OBJECTIVE To evaluate the inter-rater reliability between patient and health care provider of the indicator plaster neuropad (IPN) in the diagnosis of peripheral neuropathy and the feasibility of the IPN. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS A total of 156 patients with diabetes were examined. At the same visit, the IPN was evaluated by the health care provider. Afterward, the IPN with written instruc...

Introduction: Promoting women’s health improves not only individual health but also the health of the family, community and the nation. As per Safe Motherhood Initiative all pregnant women must receive basic but professional antenatal care (ANC). However safe motherhood is still a dream in India as well as in the third world countries. Mothers who had not received good quality ANC were found to...

BACKGROUND Lesbians have more health risks than other women but access preventive medical care less frequently. OBJECTIVE To test the influence of (i) provider inquiry about sexual orientation, (ii) perceived provider gay-positivity and (iii) patient disclosure of sexual orientation on regular health care use in a sample of Canadian lesbians. METHODS A path analysis using community survey d...

background: the quality of care from the perspective of people with type 2 diabetes using a new model (cqmh) including three dimensions of quality in health care (technical, service and customer quality) was assessed. methods: a cross-sectional survey with a sample of 577 people with type 2 diabetes was conducted. measures were self-reported adherence to national guidelines for technical qualit...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Improving medical regimen adherence is essential for maximizing the therapeutic potential of treatments for pediatric chronic illness. Health care providers are uniquely positioned to deliver adherence promotion interventions. However, no studies have summarized the effectiveness of health care provider-delivered adherence interventions. The objective of this study was ...

Concerns about our current health care system have not changed. As nurses we know that medical errors and “near misses”, in particular, often go unreported. Recently one of my nurse colleagues who had been a patient in a major medical center recalled her near misses as a recipient of care. She was reluctant to file a report as she did not want repeated contacts by the institution. More importan...