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From:Quality and Safety in Health Care (Vol. 12, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedDevelopment of the OPTION instrument will enable researchers to measure the extent to which clinicians involve patients in decisions within consultations. ********** The involvement of patients in health care is...
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From:The Futurist (Vol. 32, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedThe book written by Arthur Caplan entitled 'Am I My Brother's Keeper?' delves on improving ethical relationships between medical personnel and their patients. Also, the book addresses the issues of 'informed consent' and...
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From:The Western Journal of Medicine (Vol. 156, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedHOMER A. BOUSHEY, MD(*): Speculations about the spread of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) into the general population cause widespread anxiety. Correcting these speculations and focusing concern on the...
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From:Physical Therapy (Vol. 96, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBackground. Pediatric rehabilitation therapy services and mobility aids have an important role in the health of children with special health care needs, and the Affordable Care Act (ACA) may increase coverage for these...
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From:Ear, Nose and Throat Journal (Vol. 95, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedWithin the past decade or so, interest in comics as an educational tool and more than just cheap entertainment has increased substantially. The integration of comics and medicine (dubbed graphic medicine) has also...
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From:Optometry Times (Vol. 9, Issue 10)Times are changing, and the amount of information coming at us from all directions can easily be overwhelming. This information--whether true or false--is unrelenting and has increased in magnitude over the past five...
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From:Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine (Vol. 27, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Telephone triage entails assessment of urgency and direction of flow in out-of-hours (OOH) services, while visual cues are inherently lacking. Triage tools are recommended but current tools fail to provide...
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From:Optometry Times (Vol. 4, Issue 12)This time it was different. She knew by the look on the doctor's face. Jane Osborn had been going to Dr. Robert Smith since she was a little girl having trouble seeing the board in her classroom at school. Her dad knew...
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From:Journal of the American Dietetic Association (Vol. 101, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedInappropriateness of the concepts of compliance and adherence in diabetes care Adherence and compliance are dysfunctional concepts for management of chronic diseases such as diabetes because they are based on...
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From:Mayo Clinic Proceedings (Vol. 92, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAbstract Objective: To describe the national frequency, prevalence, and trends of discharge against medical advice (DAMA) among inpatient hospitalizations in the United States and identify differences across patient-...
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From:The Dental Assistant (Vol. 77, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThere are influential moments during a patient's visit when opportunities occur to discuss and validate treatment options. Finding these occasions to perpetuate and sustain the perception of quality care is the...
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From:Clinical Advisor?Wouldn?t you want someone to tell your story? Ultimately, it?s the best proof that we mattered. And what else is life from the time you were born but a struggle to matter, at least to someone?? ? Elliot Perlman At...
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From:CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal (Vol. 184, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedDeath and taxes may be life's only guarantees, but suffering is also a safe bet. Who hasn't fallen ill or ached from injury or endured pain of some sort? It should come as no surprise, then, that people who relieve...
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From:Mental Health Practice (Vol. 6, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedThe principle of working in partnership with service users and their relatives and carers in creating and developing mental health services is now widely accepted. Indeed, such collaborative working could be seen as one...
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From:American Journal of Health Studies (Vol. 19, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: Female students were asked to indicate willingness to consult 24 health and related professionals for smoking cessation, eating disorders or domestic abuse, as well as indicate frequency of professional...
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From:Mayo Clinic Proceedings (Vol. 96, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedAbstract When people think about trust in the context of health care, they typically focus on whether patients trust the competence of doctors and other health professionals. But for health care to reach its full...
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From:Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine (Vol. 142, Issue 6) Peer-Reviewed"Tell me what I've gotta do; there's no getting through to you." (1) Piathologists have long been known as "the doctor's doctor"; unfortunately this sobriquet is generally perceived only by our medical colleagues. So...
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From:Nursing Children and Young People (Vol. 24, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedWinskill R et al (2011) Influences on parents' decisions when determining whether their child is sick and what they do about it: a pilot study. International Journal of Nursing Practice. 17, 2, 126-132. Background...
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From:Nursing Standard (Vol. 23, Issue 43) Peer-ReviewedHealth professionals should not shy away from persuading prostitutes to leave the profession, the manager of one of the UK's few health services dedicated to male prostitutes told nurses last week. Julian Heng told...
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From:Nursing Standard (Vol. 18, Issue 22) Peer-ReviewedPATIENTS' FAMILIES want to be told if their relative is about to die, a cancer nurse researcher has said. Carol Diver, a Macmillan clinical nurse specialist in lung and palliative care made the claims after carrying...