BACKGROUND Musculoskeletal pain is common in adults, with the hand being frequently affected. Healthcare services have the potential to be of benefit to adults with hand pain and problems, through promotion and facilitation of self-management. METHODS This paper explores existing self-management in a UK population of community-dwelling adults aged 50 years and over using data from surveys and...

It is common for parents to have concerns or questions regarding their child. However, parental are not always recognised by the youth healthcare professional. At same time, all agree with identified Identifying and agreeing on an essential step in assessment of care needs within child health care. This article describes effects innovative 'GIZ'2 methodology joint care-needs developed support p...

The importance of extensive, high-quality counseling supervision has become increasingly recognized as critical to learning, maintaining, and improving professional counseling skills (Bernard & Goodyear, 1992). Yet, for many professional counselors, the availability of regular counseling supervision by a qualified supervisor is very limited or frequently nonexistent. Even counselors who receive...

OBJECTIVE Primary health providers serve an important role in providing and promoting annual influenza immunization to high-risk groups and their close contacts. The purpose of this analysis was to determine whether consultation with a medical professional increases the likelihood of receiving a flu shot among women who have given birth in the past five years and to determine whether this assoc...

the cytology study is effective and reliable technique in intraoperative consultation. this study was performed to evaluate the accuracy of the cytology study in intraoperative consultation of the breast lesions. 125 specimens of the breast lesions were examined and studied in imam khomeini hospital during the years 1998-99. the sensitivity, specificity and accuracy for cytological method were ...

OBJECTIVE: To determine whether shoe style has any effect on perceptions of a female physician’s personal characteristics when viewed alongside a transcript of a short outpatient consultation. PARTICIPANTS: Thirty postgraduate students of management or computer science. Twenty-five questionnaires were actually completed. DESIGN: Respondents were randomly assigned to one of three groups, balance...

BACKGROUND The impact of changing non-verbal consultation behaviours is unknown. AIM To assess brief physician training on improving predominantly non-verbal communication. DESIGN AND SETTING Cluster randomised parallel group trial among adults aged ≥16 years attending general practices close to the study coordinating centres in Southampton. METHOD Sixteen GPs were randomised to no traini...