OBJECTIVE It is well documented that clozapine treatment causes agranulocytosis, but it can also induce drowsiness, constipation, and hypersalivation; however, these symptoms are usually less severe. It has been reported that clozapine-treated patients with schizophrenia and psychiatric healthcare professionals consider different side effects to be important. The aim of this study was to assess...

BACKGROUND Effective delivery of health care is dependent on health manpower. In Thailand, an insufficiency of human resources relates to an inequitable distribution of healthcare professionals rather than to insufficiencies overall. Both internal and external factors influence healthcare professionals' choice of where to work, although perceptions rather than actual circumstances are more infl...

Background and Objectives: Pharmacovigilance is central to the control of the menace of adverse drugs reactions. Despite the fact that development of policy and practice framework to improve patients’ safety partly rely on availability of authentic data on pharmacovigilance activities, knowledge about pharmacovigilance activities among healthcare professionals in Nigeria is limited. To help fil...

Patients regard healthcare professionals, particularly physicians, as role models for leading a healthy lifestyle. Healthcare professionals’ own behaviour and attitudes concerning healthy lifestyles have an influence on the counselling of patients. A recent survey in the USA reported ,6% tobacco use among healthcare professionals [1], while 41% of Chinese male medical doctors smoke [2]. Tobacco...

OBJECTIVES Japan has a universal healthcare system, and this paper describes the reality of the healthcare services provided, as well as current issues with the system. METHODS Academic, government, and press reports on Japanese healthcare systems and healthcare guidelines were reviewed. RESULTS The universal healthcare system of Japan is considered internationally to be both low-cost and e...

This study presents a conceptual model to investigate technology management competency required by healthcare IS professionals and its impacts on IT-healthcare partnerships. Technology management competency, at the broad level, comprises the business strategic thinking, external knowledge resources linkage, healthcare technology integration capability as well as management and interpersonal ski...

BACKGROUND Healthcare professionals can play a crucial role in optimizing the health status of patients with cardiovascular risk factors (abdominal obesity, high blood pressure, low HDL cholesterol, elevated triglycerides and elevated blood glucose). In order to do this, it is imperative that we understand the social-cognitive determinants (including habits) that underlie healthcare professiona...

With rapid progress in wireless sensor networks (WSN) and pervasive computing technology, development of WSN-based pervasive healthcare systems, which provide patients and healthcare professionals with a convenient and efficient e-health environment, have become one of important and popular research topics in Health Information Systems (HIS). This paper proposes a Sensor-based Pervasive Healthc...