INTRODUCTION Studies on patient involvement show that physicians make few attempts to involve their patients who ask few questions if not facilitated. On the other hand, the patients who participate in the decision-making process show greater treatment adherence and have better health outcomes. Different methods to encourage the active participation during oncological consultation have been des...

CONTEXT Many studies have documented race and gender differences in health care received by patients. However, few studies have related differences in the quality of interpersonal care to patient and physician race and gender. OBJECTIVE To describe how the race/ethnicity and gender of patients and physicians are associated with physicians' participatory decision-making (PDM) styles. DESIGN,...

Inflammation, a self-defensive reaction against various pathogenic stimuli, may become harmful self-damaging process. Increasing evidence has linked chronic inflammation to a number of neurodegenerative disorders including alzheimer's disease (AD), parkinson's disease (PD), and multiple sclerosis (MS). In the central nervous system, microglia, the resident innate immune cells play major role in...

Background: The nursing students should acquire practical and theoretical competence required for the patients' care during their 4 years of education. This involves proper use of time. The purpose of this study was to investigate how nursing students manage their time despite the academic difficulties and obstacles. Methods: This qualitative study was carried out through grounded theory met...

Participation in the “honor culture” of poor black inner cities puts young men on constant alert for challenges to their reputations. Hypothetically, this vigilance raises their testosterone (T), which in turn facilitates dominance contests that may end violently. One prior study reports the predicted hormonal pattern including higher T among young black men with low education, compared to youn...

This research aims to identify interactional patterns in the ESP online teaching mode of fifth semester English Department at Universitas Negeri Medan. applies descriptive quantitative methodology and focuses on class A Department's semester, which consisted 36 students one lecturer who taught utilizing Google Meet as platform. study's data three audiovisual recordings made by lecturer. The wer...

This paper analyzes a common‐value, first‐price auction with state‐dependent participation. The number of bidders, which is unobservable to them, depends on the true value. For participation patterns many bidders in each state, bidding equilibrium may be “pooling” type—with high probability, winning bid same across states and below ex ante expected value—or “partially revealing” no significant ...