Clients expect nutrition care to be provided by personal trainers in Australia

Should Clinical Services Provided by Pharmacists be Compensated?

Should Clinical Services Provided by Pharmacists be Compensated?

Measuring factors that influence the utilisation of preventive care services provided by general practitioners in Australia

BACKGROUND Relatively little research attention has been given to the development of standardised and psychometrically sound scales for measuring influences relevant to the utilisation of health services. This study aims to describe the development, validation and internal reliability of some existing and new scales to measure factors that are likely to influence utilisation of preventive care ...

Condition of religious care provided to hospitalized patients

Introduction: Faith and religious beliefs are important and even the most fundamental assets of life. Physical and spiritual health and also length of life is owed to beliefs of people. A Muslim considers performing religious affairs as the most and best way of religious commitment. Providing religious care to those in needs is patient's right and it's an important religious duty. Objective: Th...

Should Quality of Care Provided by Nighttime Intensivists Be Judged by Mortality?

We read in earnest the retrospective study by Kerlin et al 1 in the recent issue of CHEST (April 2015), which found that nighttime intensivist staffi ng is not associated with a reduction in ICU or hospital mortality rate and overall length of stay. Th is study, as the authors noted, supports the existing body of work, from a single-center randomized controlled trial, multicentered observation...