Why the mechanisms of 12‐Step behaviour change should matter to clinicians

Professionalism : Why It Should Matter to Us

I t is a distinct honor to address you as president of the American Head and Neck Society [AHNS]. Serving the Society as president is the highlight of my professional career as a head and neck surgeon, which I have wanted to be since medical school. I never imagined that I would have this leadership opportunity, and I greatly appreciate being able to serve the AHNS this year in this role. Many ...

a synchronic and diachronic approach to the change route of address terms in the two recent centuries of persian language

terms of address as an important linguistics items provide valuable information about the interlocutors, their relationship and their circumstances. this study was done to investigate the change route of persian address terms in the two recent centuries including three historical periods of qajar, pahlavi and after the islamic revolution. data were extracted from a corpus consisting 24 novels w...

Why Theories of Change Matter

Satisfaction of hospitalized psychiatry patients: why should clinicians care?

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between inpatient satisfaction and health outcomes, quality of life, and adherence to treatment in a sample of patients with schizophrenia, while considering key sociodemographic and clinical confounding factors. METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted in the psychiatric departments of two public university hospitals ...

Why quality of life should matter to occupational health researchers.

T he article by Dr Pattani and colleagues in this issue of OEM takes on the very difficult and important question of quality of life in relation to working life. Quality of life—insofar as it relates to health status—has become a central concern to a wide range of medical investigators. Not only is quality of life a major variable to be considered in any study of the natural history of disease ...