Whilst the pandemic has accelerated evaluation and implementation of pedagogical approaches, it also amplified conflict for students between their role as a consumer education provider healthcare.

BACKGROUND Having a regular primary care provider (i.e., family physician or nurse practitioner) is widely considered to be a prerequisite for obtaining healthcare that is timely, accessible, continuous, comprehensive, and well-coordinated with other parts of the healthcare system. Yet, 4.6 million Canadians, approximately 15% of Canada's population, are unattached; that is, they do not have a ...

The REDE model is a conceptual framework for teaching relationship-centered healthcare communication. Based on the premise that genuine relationships are a vital therapeutic agent, use of the framework has the potential to positively influence both patient and provider. The REDE model applies effective communication skills to optimize personal connections in three primary phases of Relationship...

OBJECTIVE Investigate determinants of receiving healthcare provider (HCP) recommendations for seasonal and H1N1 influenza vaccinations. METHODS Using a United States national sample of adults 18 + from the National 2009 H1N1 Flu Survey, multivariate regression models estimated the likelihood of receiving a HCP recommendation. Covariates included demographics, socioeconomic status, and Advisor...

Many real world applications in the healthcare domain would gain a substantial advantage from sharing and search technologies available for P2P infrastructures if these technologies could provide required confidentiality guarantees. Currently, DHT-based indexes which are typically applied for effective and efficient information sharing and retrieval in P2P networks do not offer sufficient confi...

Medicine 2.0 has emerged within healthcare information technology to enable more defined relationships among providers and patients. Physicians, hospitals, and patients are using Medicine 2.0 through social networking to maintain their foothold in the evolution of medical technologies. The authors' purpose was to determine potential improvements that Medicine 2.0 has on communication and collab...

Disease-specific quality indicators are used to compare institutions and health care providers in terms of processes or outcomes relevant treatment a particular condition. In the context surgical cancer treatments, performance variations can be due hospital and/or surgeon level differences, creating hierarchical clustering. We consider how observed variation received at patient decomposed into ...