An extensive search using full-text CINAHL and key words “nurse practitioner” and “acute care” (36 hits); “primary care nurse practitioner” and “acute care” (0 hits); “nurse practitioner” and “hospitalist” (6 hits); “nurse practitioner” and “intensivist” (1 hit) was conducted by Board staff. Google scholar, Medline and ancestry were also used to locate additional references. The literature repo...

A pathologic fracture may be an acute event or a chronic long-standing ill-defined problem, and the causes are numerous. The dental practitioner may be the first health care practitioner to see a patient with a pathologic fracture of the jaw. This case report is intended to inform dental practitioners about pathologic fractures and the need for prompt referral to minimize patient suffering.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To evaluate the quality of the emergency nurse practitioner service provided to people presenting to a rural urgent care centre with minor injuries. The three objectives that were focused were an evaluation of the safety and effectiveness of the emergency nurse practitioner service, an assessment of patients' satisfaction with the emergency nurse practitioner service and a d...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The utility of patient self-administered health history questionnaires has been extensively studied in physician practice settings, but little such research has been done in populations germane to physical therapist practice. The purpose of this study was to document the accuracy of a self-administered questionnaire for collecting patients' history of illness, surgery, an...

Bariatric Surgery inMinority Patients Before andAfter Implementation of a Centers of Excellence Program Numerous studies documenting better surgical outcomes at hospitals with higher procedure volume havemotivated proposals toconcentrateelectivesurgery inhigh-volumesettings.1 However, concerns about access to care, doubts about causality of the volume-outcomes relationship, and lack of easily i...

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BACKGROUND The implementation of laparoscopy into Dutch gynecologic practice is slow. This study was conducted to assess the current state of laparoscopy, to identify factors influencing the implementation and to find solutions toward a better implementation. METHODS In 2003 a questionnaire was sent to all 151 gynecologists who finished residency within the previous 5 years. The questionnaire...

In recent years, medical schools all over the world have instituted a variety of curricula to teach communication skills, professional values and ethics to medical students. Studies on the student attitudes towards doctor-patient relationships are lacking in Nepal. The present study was carried out to obtain information on the sharing and caring dimensions of the doctor-patient relationship and...