As a doctor you are involved in the rehabilitation of those suffering from chronic or permanent disabling problems. Rehabilitation is not a specialized technique, not a method, not even a principle but is a philosophy in action. The philosophy of total care of your patient as well as the continuing care for him. The broad aim or goal of rehabilitation is to correct in so far as is possible your...

The growing concern over violence against health service staff is reflected in an increasing number of anecdotal reports in both the medical and the lay press describing violent incidents.`6 Family practitioner committees have recently started to gather information on the subject. The Health and Safety Commission has described some of the common factors in assaults against employees.4 These inc...

BACKGROUND The referral letter plays a key role both in the communication between primary and secondary care, and in the quality of the health care process. Many studies have attempted to evaluate and improve the quality of these referral letters, but few have assessed the impact of their quality on the health care delivered to each patient. METHODS A cluster randomized trial, with the genera...

Background The World Health Organization (WHO) aims to promote strategies that ensure efficacy, safety, suitability, and cost effectiveness of medicine prescription. Health systems should design effective mechanisms to monitor prescription and rational use of medicines at all healthcare settings. This study aimed to determine and analyze prescription patterns of general practitioners and specia...

the aim of the present study was to investigate organizational commitment of staff in physical education general offices and its relationship with some demographic factors. after the reliability and validity of the questionnaire (allen, meyer and smith, 1993) had been estimated in a preliminary study, 550 questionnaires were distributed among the staff of physical education general offices of t...

Thirty eight specialists in one district health authority were asked to take part in a questionnaire survey to assess the appropriateness of referral and the quality of the referral letter for 20 consecutive new patients each. A total of 705 new patient referrals to 13 specialties were included in the study. Twelve of the 38 specialists were randomly selected and their 234 new patient referral ...

General anesthesia can help the dental professional provide treatment to individuals who otherwise would be unable to receive dental care. State-mandated training, current anesthesia techniques, and adequate planning by the dentist make general anesthesia safe and effective in the private dental office. This article discusses the multiple benefits general anesthesia offers both the dentist and ...