Objective: Physical and mental health are closely related. Psychiatric problems increase in the presence of a physical illness. Consultation liaison psychiatry provides combination medical treatment, psychiatric psychosocial care to patients when necessary. In this study, we aimed examine consultation-liaison services provided by child adolescent department university hospital within two years ...

Background and objectives Patients who come for a consultation at a general practice clinic as outpatients often suffer from background anxiety and depression. The psychological state of such patients can alleviate naturally; however, there are cases when these symptoms persist. This study investigated the realities and factors behind anxiety/depression becoming prolonged. Methods Participant...

BACKGROUND Patient expectations have been recognized as a factor for patient satisfaction in medical consultations. Although various studies explored the relationship between patient expectations and patient satisfaction in developed countries, there is a lack of research evidence in Ethiopia where the meeting of patient expectations could relate to satisfaction. OBJECTIVE To assess the relat...

BACKGROUND Recognizing the diverse presentation of neurological conditions that emergency physicians encounter can be challenging, and management of these patients often requires consultation with a neurologist. Accurate diagnosis is critical in neurological emergencies because patient outcomes are often dependent on timely treatment. Our primary objective was to ascertain whether consultant ne...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate parental recall of surgical risks and benefits in pediatric otolaryngology and to assess for factors that may influence recall. STUDY DESIGN Prospective cohort study. SETTING Academic pediatric otolaryngology clinic. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Eighty-four parents of children <6 years of age who underwent consultation for adeno/tonsillectomy and/or tympanostomy tube inserti...

Consultations on telephone are ever increasing especially in primary healthcare. Currently the estimated total number consultations in England rose from 224.5 million to 243.1 million in 1995/1996 to 303.9 million to 313.6 million in 2008/2009, out of which 3% of consultations in 1995/1996 were telephone consultations which increased to 12% in 2008/2009. Literature search was done on published ...

BACKGROUND Attention to patients with acute minor-illnesses requesting same-day consultation represents a major burden in primary care. The workload is assumed by general practitioners in many countries. A number of reports suggest that care to these patients may be provided, at in least in part, by nurses. However, there is scarce information with respect to the applicability of a program of n...

introduction:  one of the most frequent issues nurses encounter with after or during cancer-related surgeries is pain. for postoperative pain relief, different nonpharmacologic interventions, such as nurse–patient communication, mental support, preoperative education, and consultation can be used. doing such interventions may decrease postoperative pain. however, the research results regarding ...

Emotional distress can be a potential barrier to shared decision making (SDM), yet affect is typically not systematically assessed in medical consultation. We examined whether urological patients report anxiety or depression prior consultation and if emotional predicts decisional conflict thereafter. recruited large sample of outpatients (N = 397) with range different diagnoses (42 % oncologica...

telemedicine is an indispensable tool in the hands of doctors to accelerate and facilitate the process of data interchange. to publicize and distribute the culture of utilizing this technology and providing the necessary equipment for this purpose and also to commence some useful activities in this field of science in iran, the researchers group have designed and performed a telemedicine intern...