Due to the oral/systemic nature of eating disorders, this serious health issue requires comprehensive patient assessment and coordinated health treatment. The purpose of this study was to assess the breadth and depth of eating disorder and comprehensive care within the dental and dental hygiene curriculum. Survey data were collected from deans of U.S. dental programs (n=24) and dental hygiene p...

CONTEXT MaineHealth provides chronic disease programs using The Planned Care Model as its framework. Over time, programs have evolved from working in silos to integrating across care arenas and organizations, resulting in a coordinated, reliable, and standardized system of care. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the system's heart failure (HF) programs. For years, disparate HF services exis...

This article reviews in the fi rst place the state of monitoring instruments for digital education programs in the region and secondly, it evaluates, from a critical perspective, the limitations imposed by quantitative indicators for the comprehension of the socio cultural scope of these programs. Qualitative evaluation strategies that recover the subject’s viewpoint enable the development of m...