Dear Editor, G equality amongst healthcare professionals is no doubt paramount to allow both equal opportunity and provision of good quality healthcare. The General Medical Council encourages that all colleagues should be treated fairly, but studies have previously demonstrated gender bias against female medical students (1). Whether this might have any impact on the students’ decision-making p...

Background. Recent health promotion guidelines reimbursed primary health care teams for targeting lifestyle advice to patients at risk of cardiovascular disease. However, it is unclear whether primary health care teams do target advice, who is targeted, and whether the advice is acted upon. Aim. To assess which factors predict the targeting and recall of lifestyle advice. Method. A total of 370...

Contributors: Bruna Landeira (author), Ivana Turek (section editor) What piece of advice do aspiring medical writers tend to ignore? -

Unlike face-to-face patient support groups, clinicians providing medical advice to peer-patient conversations is challenging in online patient communities due to its large scale. We are developing a system that weaves medical advice into online patient conversations. As an initial step, we are exploring text classification of answers contributed by health professionals and patients. Using unigr...

Lack of patient adherence to medical advice (PAMA) is recognized as an area of interest. None of the previous initiatives to improve PAMA, such as patient centered care and shared decision making, have proved to be successful in terms of improving patient adherence. The aim of the present study is to assess beliefs about priorities in public health care, and adherence to medical advice, to esta...

BACKGROUND Discharging patients against medical advice is a problem of every age-group. However, because of their physiological vulnerability, the risk for the neonatal population is greater when discharged against medical advice (DAMA). This article is a study of the prevalence of the problem, the possible causes and/or risk factors. MATERIALS AND METHODS A retrospective review of 10 years o...