Objective: Developing competencies for interprofessional collaboration, including understanding other professionals' roles on teams, is an essential component of medical education. This study explored resident physicians' perceptions the clinical and responsibilities physician assistants (PAs) NPs in learning environment. Methods: Using a constructivist grounded theory approach, semistructured ...

Smart healthcare monitoring systems make use of IoT, the most recent technology. As a result, IoT incorporates one its critical applications, health and control system. Within those systems, individuals commonly pulse rate sensing devices, ECG sensor blood pressure with various embedded to collect observations from identification modules send them database machine so that records can be transfe...

BACKGROUND The healthcare management literature states that physicians often coordinate their activities within and between organizations through social networks. Previous studies have also documented the relationship between professional networks and physicians' attitudes toward evidence-based medicine (EBM). The present study sought associations between physicians' self-reported attitudes tow...

Background Patient–physician communication during clinical encounters is essential to ensure quality of care. Many studies have attempted improve patient–physician communication. Incorporating patient priorities into agenda setting and medical decision-making are fundamental patient-centered Efficient scalable approaches needed empower patients speak up prepare physicians respond. Leveraging el...

Background and Aims: The current paradigm of specialist physician-managed treatment of chronic hepatitis C virus infection (HCV) is inefficient in absorbing the approximately 3 million patients awaiting treatment in the United States. Task shifting-whereby specialist physicians screen patients for treatment eligibility but on-treatment monitoring is devolved to more abundant non-physician clini...

The Journal of Physician Assistant Education | 2007 Vol 18 No 2 INTRODUCTION The stethoscope is a popular instrument used by health care providers to evaluate the lung, heart, and abdominal sounds of their patients. Although clinicians are instructed about microbiology and the importance of maintaining clean medical instruments, the stethoscope may not be thought of as a potential source of nos...

BACKGROUND Despite the increasing interest in using non-physician clinicians in many low-income countries, little is known about the roles they play in typical health system settings. Prior research has concentrated on evaluating their technical competencies compared to those of doctors. This work explored perceptions of the roles of Kenyan non-physician clinicians (Clinical Officers (COs). M...

Pyrexia of unknown origin is a vexing problem to most of the clinicians. In some of the cases the condition of the patient fails to improve despite sincere attempts of the clinician and the supporting staffs. The situation is gloomier in inadequate infrastructure of subdivision and district level government health set ups. The situation gets worse if the patient dies unfortunately which more of...

The success of accountable care organizations (ACOs) under global payment may depend in part on a common yet poorly understood clinical decision: the patient referral in the outpatient setting. Fundamental to collaboration among physicians and other health care professionals, patient referrals have been largely ignored in the payment reform debate. Referral rates intheUnitedStatesmorethandouble...

Physicians are required to advocate for and counsel patients based on the best science and the interests of the individual while avoiding discrimination, ensuring equal access to health and mental services. Nonetheless, the communication gap between physician and patients has long been observed. To this end, the Institute for the Public Understanding of Health and Medicine of the Rutgers Univer...