General practitioners and the independent contractor status.

Should general practice give up the independent contractor status?

Frequency of Burnout among General Practitioners of Kerman City, 2008

Background & Aims: Excessive stress in addition to causing physical and psychological problems in General Practitioners (GPs), can lead to decreased quality of patient care. This research aimed to find the frequency of burnout in general practitioners of Kerman city. Methods: This descriptive analytic study was carried out on 150 GPS in Kerman city in 2009. Data gathering was done by Maslach qu...

Correlation between anti-HBs antibody level with education status and duration of practice among dentists in Qazvin city

Correlation between anti-HBs antibody level with education status and duration of practice among dentists in Qazvin city Dr. Sharifi, M.* -Dr. Borhan Modjabi, K.** -Dr. Salmani, M.R.***- Mostajeri, A.**** -Alipour Heidari, M.***** *Assistant Professor of Microbiology Dept., Faculty of Medicine, Qazvin University of Medical Sciences. **Assistant Professor of Oral Medicine & Diagnosis Dept., Facu...

Study of medical errors status and its necessity of education from view point of Lorestan general practitioners

Abstract Background: Medical errors are among the main problems of health and treatment in the world which are responsible for mortality and psychophysical complications in patients, families, and even in the society each year. Medical errors have been increasingly taken into consideration in different countries. Different strategies have been explored to prevent medical errors, one of which i...

Determining the Frequency of Defensive Medicine Among General Practitioners in Southeast Iran

Background Defensive medicine prompts physicians not to admit high-risk patients who need intensive care. This phenomenon not only decreases the quality of healthcare services, but also wastes scarce health resources. Defensive medicine occurs in negative and positive forms. Hence, the present study aimed to determine frequency of positive and negative defensive medicine behaviors and their und...