Factors influencing patient education in shared medical appointments: Integrative literature review

Shared Medical Appointments for Chronic Medical Conditions: A Systematic Review

Shared medical appointments: increasing patient access without increasing physician hours.

Shared medical visits are a new concept in patient care. Doctors perform a series of one-on-one patient encounters in a group setting during a 90-minute visit and manage and advise each patient in front of the others. Patients benefit from improved access to their physician and significantly increased education, while providers can boost their access and productivity without increasing hours. S...

Factors influencing face aging. Literature review.

The aim of this review is to analyze different factors which can affect natural face aging by delaying or expediting the process. Various studies shows that different factors such as ultraviolet light, gravity, habits, teeth loss may affect face appearance during aging. The articles from 1959 to 2011 related to topic were identified. 47 articles were selected for data collection.

Key Literature in Medical Education Podcast Review

Growing research suggests that simply encoding data (i.e. traditional study – taking notes, generating lists etc.) may not be as effective as concept mapping (i.e. make unique and personalized links between new and existing knowledge construct a diagram with nodes representing concepts and drawing links between nodes to represent relationships). This construct assumes that learning only occurs ...

Social networking in nursing education: integrative literature review

OBJECTIVE to identify the use of social networking in nursing education. METHOD integrative literature review in the databases: LILACS, IBECS, Cochrane, BDENF, SciELO, CINAHL, Scopus, PubMed, CAPES Periodicals Portal and Web of Science, using the descriptors: social networking and nursing education and the keywords: social networking sites and nursing education, carried out in April 2015. R...