child abuse is a critical and extensive problem. each year, in the united states, almost more than a million children are abused, and related injuries are accounted for 2,000 to 5,000 children deaths. physicians are in an excellent and legal position to identify and report cases of child abuse and neglect. this guideline was provided to help general practitioners to identify and direct the diff...

objective: bad news disclosure is one of the most complex tasks of physicians. recent evidences indicate that patients' and physicians' attitude toward breaking bad news has been changed since few years ago. the evidence of breaking bad news is different across cultures. the aim of this study is to evaluate the attitude of medical staff toward breaking bad news to provide a clinical guideline i...

background: this study provided the theoretical basis for program development through a new conceptualization of the concept of family physician related health care. methods: critical interpretive synthesis (cis) was used to carry out qualitative analysis and synthesis of the literature from 2006 until 2015. at the beginning of cis, the search strategy was designed to access electronic database...

background rational prescription is a considerable issue which must be paid more attention to assess the behavior of prescribers. the aim of this study was to examine factors affecting family physicians’ drug prescribing.   methods we carried out a retrospective cross-sectional study in khuzestan province, iran in 2011. nine hundred eighty-six prescriptions of 421 family physicians (including 3...

background: although ionizing radiation is widely used to diagnose many diseases, the relevant hazards are known to be as an important limitation of its application. it is believed that the awareness of ionizing radiation dose values is one of the main stages in patient's radiation protection. the purpose of this study has been to investigate the level of physicians' knowledge about r...

PURPOSE The purpose of this paper is to describe current physician scheduling and concomitant opportunities for improvement in public hospital departments in Sweden. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH A total of 13 departments spread geographically across Sweden covering seven different specialties participated in the study. Data were collected through interviews with individuals involved in creatin...

objective: one of the most important characteristics of an effective employee performance is person's sympathetic components of emotional intelligence that has been increasingly considered in an enterprise environment. in this article, we will survey this component in promoting citizenship behavior of physicians. materials and methods: in a descriptive, co relational and statistical community a...

BACKGROUND This article was written to determine the extent of consumers' needs for physician information and what information consumers use in decision making when selecting a physician. METHODS To collect data, a self-administered questionnaire was hand-delivered to 700 patients who visited the general surgery outpatient departments of seven hospitals during June 2003. A multiple logistic r...

background: the family physician plan has recently been implemented in three provinces of iran on a pilot basis and is going to be implemented throughout iran in the future. through a qualitative design, this study aims to determine probable implementation challenges of family physician plan in kerman. methods: this study was conducted in kerman in 2013. data were collected through interviews w...