Marketing concepts and definitions have remained relatively unchanged until recently. Electronic Customer Relationship Management (ECRM) has forced marketing managers to reevaluate how, when and to what extent they interact with their customers. Organizations will lose loyal customers if they do not recognize and react to the changing demands of customers. In addition, marketing to a new a cust...

AIMS The comprehensive review sought to examine the impact of Critical Care Nurse Practitioner models, roles, activities and outcomes. METHOD The Medical Literature Analyses and Retrieval (MEDLINE), The Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL); PubMED; PROQUEST; ScienceDirect; and the Cochrane database were accessed for the review. Alternative search engines were also...

Pharmacists are well-respected health care practitioners tasked with providing optimal patient while operating under an assigned code of ethics. know their responsibility regarding improving patients’ in the examination room, pharmacy, and hospital, but several factors influence well-being a that not directly related to therapy regimens. A patient’s actions political social issues can have indi...

OBJECTIVE To determine the cost-effectiveness of nurse practitioners delivering primary and specialised ambulatory care. DESIGN A systematic review of randomised controlled trials reported since 1980. DATA SOURCES 10 electronic bibliographic databases, handsearches, contact with authors, bibliographies and websites. INCLUDED STUDIES Randomised controlled trials that evaluated nurse practi...

When a patient presents with a need and a desire for implants to replace missing teeth, correct execution will only occur with thorough planning [1-4]. Recently introduced technology may benefit both the dentist and the patient when restoring with dental implants, in that the implants will be placed in an ideal, predictable, and planned location [4-7]. Implant dentistry is constantly challengin...

In alternative medicine, the main question regarding placebo has been whether a given therapy has more than a placebo effect. Just as mainstream medicine ignores the clinical significance of its own placebo effect, the placebo effect of unconventional medicine is disregarded except for polemics. This essay looks at the placebo effect of alternative medicine as a distinct entity. This is done by...

introduction: leadership and management are two expected features and competencies for general practitioners (gps). the purpose of this study was leadership and management curriculum planning for gps which was performed based on kern’s curriculum planning cycle. methods: this study was conducted in 2011-2012 in iran using an explanatory mixed-methods approach. it was conducted through an initia...

The aim of this confidential postal questionnaire study was to determine why patients change their general practitioner. Among 1423 patients who changed their general practitioner without changing their address the reason most commonly given for leaving a general practitioner was distance (41%)--three quarters of these patients mentioned only distance. Just over one third of respondents (35%) m...