BACKGROUND The National Dementia Strategy seeks to enhance general practitioners' diagnostic and management skills in dementia. Early diagnosis in dementia within primary care is important as this allows those with dementia and their family care networks to engage with support services and plan for the future. There is, however, evidence that dementia remains under-detected and sub-optimally ma...

PURPOSE Self-management majorly determines the health status of patients with epilepsy because the most important strategies for controlling seizures include receiving and adhering to prescribed therapies, and making appropriate lifestyle adjustments. Patients with epilepsy have various educational needs and must adopt many self-management behaviors to control their condition. This study was a ...

introduction: leadership and management are two expected features and competencies for general practitioners (gps). the purpose of this study was leadership and management curriculum planning for gps which was performed based on kern’s curriculum planning cycle. methods: this study was conducted in 2011-2012 in iran using an explanatory mixed-methods approach. it was conducted through an initia...

This paper explores whether and how models of educational management are evident in the operations and organisational culture of a language teaching institute in a Southeast Asian country*. The research followed the decision-making, planning and implementation processes at different levels of the institute over a three-month period. The purpose of the research was to ascertain: (1) whether any ...

Providing patients with personalized educational messages can improve self-management of Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) risk factors. We present our compositional personalization approach that generates personalized educational material by dynamically selecting fine-grained information snippets, as per the patient profile, and then synthesizing them in a educational template to yield personalized...