CONFLICT OF INTEREST NONE DECLARED In order to speed up and simplify the self assessment and external assessment process, provide better overview and access to Accreditation Standards for Family Medicine Teams and better assessment documents archiving, Agency for Healthcare Quality and Accreditation in Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (AKAZ) has developed self assessment and externals asses...

Family assessment instruments can enhance the clinical judgment of child welfare practitioners by structuring decision-making processes and demonstrating the linkages between assessment, service provision, and child and family outcomes. This article describes the concept of family assessment in the child welfare context and provides an overview of the theoretical and disciplinary influences in ...

The clinical and validation studies published in this issue are very timely, as they continue to refine theoretical models and evidence-based family assessment measures for vulnerable pediatric chronic populations. The studies in this issue individually and collectively advance our understanding of what predicts and informs parental and family outcomes across a number of pediatric chronic illne...

treatment of refractory depression should be programmed consistent with a comprehensive assessment of diagnosis involving subgroups of depression, psychiatric disorders and concomitant medical disturbances. in this regard, admission and treatment should be compatible with the content of the case history precisely taken. in this conjunction some reasonable treatment could be suggested to the pat...

BACKGROUND Although the rationale for earlier screening of persons with a family history of colorectal cancer is plausible, there is no direct evidence that earlier assessment is either effective or cost-effective. OBJECTIVE To estimate the clinical and economic effect of using family history assessment to identify persons for colorectal cancer screening before age 50. METHODS We developed ...