The purpose of these patient vignettes is to allow the reader to test their own approach to patients with various neurologic problems. Answering the questions on the website will allow the authors to discuss the various issues brought to light in the case based vignettes. Results of the survey will be discussed in the subsequent issue. The link for answering the questions is https://www. survey...

This study investigates how reporting heterogeneity may bias socioeconomic and demographic disparities in self-rated general health, a widely used health indicator, and how such bias can be adjusted by using new anchoring vignettes designed in the 2012 wave of the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS). We find systematic variation by socio-demographic characteristics in thresholds used by responden...

This study employed an independent-groups design (4 conditions) to investigate possible biases in the suicide risk perception of mental health professionals. Four hundred participants comprising doctors, nurses and social workers viewed a vignette describing a fictitious patient with a long-term mental illness. The case was presented as being drawn from a sample of twenty similar clinical case ...

PURPOSE Although decades of research have yielded considerable insight into physicians' clinical reasoning processes, assessing these processes remains challenging; thus, the authors sought to compare diagnostic performance and the utility of clinical vignette-based assessment under testing conditions designed to encourage either automatic or analytic thought. METHOD This 2011-2012 multicente...

Recent highly publicized ethical breaches including those at Enron and WorldCom have focused attention on ethical behavior within the accounting profession. At the heart of the debate is whether ethical attitudes of accountants are to blame. Using a nationally representative sample of accounting practitioners and a multidisciplinary student sample at two Southern United States universities, we ...

Introduction: Portable ultrasound is extensively used in the delivery suite, and there is anecdotal evidence that ultrasound is increasingly common in routine outpatient gynaecological practice. We could find no published data regarding the prevalence of 'rooms' ultrasound use in outpatient gynaecology. Methods: A survey instrument was developed containing demographic questions about 'rooms' ul...

OBJECTIVE To examine students' attitudes and potential behaviour to a possible intimate relationship with a patient as they pass through a modern medical curriculum. DESIGN A cohort study of students entering Glasgow University's new learner centred, integrated medical curriculum in October 1996. METHODS Students' pre year 1 and post year 1, post year 3, and post year 5 responses to the "at...

BACKGROUND Poor mental health literacy and negative attitudes toward individuals with mental health disorders may impede optimal help-seeking for symptoms of mental ill-health. The present study examined the ability to recognize cases of depression as a function of respondent and target gender, as well as individual psychological differences in attitudes toward persons with depression. METHOD...

The current service trend does not merely involve face-to-face interactions, including smiling (high-contact-service) by employees, but also using methods such as texting (low-contact service). Sincere and insincere smile studies have used a method involving dynamic (videos) static stimuli (photographs). However, research into the different types of smiles is still limited to vignette. This stu...