OBJECTIVE To determine the willingness of Canadians to accept treatment from physician assistants (PAs). DESIGN Respondents were asked to be surrogate patients or parents under 1 of 3 conditions selected at random. Two scenarios involved injury to themselves, with the third involving injury to their children. The wait time for a physician was assumed to be 4 hours, whereas to explore the sens...

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Jalan Semarak, 54100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Corresponding Author: Maslin Masrom ___________________________________________________________________________ Abstract This paper investigates the cyberethics and internet behavior of Malaysian primary education students. Based on Theory of Planned Behavior and PAPA framework, we develop an integrated research framewo...

QUESTION Can primary contact physiotherapists reduce waiting and treatment times and facilitate faster discharge in Australian emergency departments? DESIGN Data on patients treated by primary contact physiotherapists were collected prospectively and compared with historical and concurrent cohorts of patients treated by other clinicians, using diagnosis and urgency. PARTICIPANTS Twenty-nine...

BACKGROUND Third location decompression (TLD) refers to the initial process, undertaken by military personnel at the end of an operational deployment, whereby adjustment from military operations commences. TLD has been shown to be useful for personnel in formed units (FU). AIMS To examine the subjective utility of TLD for personnel deployed as individual augmentees (IAs) by comparing their ex...

Twenty-nine drugs of disparate structures and physicochemical properties were used in an examination of the capability of human liver microsomal lability data ("in vitro T(1/2)" approach) to be useful in the prediction of human clearance. Additionally, the potential importance of nonspecific binding to microsomes in the in vitro incubation milieu for the accurate prediction of human clearance w...

Medicaid was expanded to millions of individuals under the Affordable Care Act, but many states do not provide dental coverage for adults under their Medicaid programs. In the absence of dental coverage, patients may resort to costly emergency department (ED) visits for dental conditions. Medicaid coverage of dental benefits could help ease the burden on the ED, but ED use for dental conditions...