BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Heightened awareness of the importance of appropriate pain management in health care delivery has stimulated researchers to examine the impact of patient pain on medical encounters. In this study, we explored how patient pain might influence the physician-patient interaction during medical visits. METHODS New adult patients (n = 509) were randomized to see primary ca...

Background. Relatively little is known about patient characteristics associated with doctor-patient interaction style and satisfaction with the medical visit. Objective. The primary study objectives are to assess: whether doctors interact in a more or less patient-centered style with elderly patients and whether patient age moderates the relationship between interaction style and satisfaction, ...

Patient safety is a global concern that involves all healthcare members, so that achieving a high level safe care is responsibility of all healthcare services, particularly nurses. This qualitative study aimed to describe nurses’ perspectives on factors affecting patient safety. We recruited 32 nurses working in teaching hospitals by purposeful sampling method. Data were collected by semi-struc...

signs and symptoms of d ph toxicity were seen in an epileptic child who had received dph and mp concurrently. in the absence of liver and kidney disease and any intercurrent infection, and with the patient's recovery following the withdrawal of dph, it appears that drug-drug interaction is the most logical explanation for dph intoxication.