a TargeT Technology Transfer Office (TTO), Gaziantep University, Gaziantep 27300, Turkey b Faculty of Communications and the Office of the President, International Technology and Innovation Policy, Gaziantep University, Gaziantep 27300, Turkey c Amrita School of Biotechnology, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (Amrita University), Amritapuri, Clappana, P.O. Kollam, Kerala 690 525, India d Department o...

MEDICAL ACUPUNCTURE: A PRIMER Bruce R. Gilbert, M.D., Ph.D. Associate Clinical Professor of Urology Weill-Cornell Medical College Head, Section of Male Reproduction North Shore University Hospital Diplomate, American Board of Medical Acupuncture Board Member, American Academy of Medical Acupuncture Office: 900 Northern Blvd., Suite 230 Great Neck, New York 516-487-2700 516-487-2007 Fax bruce.gi...

High-quality pediatric emergency care can be provided only through the collaborative efforts of many health care professionals and child advocates working together throughout a continuum of care that extends from prevention and the medical home to prehospital care, to emergency department stabilization, to critical care and rehabilitation, and finally to a return to care in the medical home. At...

The organization and activity of the rural health service in mid-1960s light reports Supreme Audit Office article discusses Office. It is an attempt to answer questions about availability open healthcare field, whether provincial community benefited from professional medical assistance same extent as urban one? What were problems then service?

OBJECTIVES To determine the feasibility of a partnership between a community pharmacy and a patient-centered medical home (PCMH) by measuring the impact on office- and patient-level clinical outcomes. SETTING Kroger Pharmacy and a PCMH practice in Cincinnati, OH. PRACTICE DESCRIPTION The Kroger Co. is a large grocery store chain that operates 102 pharmacies in the Cincinnati-Dayton marketin...

The range of publicly available biomedical data is enormous and is expanding fast. This expansion means that researchers now face a hurdle to extracting the data they need from the large numbers of data that are available. Biomedical researchers have turned to ontologies and terminologies to structure and annotate their data with ontology concepts for better search and retrieval. However, this ...

According to the United States Census Bureau, there was a 15.1% increase in the sixty-five and older population between 2000 and 20101 and is expected to climb to 16.3% by 2020.2 In addition, older adults have shown a greater need for health care resource utilization in America; while only 12.8% of the U.S. population in 2008, older adults accounted for 26% of office visits, 35% of hospital sta...

BACKGROUND A core measure of the meaningful use of EHR incentive program is the generation and provision of the clinical summary of the office visit, or the after visit summary (AVS), to patients. However, little research has been conducted on physician perceptions and beliefs about the AVS. OBJECTIVES Evaluate physician perceptions and beliefs about the AVS and the effect of the AVS on workl...

A large, widening gap exists between the incomes of primary care physicians and those of many specialists. This disparity is important because noncompetitive primary care incomes discourage medical school graduates from choosing primary care careers. The Resource-Based Relative Value Scale, designed to reduce the inequality between fees for office visits and payment for procedures, failed to pr...

Introduction Online formative assessments (OFA's) have been increasingly recognised in medical education as resources that promote self-directed learning. Formative assessments are used to support the self-directed learning of students. Online formative assessments have been identified to be less time consuming with automated feedback. This pilot study aimed to determine whether participation a...