BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Stroke education, 1 of 8 endorsed stroke performance measures, consists of 5 specific subcomponents: risk factors, stroke warning signs, emergency medical service activation, physician follow-up, and discharge medications. We identified predictors of stroke education performance measure compliance in the Michigan Paul Coverdell National Acute Stroke Registry. METHODS Da...

Influenza is a serious disease, especially for older people, and incomplete vaccination take-up poses a major public health challenge. On both the side of physicians and patients, there could be promising channels for increasing immunization rates, but no attempt has yet been made to empirically unravel their respective influences. Using exclusion restrictions implied by an economic model of ph...

Sir, Medical conferences provide one of the main avenues for continuing physician education, maintenance of professional standards and professional accreditation (Davis et al. 1995, 1999). Traditional medical conferences remain predominantly didactic and passive, employing lectures or presentations with minimal audience interaction or discussion. These methods have consistently been found to no...

The number of "physician extenders" (nurse practitioners and physician assistants) caring for patients with chronic hepatitis C is rising rapidly. Their growing role in the management of these patients promises greater efficiency in the delivery of care and more provider interaction with patients. This may yield benefits in terms of patient education and support, management of medication side e...

1Resident Physician at Hospital Estadual Vila Alpina/Diagnostic Imaging Service II, associated with the Luiz Roberto Barata Barradas Specialist Medical Outpatient Clinic (AME), São Paulo, SP, Brazil 2Resident Physician at Hospital A.C.Camargo Cancer Center, São Paulo, SP, Brazil 3Orthopedist, Prefeitura Municipal de Barueri, Barueri, SP, Brazil 4Supervising Physician at the Continuing Education...

Physicians have been required to possess high ethical standards, as medical practice is directly involved with patients' lives. Although ethics arise out of an individual's consciousness, ethical regulations imposed by the nation/government together with self-regulation by physician groups are important in the practice of ethics, for which reason countries around the world undertake various ini...

A 2014 external review of medical schools in Israel identified several issues of importance to the nation's health. This paper focuses on three inter-related policy-relevant topics: planning the physician and healthcare workforce to meet the needs of Israel's population in the 21(st) century; enhancing the coordination and efficiency of medical education across the continuum of education and tr...