PURPOSE The proposal of this study was to determine the prevalence and the associated factors of erectile dysfunction (ED) among hemodialysis (HD) patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS This was a cross-sectional study based on data collected from HD male patients. Clinical, demographic and laboratory data of all patients were collected in three HD clinics from December 2010 to June 2011. Patients a...

The study evaluates (1) health care provider perception of the Rural Trauma Team Development Course (RTTDC); (2) improvement in acute trauma emergency care knowledge; and (3) early transfer of trauma patients from rural emergency departments (EDs) to a verified trauma center. A 1-day, 8-hour RTTDC was given to 101 nurses and other health care providers from nine rural community hospitals from 2...

Background: Emergency nurses (ENs) often care for patients nearing the end of their lives or with life-limiting illnesses. However, ENs are hesitant to initiate palliative end-of-life (PEOL) discussions because a lack comfort these topics. Many have no formal PEOL communication training which contributes in emergency department (ED). Thus, purpose this quality improvement project was determine ...

background: indicators of the level of education are the most important parameters infl uencing each country’s development. social indicators considered to be a determinant of one’s health consists of two constituents namely; (1) rate of students enrolled in elementary, guidance, secondary and higher education and (2) the rate of adult literacy. this study is aimed to evaluate the situation of ...

OBJECTIVES To observe whether American Indian and Alaskan Native (AI/AN) patients at the Yakama Indian Health Service seen at the pharmacist-managed asthma clinic improved asthma outcomes. DESIGN Retrospective chart review, single group, preintervention and postintervention. SETTING Pharmacist-managed asthma clinic at an Indian Health Service ambulatory care clinic. PATIENTS Sixty-one AI/...

Erectile dysfunction (ED), a frequent complaint in the primary care setting, is strongly associated with obesity, cigarette smoking and other common cardiovascular risk factors like hypertension, diabetes mellitus (DM), lipid disorders and the metabolic syndrome. The prevalence of these cardiovascular disorders is rising at staggering rates in most Latin American countries. ED is a symptom that...

INTRODUCTION In the face of declining bedside teaching and increasing emergency department (ED) crowding, balancing education and patient care is a challenge. Dedicated shifts by teaching residents (TRs) in the ED represent an educational intervention to mitigate these difficulties. We aimed to measure the perceived learning and departmental impact created by having TR. METHODS TRs were prese...

OBJECTIVE This study investigates the availability and frequency of emergency physician-performed ultrasonography (USG) in the emergency department (ED) and the status of USG training programs in emergency medicine residencies in academic EDs in Korea. METHODS In spring 2014, a link to a 16-question, multiple-choice, and rating scale web-based survey was e-mailed to all 97 academic ED residen...

OBJECTIVES To measure the prevalence of erectile dysfunction (ED) in community-based populations in Brazil, Italy, Japan, and Malaysia and to study its association with the demographic characteristics, medical conditions, and health-related behavior. METHODS In each country, a random sample of approximately 600 men aged 40 to 70 years was interviewed using a standardized questionnaire. All th...

INTRODUCTION The effect of emergency department (ED) crowding has been recognized as a concern for more than 20 years; its effect on productivity, medical errors, and patient satisfaction has been studied extensively. Little research has reviewed the effect of ED crowding on medical education. Prior studies that have considered this effect have shown no correlation between ED crowding and resid...