PATIENTS PREFERENCES REGARDING AGE, SEX & APPEARANCE OF ORTHODONTISTS

Sex of physician: patients' preferences and stereotypes.

Patients' preferences for physicians of a particular sex tend to skew sex distributions of clinical populations in training and practice settings. A study was developed to explore these preferences and potential reasons for them. Of 185 adult patients surveyed at four family practice residency clinics, 45% expressed a preference for sex of physician; 43% of women and 12% of men preferred a fema...

Pernicious Anæmia, Inquiry Regarding the Age and Sex Incidence of

Communication practices and preferences between orthodontists and general dentists.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate similarities and differences in orthodontists' and general dentists' perceptions regarding their interdisciplinary communication. MATERIALS AND METHODS Orthodontists (N  =  137) and general dentists (N  =  144) throughout the United States responded to an invitation to participate in a Web-based and mailed survey, respectively. RESULTS The results indicated that orthod...

What patients want: preferences regarding hospital pharmacy services.

BACKGROUND The role of hospital pharmacists has evolved over the past couple of decades from preparation and distribution of medications to active involvement in health care teams, through identification and resolution of patients' medication-related issues in an effort to improve patient outcomes. However, patients' preferences about pharmacy services are not well known. OBJECTIVE To use con...

- regarding preferences Author : Olle Grünewald

Expectations of unconditional other-regarding preferences has shown to be important for trust game behavior and can be seen as expectations of generosity or fairness. In this thesis these expectations are captured in the variable faith. A plausible mechanism between faith and trust is developed in line with the findings of Holm and Danielson (2005). An experiment revealing faith and a standard ...