OBJECTIVE The shortage of physicians after a major disaster is a crucial issue. We aimed to evaluate the characteristics of physicians who left affected areas following the accident at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant caused by the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2011. METHODS Using data from a physician census conducted in 2010 (pre-disaster) and 2012 (post-disaster), we evalua...

â  background this study aims to elucidate the knowledge and practice of general practitioners (gp) and internists regarding diagnosis and treatment of helicobacter pylori ( h. pylori ) infection in a high prevalent area, with the intent to assist with future educational strategies for h. pylori inâ­fection. methods in this cross-sectional study in guilan, a northern province of iran, all gps a...

In recent years, interest in improving health care to diverse patient populations has stimulated the development of academic and clinical resources to improve physicians' cultural competence. These efforts have focused on increasing physicians' sensitivity to the roles patients' ethnicity and culture play in health care. However, the influence of physicians' own demographic characteristics on t...

PURPOSE New models of delivering primary care are being implemented in various countries. In Quebec, Family Medicine Groups (FMGs) are a team-based approach to enhance access to, and coordination of, care. We examined whether physicians' and patients' characteristics predicted their participation in this new model of primary care. METHODS Using provincial administrative data, we created a pop...

Background: The issues of patient safety and healthcare quality have become increasingly important around the world since the 1990s. Many hospitals manage to reduce the number of adverse events (AEs) that can threaten patient safety in healthcare organizations. Assessing the existing patient safety culture gives hospital management a clear vision of an organization’s strengths ...

BACKGROUND Various health care professionals apply Spinal Manipulative Treatment (SMT) in daily practice. While the characteristics of chiropractors and manual therapists and the characteristics of their patient populations are well described, there is little research about physicians who use SMT techniques. A distinct group of physicians in The Netherlands has been trained in musculoskeletal (...

A profile of the personal and professional characteristics of the physicians who work in America's prisons was obtained by analyzing data from a larger study of all licensed physicians in the United States who worked in a prison at least 12 hours a month during the fall of 1979. Psychiatrists were not included, nor were physicians working in jails. The population of 382 prison physicians compri...