Correspondence: Anandi V Law Department of Pharmacy Practice and Administration, College of Pharmacy, Western University of Health Sciences, 309 E Second Street, Pomona, CA 91766, USA Tel +1 909 469 5645 Fax +1 909 469 5428 Email [email protected] Abstract: Collaborative practice among health professionals is slowly coming of age, given the global focus on efficiency and effectiveness of care t...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this review of genetic counseling (GC) is to describe the current concepts and philosophical and ethical principles accepted by the great majority of countries and recommended by the World Health Organization, the stages of the process, its results and the psychological impact that a genetic disease has on a family. SOURCES The concepts presented are based on an his...

Sexual dysfunction is present the most important problem among menopausal women and thus counseling may have a major role for improving menopausal sexual state in this population. We aimed to assess effects of counseling on sexual function of menopause women and their spouses. An interventional trial study was performed on 120 consecutive Iranian couples (menopause women and their spouses) who ...

Is financial literacy a substitute or complement for financial advice? We analyze the decision by consumers to seek financial advice in the form of credit counseling. Credit counseling is an important component of the consumer credit sector for consumers facing debt problems. Our analysis accounts for the endogeneity of an individual’s financial situation to financial literacy, and the endogene...

BACKGROUND The use of mobile phone apps for improving lifestyles has become generalized in the population, although little is still known about their effectiveness in improving health. OBJECTIVE We evaluate the effect of adding an app to standard counseling on increased physical activity (PA) and adherence to the Mediterranean diet, 3 months after implementation. METHODS A randomized, multi...

315 There is a wide array of healing systems available to counselors, including humanistic, psychoanalytic, cognitive, and behavioral. In addition to these primary orientations, there are countless eclectic combinations and lesser known systems of counseling (Corsini & Wedding, 1995). For the most part, these systems have underlying assumptions that are incompatible (Messer & Warren, 1995). For...

BACKGROUND The Tennessee Surgical Quality Collaborative analyzes NSQIP data from 21 participating hospitals. The Tennessee Surgical Quality Collaborative has reduced surgical complications, but causative factors are unclear. We sought to correlate surgical duration with complications to reveal mitigating strategies. STUDY DESIGN Risk-adjusted Tennessee Surgical Quality Collaborative data on 1...

BACKGROUND Although guidelines and performance measures exist for patients with diabetes mellitus, achievement of these metrics is not well known. The Diabetes Collaborative Registry® (DCR) was formed to understand the quality of diabetes mellitus care across the primary and specialty care continuum in the United States. METHODS AND RESULTS We assessed the frequency of achievement of 7 diabet...

introduction: voluntary counseling and testing (vct) for hiv infection is a confidential service offered to individuals in the community. this study intended to present a pattern for regional surveillance of vct services in iran. methods: this was an applied descriptive study. at first, the existing regional vct surveillance in 2009 was investigated through visiting the clinical deputy of medic...

The purpose of this study was to identify perceptions about a school counseling internship program at a university in Adana, Turkey by determining counseling interns’ perspectives on the effects of the internship program and supervisors’ perspectives on interns’ professional development. Data were collected from nine school counseling supervisors, 11 school counseling interns, 11 guidance teach...