When Physicians ‘Drift’ into New Practice, is it Good for Patients?

Quantitative Dengue Test: Is it Practical for Clinical Practice?

Good medical practice for occupational physicians.

A complaint has been lodged against an occupational physician, claiming pro-management bias and substandard care. How should he/she be judged for professional accountabil-ity? Indeed, what are the useful benchmarks to apply for performance appraisal? • A worker who is stressed at work exhibits early signs of depression. Should informing the managers and supervisors be a necessary part of the re...

Good medical practice: guidance for occupational physicians.

Following a catalogue of serious, highly publicized medical misdemeanours, the General Medical Council (GMC) has introduced plans for a new system of medical licensing in the UK called 'revalidation'. Under this, the onus will fall on individual doctors, including occupational physicians, to demonstrate their continuing fitness to practice. Doctors will need to show that they meet basic minimum...

Translating evidence into practice: how good is good enough?

The birth of the evidence-based medicine (EBM) movement in the early 1990s generated a greater interest in measuring the extent to which scientific knowledge was appropriately applied to therapeutic decisions. Investigators sought to challenge the widespread belief that only a minority of treatments provided to patients were based upon the best available scientific evidence. In 1995 Ellis and c...

Medical Errors Disclosure: Is It Good or Bad?

Background: In the treatment and health process, there are a lot of dangers to patients, and the increased number of medical errors is one of the most important circumstances of this process. Objective: The present research purposed to decrease medical errors through disclosure of them in hospitals of Tehran University of Medical Sciences. M...