conclusions the positive attitude of most nursing students found in this study showed the need for appropriate and effective collaboration between medical staff; this collaboration will give patients and prospective patients the best possible care. background establishing professional communication between physicians and nurses regarding their supplemental roles in health care for patients is u...

background: physicians and medical students are at risk of exposure to a broad range of viral pathogens through percutaneous injury, contact of mucous membrane with blood, and other potentially infectious body fluids. the objective of this study was to determine the knowledge, attitude, and practice (kap) of physicians and medical students of rafsanjan university of medical sciences, iran, rega...

Physician Assistants (PAs) and Nurse Practitioners (NPs) are health professionals qualified and licensed to perform a wide variety of medical activities, including the direct provision of patient care.1 Although they are trained in different types of schools and licensed by different entities, in North Carolina PAs and NPs carry out very similar duties and have nearly identical authority to pra...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the usefulness of the 28-item Goldberg General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-28) in identifying psychosocial problems, and to determine how the questionnaire scores are related to stressful life events (SLE), use of health services, and individual variables (age, sex, employment status, socioeconomic group, and educational level). DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Alman...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study is to examine the quality of patient-reported communication with their health care providers using data from a large, statewide survey of patients. We examine the relationship between patient's race and ethnicity, type of health care provider, site of and continuity in care, and the quality of patient-provider communication. METHODS We analyze data from th...

İbn Ebî Hâtim’in (öl. 327/938) el-Cerḥ ve’t-taʿdîl adlı eseri, hicrî ilk üç asırdaki ricâl çalışma-larına ışık tutması açısından oldukça önemli bir kaynaktır. Özellikle kitabına yazdığı giriş mahiyetindeki Taḳdime bölümü, cerh-taʿdîl faaliyetlerini hoca-talebe ilişkileri bağlamında takip etmek isteyen araştırmacılar için yol gösterici niteliğe sahiptir. Hâtim Taḳdime’de, Mâlik b. Enes’ten başla...

health workforce shortages in sub-saharan africa are widely recognized, particularly of physicians, leading the training and deployment of non-physician clinicians (npcs). the paper by eyal et al provides interesting and legitimate viewpoints on evolving role of physicians in context of decisive increase of npcss in sub-saharan africa. certainly, in short or mid-term, npcs will continue to be a...

Abstract Purpose Two field experiments were conducted to examine the efficacy of orange peel waste (ORPW), olive oil processing (OLPW), and mango leaf (MLW) as aqueous extracts or soil mulches on growth, yield, bulb quality response; nutrient uptake; weed control. Methods The treatments (ORPW20%, OLPW30%, MLW30%) alone mixed with half a dose oxyfluorfen herbicide (938 ml ha −1 , ½OXYF, recommen...