OBJECTIVES There is ongoing concern that psychiatric medication management appointments add little value to care. The present study attempted to address this concern by capturing depressed patients' views and opinions about the value of psychiatric medication management appointments. METHODS Seventy-eight semi-structured interviews were performed with white and African American depressed pati...

OBJECTIVE To determine actual availability and cost of general practitioner appointments for children with conditions of low acuity and low urgency, from the perspective of the child's family. DESIGN, PARTICIPANTS AND SETTING A "secret shopper" method, whereby research assistants posing as parents seeking appointments for mildly ill children telephoned a random sample of 225 general practice ...

Abstract Background Telehealth platforms such as video and telephone visits serve mechanisms for HIV care delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic. While telehealth may be instrumental in care, its utilization, sustainability, impact on patients’ outcomes remain an area further research. Hence, we compared people with (PWH) utilizing services to those receiving in-person clinic at Nebraska's large...

BACKGROUND Mobile technology has great potential to improve adherence and treatment outcomes in healthcare settings. However, text messaging and phone calls are unaffordable in many resource-limited areas. This study investigates the use of a no-cost alternative mobile phone technology using missed calls ('buzzing') to act as a patient reminder. The use of missed calls as a patient reminder was...

BACKGROUND Inconsistent literature evidence suggests that sociodemographic, economic, and system- and patient-related factors are associated with clinic attendance among the HIV-positive population receiving antiretroviral therapy (ART) around the world. We examined the factors that predict outpatient clinic attendance among a cohort of HIV-positive patients initiating ART in Selangor, Malaysia...

BACKGROUND HIV and AIDS are major public health problems in the world and Africa. In Cameroon, the HIV prevalence is 5.1%. Cellphones have been found to be useful in the provision of modern health care services using short message services (SMS). This study assessed the effectiveness of SMS in improving the adherence of people living with HIV and AIDS to their treatment and care in Cameroon. ...

Introduction: Despite the transformation in healthcare outcomes with availability of effective antiretroviral therapy, retention human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) care remains a challenge. Patients poor have higher rates HIV-related complications and death. Materials Methods: We conducted literature search on PubMed, including articles that reported adult population United States published bet...

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS • Sr Research Scholar, Medicine Family & Community Medicine ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS • Director, Primary Care Associate Program, Family Medicine, (1974-2005) • Director of Evaluation, California Statewide AHEC Emergency Preparedness Program, (2003-2008) • Executive Advisor and Evaluation Director, California Statewide AHEC Program, (2005present) • Associate Director, Ce...

Bidie, Deputy Surgeon-General (Madras), to act as SurgeonGeneral with Madras Government, vice S. G. Furnell. Koberts, Deputy Surgeon-General, now returning from Suakim, succeeds Dr. Bidie as Sanitary Commissioner. Crombie, Surgeon-Major A., Civil Surgeon of Dacca, has been appointed to succeed Dr. Cleghorn as Superintendent of the General Hospital, Calcutta. O'Brien, Surgeon-Major J., Civil Sur...