BACKGROUND Little attention has been paid to understanding the impact of values, attributes and characteristics of drugs workers on therapeutic relationships and treatment outcomes. Interaction of values with other variables is considered to be of importance since values play a role in determining attitudes and behaviours. This exploratory study investigates the impact of drug workers' personal...

Many contemporary analyses of personal Internet use during work explain the behavior in terms of workplace disaffection. However, evidence for this interpretation is mixed. This article posits that an approach emphasizing the expected outcomes of Internet use more effectively explains the behavior. The 2 approaches are tested using survey data collected from more than 1,000 U.S.-based computer-...

Introduction The rapidly aging US population is resulting in major challenges including delivering quality care at lower costs in the face of a critical health-care workforce shortage. The movement toward home care has dramatically increased the need for qualified, paid personal care aides (PCAs). Adequate PCA training that focuses on skills for person-centered, at home support is an imperative...

When I was a medical student and junior doctor in the early 1980s I saw many patients on the wards in hospital with this terrible illness for which we could do little. When the heart fails as a pump one of the main manifestations is accumulation of fluid due to retention of sodium and water by the kidneys which also malfunction as a result of reduced blood flow and other mechanisms. Fluid accum...

The incidence of personal watercraft (PWC)-related injuries have increased substantially recently along with its popularity as a recreational water sport.[1,2] PWCs are typically referred as Jet Ski or motorboat which are usually operated by young adults in an unconventional manner.[3] In 2013, there were 4,062 recreational boating accidents reported in the United States which resulted in 2,620...

Laboratory tests done with clinical specimens can only ever measure directly the quantity or condition of one or more parameters of the specimen. Responsibility for deciding the meaning of the test result in the clinic lies with the physician attending the patient concerned. The laboratory must, of course, ensure that each test is done with the most stringent possible quality controls to minimi...

systemized sabbatical leaves seem as an appropriate mechanism for fostering academic collaboration, improving academic capacities and developing professional capacity of faculty members in higher agricultural education system. this research was done with aim to identify and analysis expected outcomes and impacts of sabbatical leaves for professional development of agricultural faculty members. ...

Modern imaging capabilities has created a renal tumor stage and size migration with approximately 70% of patients today detected incidentally with a median tumor size of 4cm or less. In addition, our current understanding indicates that renal cortical tumors are a family of neoplasms with distinct histopathological and cytogenetic features and variable metastatic potential.The conventional c...

This article develops a theoretical model of the impact of workplace incivility on employees' occupational and psychological well-being. In Study 1, the authors tested the model on 1,158 employees, finding that satisfaction with work and supervisors, as well as mental health, partially mediated effects of personal incivility on turnover intentions and physical health; this process did not vary ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Although having a regular source of care is associated with positive health behaviors, its effect in specific disorders is not known. This study assessed differences in outcomes of patients with panic attacks, including symptoms, health care utilization, and treatment for panic symptoms based on the presence and specialty of a self-defined personal physician. METHODS...