CONTEXT Specific regulation of laboratories performing molecular genetic tests may be needed to ensure standards and quality assurance (QA) and safeguard patient rights to informed consent and confidentiality. However, comprehensive analysis of current practices of such laboratories, important for assessing the need for regulation and its impact on access to testing, has not been conducted. O...

BACKGROUND In veterinary clinical pain studies, there is a paucity of data on test-retest variability in Clinical Metrology Instruments (CMIs), and it is unknown whether CMIs should be administered using independent (respondents not permitted to see previous answers) or dependent (respondents shown previous answers) interviewing. OBJECTIVES To compare baseline variability in CMIs designed to ...

Background: Nurses more than other health care workers (HCWs) are susceptible to numerous job-related hazards, as acquiring infection of Covid-19 and burnout syndrome due their nature occupations. Aim the study: evaluate effect multidimensional nursing interventions on reducing risk among nurses caring patients. Design: Quasi Experimental design used conduct this study. Setting: The current stu...

Unemployed individuals of pre-retirement age face significant challenges in finding a new job. This may be partly due to their lack of psychological readiness to go through a job interview. We view psychological readiness as one of the psychological attitude components. It is an active conscious readiness to interact with a certain aspect of reality, based on previously acquired experience. It ...

In computer-assisted telephone interviewing, questions are displayed on a computer screen, and responses are entered directly into a computerized data file. In 1981-1982, a randomized trial of computer-assisted telephone interviewing, compared with telephone interviewing with responses directly recorded on printed questionnaires, was carried out. The respondents were surrogates for 400 white Fl...

PURPOSE Despite an increasing interest in motivational interviewing as a strategy to facilitate behavior change in people with cardiovascular disease, its use in cardiac rehabilitation (CR) appears minimal. Therefore, it is unclear whether the clinical method of motivational interviewing requires modification for the CR population, in which it could be argued that people are motivated and engag...

CONTEXT We previously found that length of stay in the intensive care unit (ICU) after abdominal aortic surgery increased when fewer ICU nurses were available per patient. We hypothesized that having fewer nurses increases the risk for medical complications. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the association between nurse-to-patient ratio in the ICU and risk for medical and surgical complications after ab...