Is a warm house a medical intervention?

Is Medical Application Software a New Strategy for Oncologists?

Is Dr House is a good diagnostics teacher for medical students?

Diagnosis strategy is difficult to teach to young students with limited clinical experience. We presented a possible way to use a student’ leisure activity, House (MD), as a teaching tool. Key words= diagnosis, likelihood ratio, medical education One of the most difficult courses for medical students is teaching of diagnostic strategy. The Bayesian approach to preand post-test probabilities, li...

Medical House blues.

Is there a psychiatrist in the house? Integrating child psychiatry into the pediatric medical home.

T he Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) is a model of primary care practice incorporating core principles of accessibility, coordination, comprehensiveness, continuity, cultural competence, and respecting and valuing the preferences of families. As our nation struggles to reform our health care system, the PCMH model is widely acknowledged to be the foundation of a high-value, effective syste...

Is There a Doctor in the House? Medical Worker Absence in India

The availability of medical providers, a crucial element in quality of care, depends not only on budgeting for and filling posts but also on ensuring that providers are not frequently absent. We present data from a nationally representative all-India survey (conducted in 2003) of over 1400 public health centers across 19 major states, in which survey enumerators physically verify the attendance...