QUESTION UNDER STUDY The present study aimed to compare the prevalence of work-life conflicts and the health status of physicians, with a representative sample of university graduates as well as with a representative sample of the general Swiss working population. Furthermore, it aimed to analyse whether work-life conflicts correlate with the health of physicians, as it does in the general work...

BACKGROUND Occupational physicians and general practitioners often appear to differ in their attitudes to the provision of health screening, health promotion and vaccination in the workplace. AIM This study aimed to explore the attitudes of occupational physicians and general practitioners to particular aspects of workplace health services. METHOD Anonymous piloted postal questionnaires wer...

A questionnaire designed to elucidate views on the frequency of infection in asthma and its management was circulated to general practitioners, general physicians, paediatricians and respiratory physicians in the north of England. On the whole, general practitioners agreed with the general physicians and paediatricians with respiratory physicians. The generalists, and to a lesser extent the spe...

BACKGROUND Smoking is a serious health issue worldwide. Smoking trends among physicians predict similar trends in the general population. Little is known about current smoking rates among physicians. OBJECTIVES To investigate current smoking trends a Israeli physicians. METHODS All practicing physicians at a tertiary university-affiliated medical center in central Israel were invited to com...

background: primary prevention status and goals in 2010 are promoting healthy weight and eating habits and dietary ma­nipula­tion considered in all reports to be the cornerstone of prevention and management of chronic diseases. since in de­velop­ing countries physicians are in the front line of responding patients' questions regarding their diet, we decided to evalu­ate their necessary nutritio...

BACKGROUND We aimed to identify the indicators of healthcare fraud and abuse in general physicians' drug prescription claims, and to identify a subset of general physicians that were more likely to have committed fraud and abuse. METHODS We applied data mining approach to a major health insurance organization dataset of private sector general physicians' prescription claims. It involved 5 ste...

introduction: over the last decade, the role of clinical librarians in assisting general practitioners to provide better health care has been proved. rapid progress in telecommunication technology has emerged this question. could clinical librarians be able to assist general practitioners working in rural and remote areas through information and communication technologies? this project sought t...

OBJECTIVE Cultural portrayals of physicians suggest an unclear and even contradictory role for humility in the physician-patient relationship. Despite the social importance of humility, however, little empirical research has linked humility in physicians with patient outcomes or the characteristics of the doctor-patient visit. The present study investigated the relationship between physician hu...

In this study, the present condition of occupational health nurse's role after performing general health examination was surveyed. Questionnaires were mailed to 41 companies, and returned questionnaires from 24 of them were analyzed. Although general health examination results were reported to all workers individually in 100% of companies, physician's opinion regarding the examination results w...