Cardiologists in training: be prepared for exams!

Dare to be prepared for a disaster nursing - An interview study with nursing students in Indonesia

Background: Indonesia is home to approximately 400 active volcanoes located on three different tectonic plates. Thus, the country frequently experiences natural disasters, and health care in emergencies and disasters is important. Therefore, the aim of this  study was to describe nursing students’ experiences of nursing education in disaster nursingat one university in Indonesia.  Materials an...

Be prepared.

Remember back when Medicaid was Medicaid and Medicare was Medicare? These state and federal programs, which respectively provide medical assistance to low-income families and health insurance for individuals with disabilities and the elderly, were complicated enough when they became law as part of the Social Security Act in 1965. Now we've added managed care to the mix.

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Learning to be prepared

Behavioral economics provides several motivations for the common observation that agents appear somewhat unwilling to deviate from recent choices. More recent choices can be more salient than other choices, or more readily available in the agent’s mind. Alternatively, agents may have formed habits, or use rules of thumb. This paper provides discrete-time adjustment processes for strategic games...

Why cardiologists should be interested in air pollution.

Despite major improvements in air quality resulting from increasingly stringent legislation, there remains a strong association between daily mortality and current levels of air pollution. Growing epidemiological evidence suggests that many, perhaps the majority, of these deaths are caused by cardiovascular disease.