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background : self- esteem is defined as the reliance of one's own abilities. decrees of self- esteem may lead to fail to solve the problems not being able to use ones abilities. so, this study was done to compare tip patients' self- esteem with healthy cases. the conduction of this investigation seems to be important, because this disease a chronic type.        materials and methods: this is a ...

This brief analyzes experts' reviews of evidence about care models designed to improve outcomes and reduce costs for patients with complex needs. It finds that successful models have several common attributes: targeting patients likely to benefit from the intervention; comprehensively assessing patients' risks and needs; relying on evidence-based care planning and patient monitoring; promoting ...

The development of portable instruments for measuring the prothrombin time (PT) in capillary whole blood has made it possible for patients on lifelong coumarin therapy to monitor the effect of the anticoagulant themselves (patient self-testing) and to adjust the dosage if necessary on their own (patient self-management). Dosage variations between individual patients and the narrow therapeutic r...

OBJECTIVES To compare attitudes of medical and law students toward informing a cancer patient about diagnosis and prognosis and to examine whether differences are related to different convictions about benefit or harm of information. SETTING AND DESIGN Anonymous questionnaires were distributed to convenience samples of students at the University of Geneva containing four vignettes describing ...