Background: Healthcare resources are limited therefore, adequate, appropriate and timely allocation of important. Decision to invest on health care program can be made from the analysis information obtained cost consequences various alternative programs, often known as economic evaluation interventions.Aims: This write-up emphasizes importance evidence driven policy intervention whereby should ...

The Japanese Ministry of Health and Welfare has implemented a policy of paying physicians to explain the nature of the patient's medical condition and the treatment plan. We describe the precepts of this policy and examine ethical dimensions of this development. We question whether this policy will be sufficient to ensure patients will have the opportunity to become informed participants in med...

PURPOSE The purpose of this article was to describe the process by which research findings informed the successful passage of legislation designed to increase opportunities for physical activity in Mississippi, and discuss implications and lessons learned from this process. DESIGN AND SETTING The article is descriptive and conceptual, and addresses the collaborative process by which research,...

Contemporary research ethics policies started with reflection on the atrocities perpetrated upon concentration camp inmates by Nazi doctors. Apparently, as a consequence of that experience, the policies that now guide human subject research focus on the protection of human subjects by making informed consent the centerpiece of regulatory attention. I take the choice of context for policy design...

Journal of Medical Case Reports was launched with the aim of increasing the publication of case reports in the medical literature, because accurate reports of clinical experience are an essential part of the continued development of modern medicine [1]. All the journal's content is highly visible as it is available freely by online open access and indexed in a number of bibliographic databases....