OBJECTIVE To investigate the virtual importance of identified barriers to preventive interventions and to explore the association between physicians' characteristics and their attitudes towards prevention. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional survey of 182 randomly selected family and general physicians (164/182=90% response rate) from total of 385 general physicians from 5 health sectors o...

background: the jefferson scale of attitude toward physician-nurse collaboration (jsapnc) has been used to measure the attitude regarding collaboration between nurses and physicians. the aim of this preliminary study was to test the reliability and validity of an arabic version of the questionnaire and adapt it for use in palestine. methods: forward-backward translation of guidelines provided i...

objective(s):familial mediterranean fever (fmf), an inherited autosomal recessive disorder, is frequently present among individuals of mediterranean origin. differences in the clinical manifestations of fmf between different ethnic groups have been documented. the aim of the present study was to determine the most common characteristics of fmf and the relationship between clinical findings and ...

This study analyzes data from a national survey to estimate the proportion of physicians who currently object to physician-assisted suicide (PAS), terminal sedation (TS), and withdrawal of artificial life support (WLS), and to examine associations between such objections and physician ethnicity, religious characteristics, and experience caring for dying patients. Overall, 69% of the US physicia...

This article identifies practice- and physician-related characteristics associated with the increased use of EHRs by physicians in outpatient practices. Two Florida surveys conducted in 2005 and 2008 on physician use of EHRs were examined to determine the practice and physician characteristics associated with increased EHR use over time. Based on multivariate analysis, several variables were fo...

A profile of pediatric medical practice is developed using data on visits to officebased physicians collected during the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey in 1980 and 1981. Descriptive statistics highlight physician and practice characteristics, patient characteristics, and aspects of patient condition and management. The first group includes analyses of visit data according to the type a...

OBJECTIVE To provide a "big picture" overview of the characteristics and outcomes of recent criminal and administrative cases in which physicians have been criminally prosecuted or charged by medical boards with offenses related to inappropriate prescribing of opioid analgesics. DESIGN We identified as many criminal and administrative cases of these types as possible that occurred between 199...

CONTEXT Conflicts over treatment decisions have been linked to physicians' emotional states. OBJECTIVE To measure the prevalence of emotional exhaustion and conflicts over treatment decisions among US obstetrician/gynaecologists (ob/gyns), and to examine the relationship between the two and the physician characteristics that predict each. METHODS Mailed survey of a stratified random sample ...

improvements in knowledge as well as technology and industrial workers’ exposure to adverse factors have caused more attention to be paid to the workers’ occupational health. according to the report by w.h.o., noise, as one of the most important physical factors of workplace, causes 4 million dollars health damage every day. noise can also reduce the workers’ morale as well as motivation and, c...

This article addresses why in the current context of driving toward improved value, physician groups ought to consider developing a patient safety evaluation system and reporting to a patient safety organization. The fundamental challenge to physicians to succeed in the future is to clinically integrate within their own practices, standardizing to the evidence base, and measuring their performa...