The goal of this study was to describe the attitudes of U.S. neurologists specializing in dementia toward the use of amyloid imaging in the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD). A cross-sectional electronic physician survey of dementia specialists at U.S. medical schools was performed. The response rate for the survey was 51.9% (135/260). Greater than 83% of respondents plan to use amyloid ima...

The main goal of this study was to identify the main distinctive radiographic characteristics of different unilocular radiolucent mandibular lesions based on the criteria used by different groups of specialists during the process of radiograph interpretation to arrive at a correct diagnosis. A total of 24 panoramic radiographs were selected exhibiting the following lesions: ameloblastoma, kerat...

Cross-institutional longitudinal Electronic Health Records (EHR), as introduced in Austria at the moment, increase the challenge of information overload of healthcare professionals. We developed an innovative cross-institutional EHR query prototype that offers extended query options, including searching for specific information items or sets of information items. The available query options wer...

BACKGROUND The "gatekeeping" model of access to specialty care has been an essential managed care tool, intended to control costs of care and promote coordination between generalists and specialists. OBJECTIVE To investigate the impact of removing gatekeeping on specialist utilization. METHODS A capitated multispecialty group discontinued a gatekeeping system on April 1, 1998. We assessed t...

Word Count: 249 (including titles) Main Text Word count: 1422 (including titles) Number of tables: 2 Deemed exempt from full review by University Research Ethics Committee (UREC) (University of Dundee, UREC Reference number: 11077) This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: ‘Bedside Teaching: Specialists versus Non-specialists’, Clinical Teacher 13:2 (2016), which has been publ...