BACKGROUND Guidelines from medical societies suggest recommendations for the appropriate request of tests. In 2009, the Brazilian Society of Cardiology (BSC) published new guidelines for transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) request. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the prevalence of Class III requests for TTE, as defined by the BSC Guidelines and analyze these requests profile comparing a public univers...

Compare the rationality of prescriptions between private practitioners and physicians of a tertiary care hospital. A prospective study was done by reviewing 150 prescriptions each of private practitioners and physicians of a tertiary care hospital over a period of 2 months. The rationality assessment was done using the method adopted by Gajjar. Collected data entered and analyzed using Microsof...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether treatment in a private versus public hospital was an independent predictor of survival outcomes in patients with colorectal cancer. DESIGN Retrospective, population-based study. SETTING Tertiary care hospitals. PARTICIPANTS All patients diagnosed with colorectal cancer in Western Australia between 1993 and 2003. INTERVENTIONS Management in private versus p...

Implication for health policy/practice/research/medical education: This article presents the concerns of not involving the younger generation in the management section of hospitals especially in the private practice sector. Copyright © 2013, Trauma Research Center; Licensee Kowsar Ltd. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http:/...