illusion of control and rationality by davar Dirmina, Gholamhasan Shirdel, Seyyed Javad Iranban

“…Abstract The aim of this study is to understand the effect of the variable of knowledge-based leadership on organizational innovation in Sepah Bank after the merger. A descriptive-applicable research model was used in this study, its method was survey, and the statistical population was 110 managers and experts of Sepah Bank headquarters after the merger. …”
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Transhumanism and New Challenges in Political Theories by Matin Anjomrooz, Mohammad Khezri

“…Sub-questions focus on the impact of transhuman technologies on notions of sovereignty, democracy, human rights, and national identity.Methods: This research employs an analytical-descriptive method, with a focus on content analysis of philosophical and political texts. …”
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Phenomenological Analysis of the Representation of Abnormal Bodies in Plays: House, Winter 66, Honeymoon, and Dog's Heart by Zahra Kashfi, Sadreddin Taheri

“…The goal is to explore how sick or abnormal bodies are portrayed in contemporary Iranian performing arts and to propose ways to address negative attitudes toward these bodies in artistic creation.This qualitative research was conducted using a descriptive-analytical method and relied on documentary sources for data collection. …”
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Culture and Social Movements in the Post-Apartheid South Africa by Özgür Yılmaz

“…Using a phenomenological approach developed by Husserl and expanded by Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Sartre, this study undertakes steps such as phenomenological reduction, description, essence identification, and structural analysis. …”
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Ecolodge Success Model: Antecedents and Consequences by Zohreh Dehdashti Shahrokh, Mohammadreza Karimi Alavijeh, Molood Esfahani

“…The research method is analytical-descriptive. In this research, a meta synthesis has been used. …”
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Analyzing Macro-Regulation Strategies of the Digital Economy in Selected Countries and Providing Macro Components of Regulation for Iran by Fatemeh Kasaei Najafi, Afsaneh Vahedian, Hassan Yeganeh

“…The methodology of this study involves a comparative analysis with a descriptive-explanatory approach based on current content. …”
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Identifying Entrepreneurs' Mental Patterns in Facilitating the Speed of Internationalization by Vahid Sharafi, Rezvan Soleimani

“…Methodology This research is applied in purpose, exploratory in nature, descriptive-survey in data collection, and mixed-method (quantitative-qualitative) due to the application of the Q methodology. …”
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