BACKGROUND Self-reported medical history data are frequently used in epidemiological studies. Self-reported diagnoses may differ from medical record diagnoses due to poor patient-clinician communication, self-diagnosis in the absence of a satisfactory explanation for symptoms, or the "health literacy" of the patient. METHODS The US Department of Defense military health system offers a unique ...

Objective: To understand and recognise why some patients leave the medical facility against physicians advice as it has clear significance in identifying those at risk planning interventions for them beforehand. Study Design: Exploratory Research. Setting: Department of Psychiatry, Gujranwala Medical Collage/ Teaching Hospital. Period: September 2018 to 2019. Material & Methods: The record ...

ACOG's research department recruited four medical centers to participate in a study on the attitudes and practices of medical providers and pregnant patients regarding influenza vaccination. Medical providers and patients were given voluntary surveys and medical record data was collected over two flu seasons, from 2013 to 2015. Discrepancies between self-reports of medical providers and patient...

Health information technology (HIT) is engineered to promote improved quality and efficiency of care, and reduce medical errors. Healthcare organizations have made significant investments in HIT tools and the electronic medical record (EMR) is a major technological advance. The Department of Veterans Affairs was one of the first large healthcare systems to fully implement EMR. The Veterans Heal...

introduction: one of the most fundamental duties of him professionals is the duty to maintain health information about their patients. this duty is imposed explicitly by state and federal statuted and regulations as well as by accreditation standards. also one of the most important responsibilities him professionals have is keeping confidential health information out of the hands of unauthorize...

This is a brief overview of the history of formal introduction of the art andscience of education into the sphere of medical education in Shiraz. Before this introduction medical education was, and in the majority of other institutions world-wide still is, a simple transfer of knowledge from teacher to student. The students accepted their passive role because this was how they had been taught a...

background: assessment is the process of systematic collection, analysis and interpretation of data to achieve the goals. the purpose of this study was to evaluate and compare the quality of educational activities of departments of nursing and midwifery faculty of hamadan university of medical sciences. methods: this cross-sectional study was done in 2009 at the faculty of nursing and midwifery...