BACKGROUND The strong association between family history and prostate cancer (PCa) suggests a significant genetic contribution, yet specific highly penetrant PCa susceptibility genes have not been identified. Certain single-nucleotide-polymorphisms have been found to correlate with PCa risk; however uncertainty remains regarding their clinical utility and how to best incorporate this informatio...

6 artner counseling and referral services (PCRS) are one aspect of care available to HIV-positive people and the partners with whom they have sex and/or hare hypodermic needles. The goal of referral (providng the names of these partners) is to notify partners of heir potential exposure to HIV. Notified partners are rged to be tested for HIV: If they test negative they can eceive prevention coun...

It is widely accepted that healthcare-seeking behaviour is neither limited to nor terminated by access to one single healthcare provider. Yet the sequential conceptualisation of healthcare-seeking processes has not diffused into quantitative research, which continues to analyse healthcare access as a "one-off" event. The ensuing lack of understanding healthcare behaviour is problematic in light...

OBJECTIVE Determine the degree of congruence between several measures of adverse events. DESIGN Cross-sectional study to assess frequency and type of adverse events identified using a variety of methods. SETTING Mayo Clinic Rochester hospitals. PARTICIPANTS All inpatients discharged in 2005 (n = 60 599). INTERVENTIONS Adverse events were identified through multiple methods: (i) Agency f...

Using data from the 2018 National Survey of Sexual Health and Behavior, we determined prevalence content adolescents’ young adults’ communication with healthcare providers about condom use. Adolescents (14–17 years old; n = 283) adults (18–24 old, 225), who discussed sexual health a provider in past year, reported if they had use provider, among those did, also why recommended condoms, demonstr...

BACKGROUND The relevance of healthcare provider cultural competency to the achievement of goals for reduction in extant health disparities has been demonstrated; however, there are deficits with regard to cultural competency measurement. OBJECTIVES To examine the test-retest reliability of the cultural competence assessment instrument (CCA) among hospice providers, and to examine the reliabil...

Despite the growing number of e-health websites that are dedicated to health education and information therapy, healthcare provider organizations have been slow in embarking on significant e-commerce ventures to improve the delivery of healthcare services to patients and consumers in geographically dispersed communities. More specifically, hospitals and health provider organizations tend to use...

BACKGROUND Increasing attention to patients' rights and their ability to choose their healthcare provider have changed the way patients can respond to untoward, disempowering and abusive healthcare encounters. These responses are often seen as crucial for quality improvement, yet they are little explored and conceptualized. OBJECTIVE To explore patients' potential responses to untoward health...

Background India’s health sector witnessed some major policy changes in 1990s that aimed at making health services more accessible to the population.   Methods In this paper, I tried to present some preliminary results of the significant changes that occurred between 1995/6 and 2004, especially in relation to the question of access to healthcare for the poor and rural population using data from...