BACKGROUND The availability of numerous hypertension guidelines seems not to have impacted significantly on the burden of hypertension. We evaluated awareness of hypertension guidelines among primary-care physicians (PCPs) in Nigeria and its relationship to hypertension diagnosis and work up. METHODS Anonymous self-administered questionnaires were filled in by PCPs categorised into two groups...

Brief history 3D ultrasound has been the most rapidly evolving technique and technology in fetal ultrasound in the past few years. The technology began with “hand swept” slice acquisition using standard transducers followed by mechanically oscillating 3D transducers. This lead to 4D (real-time 3D), and now the development of solid-state electronically oscillating transducers. Accompanying the h...

Tieraona Low Dog, M.D., is Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine and Director of Education for the Program of Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Tucson, Arizona. She is chair of the United States Pharmacopoeia Dietary Supplements and Botanicals Expert Committee. Jodi R. Godfrey, M.S., R.D., is a health and wellness specialist in private practice and cont...

With the acquisition of emerging technologies in the treatment of primary and metastatic hepatic malignancy by interventional radiology, a multidisciplinary tumor board was created by the authors to improve treatment planning for these diseases.

BACKGROUND 'Dual practice', or multiple job holding, generally involves public sector-based health workers taking additional work in the private sector. This form of the practice is purported to help retain public health care workers in low and middle-income countries' public sectors through additional wage incentives. There has been little conceptual or empirical development of the relationshi...

OBJECTIVES We evaluate the relative effectiveness of a newly available tinnitus treatment approach for different categories of patients in general private practice. METHODS This was a cohort study, sponsored by Neuromonics, involving the first 470 patients to undertake the Neuromonics Tinnitus Treatment in 7 Neuromonics tinnitus clinics. All patients were provided with a dynamic acoustic neur...

INTRODUCTION The results of the 2015 ACR Workforce Survey confirm that women remain underrepresented in leadership positions in radiology. Within the aggregate of academic and private practice, 14% of all men are leaders and only 7% of all women are leaders [1]. National data reveal that within academic radiology practices, women are underrepresented among senior faculty ranks, are less likely ...

Roe v. Wade was heralded as an end to unequal access to abortion care in the United States. However, today, despite being common and safe, abortion is performed only selectively in hospitals and private practices. Drawing on 61 interviews with obstetrician-gynecologists in these settings, we examine how they determine which abortions to perform. We find that they distinguish between more and le...

PURPOSE To examine how pediatricians in private practices are affected by the process of training medical students in their clinics as part of a community-based clerkship program. MATERIALS AND METHODS In 2007, a questionnaire was sent to 35 pediatricians who had provided private clinical settings for clerkship training for the previous 3 years. The questionnaire covered a number of points, i...

INTRODUCTION Rheumatologic care is offered by the National Health System in Spain. However, more than a quarter of health spending is carried out in private medicine. Currently, there are no data about the number of rheumatologists with private activity in Spain. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the number of rheumatologists with private activity in Spain and to describe the profile and location of the...