Background Drugs administered during the anaesthetic procedure and postoperative period belong to different pharmacological groups and are to ensure the best possible conditions for surgery and maximum safety of patients. Their adverse side effects are often dependent on immune responses. The diversity and number of the agents administered hinder precise determination of the drug eliciting the ...

If health providers are aware of their patients' literacy skills, they can more appropriately tailor their communication with patients. Few providers, however, assess patient's literacy skills for fear of offending patients, but no research has ever determined if patients object to such assessments. Our objectives were to determine the percentage of patients seen for routine health care that wo...

Several studies have analyzed the roles and functions of health information management (HIM) professionals. Prior studies have focused on practitioners‘ daily routines across the HIM workforce, from those working for large direct-care providers and small rural physician offices, to consultants and industry sales professionals, to administrators and educators. Data have been published in a varie...

In the May 2012 issue of Medical Laboratory Observer; I had the honor to provide readers with the first four of nine sales principles for field representatives who have the responsibility of selling laboratory services to physician offices, hospitals, and other healthcare organizations. Principle # 1 was "Strategy is the foundation." Principle # 2 was "Reps must first be sold themselves." Princ...

conclusions nurses and physicians’ educational roles should be examined in the authors’ healthcare system. further surveys are needed to find and assess individual and organizational approaches to improve physicians’ and nurses’ educational performances. results there were 231 participants (men: 55.3%). of them, 58.9% of the patients were satisfied with educational performance of nurses and 50....

of planning. according to the family physician’s idea, evaluating programs in order to improve them is one of the necessities of promoting quality and increases the efficiency and effectiveness of continuing education. this study aimed to determine family physicians’ educational needs regarding health and its applicability in continuous medical education in fasa university of medical sciences. ...