background: the patient decision aids (pdas), which can facilitate the decision-making process when choosing the optimal method of treatment, are a challenge to patients. this study tried to determine the attitude of physicians on the barriers of using pdas in the way of prioritizing and proposing solutions to them. methods: this study was a cross-sectional research carried out on 150 clinical ...

Background Faced with one of the lowest physician-to-population ratios in the world, the Government of Tanzania is urging its medical schools to train more physicians. The annual number of medical students admitted across the country rose from 55 in the 1990s to 1,680 approved places for the 2015/16 academic year. These escalating numbers strain existing faculty. Objective To describe the avail...

BACKGROUND The Patient Self-Determination Act of 1991 implicitly encourages physicians to discuss advance directives and no-code orders with their patients. The medical literature to date, however, has done little to place resuscitative decision making in the context of how physicians, patients, and families communicate with one another. This paper investigates how interactions between involved...

BACKGROUND Drug formularies have been created by third party payers to control prescription drug usage and manage costs. Physicians try to provide the best care for their patients. This research examines family physicians' attitudes regarding prescription reimbursement criteria, prescribing and advocacy for patients experiencing reimbursement barriers. METHODS Focus groups were used to collec...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Family physicians deliver a significant proportion of occupational medicine (OM) services. In 1984, the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) endorsed recommended curriculum guidelines in OM for family medicine residency programs. This study's purpose was to determine (1) whether family medicine residency programs have met the AAFP recommendations by providing r...