BACKGROUND Physicians often select clinical management strategies not strongly supported by evidence or guidelines. Our objective was to examine the likelihood of selecting, and rationale for pursuing, clinical management strategies with more or less guideline support among physicians using clinical vignettes of eight common medical admissions. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional survey us...

This paper describes the results of an evaluation study of a prototype for the visualization of time-oriented medical data. Subjects were nine physicians. The prototype combines well-known visual representation techniques and extensive interaction techniques. The aim of the study was to assess the system’s usability and whether the prototype solved relevant problems of physicians in hospitals. ...

There are about 270 physicians with a special interest in gastroenterology distributed throughout the United Kingdom; most of them (91%) are members of the British Society of Gastroenterology. Two-thirds of these physicians regard their post as that of general physician with a special interest in gastroenterology and a quarter as general physician. Very few physicians (nine) practise gastroente...

[Purpose] The purpose of the study was to investigate the postural control and cognitive performance of older adults when stepping backward with and without a concurrent cognitive task. [Subjects and Methods] Thirty young adults and twenty-eight older adults (mean age=21.3 ± 1.2 and 72.2 ± 5.7 years, respectively) were recruited. Participants were asked to step backward and then maintain a sing...

This paper evaluates the role of collaborative learning in an Asian educational institution. The paper begins with a description of the current education landscape, particularly on learners of today which exhibit 21 century learning skills. The concept of collaborative learning is next described with an emphasis on Johnson and Johnson five key elements of collaborative learning. A research stud...

Marriages consist of shared experiences and interactions between husbands and wives that may lead to different impressions of the quality of the relationship. Few studies, unfortunately, have tested gender differences in the structure of marital quality, and even fewer studies have evaluated whether genetic and environmental influences on marital quality differ across gender. In this study, we ...