BACKGROUND Increasingly complex structural/congenital cardiac interventions require efforts at reducing patient/staff radiation exposure. Standard follow-up protocols are often inadequate in detecting all patients that may have sustained radiation burns. METHODS Single-center retrospective chart review divided into four intervals. Phase 1 (07/07-06/08, 413 procedures (proc)): follow-up based ...

OBJECTIVE To assess the Knowledge, Attitude and Practices (KAP) towards diabetes of Family Physicians (FPs) working in urban and rural areas of Pakistan. METHODOLOGY A cross-sectional survey was conducted on FPs through an interview by a trained person and filling up a questionnaire focused on diagnosis, treatment and complications of diabetes. The answers were scored by assigning marks and c...

Extensive experiments and calculation have shown that interstitials in p-Si diffuse athermally, leading to the conclusion that vacancy-interstitial pairs, or Frenkel pairs (FPs), either rapidly recombine or dissociate, even at cryogenic temperatures. More recent experiments, however, suggest that FPs persist to 150 K. Here we report first-principles calculations of FP properties and resolve the...

Despite continued growth of the primary care workforce, profound maldistribution persists among providers available for the care of children. Family physicians (FPs) spend, on average, approximately 10% of their total practice time caring for children; however, given that, among physician specialties, FPs are geographically distributed most evenly across the US population, the self-reported dec...

Governments in ontario have promised family physicians (fps) that participation in primary care reform would be financially as well as professionally rewarding. We compared work satisfaction, incomes and work patterns of fps practising in different models to determine whether the predicted benefits to physicians really materialized. study participants included 332 fps in ontario practising in f...

OBJECTIVE To identify differences and gaps in recommendations to patients for the management of sport-related concussion among FPs, emergency department physicians (EDPs), and pediatricians. DESIGN A self-administered, multiple-choice survey was e-mailed to FPs, EDPs, and pediatricians. The survey had been assessed for content validity. SETTING Two community teaching hospitals in the greate...

OBJECTIVE To determine provincial trends in provision of intrapartum care by general practitioners and family physicians (GP/FPs) for the 11 years from 1984 to 1995. DESIGN Analyses of provincial Medical Care Fee-for-Service Utilization data for births from 1984-1985 to 1994-1995. SETTING 10 provinces of Canada. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Proportion of vaginal births billed by GP/FPs (expresse...

BACKGROUND Dementia is often not formally diagnosed in primary care. To what extent this is due to family physicians' (FPs) watchful waiting, reluctance to diagnose or to their unawareness of the presence of cognitive impairment is unclear. The objective of this study was to assess FPs' awareness of cognitive impairment by comparing their evaluation of the absence or presence of cognitive impai...