BACKGROUND A substantial number of patients in general hospitals will evince substance abuse problems but a majority is unlikely to be adequately identified in the referral-consultation process. This failure may preclude patients from receiving effective interventions for substance use disorders. OBJECTIVES 1. To evaluate all referred patients for possible substance use disorders. 2. To ascer...

BACKGROUND Reduced length of hospital stay following childbirth has placed increasing demands on community-based post-birth care services in Australia. Queensland is one of several states in Australia in which nurses are employed privately by pharmacies to provide maternal and child health care, yet little is known about their prevalence, attributes or role. The aims of this paper are to (1) ex...

OBJECTIVE To study postnatal and postabortion outpatient care for adolescents in relation to the guidelines of the Brazilian Ministry of Health. METHODS The present cross-sectional study was conducted between 2011 and 2012 via interviews with coordinators from 147 of 148 (99.3%) National Health System facilities providing sexual and reproductive healthcare for adolescents in the city of Rio d...

OBJECTIVE To identify factors that can enhance the use of e-consultation in primary care. We investigated the barriers, demands and motivations regarding e-consultation among patients with no e-consultation experience (non-users). METHODS We used an online survey to gather data. Via online banners on 26 different websites of patient organizations we recruited primary care patients with chroni...

BACKGROUND Ethics consultation is used regularly by some doctors, whereas others are reluctant to use these services. AIM To determine factors that may influence doctors to request or not request ethics consultation. METHODS A survey questionnaire was distributed to doctors on staff at the University Community Hospital in Tampa, Florida, USA. The responses to the questions on the survey wer...

Introduction. Physical activity is important for health and well-being; however, rates of postnatal physical activity can be low. This paper reports the secondary outcomes of a trial aimed at increasing physical activity among postnatal women. Methods. More Active MuMs in Stirling (MAMMiS) was a randomised controlled trial testing the effect of physical activity consultation and pram walking gr...

the high comorbidity of medical and psychiatric diagnoses in the general hospital population requires collaboration between various medical fields to provide comprehensive health care. this study aims to find the rate of psychiatric consultations, their timing and overall diagnostic trend in comparison to previous studies. tehran university of medical sciences has got an active psychiatric cons...

Introduction: Internet and online services are part of everyday life. We perceive as normal their use in various activities. It’s normal for healthcare and medicine to use them. Aim: To investigate e-mail use for online consultation by GPs. Materials and methods: Written questionnaire. Results: Physicians don’t have business e-mail and don’t use their personal one for online consultation. Desir...

Electronic consultation (e-consultation) is an emerging tool that primary care clinicians can use to communicate with specialists about patients asynchronously--that is, at different times that are convenient for each physician. To conduct an e-consultation, clinicians use either a Web-based program or a shared electronic medical record. Early adopters of e-consultation describe positive experi...