The obesity epidemic raises important and complex issues for clinicians and policy-makers, such as what clinical and public health measures will be most effective and most ethically-sound. While Nir Eyal’s analysis of these issues is very helpful and while he correctly concludes that “conditioning the very aid that patients need in order to become healthier on success in becoming healthier” is ...

OBJECTIVE Given the composition of the mental health and substance abuse workforce in the United States, Hispanic immigrants are often assigned to non-Hispanic, English-speaking clinicians. This produces challenges in communication and in understanding linguistic and cultural nuances and greatly impacts the accuracy of diagnoses and the delivery of appropriate services. With the inclusion of ob...

Introduction Physician preference items (PPIs) are high-cost medical devices on which clinicians express firm preferences with respect to a particular manufacturer and specific product. The aim of this research is understand what the most important factors, as well their relative importance, in choice new PPIs (that is, hip or knee prosthesis) adoption behalf orthopaedic Italy. Methods Based li...

the obesity epidemic raises important and complex issues for clinicians and policy-makers, such as what clinical and public health measures will be most effective and most ethically-sound. while nir eyal’s analysis of these issues is very helpful and while he correctly concludes that “conditioning the very aid that patients need in order to become healthier on success in becoming healthier” is ...

Exposure to research early in medical school facilitates the development of physician-scientists and competent clinicians. In the last decade, institutions have established programs and policies to address the physician- scientist shortage. However, student-led initiatives to promote medical student engagement in research remain unexplored. This paper presents the design and results of the thir...

Previous research has documented racial and ethnic inequities in pain management the pediatric emergency department (ED) among patients seeking care for appendicitis or long-bone fractures. Understanding patients’ experience ED may reveal differences perspectives of engendered trust clinicians. The objective this study is to measures levels that presenting with abdominal extremity injuries have...

In January of 2011 I, together with my fourth-year medical student colleagues, returned to the University of Western Ontario from our electives to begin four months of preparation for our medical licensing exam. During large group discussions on general clinical scenarios, it was clear that, for most students, specialization was well underway. When listing a differential diagnosis for a headach...

BACKGROUND Well-designed trials of strategies to improve adherence to clinical practice guidelines are needed to close persistent evidence-practice gaps. We studied how the number of these trials is changing with time, and to what extent physicians are participating in such trials. METHODS This is a literature-based study of trends in evidence-practice gap publications over 10 years and parti...