background: physicians and medical students are at risk of exposure to a broad range of viral pathogens through percutaneous injury, contact of mucous membrane with blood, and other potentially infectious body fluids. the objective of this study was to determine the knowledge, attitude, and practice (kap) of physicians and medical students of rafsanjan university of medical sciences, iran, rega...

Physician Assistants (PAs) and Nurse Practitioners (NPs) are health professionals qualified and licensed to perform a wide variety of medical activities, including the direct provision of patient care.1 Although they are trained in different types of schools and licensed by different entities, in North Carolina PAs and NPs carry out very similar duties and have nearly identical authority to pra...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the usefulness of the 28-item Goldberg General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-28) in identifying psychosocial problems, and to determine how the questionnaire scores are related to stressful life events (SLE), use of health services, and individual variables (age, sex, employment status, socioeconomic group, and educational level). DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Alman...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study is to examine the quality of patient-reported communication with their health care providers using data from a large, statewide survey of patients. We examine the relationship between patient's race and ethnicity, type of health care provider, site of and continuity in care, and the quality of patient-provider communication. METHODS We analyze data from th...

background: many literatures have documented that psychosocial care can improve health outcomes and reduce morbidity in women with breast cancer. the aim of this study was to evaluate the opinion of the breast cancer professional team members on integration of psychosocial care in regular management of breast cancer. methods: a cross sectional sample of 313 physicians involving in diagnosis, tr...

results of the 120 distributed questionnaires, 94 questionnaires were completed and returned (78.3%). about 56.6% of participants used the internet to answer the questions about their patients. there was a significant relationship between patient-related barriers and manager-related barriers (r = 0.237, p = 0.023). post hoc tests showed that there is a significant difference between the attitud...

background physician directories are among the most important databases in health systems. objectives the aim of this study was to estimate the accuracy of physician directories in tehran, iran. materials and methods this was a cross-sectional study. tehran, the capital of iran, was selected for study. specialists', fellowships' and subspecialists' information were extracted from islamic republ...

background: although ionizing radiation is very important in diagnostic and treatment of many diseases, the hazards of this radiation are considerable and irrefutable. one of the main stages in radiation protection is knowledge about radiation dose in radiological investigation. the aim of this study was to determine the physicians' knowledge in radiological examinations. materials and methods:...

nutritional care is an important part of medical care of patients and plays a key role in improvement, prevention and control of malnutrition in hospitals. the current study aimed to determine the nutrition knowledge level of doctors, nurses and nutritionists in some teaching hospitals in tehran in 2008. in a cross-sectional study a total of 198 samples including 28 nutritionists, 81 nurses and...